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  1. AHPP

    Makita DUC150

    Is it as nicely balanced as a 2511? Not like the Stihl 160 where the battery weight at the back ruined it.
  2. AHPP

    Makita DUC150

    Kram dear. I was more asking Josh and fancy since they have one but I appreciate the effort anyway. Bear in mind it’s not just size and weight though. It’s balance and feel. My particular need is for small-medium takedowns with a mix of cut and chuck and rigging. Almost all of my work for the last decade has been big and rigged and I’ve used a backhandle because my wrists are too gay for 201 sized top handles and I’ve not needed to cut and hold. I don’t even really want a 2511 sized top handle, hence hoping things like the pruning saws would do instead. I need to handle the M18 Milwaukee one really. I’m aware that if I had to stop dilly dallying and just buy one and move on, it would be a 2511 topper. @bigtreedon How did you get on with the Echo 2500 battery tophandle?
  3. AHPP

    Makita DUC150

    Is the 2500 really comparable to the 2511, like the waffle says? Usable for medium removals?
  4. I'm in the same position as you, Muddy. Take the plunge and report back please. £52 for the one you posted would be nice. Only difference is I would be happy to spend £200 if it gets me something of better quality, even if still manual.
  5. Muddy and Mick (and indeed several other people now I re-read) are onto something I think. Have an expert do the precision work and buy a backhoe for the rest of it? Or do it all with the backhoe if you have the patience. Forget bog work obviously.
  6. What sort of proportions of time was he using the back actor to dig, lift etc compared to using the front bucket (and forks?) to move stuff
  7. I asked my extremely straight laced guitarist (emphasis on the straight) whether he would like some cucumbers from the garden. He would. Sent him this asking how big he could take. Nothing back yet. The poor love is probably feeling some deep-seated, deep-rooted instinctual bumming fear. Now I find assertive, bordering on predatory homosexuality extremely funny. He doesn't, which I in turn find extremely funny.
  8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag
  9. Nah. Weak. Fruity but weak. Not a curry but I do put cumin in it, which I gather is normal ish for the dish.
  10. Yes. 1st November. Couldn't be bothered to check dates last time. We've got "partridge day" before that but that's just a walk with a bag of four pigeons.
  11. Perplexed by laughing reactions. Have I been unintentionally funny?
  12. Polytunnel a jungle. Didn’t stake well enough. Just put a few in at the last possible moment and hoped. Hope is not a strategy. IMG_5871.MOV
  13. Pheasant season is curry season so October or whenever that starts. Shakshuka with my tomatoes and my eggs earlier. Even put it on a clean plate to photograph for here but forgot before eating. Also still haven’t got round to trying that curry peds put me onto. Patiha? Will do when I have a dishwasher on the staff.
  14. AHPP

    Chickens?

    Not just chickens. Arb chickens. Seen here sorting out two bags of rakings. IMG_5870.MOV
  15. Tell us what you do with trees now.
  16. Is that a five tonner it's on?
  17. I'm going to Bensham on Monday and then to the bloody Metro centre. Nearly eleven years up here and I've not set foot in the place until now. Might take strychnine.
  18. Tell my guitarist that.
  19. Not a million miles from that. Louder.
  20. I wanted to sell merch in prices listed in fractions of gold/silver but the other lads are normal. I also wanted to sell branded knives but same problem. P.S. We don't actually sell t-shirts. We do have CDs but I can't bear the hawking so we're the same bunch of cnts as evey other band with a nearly full box of them.
  21. I did my first full-fat, name-on-the-door job today. Had a climber in. I bored the life out of him telling him to take it easy, take time, be safe, constantly check himself for tiredness/complacency etc. You know what. I'm going to keep being boring. It's only gardening. Nobody needs to die.
  22. Mine. I'll put you down for a CD and a £35 t-shirt.

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