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  1. I can see a business opportunity involving 2 lads from Cumbria, megabus tickets to Suffolk, and a pallet of used block paving.
  2. Difflock, have a look at Kreosan on youtube, he has a channel with English translation, mainly blowing things up, pissing about with electrics, living off grid etc https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClUZos7yKYtrmr0-azaD8pw
  3. I like the homemade chopsaw - 9" angle grinder and a hinge
  4. Sorted
  5. If you've got bigger diameter logs (maybe over 1 foot?) You can make 4 bore cuts down from the top, then 1 from the side near the bottom, and lift out the middle part which should be a long square section the width of the chainsaw bar. Then you can light a fire in the middle with kindling, and keep adding small logs. Not very easy to describe, don't think I've got any photos on the computer
  6. There's an old saying “Indian build small fire, stay close, stay warm, White man build big fire, stay warm gathering wood, feeding fire all night.”
  7. Interesting, it's not something I'd heard about before https://forestry.gov.scot/support-regulations/felling-permissions "You may fell: 1. Up to five cubic metres of timber within any set calendar quarter [1 January to 31 March; 1 April to 30 June; 1 July to 30 September; 1 October to 31 December]. This exemption does not apply in native broadleaved woodland between 0.1 and 0.5 hectares inclusive, and Caledonian Pinewood sites." Which seems a bit strange? If a woodland is say 1 acre it needs a felling licence to do almost anything, but if it's 1.5 acre, you can fell 20 cube a year?!
  8. I don't know, you tell us!!! http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:s2NFpIzSDD0J:forum.toolsinaction.com/topic/14399-chain-saw-sharpener/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
  9. I'm not a solicitor, but without a doubt the hatched area in the pic is a garden.
  10. Electric forklifts can be another source of 2nd hand batteries. They might not have much life left in them, but would do as a start, especially if you can get them for scrap money
  11. The old saying is "you break it, you buy it", think the going rate for a 357xpg is £200-£300 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Husqvarna-357XPG-57cc-15-inch-chainsaw-stihl-oil-heated-handle-heats-sometimes/202117367550?hash=item2f0f2246fe:g:e~sAAOSwXrdaDzv And he gets to keep the squashed saw
  12. Thanks, didn't know that. It's not like there isn't hundreds of other mature trees (or fenceposts) to rub against Have strung up a length of barrier netting to try and keep them away from the willows for now
  13. (for scale, the willows are approx. knee high)
  14. Gutted, just in the last week or so, something has been in stripping bark off a few of the willow slips that were planted over winter. Is this work of the deer, or something else? There's the odd roe deer in the area, didn't think they were frequent. Can live with the odd leaf being nibbled but not this vandalism!
  15. scbk

    Tachometer regs

    Just tell them you stole the digger and were too drunk to put a card in the tacho
  16. Make a mini incinerator out of an old drum, once you get it going good you can feed it fairly fast, you just have to cut the stuff to 4ft or whatever lengths
  17. 2 miles is nothing, tell him to get a bike.
  18. If it was an easy fell, round here you'd have a queue of people after your trees
  19. Even if you're doing over double the limit, you're still not getting locked up https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands/548824/undefined-headline-622/ (he also didn't have a UK licence or insurance)
  20. I don't think you'd want to buy plain old emulsion online, it's always going to cost more.
  21. Don't know what size that bar is, but there must be atleast 300w there I would have thought? I really like the tractor though, I would love to have that round here, it would annoy all the fergie enthusiasts
  22. Cheat, remove a couple metres of wall, and put something like this up instead https://www.rubberduckbathrooms.co.uk/vox-motivo-mattone-rosso-brick-wall-effect-upvc-panels-250-x-2650mm-4-pack?source=googlebase&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqrz5tMue4gIV65ztCh27owWbEAQYASABEgI10vD_BwE No one will ever know
  23. There's a Kubota mower too, made by Kaaz. IIRC it is very similar, but slightly different specs (different weight when I looked). So if you had a local Kubota dealer you might be able to see one in the flesh.
  24. Christ what ever you do, don't visit their website (in sig)
  25. To be legit, I think it should be a men at works sign (of the appropriate size for the speed limit), and take your pick from: Grass cutting; Tree cutting; Hedge cutting; Ditching; Weed spraying; Sign erection; Sign maintenance; Lighting maintenance; Overhead works; On slip road; Surveying; Mobile road works; Road sweeping; Gully emptying; Gritting; Salting; Snow ploughing; Blasting; On hard shoulder; At level crossing https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/203669/traffic-signs-manual-chapter-08-part-01.pdf

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