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AHPP

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  1. Considering this instead of the right angle. https://www.makitauk.com/product/ddf486.html Same torque, smaller, lighter, cheaper. Any thoughts?
  2. Prevailing thought is to not use impacts on sailing winches. Having now been inside one a fair bit, I suspect it's something like not wanting a pawl to travel half way to the next ratchet click, fail to get there and then slam back into its seat with the load. A stalling drill will just stall once. Plus it just feels mechanically unsympathetic rattling cogs into each other.
  3. I just used up some utter shit I'd bought from a convenient Co-Op for a fortune. Needs musted at the time. Pictured here with some much more middle class stuff off the market I think.
  4. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Gypsies chipping a branch with a pet cat on it. I watched a groundsman defecate in a shrubbery planter outside the main door of Euston Station.
  5. I thought I changed direction and saved it quite nicely with the little moonwalk. No pleasing some people.
  6. With free rear seats (private road use only).
  7. A couple of years ago I rode a massive branch out of a redwood, flexing slowly and deeply against an azure sky. Cameraman botched it. A moment lost in time, like tears in rain.
  8. The crotch ripped as I did it (for the third time in as many weeks). Can't do anything with any confidence and the seamstress won't be told that a bigger patch is needed. Spent the rest of the day trying to keep my balls in, a mixture of smaller crane picks, a bit of coppicing and sitting in a National Trust tea room.
  9. IMG_2901.MOV
  10. Is the Makita right angle still the daddy? It pissed all over the Milwaukee one in a youtube video a while ago.
  11. You clever old thing.
  12. Can you get drive keys for sailing winches that fit small drills? I haven't got the tin for a big right-angled one atm but want to get gunning. Bought this one but I suspect the hex is too large for gay little drills. 11mm or 7/16" by my eye.
  13. Soapy suds care of a facebook firewood wombler. I said free and two out of about twenty brought beers. Southampton. Noticed anecdotally greater (but not statistically significant) generosity in Birmingham. Never tried it further north. Anyone keeping tabs? Pun intended.
  14. Was that the £5000 one with the big bucket?
  15. What's wrong with that? The alternative is lorries running round collecting it. Steel, rubber, lead and acid, brake pads etc. And the people who drive the lorries have to drive to work. Same for the people who make the lorries etc. They could all stay at home and write poems instead.
  16. Install two to make a point.
  17. *pioneer
  18. aspenbob should weigh in here. Arb endgame? Industrial oil dermatitis and outwardly-silent, inwardly-screaming despair.
  19. And once you've heard that, try the third album, Third. Worst nosedive since the fall of Rome.
  20. As you've said a million times before and as I might have been better off believing one of those times. Ho hum.
  21. Sod off, Mick.
  22. I was like you for years, adamant I wasn't going to end up a principal contractor, racing to the bottom with every chancer etc. Aaaaaand now I'm doing it. One of those inevitabilities.
  23. I've just shut the door on a twenty-five year friendship because he became a taxman. These people need to starve, for friendship, in trade and ideally totally.

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