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GarethM

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  1. And where do you think all these "makers" buy their machines?
  2. Sawdust in your under crackers is never nice tho.
  3. I was more making a point to Peds. Bit like the tractor fine today for having a child in the cab.
  4. There is no way on gods green earth would a branch logger pass HSE
  5. Plenty of similar ones on eBay Landlegend Branch Logger WWW.EBAY.CO.UK The latest edition to the Landlegend Collection the New Branch Logger. Designed for compact tractor 25hp...
  6. But is it fair trade?, when I'm processing firewood it definitely doesn't feel like it.
  7. Personally if I wasn't in a DEFRA smoke area I'd buy a cheap chip boiler from Poland and enjoy having my feet up. I've not tried such fuel in a Eco Angus, but you'd have to size the bags or fill as you go. I've burnt firewood offcuts from emptying cages and heaped in the boiler from a wheelie bin with a shovel.
  8. Go watch Kamala without an auto cue, wasn't she also wanting notes for the presidential debate ?. Or maybe the recent Facebook admissions including the FBI and that mysterious laptop. Anywho, just to prove the air in my bubble is fresh air and not your patchouli oil smelling farts, I might go see what the betting odds are for the Donald and put down a few quid. Paddy power has Donald and Kamala on the same 10/11 odds
  9. Because the MSM types are all pretty much anyone but Trump. Same with most high profile actors & celebrities, zero clue about actual policy or how the world works as they all live in a bubble. But trump probably has the military vote after his jab speech.
  10. Everyone raves about them on YouTube, then they seem to go almost radio silence about it afterwards. Personally I went pto chipper, salvage what's usable and everything else gets blasted. Prefer rocking up in a field and removing most of a tree, leaving just a stump at most, would love a grinder but I'll let nature it that 🙂
  11. I'll be 1st to say it makes terrible fuel. Save your money and chip it
  12. Granted you can use the argument for all industries including cars, tractors and microchips. Whilst not necessarily knock offs, they sell the die and manufacturing equipment to the competition in say Japan and china for a tidy sum once it's say 5 years behind your current product. Everyone benefits, whilst you're loyal customer base buys the newer and usually better products. The special sauce is usually how it's machined and metallurgy rather than just a patent
  13. Plus you don't actually need to own a shotgun to have a certificate. But it's good for the grandkids, when you fancy a rare day out with the clays. Makes borrowing or using a club gun or relatives easier. I'd actually recommend anyone with kids to get them a certificate, as soon as possible as it makes section 1 easier with history.
  14. Personally, yes it's a faff but better to keep it active just incase the mood changed 🙂. Even a crusty old shotgun isn't costing more than a couple of hundred quid every 5 years.
  15. It's more a check of your records than an actual medical. Whilst not a legal requirement, the FEO have pretty much made it a default requirement even more so for Section 1. Usual blame shifting I thinks, since 2019 approximately as in the past they just asked them to say something. But, usual dr's unless it's a few quid they won't say so made it another form filling exercise, providing your ok and not on antidepressants or migraine meds they'll have very few questions. Get a digital copy and keep it too. Plus some drs can refuse to do it.
  16. Whilst at the same time everything else gets more expensive and things don't increase.
  17. Granted if they're paying for digs you usually get an allowance for evening meal, breakfast if it's not included in the digs plus lunch. Think my lot gave £20 for evening meal and maybe a fiver for lunch and breakfast. If you're only away for 2/3 nights that's not too bad, I had a lot that wanted us in Livingston for 10 days straight. We lost staff like flies, me included as there's only so many hours of netflix!.
  18. I'd try hooking up a small 1000w heater or something around the house to see how it fairs. But a small pump is only going to give you a few hundred litres a minute at zero head
  19. So charge what you would for a 3/4 days ?. Double pay is 2 days, plus 1 for recovery, plus the cost of the road stuff.
  20. Petrol definitely will always have the grunt and volume. Anything other than a 230v will probably be quite glacially slow but it's only 1000 litres, what about something like a hose lock water butt pump running of an inverter ?. Benefit being you can use a hosepipe.
  21. Reality is security have no more powers than any other shop worker or citizen, whilst a visual deterrent to your average chancer and getting paid more for a uniform. It's probably better to just have two extra members of staff, unless you go USA style and have everything locked up behind glass. Granted there's a bargain booze like that near Manchester airport, it's like Argos behind plexiglass.
  22. We've all been there in our yoof, in my 20s I was a mobile engineering type covering the whole of the UK excluding London/South East. 1000s miles a week wasn't unusual, so 12+ hour days with two 3 hour jobs per day with an hour's drive in-between, excluding emergency weekend call outs to the south east repairing some else's bodged jobs. Mileage got so bad they couldn't insure the lease van and I ended up in a hatchback, plus side I was paid milage whilst running LPG. These days anything more than 40 miles away and the next day I'll pay the price physically and be rewarded with a cracking headache. Plus I think today's roads are worse, I remember doing the snake pass almost every day and at cough cough speed. You can't even do the 40 let alone the 60+ of the past.
  23. If it's a diesel Karcher even the lead on the machine gets a bit warm, 2.5mm should be fine.
  24. Yeah, stainless can be a right pain in the arse compared to aluminium ones. Have you tried the next size up length wise, sometimes it's better to use the longer size with a washer on the inside. Also helps to reinforce the hole and spread the force so they're less likely to rip through and come loose.
  25. I'm guessing the nail was getting stuck inside the mechanism?. I have had that happen usually when the rivets aren't the correct compression length for the application, so you end up going to town and it locks onto the mandrel.

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