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peatff

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  1. I can honestly say I haven't A friend of mine asked me to sharpen his chain and I just turned it round and gave it back, he looked .
  2. Get some dark glasses ( shades ) it looks like it's too bright for you
  3. Get the number of the carb if it's a Walbro and just get the same from eBay for a fifth of the price. You might have to wait for delivery but it's better than being bankrupted.
  4. Like our electrician used to say at work, " I can see your problem, you've been using them haven't you "
  5. I'd put a bit of a radius on the port edges as well, I found they sometimes come not very well finished.
  6. I bet there's less chance of damage to the tree with a dropped kerb than the lamp post next to the tree would have caused. It's not something that would have got a second look, the tree roots will be plenty well established all round without worrying what a bit of shallow digging is going to do to it. Storm water management off of a 20 foot square garden is not exactly going to overpower the drains is it ?
  7. Welding supplier mig liner if you don't want it plastic coated.
  8. Cable ties hold a lot of motorbike fairings together as well when the original fittings go missing or split. Cable ties and gaffer tape are essentials these days.
  9. One of the brother in laws lads left a £600 wacker plate on a tarmacking job and it was still there when they raced back. He got fed up of buying them rakes and shovels so he supplied the first and any after that they supplied themselves and they soon stopped leaving them behind and even started putting names on and cleaning them.
  10. peatff

    Desk magnifier

    We got one from Machine Mart for my wife to use. We've had it years and put a couple of bulbs in it over that time. It has a cover to slide over the magnifier so it can be used as a light. It's still about the same price £20.39 so not going to bankrupt you.
  11. Stump up less cash can be your motto, the root cause of the problem is the image of the business.
  12. You get to wear the special orange helmet
  13. Lots of acid in bird muck as they don't have a separate urinary system.
  14. Called at the Red Lion truck stop Northampton junction 16 on the M1 yesterday and got two all day breakfasts with a mug of tea for under £10, didn't take any pictures though
  15. There are other brain cells in the gut as well, a network of neurons that contains more brain cells than a cat's head so if your gut is telling you something you should probably listen.
  16. It tells all the other bits what to do doesn't it ?
  17. Kryptonite always saps my enthusiasm, and my super powers. Only the green stuff though and lead shielding helps against it.
  18. What size stump are you leaving ?
  19. Clever is more importanter than big biceps. Brains are brilliant and everyone should have them. Stefan should do a motivational video.
  20. Any plastic will give up if you give it enough abuse whether it looks shiny or what. I remember a couple of Echo saws with problems due to broken plastic , one with casing broken and another that broke on the front of the oil tank where the plastic was worryingly thin but there are also lots of metal saws broken as well.
  21. We did a purple one about like that with about a foot of root ball and it was dug up then replanted with no special preparation just a hole and firmed in then watered and it's still growing after about eight years.
  22. They edit the price to stop people bidding when they have no stock then edit it back, it saves paying to advertise again if they take it down and put it back up. You see it a lot if you go looking for shop items.
  23. That's not far from me.
  24. Only one fire damaged tree I've seen round here is an Alder which was struck by lightning about 40 years ago. It's next to a brook far from any houses and the tree is still growing minus the top.
  25. I'm old (63) and I still have a go occasionally just for fun but I don't take my shoes off, I'm no hippy. As kids we used to climb up to nests in a local rookery and those trees were 60 feet tall. We used to take 6" nails to knock in to get to the lower branches so I bet we caused a few problems but the trees are still standing

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