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tree-fancier123

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  1. non genuine 50GBP https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hedgetrimmer-Blade-Set-Fits-STIHL-HL45-HL75-HL95-HL-KM-COMBI-KOMBI/332250874160?hash=item4d5bb20130:g:D0wAAOSwVFlUGq1y genuine 90GBP https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-Stihl-HLKM-Combi-Kombi-Long-Reach-Hedge-Trimmer-Set-Blade-HL95HL100KM130/152975080586?hash=item239e067c8a:g:6nEAAOxyuR5TZ70a delivery to France may mean not much cheaper than local
  2. I went for the Dewalt 899 2x 5ah batts £300 approx. 1/2" drive for me, not doing heavy plant. LED is good enough to locate stuff in poor light
  3. the reported £100,000 from MI6 seems low, may have been enough to buy a house at the time, but nowhere safe to hide
  4. true, but for some brands a long hard google will unearth the pdf if you can't bear to part with small change for an ebay cd bg86 service manual https://www.stihlbnet.ca/TIS-en/documents/general/RA_296_01_01_02.pdf
  5. just found this, reading through the comments plenty suggesting its fake and one person says 'tap on bonnet to start reversing gives it away as fake lol' looking at the footage it does seem likely, my guess fake https://youtu.be/snRs3iXMdTc
  6. who's got the stats world wide deaths due to cranial damage from falling deadwood since 1650? Must be more than none
  7. Hi Ken, sorry , found loads of solo rigging vids today, but not the one I was referring to. I have tried to sketch it, hope you can see it. Basically lowering on a loop of line if multiple branches and no groundie, so you untie the tail of the rope (not necessarily climb line!) at the top and pull the rope back through the carabiner(s) once the cut piece is on the deck and retrieve your rope to repeat
  8. must be a bit of ivy or something looks a bit like a climber (ivy is a climber) - I thought it was a stunt too
  9. Thanks - bloke on utube had a nifty way, tied the tail off near pulley a clipped the pieces into a bight so he could haul back
  10. The bit about removable redirects - this is somthing i havent experimented with, but must be a game changer, especially being able to retrieve at a distance. What are the best methods?
  11. someone trod on some sharp metal went through their boot on a building site?
  12. I think Rough Hewn method best - bar off and indoors, countless threads 'container broken into last night'
  13. or phone jammer and night sights, then dangle some bait
  14. my felling cut would not have looked that neat - if I could even hold that huge lump of a saw while tied in - respect
  15. I haven't yet done a TPO reduction - I don't feel I'm skilled enough, but now I know its only £600 if I mess up, may be tempted to rasher a bit off one. Photo from the link above, different angle, would be interested in seeing outlines in red of what people would have aimed for, seems to me the 2m on one of the sides isnt enough - trouble is people want symmetrical rounded crowns after. Looks like they took approx 4.25m off in places 'Investigations by council officers revealed that the permitted works to the branches had been exceeded by 125 per cent' Maybe the first bloke cut it away from the roof and thought I'm never gonna get this looking nice keeping to spec, I'm off. So it wasn't council coming back routinely to check it was someone local who didnt approve who phoned in - I've had this myself on a non TPO tree - I was asked to trim back hard(variegated maple) Neighbour ' Are you shaping that?' Me ' Yes' Neighbour ' You've f*cked it now - come back here and have a look'
  16. Impressive stuff for a newly published site, considering how many there are in that area. I noticed its moved up from page 3 to 2 using the wider search 'Somerset'
  17. Words and pictures looking good, just need to hack into googles servers now and make sure its always on first page
  18. the persuader
  19. I havent done mine yet (front) on my mk6 transit - but have seen the youtube bodgers like htb said above - whacking the bearings onto the hubs with a sledge. I have seen you can make up a puller to get the old bearing off the hub using another old bearing with hole positions. For the innner race it seems to be a die grinder or similar. I have been considering investing in a plasma cutter with guaging function - possibly work for cutting bearings off. So?
  20. so can a pre mot if you wish be a whole mot but 'off the record' ? if so it seems the self repairers have a kind of loophole costing an extra £60 max
  21. so what happened with the wheel bearings - how did you get the old off and new on?
  22. needle scaler - was a geat help preparing my rusting tipper chassis, gets into corners and knocks the rust off, then applied Vactan rust converter and finished it with black epoxy mastic Jotamastic87
  23. It seems to me, both communism and capitalism are terrible. How can a locum doctor get away with charging the NHS £1000 per shift. Sure the doctor will be a highly educated motivated life saver - but they are effectively saying 'pay our ransom or we will let the patients die' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/locum-doctors-nhs-120-an-hour-liaison-figures-staff-shortage-hospitals-a7713331.html 'NHS Improvement said last month that one hospital regularly paid a locum doctor £360 an hour, or £3,600 for a ten-hour shift.' If that doctor wasn't a pig or nothing In addition to the greedy locum doctors there are numerous press reports of pharmaceutical companies charging extortionate money to supply drugs to the NHS. Seems to me nationalizing drug manufacture and research would be sensible. Why not have pharmacologists and chemical engineers directly payed by public money. Cut out the middle man
  24. From what I've seen of it - exactly the opposite is observed. An avenue of pollards the trunks will be nowhere near as big diameter as similar age open grown specimens. The compression relief from pollarding is less of a factor than loss of photosynthetic area - the biomolecules that comprise the sapwood growth rings are mostly from the leaves.

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