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To absolutly nit-pick, the chain must have been fractionally duller after the first 2 cuts. Should have run S-H-H-S, followed by H-S-S-H to cancel the chain sharpness factor out, and also give each saw 2 back-to-back cuts. Also, is that not rather attractive spalted Beech?

Yup, pics needed.

Are there speed restrictions, or distance from Home limits associated with that Ag/Forestry registeration Bob? I know a few local farmers are running cheap, past MOT'ing pickups, registered as farm vehicles, running on rebated diesel, BUT, limited to operating within some very few miles from their designated farm address. But 100% legal.

Bit like most of their owners then I imagine. P.S. The Bulldogs wolfed them down without a thought, perhaps the "dumb blondes" of the dog world, lovable but . . . When we had the 2 large banddog/mastiff/pitbull breed dogs, both with impeccable mid-air food-catching techniques, one simply threw them snacks, interspersed with the tablets, they were swallowed before owt was registered amiss. Bessie could so accurately assess and predict the flight path of tossed chicken bones, that she could catch them end on and swallow them instanteanously.

Hidi, our very cute daschund/border collie cross had to take a course of tablets, over a week or so, twice a day. I got the first couple in by wrapping them in fridge-cold butter. Then she caught on. And after licking the butter off the tablet reproachfully deposited it on the floor. I then got the next few in, forcing open her mouth and posting them right into her gullet, holding her jaw shut and massaging her throat until she swallowed, she did not attempt to bite me btw, though she struggled violently, and she is very very strong. This process lasted 2 or 3 days, including finding and catching and struggling with her when she knew it was tablet time. Despite her fierce and determined struggles, once the tablet was down and I released her, she stayed put for cuddles! Last night she got the better of me, twice, so I let her go, then a few minutes later, with little hope of success, offered her the butter coated tablet again, which she took and swallowed. This morning I offered her the butter coated tablet which she immediately accepted and swallowed. Wow! Hidi had worked out that she was required to take the tablet, and might as well do so gracefully, and to get the butter I suppose. I though this a very impressive logical thought process for a dog. marcus

Good Lord, those Sandwell Councillors with distinctly Muslim sounding names, make our lot, of either creed, sound positively honest! Which is quite the damming statment.

C.A.T = Cable Avoidance Tool A digger, of any size, is the proven to be infallible cable detector. Or so it was explained to us on a CAT course many years ago. And Yes they are bloody hard to use without training and practise, practise, practise. mth

But surely you can put as much stuff in your basket as you like, to check on free postage or postage costs, and even presumably proceed to "checkout" as long as one does not complete the purchase, all with zero side-effects. Cos I do, cos living in N Ireland, ebay postage can be very(& needlessly) expensive. So I have to test before purchasing. mth

Could you not fabricate a rig/jig/framework to carry a router and simply "mill" the slabs flat. An aluminium ladder each side with cross runners carrying the router head, or carefully aligned, supported and secured clean timbers instead of ladders. All very doable, if perhaps a tad time-consuming. As seen on youtube mth

And "just like the rest of us", until he opens his Gob! So, yes I/we can "spot the traveller", quite easily actually. just saying like!

Our latest Morso, is not of the quality(too many internal shitty light steel air control/management plates) of its 2 twenty year old predecessors, in hindsight I kinda wish we had bought the slightly smaller egg-shaped Astroflamme, that was a very strong contender. mth

Iseki are easily up there with Kubota engineering wise, just not so well known in the uk.

Any local farmer should be able to drag it out with a tractor? and Chainsaw carve it into a woodland seat, assuming there would be a suitable site for it, perhaps in the local college grounds? Or carve it into a totem pole?

Ah did wonder bout the rather dinky and non-grippy tyres.

Yet it was essentially the very English Civil Service centralised management, under Churchill's watchful eye, of our various industries that made a big difference to our war output, that and drafting of women into the factories. So looking ahead . . . The "organised" German nations Army/Navy/Air Force/SS however choose to fight among themselves, and were allowed to, thus duplicating/wasting research efforts and factory output. Edit: Nor were the German factories efforts particularily centrally coordinated So explain that lack of Germanic "planning" ? That, and I understand, the very very late, too late indeed, understanding that war output did NOT need to be lovingly crafted by skilled tradespersons, as was/is the German tradition. MTH

I detested that particular canned laughter show.

To start afresh; Why do you need or want an 18" bar? What will you be cutting? Anyway I choose Stihl, because; (i) there was a good local dealer (ii)only 2 Stihl ranges to pick from, unlike the be-dazzling bewildering array of Husky models. Also ah canny spell Huskyvarna. mth BUT Avoid the B&Q specials, stick with the reputable brands.

Ah simply dinny rate Bosch, and thinking because we had a bad run of cordless Bosch stuff at work years ago. Really swithered about the Milaukee brand, for their "cutting edge" brushless technology, before picking the Metabo, and cant remember exactly I picked on Metabo, but which I think must also be brushless. Otherwise I would have probably picked the Milaukee brand. Absolutely impressed by both the Metabo impact screwdriver and the LTX Drill mind performance wise.

Also reputed to state that he would not drive a (presumably racing) car he had designed! And that the perfectly designed and engineered racing car should collapse in a pile of bits once it had crossed the winning line, after having won of course. Otherwise was simply proof that it was overengineered and therefore too heavy.

I only envisage using it with the 1.0mm thick cutting discs, not power hungry grinding, but still food for thought. I have been surprised how quick the 18V LTX Metabo drill eats a 4.0Amp Hr battery when driving a 16mm or 20mm auger bit, through 3" timbers.

Ah tink ah mixed me metaphorical quotes up like, but deliberately like. see link https://www.azquotes.com/author/27371-Colin_Chapman cheers mth

About to buy a 115mm Metabo 18V cordless anglegrinder, a 125mm is the same price as a 115mm, is there any downside? Discs are, pro-rata the same price. Marcus

As a renowned sports car designer, Colin Chapman, was reputed to say "for performance, add lightness". Somewhat pedantically I looked at the simple power to weight ratio. The 026 scored high on this criteria. mth

Obviously US training at work, their Military being big into their "knife hands", larned from my Pinterest perusal.