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Goaty

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  1. Anybody want a jonsered sp49 in good nick. I have one on 3/8 sprocket with no bar and chain. I got it with another tool. As I already have plenty of saws I will be selling at some point
  2. My curiousness stirred here. I've been to waiheke, is their enough utility arb to keep going full time? If so is it rapid regrowth? Also worth mentioning is waiheke has regular quick ferries to Auckland. For those who might be considering this job.
  3. Shame did he do it to be helpful. I know of a postie that signs recorded delivery , he got the person I know to sign a disclaimer that he could do it. The deliveries happen and he gets on with his job. It works well in this case but the idea of signature verifies delivery. It's a shame. The driver will probably get the sack or suspension at least.
  4. The card and the signature don't make sense. Has the delivery driver put the card through then an opportunist walked up your drive/path and parcelforce person said "Are you mr Gunner?" Thief replied "Yes" done the signature and cleared of with detector? Will your wife or yourself be around to catch driver another day, do you have the drivers name? I.e so and so will be delivering your parcel between x&y. Today. The driver may confirm someone defrauded him, then for what it's worth it's a police matter.
  5. Just the surname Palokangas would do me. That's from reading other threads
  6. Do you mind naming brands of netting involved?
  7. Towing weight is higher. 4x4 can save a lot of time getting stuck. Many 4x4 vehicles never get used for this. Generally built to be tougher, take knocks. Safer reassuring in hard working environments. Image/ego/sheep/fitting the stereotype dreaming. The tippers in arb versions carry more weight legally than 2wd. Also avoiding getting the O licence needed and extra paperwork when you run a higher weight vehicle.
  8. If you wanted masses of blossom without the fruit. Instead of wild prunus avium, the double flowering firm prunus avium plena is sterile
  9. You don't say your location. It could be a hardiness or win exposure problem. A few years ago round here exotics imported from Italy and other warmer climes was all the rage. Now you don't see them in garden centres. Simply because they work in very few places in the UK. Magnolias tend to come from Eastern Asia. Which can be very hot and humid.
  10. Just for perspective. I hate hi vis too. The yellow is nightmare in late summer/autumn angry wasp season. Also pollen beetle season around oil seed rape harvest time. The fabrics as already mentioned tend to be super synthetic and probably made down to a price, tend to flex and snag a lot. I have been suspended from a door handle on a hgv from an unexpected snag with a hi vis vest. Also once caught up aloft on a ladder I temporarily lost the use of my arms due to the vest snagging and pulling up trapping my arms. My points are the intentions are good but if it hinders them working they are not going to like it. Cheap tends not to be good, especially in the real hands on world. Some clothes have nighttime type reflective stitched in, for example overalls and when that fades away they can still be used for other jobs such as kit maintainence. I think apparel with hi vis engineered into the design is much more proffesional and exclusive. Any numpty can wear bog standard day glow yellow and not even be in employment.
  11. Agreed. Apples, pears & cherries will bloom early in life especially when grafted. If it was for fruit production it would be advantageous to deblossom them in the formative years.That is remove their sex organs before they get fruity ideas when young. Then when they have developed in to capable adults they can cope with the demands of the fruit better. I would expect flowers on most nursery produced stock before 6ft.
  12. If the camera person had been better I could of taken the company name off the sweater. Maybe more videos.
  13. Goaty

    Cats

    That is brilliant, I was misled. Thread subject chainsaws. Title cats. I was expecting a carved cat or something. OP yes I'm sure the cat can be removed. People take them out of cars then put them back on cars for MOT.s.
  14. Goaty

    Free car

    We had one ten years ago it served us well.
  15. And a woman involved as well! £12k chipper or kitchen??
  16. I reckon they have failed in their main ambitions in life. Traffic cop etc. then they get the training that indoctrinates them how criminal working people are. Quotes like 90% of all illegal activity that is caught is on the highway. Turns them in to terriers at their job.
  17. I think if the graft is rubbish they fail early in life. However if the rootstock is weaker through genetic variation. The top scion may be top heavy over vigorous. My observations bit science.
  18. It is a case of forced rest for the parts concerned for me that helps. I'm fortunate to do a variety of work in my self employment, which helps.
  19. Thanks http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/ais38.pdf I took the bottom fold up flap off not long after I bought it because it kept snagging on the material and bungling up under tension. I will have a measure and check to see what else needs adjustment. I do only use it myself, but should it go wrong the questions get asked in a retrospective way.
  20. Sounds like a worthwhile and interesting project. Assuming they are vehicle width gates, prioritise on strength and sag resistance. Suffolk style gates cost a premium fortune. If you can get timber that's already bent to shape they are worthwhile. Don't cut and shut a piece on though. I've seen them fail it's not craftsman
  21. I'm actually out of touch with hse on this. It was CE about 12 years ago when I bought it new. The tractor has a working pto on off switch in mudguard. Feel free to tell me what's likely not upto scratch on it. I may or may not take note. Only this week on a brand new concrete truck I've been banged on the head and got thumb skinned by a daft lift up and put down safety rail at the rear atop of the ladder. If I'd been the wuss that designed it in his cushy central heated office, I would of yelled in horror and jumped to my death after the thumb got attacked. Instead I muttered contempt of health and safety! But if it's common sense practical I do take note.
  22. I'm over 40 and have spent most of my working life on my feet. I've wondered is it? changing footwear Posture Age I'm not in pain but if I get a day jumping in and out a tractor or truck it doesn't help. I have a good chiropractor. He assessed me and found found my outer arches in the feet are falling. Normally it's the inner arches, that fail. I am working on slowing down but I've always kind if launched myself in and out of vehicles, by nature I don't prolong anything except paperwork.
  23. A lot of contractors don't get that with expensive tractor and kit. Plus a heck of a lot more wear and tear parts. I
  24. I reckon j the tree is right in my case. The pump has a throttle lever that goes from reverse through to neutral and forward. Fit valve,Wire into tractor plug job sorted probably. I know I could do it as well. Just money is expected to be tight for such luxuries this year. I could spend all my income on toys and keeping them in mint condition.

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