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  1. peatff
    Keep a few pigs in the floorspace, that will warm it up and you'll get bacon as a by product
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    Those are Pelargoniums, nostalgia ain't what it used to be
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    A lad I worked with was on TOTP in 73, he went with the band Mud. He was a bit "flambuoyant" and was known to wear ladies clothing at times I preferred Hot Gossip dancing on the Kenny Everett show myself.
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    Electricity is the way forward, lots of atomic power stations or build all houses facing south and fit solar cells on the roof instead of tiles.
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    They will raise two or three broods in the same nest in a good year.
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    They do it in different colours, one must suit you.
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    Is it your own garden and do you get on with the neighbours ? There are usually local by laws covering burning garden waste like what and when it can be burnt. Burning stuff can upset the neighbours, another good way is to play loud music late at night or get up really early to throw bottles into the recycling bin.
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    I was getting worried then but mine has swivel spanners in as well It's Bahco not Bacho These are on a par with any of the top price tools and I love mine so much they live under the sofa in the sitting room. This set was from ebay for the princely sum of £50 with about £10 postage and they are as good as any I have including Britool and Facom. I also have a couple of Kamasa sets which I have had about 40 years and only broke the ratchets.
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    Most likely it was completely on one side of the boundary till it reached a certain size and has encroached on the other property as it grew. Does the neighbour put any value on the tree or is it an inconvenience to them as well ?
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    Husqy t435

    peatff replied to D2013j2011's topic in Chainsaws

    There are Echo, Efco and Makita alternatives at good prices as well if you look around the net.
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    Ash dieback???

    peatff replied to Acg128's topic in General chat

    Round here Ash always looks dead until long after the other trees have come into leaf and it is always the first to drop again as well. There are a couple on a local park that look in a bad way though, only half of the tree is coming into leaf and a big branch looks dead on one of them.
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    Put a collar round the bottom to protect it from strimmer damage and spray the aphids with a weak washing up liquid solution, we use Ecover as it's ecological. Get your hands in there and squash as many as you can as it looks like there is a heavy infestation. We had some on our apple tree last year and didn't get any fruit at all.
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    Standing drying

    peatff replied to AHPP's topic in Milling Forum

    Any wood splits cut into rings. If it's left in longer lengths with the ends sealed with wax or painted it minimises splitting.
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    Different saw but probably similar set up. My 135 when the metal cover plate is installed the rubber protrudes through the slot in it to seal against the bar. I got it wrong once and the oil was running out at the bottom instead of going where it should.
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    254xp problem

    peatff replied to THE88MAN's topic in Chainsaws

    Have you tried neat fuel down the plug hole, heat the plug and put it straight back in then try it on fast idle.
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    It's spittin', get them kids in......
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    The sidecar is on the wrong side for UK use, can't see how it passed an MOT
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    Caravan and camping club has some pods on a few sites and they seem to be in demand. Glamping pods is another name they get called.
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    My friend used to get his bits from Geeson's near Ripley, Derby. They used to have a lot of ex MOD and utilities equipment in.
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    No I haven't but I don't think the one my mate had would have run a chipper for any length of time with any sympathy for the machine. The unloader cuts in at max pressure and any machinery running off the compressor can only run at the compressor's limit. I just recommended that there is a failsafe in there to protect the machine I didn't say anything doubting whether you had seen one running a 6" chipper so no need to get defensive.
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    There's a difference between a compressor and a chipper. A friend of mine had an ex gas board version with cooking facilities and compressor built in and the compressor unloads when there's a lot of stress on it to relieve pressure on the pto. He used to use his for mobile grit blasting. Put a shear pin in the drive somewhere to protect it from over enthusiasm.
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    This is just a Beech tree that is in the front garden of a local old folks home. It is fairly large about a yard across at the base and must have been heading the wrong way when smaller so someone diverted it
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    This tree is on the High Street near us and it looks lovely at this time of year. I think it's a Whitebeam.
  24. peatff
    My cousin used his wagon and Hiab to pull the hedge out when he was installing a fence.
  25. peatff
    This reminds me of the "history of the tree swing" which is an engineer/business joke that has been running since the 60s or 70s. Here's the gist of it.

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