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Cheers. I do similar with the dog thieving off the kitchen counter. Only leave chilis there now. Hasn’t hit yet.

I think these barkboxes and shiny side covers principally represent a triumph of marketing and a reciprocal void of sense. Saws are really bloody good as they come. If people replaced the time spent researching, idolising, buying and fitting things that make your saw louder, more expensive and probably heavier with time spent improving their sharpening, they'd have more money and more sawdust and probably fewer add-on problems (like whatever backpressure issue someone above was alluding to). Yes, I get what porting, decking, timing, tuning etc is for and if you really are a super, super duper cutter that wants even more, go for it. But I suspect about 99% of people that **************** around with these "upgrade" parts never derive as much benefit as they would do from just being sharper.

If caught without feelers again, you could use other stuff under the other side (or even a comparable engine) and replicate that amount of drag on the bad side. Your fingers can feel remarkably small differences. Anyone who's jogged a CNC mill down in ten micron and then single micron increments to scratch a gauge under an endmill knows what I mean. You'll even feel the different cutting edges dragging differently. 25 microns is one thou(sandth of an inch).

Did you check the gaps? Set engine to top dead centre and put feeler gauges under the adjustable threaded bits to set gaps as per engine manual.

Oil only needs ten thou or something but I assume larger channels are easier to cast or drill too.

You’d think the channels the push rods slide in wouldn’t be much bigger than the push rods themselves so they can’t bend. Unless they’re designed to bend sacrificially, rather than a valve stem snapping or punching a hole through the valve face? Or the rocker pivot threads pulling out.

What causes a valve to stick in the first place? Bad AFR? Moisture?

I have an egg pecker. It’s one of five of them. Hen six is currently sitting on four eggs in a DHL box serving as a broody coop. But back to the five. How do I catch the perpetrator, short of CCTV or finding egg on its face? Video for general interest and pleasure. IMG_5483.MOV

Set up a company. Pay yourself £200 a month as a PAYE employee. Plead poverty to the council to get a 100% council tax reduction. Accountant probably a bit cheaper than council tax. I don’t care if mine spends it sponsoring a panda. As long as the council aren’t getting it. Doesn’t work if you need to show high PAYE earnings for credit etc. Might not work if you have reportable investments.

You bitch.

**************** people if their will is to impose a(nother) government on me. You have as many masters as you want. I don't want any.

Shop was fine. Took it back.

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It's got the same chuck and therefore quite possibly the same gearbox as the DHP486Z 18V LXT I had. Unwilling to place further trust anyway when there are other brands that haven't sold me something shit yet.

How did you move into arb work from this, stubby?

Water mill?

Good observation. It’s a two acre lawn and a one acre hedge.

Sailor’s been pretty bloody good recently. Usual annoying babe under my feet but recall etc has never been better. Walking tighter, not bursting off so far and so quickly. Asserting himself with the geese more and hassling the chickens less. Often herds usefully. To what do I attribute this advance? My deep understanding of the canine psyche? Doubtful. My slavish devotion to routine? Err. No. Savage beatings and round thrashings? Sadly not. He hasn’t needed any. My calm demeanour, reassuring consistency and patient husbanding? Some of that. Inherent maturity (he’s 2.5 now)? Probably helping. Basically I’ve stopped walking him. Instead of 1-3 hour sorties in the countryside, we pod around the garden and do a 500m lap of the fell (becoming his territory) on the way in and out. He’s not cabin feverish or obviously missing it and approaches domestic activity with the same enthusiasm he did for the outside world. So that’s a result. IMG_5461.MOV

It’s not a competition, stubby. But if it was, I was up at 03:30. Lager is basically an energy drink. Now sat up the garden supervising a broody hen. A mate’s over from Lithuania. Going to see about some clay pigeons when the morning has matured a bit. Trying an OU for the first time. I hope I don’t like it.

What the **************** is this nonsense?!

Mick’s nephew turning up on day nine, finding it still there.

Sorry. Say again. I could have sworn you said 2 men for 2 days. Wednesday off for a CSCS refresher and then a quick coat of red Hammerite on the Forth Bridge to take you to Friday? It’s a monster. I’d start with a full week hire and not have anything planned for the weekend. Or the following week, besides a shoulder massage. Actually no. I just wouldn’t do it. I don’t have the resilience. You’d need pictures of your loved ones in the basket to make sure you didn’t jump out.

Great photos. Slap them in front of anyone you’re trying to win bona fide subcontracting work from (or just anyone who knows what tree work entails) and you’re winning it. I did three memorable days in a wheeled 86’ genie a few years ago. Something like a seven tonne carrier. Great on the flat. As risk-averse on slight slopes as you’d imagine. Spent a lot of time cajoling the alarm.

Bolam has written most eruditely on the subject recently. Along the lines of you retire it from climbing because it can’t be trusted to support a 100kg man and the next thing you know it’s catching 400kg lumps over a £20,000 conservatory.