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Erm, Above persons may and probably are much more "ebay" savvy than I am. BUT I recently was bidding of that wee UTB Crawler, in the last three bidders. I got contacted, proportedly by the Vendor to say the deal had fallen through and did I still want it? Ebay's "second chance scheme" or sommat similar. A scam, but very very cleverly presented to the perfectly receptive punter. My email account had also been hacked into, this may or may not have been connected. marcus
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In my limited experience the corrision on hydraulic fittings is always external, the threads should be bright internally, therefore they should? unscrew. Especially after "upsetting" i.e. the 2 hammers technique, assuming there is room to swing. Or heat, as already mentioned (*and I keep meaning to buy a plumbers blowtorch for this exact reason.) With the high temp " MAPP" (or something similar) gas B & Q should stock one.
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Screw in hydraulic fittings/couplings work perfectly well, especially if the hyd hose is neatly cut with a "plamsa" disc. Just remember about the Left hand thread:blushing: (Well I was salvaging an old fitting to reuse.) I have also successfuly welded steel fittings, with an ord arc welder/ ord rods, a make do and mend that has lasted for years.
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Portable/lightweight/folding bulk bag frame - any suggesions?
difflock replied to Tom at Heartwood's topic in Firewood forum
I though the "X" frame as posted by Treemon was the simplest, most practical solution. And dead easy to get fabricated or weld up oneself. I found this to be a surprisingly difficuly one to "ad hoc" a solution to on a windy day, being like others as mentioned a "one tractor" man. But I made the decision to billet and bundle, for onward handling by forklift mounted bale forks. Until I get an Avant. -
Ann R. looked after our 2 pre school, as mum was working. They live on a farm. One day Ann had a message into the town and left our daughter with her husband and son who were dosing or drenching a few cattle in the crush, before turning them out to the spring grass. Martin says "Da, we might as well do them with Louse Powder" and nips off to get the applicator tin. This stuff is basically medicated talcuum powder, and gets shaken on down the spine. Lydia, observes looking more and more perplexed. Finally asks? "Boydy, whats that stuff?" Answer: Louse Powder. Question? "Boydy, whats it do?" Answer: Kills Lice. Question? "Boydy, whats lice" Answer: Wee animals that live in among the hair. A very long silence. Then! "Boydy, is that why my mummy puts that stuff down her knickers" BOOM BOOM! Martin hurt his ribs falling off the crush he laughed so hard. FTR It were the jumbo box of Johnstons Baby Powder mummy was using NOT louse powder. Marcus.
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As a totally self trained and uninjured as yet, chainsaw user I blench at the thought of a TRAINED operator (especially) knocking the chain brake on with the right hand. Today I was snedding an entangled bunch of trees, when for whatever reason I gently fell backwards as I, with my feet absolutly stationary ( thereby probably transgressing the "good working position" rule, reached to sned a wee branch, wot I espied just as I was ready to move. I kept both hands firmly on the handles and sat myself down. Safely. Without ever engaging the chain brake. Which I had mostly been using up to that point due to the bad footing. Like others on here I gained my first chainsaw experience/training with an 08S, so no chain-brake, so I learned to control the saw correctly, working with it, never fighting it. And always having an escape route planned and cleared. Bit like firing a high powered pistol or rifle really. Which being a reletavily small statured person I never had any trouble with.
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Puzzled, cos the tree is there already. Why does one need a urinal? And I still remember using the very exposed outside urinals on a very French campsite, prob in the mid 80's. I am still suspcious it was for the French equivalent of "You have been framed" They are probably sniggering at the gullible young tourist. I mean, was I meant to say "Bonjour" to the ladies walking close by, with a wee wave, or rather rudely ignore them? I dont believe my dog eared copy of Debretts covered such a situation.
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We got plenty of 15/25/35/45/55/65/75 and 85 year olds who are expert in 18th Century Politics. Us an them, black or white, dead right or dead wrong.
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Proper jealous I am. Being there when that sort of undertaking is underway would be more like a holiday to me than lying on a beach. Good luck Marcus
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Cheap dysfunctional Chinese spec meter then:001_tt2: jat Marcus
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I could NEVER understand why that jumped up Double Glazing/Time Share salesman Bliar was ever "liked". To me he always appeared to be a greasy untrustworthy "gurning whittert" Never more so that after Diana's death. A proper Completely Uniformly Nasty Toerag (Turd? perhaps)
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How about the groundy with a chilled Fire Hose, to keep you hosed down, i.e. external hydration. Never even know it were a Sunny Day then. Sorted. Simples!
