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I hope he didn't get trampled in the rush of applicants
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I've felled up to 12" with my Husqvarna 135 and a friend does similar with his Stihl MS181
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I use some in the scooter that I've had over 4 years and no problem with that. Does it smoke a lot on 25:1 ? I have a cheap Chinese top handle that says 25:1 but it doesn't get it. 40:1 and it still smokes whereas my Husqvarna on Aspen is fume free.
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You'd like mine then, I'm OCD when it comes to cleaning the saw.
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My niece brought a little 2 stroke generator with the same symptom running on full choke for 10 seconds then cutting out. I just fired carb cleaner through all the jets and put it back together and fitted a new plug and it now runs sweet as a nut and fires up without choke when warm. After I got it going she told me it was on loan from a friend who bought it two years ago and it has never been used since, still had original fuel in and was just topped up with fresh 50:1 mix.
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We were filling up at a garage in Derby when a taxi came in and filled up at the red pump. He completely ignored the VOSA van at the exit but they didn't ignore him.
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Husky 559xpg was a bugger to start in the heat today
peatff replied to SteveA's topic in General chat
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Just checking if it was sharp enough to shave the hairs off his arm The average chainsaw cut needs 17 stitches I read somewhere so it's just a nick, it reads like he's blaming them for the resulting scar which is ridiculous.
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It's Arthur's father in law, he just admitted it in the earlier post Sorry, couldn't resist that opportunity
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Autotune won't let you will it ?
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I'm 62 now and ever since I was a teenager I have never been able to resist taking things to bits to try to get them working again. I've always done my own car and motorbike repairs, welding and servicing and building and plumbing, plastering and everything else I can physically manage. I build computers and troubleshoot for friends as well, I like the challenge but it is getting complicated nowadays with more electronics and different operating systems. Riding on waste ground these days is not an option, the police confiscated lots of pit bikes last year round here and they were all crushed, kids aren't satisfied with this they want to ride them round the pavement like pushbikes with no silencers, insurance or protective gear and generally cause a nuisance as their parents are just glad to have them out of the way.
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I'd have picked a landscape with a few more trees to pose with a saw like that
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Did you do the Harmonica yourself ? It sounds like me when I'm warming up
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Or is the oil pump drive engaged properly ?
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Sharp sand is also known as grit sand and is more like a fine aggregate with small pebbles and rougher sand. What kind of surface are you laying the slabs on ? If it's a concrete area you could spot it on cement but on soil or soft ground you could put hardcore down and wacker it flat then screed it with a dryish grit sand and cement mix and just drop the slabs on. I only use something like 6 sharp sand to 1 cement for this and they don't go anywhere if the hard core (20mm down to dust) is compacted well.
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The cut stems are left where they are on top of the blackberry bushes growing round them so they don't come into contact with anywhere to root and I pierce the nodes with a piece of welding rod pushed down to the base of the stem on the thicker growth and just spray the leaves on the low growth. It is Bayer Glyphosate ready mixed I have been using and it has knocked it back considerably. It looks a reasonable price for the one on the website as it cost me £4 for a small hand sprayer full.
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Tree ID, Pests and Controls
peatff replied to Dorset Treeman's topic in Tree Identification pictures
Bird cherry was what I bought my chain saw for. I had one in the garden that grew from a sucker. I ignored it for a bit too long and soon it had a trunk nearly a foot thick. I had a quote for £200 to remove it but I bought a saw instead and the wood went on the fire. -
What's the difference between those and this amenity glyphosate. We have some Knotweed over the wall on some waste ground and it's getting closer every year. I've weakened it by regular cutting and using some weedkiller down the stems but it would be easier to get in and just spray it later in the season.
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What have you done so far ? Turn the H & L screws in till they seat (lightly, don't wrench them in or you'll knacker the seats) then turn them out about 1 to 1.25 full turns. Turn the tick over screw in to speed it up and start the saw. Run it till it warms up then slow the tick over down and tweak the L screw in till it speeds up and out till it bogs then go about half way in between then redo the tick over to where it doesn't throw the clutch in. Watch a couple of youtubes on setting a saw carb and you'll get the idea of what you are looking to do.
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Puppy breath, before they were weaned and caps on a paper roll like someone else remembered when playing cowboys. Steam trains on the line down the road from us and the tunnel turrets through the town when the smoke used to billow out as the trains went underneath us.
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You can get a petrol powered compressor or you could charge up a portable cylinder with a static compressor and use it to blow down till it runs out of pressure. An old Propane cylinder with a hole drilled in it and a Schrader valve fitted, caravan places use them to inflate tyres round the yard, commonly known as . You can use a smaller tank than his but it will limit your air time.
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Dragging it back up I've been looking again and this Husqvarna 395XP looks a real bargain at £180 (NOT)
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The Abtec one is for concrete and composite not metal. Why do you want diamond ? Ordinary abrasives will probably work out cheaper and get better results on metal.
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Clean it out with some acetone, fill the hole with JB Weld then put the stud in place and let it set overnight.
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Was he onto a money-spinner or what ?
