GarethM
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eBay yourself a new battery for around £30. But try also try the ram 1st, my experience of Linux for anything office and home base was a bit mixed. Usually it's the PC for 10% of my work or iPad for the remaining 90%
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Those Makita USB adaptors can put out 2.1A at 5v. Might charge a phone or an iPad but probably not going to have enough grunt for a laptop or be at the right voltage as the USB C chargers for laptops seem to be 45w power supplies, 2.25a @ 20v
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Cold showers a treat for a hard days being a groundy 😉
GarethM replied to Thesamshow's topic in Training & education
My god this is going to turn into a slow motion car crash, well maybe a slow road rash motorcycle crash. I wonder how close to the bone the road rash will end up!. -
Cold showers a treat for a hard days being a groundy 😉
GarethM replied to Thesamshow's topic in Training & education
Ice bath or hot tub, is it really a hard decision!. -
Gardening whilst on a motor bike(under cut folk)
GarethM replied to Thesamshow's topic in Trees and the Law
If he fits studded tyres he can branch out into lawn aeration. I get the impression he wants to be the gardening version of the "thep00lguy ML". -
Flue thermostats and fan speeds
GarethM replied to Pacemaker1000's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
They do sell Pelter heat fans that run at lower temperatures, they normally work above 110c. Is it a new stove and what's the surface temperature, as for example an ecofan 806 runs starts to run 75c. -
That's kind of my point, I see the possible exhaust air quality argument but other than that I'll stick with the BR600 :).
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I'm probably like most this morning and got an email about the latest Makita leaf blower. An actual 4 stroke with an oil sump, on the one hand I think it's better than adding two stroke but isn't it just another thing for the user to forget or generally loose the filler cap ?.
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It's the usual catch 22, faster but messy or slow & steady. Granted with your timber it's probably not much of a concern for a little waste. I've seen a lot of the big posch and similar videos and just see all the fines and tiny stuff that needs riddling out, but not sure what percentage over say a full artic load. Do they do a large enough old school style table saw for 20" stuff maybe with modern dust collector and chainsaw, lift on the table with loader and ring down to size.
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Don't think there's ever going to be a one size solution especially with the weight of a 20" trunk. Do you chainsaw all the rings at the moment, surely something that big would be easier on a sawmill or band saw kind of arrangement. Think we've all seen the rauband stuff, but I've always thought it messy and left crap looking firewood.
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Nope, but chucking the POS in the skip would.
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So in your neanderthal caveman mind, you equate arguments with women or being gay. I think you're more in need of a therapist, probably a Freudian mommy complex. Would account for the overcompensating and trying to be a big man, I have zero to prove and care even less who thinks what.
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I don't need to overcompensate, when my stuff breaks I fix it. Unfortunately even my skills are stretched fixing stupid, what's the quote "never argue with stupid people they'll drag you down to they're level and beat you down with experience".
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When I first started I did the 18" thing, circular saw in half when required. It was pointless, is your idea to billet a years worth and is storage limited for normal split rings.
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So in your overtly over the top manly overcompensating fashion, you want a pissing contest for your screwdlefix special. Okay big man, sod off up the model village.
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I could bitch and moan, but even I have the common sense to replace something that's worth £150. Remind me again who came where to fix a screwdlefix special.
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It's probably safer for everyone if you do!
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If they're such good value, go buy another one!.
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And on that note, use what you want, wear what you want. Hopefully the next chainsaw obituary won't mention you and your screwdlefix chainsaw.
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The longer the billet the more grunt you will require. Personally I don't think billets works unless it's woodland management stuff that's all straight and knot free and then you need to stack or bundle them afterwards. Fuel wood splitta night be your thing or just get a faster splitter. Old school but it works.
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You can take my advise or not, but Aldi will pretty much give you a new one within two years if it fails. Screwdlefix would laugh you out the door even five minutes after buying it. And without sullying the name of cheap chainsaw brands, most are all made in the same factory to a old husqvarna design with outboard clutch. I got 15years out of my last ms251, so make of that what you will. YMMV, but that was 15 years and about 3000+m3 of firewood.
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Gym membership wholly and exclusively for business?
GarethM replied to Clutchy's topic in General chat
Oh a bee keeper? -
Burning of the Berberis Shrub wood
GarethM replied to Robin Rapley's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Are you standing over it huffing or burning it dry in a log burner?. -
Gym membership wholly and exclusively for business?
GarethM replied to Clutchy's topic in General chat
Isn't that also accepting personal liability aswell?. -
If you're buying a very cheap chainsaw from the screwdlefix, best going electric as there's is bugger all to break or petrol ones from Aldi at £59. You get what you pay for at the end of the day. Just remember it's not the chainsaw you'll also need to spend money on its the safety gear, you need both!.
