difflock

I would need to sound like D.T. to describe the past 10 days of weather here in N.I. and indeed Donegal last weekend. Stupendous, brilliant, magnificent, etc etc etc. Esp for mid March

Thank you so much OSM for your detailed informative words of sound advice, I should(obviously!) Have pruned and tided these years ago, and there were/are so many narrow forks. The Ash I did prune have lovely clean boles up to about 7 feet( the limit of my unaided reach) but are all dead with ADB. I shall however have enough material for shafting tools for the next several generations! But I will leave felling then to the dead of the winter, which is what month for minimus sap? P S. I am going down just now with the blower To The wee Kioti fits below the trees, and the Major 8000 roller mower mulches everything green to bits.

Can't seem to add text to the images above. But I was surprised at how well the wee 50 HP Kioti handles the Major 8000 roller mower. And superb visibility, plus low enough gears for tiddly awkward bits in reverse. Plus physically small and low sans cab to get in below the hedges and trees.

Thanks all, These trees are, at least for my lifetime, intended to be purely for amenity and pleasure. But yes I have and will continue to remove some lower branches, though mostly just the overheavy oddball ones.

Thank you for that Mark. So retain every third tree. Better give the scraficial victims an extra special hug before firing up the chainsaw.

Along our front access roadway. Beech on the gravel knowe, then Oak on the peat. Like? Should I remove every other one at some point, and if so, when? Or just let them be. P.S. I was told to just buy slips and not bother with the 6 bigger and disproportionately more expensive ones. They were absolutely right. Despite the great care I took in planting the 6 bigger ones, the slips rapidly put them to shame. Marcus

I have been pondering the artifical intelligence vis-a-vis human stupidity conundrum. My money is rather regretfully on human stupidity winning this one. Einstein was right all those years ago.

Thank you Spud, yes I ran 2 full fills through her when I got home and all quite faultless. but I need a polycarbonate visor for the forestry helmet, my lips were kept well pursed/sealed behind the mesh visor as I rotovated the dog shite (from our own dogs) among the grass, but that does NOT make it any more attractive. P.s. Quite horrified at the price trimmers/brushcutters of the FS200 class have risen to. I suppose I have finally turned into my father! P.P.S. (i)John was adamant that E10 petrol was the culprit, for dissolving fuel lines and gumming up carbs. (ii) They have stopped even looking at the DIY Chinese shite retailed by so many outlets. (iii) I took a walk round the new Lidl store in Coleraine, and was gobsmacked at the array of Parkside tools and the prices, from memory £50.00 for a metal cutting bandsaw. £150.00 for a plasma cutter, £80.00 for a gasless MIG welder. Etc etc etc Pure skip filling madness, and see item (ii) above.

£39.00 later. No coffee or doughnuts, but a bit of crack. And only left in at quitting time yesterday, and ready this afternoon.

And tried her this morning, and the air filter was swimming in fuel. Stripped the carb down, removed the two diaphrams and blew through any orifice I could see or find. Reassembled, and no different, started, ran, then died when the throttle unblipped, and fuel swimming about the lower reaches of the air filter housing. P.S. Piston is spotless and oily smooth, and a strong enough looking spark. In today's sunshine. So off to J Whyte it is.

We choose to live in a house that is now "too big" for 2 retired people, but FFS! we are paying eye-watering rates for the privilege of doing so. And hope to leave it to one of our children. Labours policies are ALL driven by the green eyed God of envy and spite. Which policies appeal to their feckless voters base.

I went out after dark to lock it away for the night, and tried her. First fornicating pull and away she went, the bitch! But again, no choke applied, though the pistol grip throttle start setting was engaged. For the limited use, on good mix, I could not imagine the compression should be poor, and it still feels pretty tight to pull over TDC. Thanks all.

