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Billhook

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  1. JDC Motorcycle Disc Lock Alarm | JDC Products WWW.JDC-PRODUCTS.CO.UK Motorcycle disc lock alarms from JDC Products. Order disc lock alarms online for...
  2. It was pushed uphill for about 100 yards then started You are right about a hidden switch somewhere but many of the devils are familiar with short cuts. He uses it every day and it is parked in a locked shed near his house with two young dogs who heard nothing There is a huge inconvenience in taking the wheels off every night and I suggested one of those alarm thingys which clamp over the brake disc and go off with movement about £20 I think
  3. When I posted this link to Wikipedia it definitely said that he had died today. I always thought that Wikipedia was slightly more reliable in these matters but I am now wiser and they gave obviously taken down the mischievous information I should have copied it for those who think I am making mischief Apologies especially to Stubby for upsetting him and also to anybody else
  4. It appears to be true today Clint Eastwood - Wikipedia EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG
  5. Criminals committing 100 offences before being sent to prison for knife crime, official figures show WWW.GOOGLE.COM Criminals are committing as many as 100 offences before being sent to prison for...
  6. So where are we now with all of this? A friend has just had his quad stolen for the third time, in the same way. The thieves must be local as they have local knowledge about navigation through fields and knowledge of his replacements A lot of these anti theft alarms cost more than the cost of the insurance. And then you have the problem of 1 Maybe being woken in the night, going down for a confrontation and ending up either in hospital or court or both 2. Finding your bike either by gps or microdot police but although it looks ok there is a possibility that it has been abused, over revved or similar 3. The inconvenience of having to set alarms, unlock lock and lost keys 4 The extra damage caused to workshop or garage doors by making them more secure compared to a simple padlock which is easily cut and still is enough to demonstrate breaking and entering Against this is the massive inconvenience of being without the item, but it should be not too hard to hire one while the insurance is being sorted In my friends case though because they are local it would be good to catch them but what would happen to them in the current a climate where I saw in the news the other day a man with 100 previous convictions not being jailed. Any further thoughts?
  7. They also had some wood workshops with what looked like a vice to clamp wood while you work it using your feet, and another device that I could not quite work out but which was probably a form of lathe
  8. Very impressed with both the National Museum in Copenhagen and the Viking Museum at Trelleborg I thought that displaying artifacts on slabs gave much more life to the objects . Animate wood as opposed to inanimate glass and plastic
  9. Probably the main reason processors were invented, to keep the saw blades and splitting away from the operator behind guards. This is only a small splitter but are there bigger versions for large vertical splitters that somehow come down with the ram or pop up hydraulically? The Handy 6 Ton Horizontal Log Splitter With Guard | The Handy WWW.THEHANDY.CO.UK
  10. Would certainly spice up chainsaw safety programmes because you could actually let the virtual chainsaw slip and kick back and actually see the blood and feel the pain which might be effective! Or fall a long way from a tree and feel what it is like to hit the ground
  11. Close affection, prick erection Close connection, prick injection Prick inspection, deep dejection!
  12. Me too! But I do find the foot to be useful on occasion for lifting a log off the ground to saw without grounding as shown in the second video
  13. That is on helluva saw but still not big enough to cut through the five foot butt in question in one go The Lucas slabber is five foot. If it was mine I would circular swing saw boards out of the top quarter until I could see what it was like and slab it if appropriate and maybe have the flexibility of going back to swing sawing as necessary on the next level as I worked my way down avoiding the crack. But I agree with Big J in that a five foot wide three inch thick slab is a hefty thing to deal with or make anything of without cutting it down a bit.
  14. I was worried about snatching but the more I think about it , the less likely it will happen Firstly I set the torque of the drill so that it is enough to turn the engine over, but not enough that it will twist my wrist before the clutch kicks in Secondly unless the engine kicks back, if the socket does grab then it will just spin the drill faster with no kickback Thirdly If it does kick back counter clockwise again the clutch will kick in Fourthly the socket has released immediately the engine starts every time so far Fifthly if it ever was whipped out of my hand then I would just switch off the engine Sixthly I could always fit the freewheel ratchet socket as belt and braces. The drill is on the slow speed, number 1 of the two speeds. Anyway, I am very happy with the result but will proceed with caution!
