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eagleye

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  1. would you say to someone who owed you 2k just leave it in the garden in a safe place
  2. Totally agree with this statement seems like the OP wants to blame someone for his cock up if you get any courier to leave it in a safe place "define safe place" a book leave it by the dustbin but 2 grands worth of gear and you get robbed your a mug and lets start playing the blame game why should the supplier be blamed or DPD
  3. Extend it up with ball stop netting nice and light hardly any wind resistance you might have to upgrade corner posts for straining wires and extend the others as intermediate supports job done
  4. no the 181 bit is the horsepower
  5. use some loctite tighten each bolt and nut one at a time until you find the tight one then slacken it off a bit loctite will stop it vibrating undone job done
  6. buy a new pair if your worried your easy find £65 if your self empolyed add £10 to the next 7 jobs if your PAYE get your employer to buy you a new pair and pay them back £10 a week or get your girlfriend to pay for them it was her fault and requires further training with the washing machine
  7. use ordinary metal primer and go back in a years time and watch it all peel off use the proper galvanised primer or your in trouble it will peel some good advise has already been given
  8. try brewers paint merchants or any decent decorating suppliers near to you their do the correct primer for galvanised metal
  9. try these Swanley - Food and green waste recycling, Anaerobic digestion, Renewable Energy Company UK - Tamar or st margrets farm st margrets road south darenth
  10. [ame= ] [/ame] this one found out the hard way
  11. council issue them just look up the relevant local council and go to permits it will probably be in with the likes of skip permits traffic management permits materials on the road permits
  12. permit to work on or over the highway required google it there's plenty of info
  13. drill and tap the plug and fit a grease nipple job done
  14. eagleye

    Tipper Cage

    check the weight of the truck with crew and kit first one of ours not crewcab but has a roller shutter box and cage 2 crew and kit comes in at 2840kg = 660kg payload
  15. front him up about being a dickhead if the disabled bay is unused tell him to use it or your going to get the council to remove it if he reckons he's not disabled enough to use it give him a good kicking and make him proper disabled only joking
  16. forstner bit even better to use if you have a drill press or pillar drill buy a decent make not a cheapo silverline type
  17. the bit over the hard shoulders always looked lower than the main carriage way bit maybe the lorry would have cleared it if he was on the main carriage the one on the A21 kept getting spanked until they took it down and changed it
  18. even better when the home owner thinks its their land and we get to put a flail through it hack it back and make it look a right mess
  19. lesson learnt for custom made stuff get the money up front or at least enough to cover your time and materials can they not be turned down to make a smaller standard size skittle you might want to disregard the last comment as i know FA about skittles or wood turning
  20. they just have round ends on them unless you do a chuck up proper tight with a chuck key and give it a little tap with a hammer their going to slip in the chuck better off with the 3 sided ones they dont slip dont bother cleaning them spray them with a little oil and run them through some scrap timber that will clean the rust off
  21. Don't fanny about with footings and brickwork for something that high use some railway sleepers on edge drill a few holes through them and pin them with some road pins or rebar if the roots push the sleepers up in years to come take it out notch it refit it better than cracked pushed up brickwork
  22. if their below ground level concrete 150mm away from them either side and put a small concrete lintel over them out of interest how high is the retaining wall

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