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Just the Sherpa pincer grabs that I’ve seen have all been blue.
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Mark, Describe your use in case I’ve assumed it wrongly. Have you got a blue pincer grab, doobin.
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That isn’t.
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That’s what you want for domestic arb (assuming it swivels).
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Did they show you any other grabs, Mark?
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Can you post a picture of the log grab please.
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Is that not a bit hasty? Premium (E5) might be 20p/litre more than standard (E10). If you burn 10 litres a day, your costs are £2 higher. Can you not charge £2/day extra rather than scrapping hundreds or thousands of pounds of machines?
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Gangsta.
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Wood grenades (or indeed any splitting wedge) are like a large displacement, high torque engine that only works at 20 rpm. Munts through anything but what’s the point. Constant resetting it. Very little work achieved. Doing straight stuff on a block gets you up to 1000 rpm in a misfiring 2002 Ford Fiesta, nearly a useful amount of work but still very inefficient doing all the block loading. Manual splitting nirvana is achieved by wading into a pile on the floor and flicking and golf swinging through it at 13,000 revs, the Formula 1 of axe work. Don’t waste effort on tricky bits; saw them or discard them. I use them as axle stands.
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Danny Green. Not a recommendation, just a bloke I know has done carving work around there.
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Started typing. Can’t be arsed. Happy shedding.
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I didn’t make a note of it and I can’t be arsed to find it again to prove a point to you. Or I’m talking shite. One of those. You do realise I was trying to do you a favour pointing out something you maybe hadn’t realised? No need to be rude.
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You gave it away when you posted about your shared driveway. I’m often tracking down people, bits of land etc and yours was a doddle (like a Haynes one or two spanner job). You’re probably fine though. Enjoy your shed.
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Not necessarily. Plenty of people on here don’t like you, know where you live and might stir up trouble remotely. Wranglerstar on YouTube has said a couple of times that he has to be squeaky clean on everything because video watchers have dobbed him in on planning/building regs matters.
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It's a shame Dakar, AER etc are so expensive. Ed March would do it on a C90 if it was cheaper.
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Back on Lyndon Poskitt, a friend was telling a motorcycling acquaintance about him (LP) going round the world on a (heavily modified) KTM 690. "Bloody good luck to him." In fairness, it actually gave him next to no problems but he has built it and rebuilt it with pretty trick parts and is fastidious on maintenance. Like how Land Rovers are fine if you replace things like gearboxes every 5000 miles.
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I watched it when Lyndon Poskitt covered it (way more interesting than his travelogues). Otherwise prefer the Africa Eco. Where was Dakar this year?
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Go on, Alec. Kick us off.
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I only have a passing interest in them but I'm aware a lot of folks enjoy the collecting, the engineering, the style etc. Had a very interesting look at a few of a fellow arbtalker's collection the other day. Anyone else into them?
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Did your chipper ever turn up there?
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Have the definitive regulations regarding firewood?
AHPP replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
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My understanding of old engines calling for 25:1 or 40:1 (rather than contemporary standard 50:1) mixes is that those mixes were specified at a time where oil was less good so you needed more of it. My understanding follows that fuel with contemporary, better oil can be mixed at 50:1 and will be fine. My own findings back this up. I have an old (early 90s, maybe late 80s) Tecumseh engine that calls for 24:1. I started it on 25:1 and weaned it onto 50:1 over about ten tanks. It works fine on 50:1, including being held open on the governor for full minutes at a time. I've probably done forty or fifty sessions between cold with it on 50:1 and it seems fine. I use Stihl MotoMix (50:1 from the factory) and the extra oil I was adding was just cheap stuff from a motor factor.
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Do it. The point of green woodwork is expedience, pragmatism and character.
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Have the definitive regulations regarding firewood?
AHPP replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
John. Who are you arguing with and about what?
