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I've got the smallest homeowner range battery saw and the smallest homeowner range petrol saw, both Stihl. I've been using the petrol one for nearly six years and the battery one for a year or so, both of them light commercially, only me using them. Keep them sharp and don't abuse them and homeowner is fine. In fact I'd go as far as to say that the homeowner stuff is better in many circumstances because it's so light. I can one hand my 120 battery backhandle at full reach.
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Go battery. The smallest Stihl one will be fine. You’ll umm and ahh about the charging and inconvenience until you use the thing. Six seconds is about all most people need to decide they need one.
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Aspen/MotoMix. I’ve slept in the van next to piles of leaking saws without discomfort or event. Alternatively, put them in a box. Some sort of wheelie bin probably suitable.
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This is like tennis.
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Nice one.
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Clogged filter?
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There is a box now I think about it but it’s about minus twelve outside so I’ll have to check tomorrow. You make good points Dan. I also held off grinding after remembering the mistake I made with a tape measure. I was using the tape and noticed the end hook bit had some play. “That’ll affect my measurement!” I thought. So I forged it solid. Turns out they’re meant to have play (it accounts for then thickness of the hook when pulling the tape out over something or pushing it up against something) and I’d been too clever for my own good. I later discovered a well known television blacksmith made the same mistake so I feel a bit less silly about it.
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Don’t think you’re being clever by using the size up to get a tighter seal. I did and I got a worse seal.
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I was about to put it in the vice when it struck me that someone paid money to put them there so there must be a good reason for them. Or someone’s making the jigs out of reclaimed materials and didn’t notice/couldn’t be bothered to remove them.
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150hp twin. Bloody hell. What is it?
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Well done. The difference between a bad mechanic and a good mechanic is that the good mechanic doesn’t give up. There’s always a way.
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On one of those cheap vertical chainsaw jigs. Three little stubs of threaded rod sticking out. Nothing attached the other side so they’re there deliberately. They look like they’re going to catch on the post you screw into the log. Or do you want some drag?
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Oats, dried fruit, nuts, honey. It’s like baclava without the hassle.
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Queues at the shop. Fuck that. Egg (and onion) fried rice. Wok Loads of oil Onion(s) Ginger, garlic, chilli Egg(s) when the onion is nearly done. Let the egg fry enough to hold together but not so much that it’s a complete fried egg. Then stir it up and give it a few more seconds. Turmeric, sometimes nutmeg Rice (cooked, duh) Ideally serve with gloopy soy sauce that you get from foreign shops, not the thin piss from Tesco. Also available from foreign shops, monosodium glutamate. Often called something hopeful like “magic powder,” it does make the dish more like it would be from a takeaway but will probably also give you a heart murmur.
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Can’t help with question but good on you.
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That's the one I meant. Thanks very much.
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Find my thread on them. That’s when I installed them and they were still fine yesterday.
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Very old pear tree (dying gracefully?)
AHPP replied to AndyJ's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Fruit trees can look old and gnarly but still live well. They like being worked. Say it’s fifteen feet tall now. I’d knock it down a foot or so a year for five years and thin selectively to let light and air though and I bet it comes back fighting. You’ll then have a tree you can pick and prune from a three foot step. Just wade in. -
If you had to pick one, London Plane Tree or Common Lime?
AHPP replied to JackArbAssociation's topic in AA
If you like small leaved lime and you ever venture east, there’s a fucking fabulous coppice of it in Suffolk. -
What Squaredy said and also, in my glorious vision of peaceful anarchy, the absence of government building restrictions will increase housing supply, lowering cost for a given demand.
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Those little Bahco sets are supremely handy. My mate, Neil, an otherwise laid back man, watches me like a hawk when it’s out with us on the driveway and he thinks I might pocket it.
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The same thing I often cook, varied depending on what I have in. Onion and bacon bits fried up Beans (chopped up or messy to eat with a spoon) Garlic, ginger, chilli; the holy trinity of heat Turmeric and garam masala Potatoes (pre-cooked yesterday outside on wood - I could do it all on wood but I can’t bring myself to shit my good wok up with soot yet) Pint of water to make it soupy Salt was in with the potatoes, pepper whenever
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They well may. Their lookout. Why would stuff be more expensive?
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I’ve got an even better one. Stop taxing people like battery hens and they’ll see themselves through. People on average have half their wealth taken in tax (a simplistic appraisal but run with it). If someone had worked for twenty years without being taxed, they could ride out a storm for another twenty years on the saved tax money alone. As it is at the moment, the government’s got about ten minutes of money in reserve because it spent the “bit of money” its collected over the years on bollocks.
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The 20% when sold is what I described when the banks repossess and sell. Unless I've missed some other subtlety?
