Daniël Bos
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You'd hope that wouldn't you... But it still states "website coming soon"
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I'm interested now, what "not cheap chinese plonk" cylinder can you buy for £50 minus the cost of a meteor Piston?
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Crane on the back for loading a trailer as well. Then a lightweight sideways tipping box.
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Bollocks mate: http://www.jmw.co.uk/services-for-you/motoring-law/articles/private-roads/ :smile:
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I bet they're the caravan dwelling, Irish twang speaking, transit van driving sort of bird rescuers? they'll ruin the industry they will:thumbdown: I heard of one bloke who got a quote for a bird-takedown and they said they'd do it for the bird! Left a skip full of feathers and charged a fortune to get rid of them though..
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Three days to early or it would have been a year exactly.....
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Put a layer of 6mm stokbord over it. You can weld or hot-glue them together quite easily for a long lasting solution. About £30 for an 8x4 sheet but made of recycled plastic so it'll never rot. It's very tough stuff...
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Used to have a classic range rover v8 auto, great for towing but it really confused the cruise control at about 50mph, going up even slight inclines it would change down, very annoying. Then had a landcruiser 4.2 turbo auto which was also great as but no cruise so a bit less nervous. The brother currently drives a ssanyong musso (?) with I think a 3l merc auto and its great. If I had to buy a vehicle with a lot of towing to do I'd specify an auto box anytime but would want to test-drive it with a weighted trailer as some are too "nervous" with a heavy trailer.
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550- 460- 880
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So the barman says: sorry, we don't serve anything faster than the speed if light! A tachyon walks into a bar.
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By collecting the grass as it is cut, the nutrients required to grow that grass are removed from the soil. This means the grass will grow back slower next time, and slower again the time after that etc. I know of one piece of road that is now mowed once a year as opposed to four times a year ten years ago. It saves a lot of money long term. It also makes the verges much more diverse as in general poorer soils make for a more varied vegetation. It's brought the number of hours working roadside down a lot, so it's safer. Poorer growth roadside means less animals grazing roadside= safer. The collected grass is mostly used in bio digesters to make heat and power. Etc I could go on a bit longer, but in The Netherlands it's considered the much better option.
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I owned my first chainsaw when I was 13, having used one for a few (don't know how many, it's a while ago...) years previously. I believe age has not much to do with sense... I've seen a fully qualified tree surgeon use an axe in a way that my five year old daughter never would because she instinctively knows it would hurt her.
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Well...?
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It had ran for maybe two or three hours in total and it ran really nice... I used the clips that came with the kit. I know people often say the clips and rings with the aftermarket kits are of a lesser quality, but the quality of this one seemed really high, a really fine finish on all the castings etc.
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Good point, the circlip is missing from the bit of piston that snapped off? There's no marks on the pin though, and none on the cylinder where it might have snagged. I'm certain I put it in though, my finger still hurts at the memory of it!
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I've just been offered the following: I ship the wreck to Taiwan, postage paid by manufacturer. They examine it. If they find their manufacturing at fault I get paid £300 as a contribution to replace my broken machine. If they find my installing/handling/whatever-ing at fault they pay me £150 for the wreck as I'm not allowed to take any parts other than bar and chain off. (Not even in-related parts) Seems a sound deal to me?
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Not being clever indeed I replaced p&c for the increased capacity, not because the original was broken. It's sitting on my shelf, looking a bit forlorn at its former home.... There's a big tear under the inlet so first thing u checked us all the air box and carb screws- all in place. Next I checked the pin, both clips on place and no sign of it moving No scores anywhere. Plug a lovely coffee colour, slightly dark (as tuned a little rich to bed in) Apart from the small end just shearing off for no apparent reason I could see no cause?
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It was an aftermarket big bore kit from one of the more reputable sellers. Sold with 12 months warranty. I contacted the seller and emailed across a load of pictures of the aftermath. I got a response telling me they'd forwarded them to the manufacturers (which made me grumble, I purchased a warranted part from the seller, not the manufacturer! Give me at least the money from the P+C back) Got another email this morning with the manufacturers request to send them what's left of the saw and if they reckon it was the kit at fault they might do better than just refund the p&c. "They are prepared to make some compensation for the saw being wrecked" Wasn't expecting that to be honest. And even if they reckon it was user error or some such it's not going to be any worse than it is now. I'll keep y'all updated.
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I'll buy the pot and piston and I'll pay you a fair bit too if you'll fix it! Can you see the grass looking through the engine?
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JB-weld it? Or blue-tack?
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Is that a re-badged husqvarna? I bought a very cheap huskie 395xp the other day which looks identical but for the colour!
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I bought a tree-climbing harness at a boot sale. I bought a selection of used ropes at the same sale. My English was not as fluent then as it is now, as I'd only come to this country a few weeks previous.
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Where is it?
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Not quite sure yet, pic is from underneath the saw, crankcase is smashed with bits coming out... Zooming out:
