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AHPP

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  1. Couldn’t be bothered to find Mick’s hairy three strand thread so posting here. A refreshingly small and piss simple sycamore. Went deliberately old school with the DRT. Did use a pair of rings. Should have crotched it to stay in keeping.
  2. What do you use it for and why did you choose it over a more conventional machine?
  3. Those chisel knives look excellent. A stainless one would be ideal for the pile of tools on my workbench that never get put away.
  4. £16 I think so a budget item. Probably the worst steel available but it does little day to day stuff fine. Bought on a whim because it was heavily discounted and it's turned out to be brilliant. The flip close is handier than you think. I know the s 139 and offensive weapons basics and one of my Regina v AHPP wins was a very short s 139 pointed article joust about a corkscrew on a Swiss Army Knife. Annoyingly didn't make it past plea and case management. The laws on weapons (or what most people think of when you say weapons) are bollocks. I've had to surrender juggling balls and flasks of tea at court security when I could just as easily lash and strangle people with my belt, bray them with a heavy file or break a bathroom mirror for a slasher/stabber. A noteworthy majority of court buildings also have internal balconies. Ideal for throwing people over or hoying a bin at someone two floors below. Regulating weapons is pointless. Guns don't kill people, rappers do.
  5. 153 square inches, about three times that of a Timberwolf 230 and three times the 25hp of the weedy new diesel. No surprise. I prescribe 300hp instead. Trust me, I'm a doctor.
  6. A friend has a UKPK. Lovely thing. My daily is a CRKT with a really slippy detente. I think there’s a thrust bearing in there. The absolute lack of lock reminds me to not try anything too heavy with it and to go and get the right tool. Most useful thing about it is one handed opening AND CLOSING.
  7. Aye. Same. I've had a plan for ages to build one with two engines. Redderneck. Surely more is wasted making a smaller engine work hard, running it into the no stress, waiting for the revs to come back up when it could be chipping. Accelerating in a car drinks fuel compared to motorway cruising, even with the high speed and (wind) resistance. So? What's the harm in having 80hp on tap and it never hitting the no stress.
  8. Yeah. I understand the need for them to be running relatively lazily. My example 100hp engine could run at 50hp and still be ahead of the current offerings. And I was being conservative with 100hp. Loads of cars are 150hp, 200hp. One of those doing 75hp would surely be sustainable?
  9. I’ve often wondered why 6-8” chipper engines aren’t 100hp. Loads of car engines are that sort of power and perfectly reasonably sized.
  10. I used to collect mussels from underneath the concrete boardwalk along the tidal Wear in Sunderland. Never found a dead prostitute.
  11. AHPP

    Red diesel

    National Dolescum Union (NDU). It's right next door on the keyboard.
  12. AHPP

    Overloaded

    That's magnificent.
  13. AHPP

    Horse chestnut

    I was saying to a mate the other day while admiring his new poplar burr (and a little ripple) topped guitar that guitar tops is an excellent use of woods that aren’t intrinsically strong and/or stable. A 5mm top is held in place with a 30mm slab of something aesthetically boring behind it. My first thoughts for such tops were poplar, horse chestnut, lime and eucalyptus (for ripple rather than burr). Any other ideas?
  14. This is what I do. The battery well has a very annoying lip that prevents you tipping the chips out.
  15. Firstly I appreciate that you actually understood the question and got back to me so quickly. Thank you. I'm afraid there's more to it though. I'm not a scientist or a petrol tool manufacturer but I can still tell you without googling it that the specific gravity of petrol is something like 0.73, not 1. Oil is similarly different. Over 500ml and 310ml, does it matter much? No. But considering you're one of the top two saw manufacturers on the planet, being asked a question by a customer, is it worth being wrong by a quarter when you didn't need to be? Also no. Don't guess at stuff. It undermines other stuff you say and your general credibility. And to be clear, I don't just want to see weights for an MSA300 and an MS261. I want to see weights of all the saws, bars and chains you sell. There's 28 pages in the catalogue for rubber ducks and jenga sets but you haven't found the space for eminently relevant saw specifications. I don't mean to sound unduly critical but customers appreciate detail.
  16. Confusing mishmash. Get some scales and weigh the powerheads, the oil fills, the fuel fills, the batteries, the bars and the chains SEPARATELY. It only needs doing once (and once in a blue moon for a new product release) and it’ll cost you less than frustrated customers shutting the catalogue on a new saw because they can’t get a straight answer. It’s such an easy bunch of numbers to collect and show and frankly embarrassing that you don’t already. I would suggest you could even compile the weights from your computer system and not have to open a load of boxes but after about ten phone calls to Camberley and Germany last year to try to discover the weight of a bar (not a complicated enquiry), I’m not confident that’s the quickest way. I ended up getting a dealer to put one on a kitchen scale.
  17. You should be able to shut it down to burn slower. If you can't, reduce the volume of the combustion chamber with bricks so you burn less fuel but still fast. That'll solve one of your problems.
  18. Wow! Was that an especially clean batch of wood or do you wash/debark it first?
  19. Cool project. Keep us updated.
  20. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/maps-and-graphics/2017/04/04/updated-mapped-world-war
  21. Burn it harder. Fires come on cam so to speak.

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