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Not seen one in the wild here yet but I'm relatively rural. I tried to convince my mum to get one to drive 4 miles to the shops twice a week. She could charge it off the solar system on the garage. Instead she spent four times as much on a hybrid that only charges off the petrol engine in it. She might want to go from Suffolk to Edinburgh at any moment you see and the three other internal combustion vehicles here weren't enough for that. As part of a fleet, why wouldn't you have one?! Probably park three of them in a standard space.
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I asked about the relationship because I saw the fliplines at Jones but didn’t buy because I didn’t like Jones. Now I see some at yours (from memory, the same colour, the same length choices, the same lack of grabs) but I’d feel uneasy about buying if I suspected Jones creditors were owed and left wanting and stock that could have eased their suffering had been subject to some kind of disappearing act. Forgive my cynicism if that isn’t the case.
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I started seeing adverts for them on Facebook not long after Jones shut. Their websites cast a similar shadow. I’m sure they both had deals on the same wire core fliplines. hmmm
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Is this FR Jones's stock?
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What yacht does he have?
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I watched a twenty minute video of him that a friend sent me, with either an open and neutral mind or even a slight predisposition towards him (sixth form common room politics - yes please, Mick!). I was struggling to isolate any actual point he was making after about two minutes, the same as when I tried reading Marx et al. A red flag. If you can't explain something well, you don't understand it well. Then he got actively worse and just started being wrong about things. Don't ask me what. I've forgotten and I'm not going back to remember. He's right about the existence of inequality but moderately wrong about the cause and very wrong about the fix. Rubbish communist. No ideology. I'd have had time for him if he could talk about the building blocks but he can't.
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On vehicles, I have recently fallen in love with this. Available in city car and rural utility trim. Nine grand new, max speed 28 mph, range apparently 43 miles. Watched a video of a bloke driving one round London. He was struggling to do 9 mph up a hill. No radio. Windows don't even roll down. The left/right door panels are the same and the front/back bonnet/boot panels are the same. You could probably charge it from two solar panels on the roof of the garden shed in which you keep it. Lovely. Just lovely.
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Watching with interest because I planked some ash for this purpose a few weeks ago. I think I went for 2" or 2.25" wet. I wouldn't use it wet because it'll then dry and shrink in the tool eye and be loose. Am aware of things like force drying in hot sand but no experience of it and would apply the normal rule that shortcuts are shortcuts. I made an oak handle for a sledgehammer a few years ago. Octagonal like a Japanese carpentry saw. Irregular to feel slim and a palm swell in both dimensions. It's the bollocks, if I do say so myself.
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Gardeners. I've often thought a gardener would make a useful groundsman on a big job. Handy for moving and replacing shrubs but mainly doing a lovely job of the tidy up when everyone else is tired and can't be ****************ed. They'd come with ten kinds of rake and know which one to use. Or even motorised vacuums etc, which tree blokes are usually too stupid to own despite being perfect for heavy clearup. I rarely get involved with this sort of tawdry business of course but I was shovelling sawdust and twigs alongside a guy on a blower the other week and we were having a mare getting it out of some ground-covering stuff around the stump.
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I've long thought a big job should have two climbers on it, a little one and a big one. The little one can scamper around being fast and light, set ropes, while the big one is humping the bollard in and setting it up. Chop and change as appropriate but definitely leave a good bit in the big one's tank for the big saw work at the end of the day. I (a little one) will often get to the 661 stage of the tree and ask myself what the **************** am I doing up here with this massive heavy bastard (doing simple chogging that anyone can do) when I'm already tired from being fabulous all day on the branchwork. Or just two little ones if it's gay stuff like pruning. Either way. Negligible extra cost over a groundsman only. I'm not sure I'd hire someone that couldn't climb, unless they had some other skill. And there's no site down time when the climber needs to eat but the groundsmen don't.
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Well oui, monsieur évident. But being mainly the former, it grants me the inner peace you will have no doubt noticed radiating from me.
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I used to ask for a photo of the tree so I could come up with a plan in advance. Couldn't sleep. Stopped asking. Far better. Have since even cut people off on whatsapp to say don't send a picture. It's reassuring marketing too, that I don't need to see it.
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I did. They all blur into one.
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I always find the omission of rigging from this list hilarious. There are zero climbers in the country who when confronted with the need to rig say, “Sorry. I am only qualified to carry out free fall cutting techniques.”
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I’m telling you now, the rest of the problem is the rest of the state but you have to let people get there on their own.
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I assume the opiner in question is that Gary bloke who looks like he should live on a narrow boat at Hackney Wick and keep his economic illiteracy to himself? I can’t watch him. I can’t even run the risk of watching him. Here’s a start: 1. If we must have centrally issued currency, at least return to a gold standard. 2. Scrap planning restrictions. It’ll undo the land monopoly and give people space to breathe and asses the rest of the problem.
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I elect to die from my injuries where I come to a halt.
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It's a shame you couldn't train birds to do the gravel. There are thousands of them just flying round doing nothing. Dossers. I just saw a lovely little thing on facebook about rats that are trained to find people trapped in rubble and flick a switch and come back for a treat when they have. I'm looking at rats on facebook because I want to avoid looking at my van, that a mate and I spent a whole day on yesterday, him welding me doing various other jobs to satisfy some babe bureaucrat writing rules about the nick in my seatbelt. It's my face and my windscreen. I'll mash one into the other if I want to.
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I was earlier today exposed to a workshop airline brake bleeder for the second or third time. Still shit. Push the pedal with your foot.
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Get in the sea, you spiv wanker.
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Everyone thought Gene Hackman was crazy and now look at him. Dead.
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We need a radgie eastern Euro in England and one in Wales and we'll have a full set.
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For anyone finding this thread down the line, I think the oiler is the same for other Stihl saws, which I'll write below. Stihl MS 170 oiler Stihl MS 171 oiler Stihl MS 180 oiler Stihl MS 181 oiler Stihl MS 210 oiler Stihl MS 211 oiler Stihl MS 230 oiler Stihl MS 231 oiler Stihl MS 250 oiler Stihl MS 251 oiler Stihl MS 170 service workshop manual Stihl MS 171 service workshop manual Stihl MS 180 service workshop manual Stihl MS 181 service workshop manual Stihl MS 210 service workshop manual Stihl MS 211 service workshop manual Stihl MS 230 service workshop manual Stihl MS 231 service workshop manual Stihl MS 250 service workshop manual Stihl MS 251 service workshop manual Hope that helps someone.
