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  1. difflock
    Hmmm, Why no mention o Stihl lawnmowers, on an arb site. Are they that shite? Looking at the RM655V Cheers, Mth
  2. difflock
    oh! Ah cud be a sucker🤔 for that high priced German Engineering(specially with the Kawasaki engine)
  3. difflock
    I might possibly be able to justify a ride-on, but figure the exercise is doing me good! My biggest motivation for buying a ride-on would be the not having to tediously and uncomfortably stoop, and stupidly often, to unsnag and empty the grassbox. But I will live with that nuisence. For now.
  4. difflock
    Doobin, Why? Do they do a tracked varient?😁😁😁 P.S. Thanks for the useful suggestions, the side discharge JD I bought to cut the rough grass in among the wheen o fruit bushes/trees, is driving me mad wi the swards it leaves. So I need a bagger.
  5. difflock
    An nobody is suggesting alternatives?🤔
  6. difflock
    Since I Might try and bag an end of season bargain. . . Mth
  7. difflock
    That too, or merrily pressure washing their debris onto the public thoroughafare. Never mind dumping their garden arisings across the way onto "waste" or agricultural lands.
  8. difflock
    Btw, and pertinent to this comment, I am surprised at the number of homeowners strimming verges outside their property who blythely continue to strim while I (and countless others presumably) drive past, even on their side of the road, so witless stupidity is not solely the preserve of Council or volunteer staff. So again I understand the reluctance of risk averse organisations (and probably due to various PI and 3rd party claims) to let volunteers loose with power tools.
  9. difflock
    Pity they still wont pay for the lube . . .
  10. difflock
    I blench** at the thought of volunteers being turned loose with power tools, DESPITE any so-called rubber-stamp "training". Having witnessed gormless/uncaring/unaccountable Council staff using and abusing chainsaws down through the years, despite being "trained". We are all different, cept some canny realize just how different they are. **more due to feeling sorry for the poor power tools.
  11. difflock
    Bring it on.
  12. difflock
    Same as all the punative punishing motoring legisation, re draconian speeding and alcohol limits, etc etc. I.e. punish the majority of moderate sensible individuals in a vain attempt to curtail the witless uninformable uncaring offenders.
  13. difflock
    Hmmmm! Having failed to fine the replacement part of the intersnot, I called in with the local dealer, parts in hand. After some time, head scratching and cross referencing. Guess what? JD has modified the design, to make it simpler and stronger I can only deduce. So much for the origonal "brick shithouse" design then. Though superlative service from the JD dealership, see linky Stephen Moore Farm Machinery - John Deere dealer Co Londonderry, Northern Ireland STEPHENWMOORE.CO.UK
  14. difflock
    Well, bollocks to that! Ah broke me C52KS JD 'built like a brick shithouse" mower. The drive wheel fell off. A shitty biro thick bolt is all that carries the wheel. It simply sheared. Prob due to "rocking" in my attempts to dislodge stuck grass from beneath the deck. Won't do that again! Older poorer and better informed(if no wiser)
  15. difflock
    Bout the same here. A quare day for a funeral.
  16. difflock
    Gibber mutter twitch hic!
  17. difflock
    Da-Da Bunching with Radiotir 740 in thinnings EUREKAMAG.COM Nederlands Bosbouw Tijdschrift 48(7/8): 151-157
  18. difflock
    Perplexing that housing in Sweden can be so downright cheap, 300m2 for 80k after renovation, with their high labour costs, how can that be possible, since presumably timber, plumbing materials and electrial products cannot be cheap either. The land the house sits on being the only cheap component of the entire build costs. mth. to add, wor daughter bought a van privately for 7k about a year ago, and it is now valued by "webuyanyvan" for 11k ish. Quite mad(and I know she will not get the 11k valuation from wbav . . . because) but still inditictive. She IS going to sell it btw.
  19. difflock
    15 m3 in at between 16% and 17%. Which replaces, as best I can establish, that wot I used last winter. Along with a single 2250l fill of kero. My rotissary was a simple solution to the bullet bundles being misaligned by 90deg to the saw due to access constraints with the wee loader tractor. It needs 'cribs" adding btw. Three days working with a straight back and nary a twinge. (Having spent the last 6 months in total depressive inactivity.) Now to replenish my outdoor stock of billet bundles. Mth. EDIT. Today I Found out. . . . That Flipflops and Shorts were a poor choice for working among some mega strong Scotch Thristles and fornicating Clegs, in these circumstances the chainsaw was the least of my tribulations Gerrr!
  20. difflock
    In this instance, quite rightly. Perhaps if the decent/law abiding/interested in natural-nature fellow landowners(with shooting estates) boycotted this particular callous cretin it might help.
  21. difflock
    Be a wile big night round most of the 11th night bonfires over here, if/when England win, especially against that team from Italy !!!!
  22. difflock
    The bloke came and collected the Yaris on his trailer(about a 50 mile ret trip) replaced the clutch(which looked in very good condition, but 3 of the 4 springs had broken), also the pressure plate and slave cylinder, plus 2 new front springs and a drop link. Gave the daughter the invoices for the various parts so no mark-up there, and said £100.00 for his labour! Why can I not find a mechanic like that! She will give him more than that btw. mth
  23. difflock
    BUT! I routinely ignore "Road closed" signs, since in the vast majority of cases they are NOT closed, simply a try-on to reduce the traffic, but I am always impeccably patient and polite if there is actually a real issue. Btw, the Police bytimes are too ready to direct HGV'S to use unsuitable narrow "C" class roads in the event of an accident on a main road, and even to my direct personal knowledge directed an old bloke who cycled to his work to take an onerous uphill long diversion around a single vehicle accident scene on a staight and bloody wide main road with wide verges. WTF Plod could not have instructed the bloke to proceed, or simply have walked him past the scene I do not know. The car had slid off the road through a hedge so no gruesome sights to be avoided, and anyway the bloke was a hairy arsed gravedigger!
  24. difflock
    I cannot commend this comment highly enough. Especially with my Council employment background . . .
  25. difflock
    Weirdly when I am "down" I am not interested in alcohol. I am also uncommunicative. And I know alcohol is an additional depressant, but that does not come into it. Now when I am "up", a pint of stout or two, an ah cud slabber for Ireland. I also had a few conversations with another bloke, a workmate, who was intelligent and articulate but suffered from depression, and candidly discussed his inability to stay away from alcohol when depressed, even though he KNEW it was definately NOT going to help. We are all different.

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