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Anyway I unnerstood it was the "Daily wail" Me? The Daily Telegraph old boy. And occasionally the Sunday Times, but absolutly never the weekaday Times. The others are not even NEWS Papers but semi pornographic comics.
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Wor Director here at work( a hateful, stupid, arrogent, lying bully of an Ex PE Teacher) borrowed the work Chainsaw, and brought it back saying there was something wrong with it. He had attempted, and re-attempted to use it with the Chain Brake engaged. I could hardly keep my face straight. This was perhaps one of the reasons me an him did not get on. But since the chain brake is only there to stop a freely spinning chain, it is possible that the chain brake is essentially on an 026 is the same right up through a 460 to a 660/880, the only extra braking power required being that to kill the extra monumentum of the longer heavier chain on the longer bar. Is this correct or am I spouting Gibberish? Cheers Marcus
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The 026 was sufficient to deal with the Birch that had been growing in the gutter:001_tt2:
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What did that man say again? Oh yes A picture is worth a 1000 words.
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Well......................? Unlessen one was on DLA/Disability benefits. JAt M
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Indeed! I believe Stephen Blair's Avatar provided the inspiration for my design. Ps I am quite scared/properly nervous of heights so I take NO risks. PPS The Crawler keys (only set btw) were safely in my pocket.
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explanatory photos. PS The Blue barrel is a red Herring (used on the flat roof)
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The Jackdaws set our house on fire. i lit the logburner outside yesterday at Lunchtime. The Jackdaws had attempted to nest in the SS Flue. Light embers blew in the wind and landed in the Gutter. The dead grass('s) and Moss in the gutter kindled. A good job I was watching with a ladder on standby to extinguish the fire and then somewhat belatedly clean the gutter...............................................with the help of my new-to-me Crawler and Forestry winch in this endouver. H & BS would be well impressed with the whole escapade.
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(i) I sound more like the father than the son. However 90+% of the time I stop the saw, with a flick of my right thumb. As easy to restart as reset the brake. I very rarely engage the chain brake when working...........with both feet planted and both hands on the saw. I do however use it as/when appropriate. I do take it odd to hear the absolute constant click....click....click....click...click...click...click.click.clicketyclick.............. of another saw user I know through work.
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congrats
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Strangly enough a tractor, even one 40 years ago, was/is not that much slower than a car. It might feel like it is, but as the average door to door speed for a car is only 28/30 mph (proved over 250,000 miles) not really as the tractor will maintain a flat out top speed virtually all the time. Now with 40, 50 and perhaps 60 k boxes (regardless of the legalities) even less in it. However with red diesel now being 1/2 the price of clear, and a tractor being less mechanically efficient at road haulage, the fuel costs can actually be higher for a tractor as opposed to a truck. PS The trailer should have proper air brakes, therefore not reliant on tractor "bossing" PPS Oops! Soft wood price per unit volume again hardwood?, in %age terms or rule of thumb? thanks Marcus
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My next project is to rig a couple (or 4) of guide pullies so as to allow me to winch myself forward, with the winch on the back, I had seriously looked at removing the front windscreen glass and rigging the wire straight through the cab as with this set up forward recovery would have been more straightforward. The winch on the back makes a wonderful self setting anchor, unless a high anchor point can be rigged to winch toward with sufficient lift to counteract this designed in tendancy. I am also mulling how best to (semi permenantly) mount the winch higher, with a drop down anchor spade controlled by the otherwise redundant link arms. I like tinkering. It beats werking. Thanks for your interest, and btw I did NOT set out to self-bog:001_rolleyes: Marcus
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Interesting to hear the arguments against flat rollers/ for ringed rollers (=Cambridge Rolls) Dad owned both, the Cambridge rolls were used on the Spring Barley ground and indeed on the sprouted Barley, if I remember correctly. A flat roller was always used on the grassland. However here in N I , I suspect a ringed roller would not work on our generally wetter grassland as even a flat roller quite often accumulates mud. Scraper bars being a common fitment. The rings would definately therefore clog up. Cambridge grassland may well be drier and different (on chalk? perhaps) cheers marcus