About 10 years old, never saw that much use, has on occassion been left parked up with fuel in the tank, brought out this morning and started virtually first pull. Stopped and restarted a few times with strimmer line problems, refilled the tank, restarted and then I stopped it again, and would NOT restart until stone cold. And it will only run flat out, and died when I unblipped the throttle. I mean it will not even cough, and the plug threads were always wet when I pulled it a few times. Guessing it is carburetor related? So strip down and clean? I know zero about 2 strokes and have never disected one before. In hindsight, it started without the choke 1st thing this morning, after I pumped the primer bulb. Marcus

If I can use it, it should be idiot proof. But I would not be an experienced or competent enough welder to give a meaningful review. Cheers, mth P.S. I was biggly in the notion of an R Tech welder, but when I asked our Polish SIL "what MIG welder" , he then consulted a welder mate, almost certainly another Pole (and the bloke who aluminium welded the NLA water pump housing for me) Who strongly recommended this yoke. And they are apparently MUCH cheaper in Poland. Hence the long drawn out purchase process. First I need to cut the Polish 2 pin plug off and wire on a 16A plug. EDIT I presume? that despite the different gas suppliers, the threads are indentical across the different gas bottles, so the regulator is interchangable? P.S. £318.00 Ex. Poland

Story, as related to me, was that a Polish bloke set up a factory to build MIG welders, and his products rapidly gained such a reputation and market share, that Lincoln bought the business and assimilated it into their range. Time will tell. P.S. Anything to avoid in buying a regulator, though I will prob price a regulator with my two local gas suppliers.

Actually brought on a plane, with a baby in tow.

Steven, except he stands for the opposite of so much shite** that the Democrats support, and the visceral Democratic loathing and deamonisation of Donald Trump, tells me the DT is on to something. A breath of fresh air through the corridors of power. **Shite that the average ordinary working tax paying US citizens are tired of paying for through the nose.

After a wonderful meal of eggs fried in home made chilli garlic oil, after first frying off some bacon then adding mushrooms and engame beans (young soya beans ) and a wheen o boiled pra-tas ( potatoes) I refilled the chili garlic oil bottle, wi a whole bulb of garlic and a packet of bird eye chili's. When the ratio of solids too oil gets too high, after draining the last dreedle of oil off as best possible we then fry the solids, generally with meat + vegetables of some sort and enjoy.

Hi Sur, ah done and soldered, and wrapped wi tape, all is good, after I found an innocent looking and dry and clean but defective connector block in the engine bay. EDIT To say that while I worked at Wrightbus, I was intrigued to notice that the wires to the various roof mounted speakers, were soldered to the speakers, but these were the only wires that were soldered! And with the vast quantity of highly flammable cleaning and priming solutions used Willy nilly prior to applying adhesive, therefore "hot" work was strictly prohibited. But, hey, solder those wires. With a very cute Milwaulki (Spelling?) batt powered soldering iron. I asked why? But nobody had an answer.

Thank you both. Soldering would have been my "go to" solution. But always open to new technology. Now where the back did I stash my shrink wrap sleeves, hmmm?

As above, sorting out the rear lights on the 1984 G Wagen. After a boxxix( i.e. not me) "fixed" the rear door, and butchered the loom in the process, so various wires to extend, splice or join. Anybody want to recommend the best method or product. I was looking at heat shrink shrouded crimp type connectors on line, but have no idea re reputable brands or suppliers.

Two legs of Irish lamb, carved off the bone, carrots, loads of onions, roughly chopped raw potatoes wi skins on, fried off in stonking home made chilli garlic oil, plus a full root of ginger and loads of added curry type spices. Somewhere between an Irish stew and a curry. Stonkingly good.

Despite his apparent conversion to supposed far right values, he could not shake off that overriding Muslimness, which tells him, if in doubt when angry, target and slaughter as many innocents as possible

I bought a pressure washer re-engined with a Loncin honda clone, absolutely faultless, easy started and easy on fuel too. No wile hours on it yet, but I suspect that will not be likely to be an issue.