  15. Found that the ratchet device was unnecessary I feel sure that the engine cannot spin the drill as long as the trigger is not released There may be an issue over time taking the edges off the crank but but unlikely and better that than knackering my wrists or worse The fact that I managed to film this video one handed shows how little effort is needed to start the engine
  16. I put AK47 tool in the google search and have now been arrested......... But seriously Bob, many thanks in showing exactly what I have been searching for using every possible combination of words both on google, Amazon and EBay Such is the modern world that I have just ordered it from Amazon at £17 delivered before 8.00 pm tomorrow! This also demonstrates what a marvellous site arbtalk is for an immediate result on obscure questions. There is such a wealth of knowledge out there and another thank you to Steve Bullman for keeping us in order and keeping the site the best around It is a lot of hard work that needs to be appreciated more
  17. Had my Lucas model 8 now since 1998 and it has been a great machine. When I went to Australia in 1998 I went to Beechworth and then down a long track to where the Lucas Mills were being made and shook Geoff Lucas by the hand singing his praises. That seemed to work as he then sent me some updated parts to England free of charge! I have produced and put down several floors from the Ash and beech on the farm as well as fencing and general timber. Also some lovely slabs with the slabbing attachment. The grain pusher on the front of the teleporter has four pieces of 3" x 8" eight foot wide which are regularly broken on the steel H sections of the grain store by my bad driving, doing no harm to anything except the wood and my pride. However as I age I find the hand pull starting of the engine to be more challenging as it is awkward at the best of times and painful with my arthritic wrists, but on big logs I have to stand on the log to start it and sometimes the pull start mechanism does not engage with the tube and I nearly fall off the log. usually to the amusement of those watching but not to me! The Briggs and Stratton Vanguard still runs as sweetly as it did twenty years ago so I am reluctant to change it. I thought about a starter kit for the Briggs but could not find one that made sense mechanically or financially and a new engine with electric start was nearly as much as buying a new mill, then I saw a youtube of people starting engines with just a battery driver. I took of the pull starter and gave it a go with my Bosch 18volt with a large socket on the main crank bolt, fearing that the socket would stick to the engine and twist the gun from my hand, but it worked a treat. I think I might have chosen an AF socket as opposed to a metric one so it may be a slightly loose fit to make it come away quickly when the engine starts. I suppose a freewheeling joint would be the ideal thing if they make one for sockets spanners, working like the PTO freewheel joints. Anyway, back to joyful milling again!
  18. When I was a student at a sheep farm in Lincolnshire, I was working under the supervision of Harry the shepherd. They had a flabbogram down at the local pub and Harry was sitting in his usual place by the fire. Somebody went up to him and asked him what he thought of it so far. "Weall its all riaght, but would sum one tell me which weay round she's feacing!"
  19. Caesar ad sum iam forte, Brutus et erat, Caesar sic in omnibus, Brutus sic in at
  20. King Charles 1st walked and talked half an hour after his head was chopped off. Commas are important!
  21. Let us know how much you like it, Another thought is that although the Milwaukee is quoted as delivering 10,000 psi, the same as the G-Gun, how is it measured on the G-Gun? If I put my 15 stone on the pedal it must produce more pressure than my wife at 8 stone! I did have an air greaser of industrial quality some years ago which again operated from a large tub but it never had the pressure of a hand gun and I was quite glad when it was nicked in a burglary. I did buy a smaller Draper air greaser but it was next to useless. The G-gun is the first to break through a really tight (rusty) bush which I had been trying to grease for ages. The click noise as the grease goes through and splurges out is nearly pornographic!
  22. I had not thought about a non return valve . All I know is that normal grease guns are a pain to attach to a nipple and frequently become detached except when you want to detach them and then they sometimes break the nipple. i am not sure what happens inside this new greaser when you kick up the pedal, but you can see the hose relax when you do it and if you do not do it the nozzle will not release
  23. If you do not grease nipples regularly you are a right tit!
  24. It is true that there are many impossible nipples that need special ends and in the past I have had to buy another gun with a fitting for that particular nipple but it is not the case with my current machinery The kicking up of the pedal really does release the pressure and make it easy to take the nozzle off the nipple whatever your theory on the subject!

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