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Daniël Bos

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About Daniël Bos

  • Birthday 25/02/1980

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    International Hobo
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    Hedgelayer / Sheepshearer

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  1. Update: It went for 1000 euro-dollars (roughly 950 brit-bucks at the moment). I got offered 1100 after, but was already in negotiations with a quicker buyer. Buyer was happy, I'm happy, I believe the butler is happy too, all good!
  2. How much do you get paid to wear those socks?
  3. Mine was a late model, but I haven't held one for nearly a decade so I wasn't sure. As it's so clean i figured it'd be worth a punt but I'd completely forgotten about the two different sizes.
  4. Found a saw for sale online, but there's only these two pictures. The last 346 i had (and stupidly sold to Adam Bourne) I'm sure had grey clips to hold the top cover. My 365 and 372 also have grey clips, making me think the pro models had grey, the homeowner saws orange? I also have doubts about the fuel and oil lids? Whaddayareckon?
  5. Easiest way to save fuel is to make sure your driver's care. You have a baseline consumption figure, give whoever uses the least fuel comparitively something good. Slab of Stella/ credit for shiny things at yr favourite arb shop/ a big paper crown/ whatever fits. Make it fun and worthwhile to care.
  6. Do you swing your tool beside those younger ones regularly for comparison?
  7. Thanks all. I reckon that makes the average opinion around £1k? As mentioned, it's for sale in the Netherlands with current bidding at €900. I'll let it go as long as it makes over 1k then. Pretty insane really, a ten year old tool fetching two thirds of new price! (I'm not complaining!)
  8. I'm selling my 880, but in the Netherlands and was just wondering what the congregation reckons it's worth if I sold her in Britland? Bought new in 2013 Very little use. Never run on petrol, Aspen only. Runs excellent. Comes with 4ft sugi, two chains (50 and 75% left), nose sprocket change jig tool thingie. Just to clarify, I'm after opinions not offers.
  9. This. Inadequate tools teach bad habits. Much better to learn to use a tool well if itś a good tool to start with.
  10. I don't know where you got the police involved? All information provided is that the council have announced they want him to not live wherever he lives. Nowhere in the previous conversation is there any mention of anything illegal, just the council's intention. I've some experience with local governments doing whatever the flying fish they feel like, presuming the're in the right is on par with little red riding hood believing a wolf in drag was her own grandmother.... Just my opinion.
  11. I'm not easily triggered (pun intended) but : "Man living illegally...." really?
  12. *****UPDATE***** Spoiler, it fell off the roof... So, took a while to get to this stage, got actual work to do as well! I first went back to the beginning, the mount for the coil wasn't as it should be so i removed all my JB weld bodgery and fabricobbled a sturdy aluminum bracket riveted to the casing in four places. Convinced by its sturdiness I resumed testing. The original coil gave no signs of life still, but one I robbed off a lawnmower did! I couldn't mount the lawnmower one due to size restrictions so I went to order a new one. Turns out they've been making mowers like this one for a looooong time, with many small changes but none so obvious that it makes determination of what one I have exactly an easy job. What also didn't help is the chassisnumber being printed on a sticker and thus long gone. So I went to Germany to visit the dealer who told me my coil was unavailable and had been superseded. "This one fits all 6hp two strokes" he said confidently... It didn't quite, but with some adaptation of my homemade mount, and sticking two individual plates of the old coil over the new one I got it mounted securely and got ignition! Not long after that she ran, and with a little fiddling it ran quite good. Tried to do some adjustments as it revved over 5k, when it's supposed to max out at 4500. Adjustments are done by turning the governor mount (which is a vane beside the flywheel/fan) more or less towards the flywheel, thereby changing at what rpm the wind blows that vane aside and with that closes the throttle. Happy with my results so far, I went to field testing. The thing was bought because we have three large grass roofs that need mowing once a year, so steep (everything not perfectly flat is seen as steep here in the Netherlands) and overgrown. So up I go, and bruummmmm!!! We're mowing! It mows quick and easy! I'm focused on my tacho, seeing what it revs like under load etc, making sure I don't hit the roof mounted fall arrest system, not falling off etc. So focused that I didn't notice the angry swarm of wasps whose home I just demolished... They announced themselves all at once. I stopped the mower, made sure the dead-man was functioning and the mower no longer moving, and ran! Assisted by the wee beasties to keep going I was 50 or so meters away when the engine was almost at zero rpm. At almost zero rpm however, it shakes the machine much more than at operating speed. The shaking caused it to shift a little, after which it started it's irreversible tumble down the roof. I could but stand and stare. It fell in a relatively lucky place, on soil. It managed to land upside down, and got bent somewhat... My recovery attempts were hampered by the swarm, but after a little wait I got back to it and it still runs like a champ! All it needs now is some new av mounts, and a good session with a big hammer to readjust the various bent bits. And then, it'll be perfect...!
  13. A final test of what exactly? What would doing that tell me?
  14. It didn't, then it did for a little bit, then the spark died and now I can't figure out why it doesn't spark without throwing money at it.

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