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I presume he'd injured himself starting the chainsaw between his legs??

A few years back, there was a link on here to a video of an old French bloke who had rigged up various wood cutting machines powered by PTO's (mostly welded up scaffold tube IIRC!) running off the wheels of wrecked cars. Does anyone remember & could repost that link please? I'd like to send it to a friend who thinks my Japa100 saw is the most dangerous thing he's ever seen!

Nope - this new layout is way too cluttered to deliver what I want from a forum. You shouldn't have to struggle to do what was once so simple. I'm on a pc , so screen space is not an issue, but the layouts are simply too cluttered. I worked in IT for 30 odd years & this is not what software is supposed to be like for the end user. I'll look in occasionally over the next few days, but it's just too much hassle for what is supposed to be an enjoyable experience. Toodle Pip!

No - that view gives each thread about 3/4" of screen space in its own little box which displays only about 30 threads before having to click on Load More Activity (the old forum would display around 60 before having to click for the next page) Also hovering the mouse over the topic doesn't give a summary of the first post. Apart from that, its great

Can someone please tell me how to get a single page view of today's posts as a series of single lines , with a summary of each post available by hovering the mouse over it? The only thing personally I needed to change from the old forum was to open each thread on the first unread post. I can't easily see how to get this new site to work just like virtually every other forum on the internet does.

Do you think that epoxy will fix my pickup engine? [ATTACH]222456[/ATTACH] Heads of the Valleys road three weeks ago:thumbdown: (2.9 Merc engine in Sssanyong pickup)

I did this with a dynamo & an old Atco Villiers vertical engine about 35 years ago! Just mount the alternator vertically. For the short time the alternator will be running (compared with its usual orientation) there'll be no bearing problems to worry about. I've still got that somewhere in the workshop - one rainy day I'll see if it will still start!

For the last 15 years, I've been using a 1970's Wheelhorse C series mower on a 1 acre paddock with a side slope of 25-30 degs. No problem at all, whereas if I use a tractor & topper, I need 4WD all the time & sh1t myself on the steeper bits. A heavy duty rideon would do it no trouble - after all the machine will probably only weigh 4 cwt whereas you can use your weight say 1 1/2 cwt as a moveable counter weight.

Do you know how long you have to wait in A&E these days? 'cos there's going to be blood & lots of it! That angle grinder is going to turn at 7000 rpm. A block of elm(!!!) like that will need to be roughed out, well below 1000rpm. If it stays attached, the angle grinder will jump about all over the place until it breaks free of the clamp, then it will REALLY jump about the place. I see that you have thoughtfully left a diamond disk fitted to the grinder as well. That should help once it cuts the cord. If the block comes off - where's it going to go? Please get someone to video this if you try, you may get a bob or two for the clip which will hel during the recuperation.

A lot of truth in this report, grouse shooting is being cynically targeted because only the rich can afford it so it is an easy target. But it's not the rich that doo all the work (& it is a MASSIVE amount of work) in maintaining the moors. Without that there's not a lot else to employ the locals. All those naively buying the Packham propaganda about marsh harriers may pause to wonder why the best place to find them is on a grouse moor! Because of habitat management & predator control grouse moors support many more "collateral" birds than non managed moors. You only have to compare the dearth of birds on the RSPB "managed" moors in Wales with the e.g. the Durham estates to see that. A few other points: Not many dairy farmers round here receive subsidies - many none! Ryegrass, silage & slurry spreading are don't qualify for SFP "points". The SFP in Wales is almost completely an environmental scheme dreamed up by civil servants to provide as many desk jobs as possible, add to that the monitors & auditors & you have something Sir Humphrey would be proud of. The SFP requires a vast amount of paperwork to demonstrate compliance, any failure of which can result in penalty percentage losses. For the smallholder (me with my 30 acres of marsh) it;s just not worth the hassle of people telling you to farm by dates, irrespective of the weather or land conditions, consequently I (along with many others) declined the kind offer to join. Finally - a lot of the upland sheep producing areas won't grow trees without serious drainage work so the simple trees=flood prevention just aint going to happen.

