Daniël Bos

Relays are clever things. But, breaking a circuit is much more wearing than making one. The contacts get welded together by the current, everytime the relay needs to open or close it makes a spark. When closing the circuit this spark gets smaller as the contacts are moving together, but when opening a circuit there is a current flow to interrupt making not only a bigger spark but the very act of the contacts moving away from each other sort of stretches the spark. if it gets stuck in the closed position the contacts will have welded together by that spark. In short: Just stick a new one in, they cost pennies

In the Netherlands the rules are not the same. The way the gtw of dedicated B+E artic is determined involves multiplying the maximum axle load of the rear axle, so what they do is stick a jeep dana axle under an iveco getting combination with a train weight of up to 16t...

It's relisted again, with what I think is a reasonable fair description https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18-INCH-CHAINSAW-SHARP-CHAIN-WORKS-WELL-BUT-OVER-REVS-HUSQVARNA-395XP-STICKERS/173142570029?hash=item285019f42d:g:wAIAAOSwEUdabHum

Not enough. You can drive a 7.5 with a 750kg trailer you can drive a lighter vehicle with a heavier trailer but then won't be able to carry the digger But.... How about doing it the other way around? put the chipper on a truck like a heavy iveco van, tow the digger on an ultralight trailer. then you'd be ok with the license you have now. You'd have to find a van that can tow 3.5t (i believe the iveco's can?) and can weigh 4750 and carry the 2000kg chipper

Maybe they meant you should be prepared to have to work on it to be able to use it....? I think ebay is descending into a puddle of dishonesty. Quite often when I buy things now marked as being in the uk, they've actually come from far flung places like china malaysia HK etc. The way people get ripped off by others seems to only make more people more dishonest

Is it misalignment or is the bar actually bending that much under it's own weight?

I bid as much as I can afford, those extra 9p are just out of reach of my wallet I just don't think it's worth more than the 5k i bid

dayum! outbid

This is what it really is btw, sold here new for £70 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SKATCO-52CC-PETROL-CHAINSAW-BRAND-NEW-PROFESSIONAL-POWER-TOOL/282649895290?epid=13007130617&hash=item41cf3f217a:g:hLIAAOSwVLRaXz8I

Nah, I sent the seller a message when this thread appeared stating that it was a fake heap of shite. After I "won" i sent him another message stating that unless he'd send me a real husky he'd best not bother posting it. Distance Selling Rules give any online buyer 14 days to reconsider in most cases, and I reckoned with the obvious errors in his listing, the false information etc he'd not have a leg to stand on. Item is now relisted, with some added slander... I sent him another message urging him strongly to remove my username (though who is gonna write my username down to check later when I buy things after seeing that? it won't matter) and amend his listing to remove the suggestion he's selling a husky. I doubt he will, so probs it will happen again....

Ha! You can buy a new one of those things for about 50 quid, and it's not worth even half that much...

Not surprisingly, I won! Hopefully when the seller tries to sell it again he'll be honest...

poor sod, has been flooded by messages. Or.... not that nice, the listing is still up! but i'm still the high bidder, and I don't think that'll change...

I've just bid a few grand, any one else keen?

both bonfire and woodburner are fine, provided you're not standing about inhaling the smoke. so make the bonfire as big as possible.

Sure.... Let me leave you with this to mull over: To the privileged, equality feels like oppression.

the longer cut means there is more support to stop splitting upwards. If you cut down say 45 degrees and apply leverage to where the cut starts, there will be pressure on the top of the stem down to the und of the cut. When cutting horizontal, there is none. So some angle is beneficial to control how it splits. the above picture is excessive imo though and appears to be a typical case of style over substance as is so often the case with hedgelaying unfortunately...

Maybe you should google what "feminist" means....

Is it coincidence that this is right at the same height as the top of the fence? Could it have rubbed in high winds? It's hard to see how much space there is between the tree and the fence.

the stem is a fair bit thicker after the second roots. about 5" diameter at the original stem, after the second rooting it's about 8" I reckon it'll live (at least for a few years, I'll be loooong gone!)

I suppose I worry too much. It's gonna get the chop, I'll make sure to take pictures aplenty. It'll live for now though as I tore off a pipe of the digger, early weekend...

Ha! I reckon I'll do just that, but there's a bit of me not 100% comfortable. I guess I'm just so used to always being right now i'm no longer married that the chance of being in the wrong is frankly terrifying? On a serious note, houses in this street average over £2million, a boundary line moved a foot equals more money than I earn in a year and they're all of the sort what love lawyers 'round 'ere! (and not in the wanting to cuddle a cutey qc way either) If there is an answer, I wanna know it.

I'm currently clearing scrub along a boundary line. The client's side is pasture, it neighbours a woodland. The client being a farmer, they've moved their fenceline every ten years or so (or whenever it needed repair/replacement) rather than cutting back the encroaching wood, leading to a 10-15m scrub zone that looks like it's part of the woodland, but was originally pasture. I find this is quite a common practice, though not to such extremes! Anyway, the neighbour came up angry at me, we had a "why are you killing my trees? - I'm not, they're not your trees - yes they are part of my wood, etc etc" conversation. I let him sort it out with the client who could easily and convincingly show where the actual property ends. (I'd have not got involved had I not been convinced). Now, with the boundaries established I crack on but came across the following: A blackthorn -on my clients property- blew over onto the neighbours', it rooted where it landed and continued to grow. Now the tree has two root systems, one on each property, with about 2-3m between. the top and with it most of the growth is on the neighbours' land. Who owns the tree?

I bought some Stormline oilskin trousers recently, a touch over £100. In less than two weeks they split at a seam. Sent them an email at 7:45 asking how to get a refund, Got a reply at 8 saying they'd give me a full refund and send a replacement pair. Bought a set of drawer runners, just over £200 (60" ones) from Sliding Systems, ordered non locking ones but they sent me locking ones. Didn't have time (or inclination) to complain so I installed them. The lock got stuck and i couldn't use the drawers. Phoned the company, explained what happened etc "no worries, we'll send you non locking ones with a next day courier, do whatever is necessary to rake the others out, destroy them if it saves your project" And a small one, I bought some anti roll bar bushes for my 7.5 tonner. thought i needed 4 the same. They phoned me up straight away, checked with the reg and sent me the ones I needed rather than the ones I ordered, Thanks, Bison Parts

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