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  1. You know what... looking at design of poles and connector, I'm pretty sure I have all of the poles and connector holding up my broadband amplifier antenna up at optimum height outside my house. I'll measure up from dimensions given and come back . Obviously if I take it down I'll lose internet and won't be able to reply at all.!
  2. I initially thought it was pure gimmicky shit. It came as part of a multiple order that logosol f@@ked up on and sent it to me at ridiculously low price due to a mistake on their part. They took it on the chin though and honoured their mistake and said " our error our loss". Anyway it actually became one of my favourite bits of kit for swinging big timber onto sawmill and repositioning when no loader available. Use it often and get used to it,your opinion may change as it gets looser. I use it for changing wheels on trailers, building work, lifting and swinging my quad out of where I've bogged it down this time... the list still goes on. Glad you're sorted Shaun
  3. Feck, I'm coming round to your gaff for meals now. Seeya in a couple of hours 😋😋
  4. I bought mine solely for use as a log lifter and positioner so to remove excess weight I intended removing the pusher bar. This proved to way easier to think about than do. The construction of the simple square bracket which the pusher bar slides through was constructed so incredibly tightly that there was no way it would simply pull out. I remember almost ½ a day spent beating with a club hammer to stretch the bracket, beating the bar upwards, and pulling / pushing and generous spraying with silicon to get it finally out. The lifting spike element was almost as tight, and slightly misaligned too. Lots of silicon spray and judicious hammering around its slide bracket to stretch the metal made it a great bit of kit for what I needed. Don't use oil on the slides. It only attracts dust and makes it even more likely to stick. Perhaps yours was equally badly constructed. The winch element is simple to dismantle to clean up. Lay each piece out in order of disassembly and clean off any corrosion and contamination from sliding and rotating surfaces. Spray with a ptfe based spray.
  5. Nice one, thanks all. Slugs are definitely a problem on a damp mountainside in west cork, Ireland. So burying is def the best for that. However my available soil depth varies from 2- 6" before I enter packed gravel or rock, so the tunnel stays on the same site where the trenchwas dug out with excavator whilst doing other drainage work nearby. No one solution fits all situations!
  6. Without using the ratchet handle does the spike assembly slide up and down the shaft freely? It should.if it doesnt its poor construction making it bind. If using the handle under load, the handle doesn't want to lower said load again, then the brake is operating as it should until you give even more effort to lower down again. Under load it wont just slide down. It's a safety mechanism. If the load jolts going down it applies the brake even tighter, meaning you have to heave even harder to get it to move down again. You have to physically wind it down over brake resistance. Don't worry theyre really robust. You won't break the mechanism. As I said I've used it with logs way heavier than recommended - just have to put more effort in
  7. Oooooh that's an interesting idea.
  8. So as as a seasoned skinner of tunnels, which is the easiest method of securing the plastic? Digging into the ground or wrapping it round a batten then tec -screwing batten to tunnel frame.? I know the installation guys use the latter but id prefer not to be drilling the frame unnecessarily
  9. Yeah I've one that I used to use for moving timber around the sawmill. Which bit's sticking. -The extension that you use for pushing back leaning trees or the spiked lower section. Both of these are a very tight fit on the square section frame. I've never yet got the pusher section to slide freely, despite stretching the metal all round with judicious hammer blows. If its the ratchet brake that appears to stick, its supposed to be like that and requires a force greater than the lifting effort to release it. Having severely abused it many times with hugely overweight logs, I can tell you sometimes it takes a huge effort to reverse the ratchet to lower it back down again.
  10. Delighted to hear that things are still progressing in the right direction. To be able to walk again without any aids or devices will be a truly magnificent day. I'm looking forward to it for you. Those surgeons and medics have preformed the incredible - like magicians and wizards, but more real! Well done to all, including you.
  11. Hey Dan, just watching the Olympics, with an ad for the paralympics made me think of you. We haven't heard from you in a while. How is your recovery and rehab going? Hopefully still going slowly in the right direction without any major setbacks. I trust the family are still good and you're getting more involved with them all again, day by day . Best regards Shaun
  12. Hi Peds, if the old gent in question is with you in Ireland, don't forget an air rifle or air pistol needs the same gun licencing as any other firearm. The rifled barrel is the bit they don't like. Until the last change in regulation it used to cost me 3 x as much to licence my grandads 70 yr old bsa airsporter air rifle compared to my 12bore shotgun. Pistols are definitely not looked on favourably over here. Something to do with history...
  13. How do these things work? Its like magic, even when you know its there it still doesn't appear without the squint bit. 😃
  14. Splitter !
  15. Ahh come on now, you can't just trot out the title and leave us hanging there. Things like this need a picture to get the sensories tingling. Probably too late now, and don't need to see inside the toilet bowl tomorrow
  16. Def a huge risk. Brave thing to do, you must know him well and have worked with him. I love the ringing sound big circulars make.
  17. Do you happen to know what version / episode/ series this is? - I feel a paypal mission ahead 😜😛🤪
  18. I'm not entirely sure you know MY wife there fella, sandwiches are OK but does fantastic gravy,- think you may be confusing me with another arbtalker. This could be the start of a really, really bad dispute😆💥
  19. I'll burn them happily in our closed inset burner where I can give them maximum airways and close off primary. No smell in the house but stinks like feck outside. - I don't go out for ½ an hour and if neighbours ask, it wasn't me! 😇 Other pallet wood I've come across that burns berserk is eucalyptus from imported pallets - crazy stuff for flaring up
  20. I don't think doubling up on layers is going to solve that problem! A change of diet or gaviscon may be solution you're looking for
  21. Sorry , cut myself off there..... perhaps this valve is partially blocked?
  22. Is there not a safety check valve in the ram connection, that prevents an uncontrolled drop if the pipe gets cut or ripped off ? Toggling the two switches is probably fooling this action. I don't know ifor tippers have this but seen it on agricultural grain trailers etc.
  23. Curiously it's always just the required amount of time for the necessary curses, surprise, and rage. Closely followed by the realisation of what should have worked better!
  24. Chickens eat dog shit and each other!

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