To GDH :- Do you sell the cleft oak posts or are they just for your own use? If you do sell them please PM me with the price & I'll bring a trailer up - I need around 100-150.

My Titan electric saw is still going strong - I've had my £50 quids worth out of it many times over.

I must admit that the first thing I do with a brushcutter is to remove the guard altogether. I realise this isn't on for employees etc etc but as a sole agri/hobby user I find the blasted thing gets in the way of anything other than simple garden work. i.e. anything with bramble, rushes, head high undergrowth I find the guards to be completely unusable (I have/had Danarm/Stihl, Kawasaki & Hyundai & they were all the same) The only one left on is a Ryobi electric start model I bought for the wife to keep the edges of her garden tidy & that seems OK at that job. Now don't get me started on lathe chuck guards, drilling machine guards...

I got an Oregon blade:- Oregon Universal Mulching Brushcutter and Clearing Blade Part No.295508-0 | eBay It's on an aged Kawasaki TG33 so it should be fine on your bigger brushcutter.

A big thank you to the forum ois called for. Following recommendations on here I got a three arm mulching blade for the brushcutter (Kawasaki). What a tool!! It absolutely EATS brambles, rushes, nettles,weeds, long grass. It's an absolute pleasure to use compared to nylon line (hardly any splatter back at your legs) & is much more forgiving than a conventional blade when you hit stones old roll of fencing you forgot was there () etc. If you haven't already got one of these then get one now - they are brilliant!

I've had a Ssanyongg Korando followed by a Musso pickup for over 5 years. Bought because they were cheap as chips & had Merc running gear (Early Sprinter engine & Merc/Borg Warner manual box), so they must be OK? Well the only bits I haven't had trouble with are the Korean ones!! Head gasket at 110,000 miles, then variator weights on injection timing sprocket broke up leading to timing chain breaking & cam in 3 pieces & end of engine. (Both common problems with the Merc lump apparently) Bought a car with knackered gearbox to get the engine. Headgasket just gone on that one too. Head warped so took it to Swansea Autos for pressure test & planing (not simple on these) " Oh we used to do HUNDREDS of these in the first Sprinters" they said. I'm beginning to think only the Japs can make a decent engine.... but then there's the Knackered Navarra website - Ho hum!!!

Good work! It was a bit trickier to do with the earlier 5 cyl JTD in my old Marea Estate!!

Thanks for that post - I've been laid up over Christmas so that was actually the best hour I've had!

That's lovely!

Just ditch the whole Microsoft charade & use either Linux (my suggestion) or a Mac. I can't believe that Windows is STILL subject to this sort of nonsense

What;s the EU?

I'm using filtered used ATF in my Titan & it seems to oil really well. ATF is a lot less viscous than normal bar oil, so that may be why? My bar is fine & second chain is on its fourth sharpening. I cut mostly hedgelaying waste 2-6" dia on a bulk saw horse which holds a bundle about 18" or so in diameter, but no bar/oiling troubles at all.

My Chinese cheapo Titan is still going strong on firewood duties, some 3 years on. It's a lot quieter than any petrol saw, but there IS a fair whine out of it. I gave my old Homelite SuperXL Auto (1970's) a run today - now I wouldn't like to use THAT indoors - I reckon the exhaust is an amplifier, not a silencer!

Try recutting the seat with a nice sharp drill bit turned by hand. The little viton (or whatever neoprene stuff it is) head of the needle should seal OK on that. If still no good, then pinch some of those cotton bud things that women seem to have an endless supply of. Cut one in half & put it in your drill, dip the cotton bit in Brasso & poke it down the hole. Switch on drill & give it a good polishing. Clean out seat with bare cotton bud & it should look like new. If it still leaks, place on concrete & strike well with large hammer & get a new carb.

There is a world wide shortage of the BCG vaccine for human use (it's the one they use for badgers too) so all non human use has been stopped. It's only at best 58% effective on cattle, AFAIK noone knows whether it is effective on badgers, but in any case it does not prevent the individual badger from carrying TB. It also will need to be repeated annually to continue to be of any use at all.