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I was not aware of them when I bought a first brushcutter in 74. I experimente with wire rope but it fatigued almost immediately and span off. I first became aware of nylon cord strimmers from a jack Hargreaves program on the beeb TV. Probably a couple of years later.

The same Fish that said working with trees was the worst job?

Looks like the bottom took a bash a few years back and has developed adventitious rooots as a reaction to the loss. As there is a building that may be hit if it falls I wouldn't worry about taking it down. At 40 it is hardly mature. Cedars are lovely trees but they need a very big space to develop to maturity. One was planted to the front of our church in the 1880s, it was lovely in pictures from 1930 but by the time I was working it had taken over the frontage and ruined that aspect of the church. My suggestion to fell it was met with horror by the PCC. Luckily a few years ago a "tree surgeon" said he had detected a hollow some feet up, he was wrong but a local firm did a good crane take down and the church looks so much better for it.

Who said anynthing about having an accident? I agree with your sentiment but the GP system in this country is broke. The practice gets an allowance from the NHS for each person registered, they are better off if they never have to see that patient. Indeed after 72 years with a practice I hadn't seen a GP for 5 years. I changed practice and have not seen a GP since. I just get an annual blood test and a repeat prescription that the hospital originated. Anything else, like proactive check ups are not available as their cost would diminish the practice profits. Not that I have much to complain about, I'm a child of the welfare state and apart from dentistry it has looked after me, especially the A&E department. The same will not be there for younger generations. It's the same with housing, my generation had the highest level of personal home ownership, that has collapsed since social housing was sold off in the 80s.

I wish! The only doctors I see are in A&E, Local practice has changed hands so many times I know their history better than what's on their website.

Perceived wisdom is that having a super abundance of seeds one year and then a dearth of seed for a few years is so that species that feed on the seeds die down in the years of famine and then cannot expand their populations in the mast year fast enough to consume all of the glut, so some seeds are left to germinate as the next generation. If you have more frequent mast years as the climate conditions change then the predator populations increase. Having avoided the death bed by not smoking I wonder what cravings are left. I seem to have lost the ability to intersperse a reply into the original text.

Fifty years ago, when a particularly wet area with soft rush, water meadow, had become particularly dry, I took the Kuhn drum mower and cut it low, it was very effective and the blades were due for replacement as they had done the hay cut earlier. It cut shrubs that had grown up too. The disadvantage was the mower had to be used offset. A week ago I saw a Kubota with a front mounted disc mower doing a very good job of cutting gorse about 4 foot high and up to an inch stem diameter as well as heather and senescent bracken, on an SSSI. The nightjar should have fledged and flown south a couple of weeks ago. Yesterday the same tractor was making big bales and the whole job looks superb, I have yet to find out what the bales are going for. Excuse the blurry photo, I seem to be suffering from DTs

I think that only leaves Jaqui from Pentangle.

This is why forwarders got levelling rams tor the kingpost mount. The slewing is by rams working a rack against a smallish diameter ring gear, poor torque but if it's level and the load in free air no problem. My cranab 4510 exerts a fair slewing force for dragging long lengths but fails if it is not level, even with four 4" rams acting on the ring gear. A digger has a motor with a small gear working on a large diameter ring gear doesn't it? Big mechanical advantage.

I have never used bluetooth coms, does it say what the amp hour rating AND/OR voltage the battery is?

Looking forward to the post mortem.

Looks like twenty days now, no one know? Apart from knowing he was an exmariner, in poor health, master of the one liner, three years younger than I we never met. Peds has not been back since Alex contacted him either.

Well don't bin them, dive in a show us a picture of the cells.

I used to borrow one of my mate's dad's Leader. Often when my Enfield was in bits.Whenever we would go downhill on overrun he would shout at me to declutch. He was 9 months younger than I and we lost touch but he became a leading brain surgeon till he retired, we never did ride together.

Okay I had changed all the hoses for tight fitting ones and fired it up but it died of fuel starvation. I didn't get more done as a small medical mishap set me back for a while plus I was disinclined to do much other than loaf around as summer went past. Getting back into the swing I tested the carburetor and the inlet needle held pressure. When the purge bulb was used it mostly pulled air. I think this is another case of the main jet check valve failing, either by previous use of compressed air or a needle being poked through it. This strimmer is worthless, and I deprecate their use anyway, it's only a challenge to me. Back in the day my saws had no purge bulbs, small hedgecutters and strimmers did, and AFAIK no check valves. I wondered were check valves used before bulbs so I chacked a carb from a 254 and they were. Now back in my thread about the walbro carb in an einhell https://arbtalk.co.uk/forums/topic/133943-walbro-carb-problem/page/8/#findComment-2030690 @bmp01 said he deleted purge systems successfully. Is it possible to also delete/block the main jet check valve so it is only fed from the H screw?? I can see the two idles jet holes in the throttle body would need blocking.

It looks like goat willow to me

A D1, just a bit older than I, was mine. First on the road Enfield 250, then a mistaken upgrade to AJS 600, luckily stolen then Bantam d14/4 for my commute to my first forestry job.

Does it have bladed (car type) fuses? It is easier to check for parasitic loads by checking for a voltage drop across the fuse (fuses work by having a resistance that heats up and melts the fuse wire if too much current passes, current passing through the resistance causes a voltage drop across the fuse). There is a little pair of "windows" at the back of the fuse which are bare contacts that can be probed. Ifthere is a discernible voltage that circuit is carrying a current. I suspect the current measuring on your DMM should be the left two sockets.

Well you may as well try to carefully dig up one of the suckers and replant it next month then.

Sorry I missed the layering bit, what failed with it. It was the normal method for propagating hazel coppice which was sparse.

Yes you could stamp on the bottom of one of the smaller shoots and lay it down and peg it to an area of bare soil six foot from the main stool for a couple of years.

The trouble is the market generally expects a product that is fairly consistent is size and shape (8-12" long I think) and the branch logger's product can vary a lot.

Pick the apples to reduce the weight then gently prop it back as above

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I think I asked you before but what are the common parts with an A55? possibly similar engines?