openspaceman

Yes typo 1974 thanks

Mine's a 1954 165r will the later unit fit?

Not really hard to put a figure on once you have a quarter's receipts and invoices, whether you are registered or not. No you don't always lose but on domestic jobs with low vatable inputs you likely will. If you are VAT registered and never do work for Vat registered customers you always will lose out.

When I got my 165r in 1973 the saw blade was the only option and then the tri blade became available Using plastic string to beat grass didn't appear till a few years later and yes the strimmer heads that became available didn't last long on it. BTW @adw mine has lost it's spark was the coil common to other machines?

I repaired one of these 265rx with @adw's help and it is very similar to my much earlier 165r, one obvious difference is the on off switch being part of the throttle control on the 265.

This is the nub; the ratio of Vatable inputs to Non vatable inputs. If you only have a few hand tools and climbing kit then vehicles and fuel are your main vatable inputs. If your turnover is 50% vatable inputs and you are Vat registered you are effectively only charging 10% of your turnover as VAT. If you are not VAT registered you cannot reclaim the VAT on 50% of your turnover so you have to recover that by adding it to your charges so it becomes neutral to your client/customer. When I was timber havesting I drew about 20% of my turnover as profit and all my clinets were Vat registered so there was no disadvantage in being registered.

Quinton

Not at all, I do believe over population is the big problem in the world, I just happen to think that a person born in the developed world is a bigger part of the problem than one born in undeveloped countries. I also believe the problem will be reduced as third world women are educated and wealthy enough to break out of the culture of large families, as demonstrated by the late Hans Roslin's animated graphics,from 9 to 11 minutes I chose countries at the opposite end of the spectrum from us who not only do not impinge on the planet's welfare but also as a direct result of their poverty live on average half the time we in the well off nations expect to. I also don't believe we should lay it on people's that still have a lower cumulative effect on the deterioration of the commons than the big three's effect on the planet's ability to support all of us, as demonstrated by the Carbon Brief graphic ( noting this is rather narrow view as it treats only CO2 emissions} . Of course you have your beliefs and live your life and aspirations accordingly, as I've had mine. I'm off to bed now so probably won't respond further.

We disagree on that simply because of the effect a person born here will have on pollution and resources compared with some poor soul eking out an existence for 40 years in Peru, Nepal Mongolia etc. Reduced (average) birth rate is a direct relation to access to wealth (and that wealth featuring education and emancipation of women). Now I'll likely agree with you on the effect immigration has had and increasingly does affect English (Scot's Welsh ) culture but on the global scale that is irrelevant.

Well I didn't for one I did 42 years ago and even then it was slightly below replacement rate

I'd put it at the full 100% but it may be some time away if you're lucky.

This could be a good opportunity for @Woodworks to sell off his, with no warranty or guarantees, and start to build a bigger one eh Beau ??

This is something I was wondering about, we have previously seen empty office blocks badly used to house refugees/asylumseekers/migrants so with planning law now allowing conversion from commercial to housing and a potential glut of office office space... Meanwhile in commuterland where I live houses with gardens are taking off and the 5 new town centre tower blocks don't seem to be selling.

Not to mention Adjacent Line Open Although I never saw it working apparently a few of our lads would pick up a straight stem at the butt and and the 13" chipper would track up to it and then track forward through the tree spewing the chips off to one side. The issue was to avoid large pieces being left lying that could be thrown onto the track. The alternative was poor in that it involved banding all the bits together with high tensile wire and staples to rot down.

I do the same but right handed, I can only type with middle fingers and then have to look at the keyboard. I wish I had learned to touch type.

Do you type with 2 fingers and your left finger is faster than your right? Lantana

That was my first thought

The drones only last for a day when they all fly after a queen, she rips the gonads out of the one that catches up with her and uses the contents for the rest of her life. All the workers are females and they have a venomous sting derived from a modified ovipositor, drones don't lay eggs so have no ovipositor.

Yes glad the boss called it off at 06:30 this morning. Mind yesterday's 3/4 day had worn me out felling some 70' alder coppice. tomorrow is looking better for a restart.

All granted and I said it was scary but was hoping you'd show me where some catastrophe had ensued. I do wonder about how it could be CE marked when it doesn't seem to comply with any of the requirements a chipper should have.

Swot I sed

Actually that looks rather good for its chunkiness, it doesn't look like it has the "wings" as high as some others but I'll give it a try. Thanks

I never found a 15" one to fit mine but modified one from another mower and it certainly picked up well for a while till I broke the blade on a stump. It was fine for running alongside hedges after I trimmed them to batter and pick up arisings. I had another 3.5 B&S mower with a rust perforated deck which I recently modified to shred a clump of bamboo for a neighbour, it does a passable job. It also picks up the debris after. Cheaper than hiring a micro chipper and surprising what life is left in people's throw aways. I still have to fit an alternator to it for jump starting dead motors

Go on then give us a link to some damage, the little one I played with did seem frightening but no sign of damage

Yes but why not press the decompression valve back in after it "coughs" on choke and then start it? I find I now prefer to do this on bigger saws as I haven't the energy to "beast" them.