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Billhook

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  1. Caesar ad sum iam forte, Brutus et erat, Caesar sic in omnibus, Brutus sic in at
  2. King Charles 1st walked and talked half an hour after his head was chopped off. Commas are important!
  3. 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!
  4. 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
  5. If you do not grease nipples regularly you are a right tit!
  6. 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!
  7. Watch the second video as he has an extension piece at 46 seconds. As for grovelling underneath to grease a propshaft, you can just take the pipe and clamp it on and leave it. I am not sure about the top of the County though! I have an old 1124 with a roof crane and it is redundant at the moment and I cannot remember the amount of grease points up there, but if it is anything like the amount of grease needed for my JCB 806 swing shovel 's gear ring i it would be worth taking it up there with a forklift! It is not a question of doing a rain dance on the thing as it seems to push a lot of grease through with just one pump. The point is that for me it works, and if it works I am happy and if I am happy things will be greased that otherwise might be ignored.
  8. Electric ones ain't that cheap either! DCGG571M1 | DeWALT Electric Grease Gun DCGG571M1, 18V, 3.63kg | RS Components UK.RS-ONLINE.COM
  9. Fair comment, just wish someone had thought of this idea years ago. With electric ones you still have to replace the standard cartridge quite often and I expect my greasing session today would have used at least three cartridges. The way the thing locks and unlocks onto the nipple and the clever filling tools just make me a very happy chappy!
  10. 1956 Cat D7 is all teddy boys and Elvis. And when I use her I am definitely all shook up!
  11. After years or rather decades of struggling to keep the machinery greased, some genius in South Africa has come up with the solution as far as I am concerned. Some of the bigger equipment can easily empty a standard grease cartridge and then there is the need for three hands, one to hold the gun, one to operate the handle and a third to hold the flexible on the nipple. The Caterpillar D7 takes a lot of grease to adjust the track tension. Then there are another ten or so nipples, the JCB swing shovel has at least twenty, the Matbro Teleporter another twenty, the Spearhead Batwing about fifteen, the Cherry picker about the same plus several other machines, Lucas and Palax. Firstly it comes with a thing that looks a bit like a loo brush at first sight but which is a clever shovel and scraper for transferring the grease from the standard grease bucket to the machine, which not only scrapes the inside of the shovel but also the outside with the result of nil waste and clean hands Then there is the clever device that clamps onto the nipple so it can be left unattended. An upward kick on the foot pedal releases the pressure so it comes off easily, unlike some grease fittings which can be a real struggle. It delivers 10,000 psi, which cleared a blocked nipple that I had not been able to clear with a hand gun and I did all my machinery this morning in no time and had a clean pair of hands and grease free clothes and I still have half the container left. I was considering an electric one from Milwaukee or the like but a friend had tried one and eventually took it back advising me against one. Then there is always the issue of chargers and batteries. They about the same price as the G- gun around £230 Not too big a price for an easier life!
  12. And the replacement of "th" with "f" and the "ing" with "k" as in anyfink or nufink, cutting out the "h" in "wh" and cutting out the letter "r" so we have with the double negative "There ain't nufink wong wif wot I said"
  13. Luca Sestak again, only 20 years old on this occasion, born 1995
  14. Hands off. She’s all mine!
  15. That came later! Actually the main trunk was half rotten as you can see and I cut it up with the Lucas Mill into 8x8 inch lengths which I then put through the processor. The resulting 8x8x16 inch logs were surprisingly good for loading into the wood stove as because they were so tightly packed they stayed in burning for hours. When the Lucas is cutting 8x8s it soon makes a large tree trunk disappear! I could easily have pulled the tree along with just the Cat D7, but it had fallen into the ditch and the trunk was embedded in the bank hence I had to lift it up first with the Matbro to clear the bank. On another note, Daisy Etta has just returned from her doctor following a very expensive heart transplant operation. The Beast from the East attacked her a year ago and did an amazing amount of damage in that short cold snap. It cracked the main 14 litre block and the cylinder head on the donkey despite being under cover and surrounded by one ton boxes of wood. My little Fiat Panda 4x4 was out exposed in the same weather with no antifreeze and did not suffer at all. I have really missed Daisy Etta for a whole year as she does so much in the woods and on the roads.
  16. Here I think I was biting off a little more than I could chew!
  17. Thanks for that. Looks very useful. It would be interesting to see any more adaptations from Arbtalkers.
  18. Don't think Jimi Hendrix would have sold many records if he had called the group "Band of Pikeys"
  19. That is a Rhea! And whilst I might dream of having sex with good looking birds, that is definitely not on my list!
  20. I do like to admire certain rears from afar! https://www.pinterest.co.uk/chris53620/babes-with-nice-rears/
  21. Perhaps they were Vice Admirals? How many rings did they have on their sleeves?
  22. What make and model is it? piccy would be good
  23. Thank you for that link. It says that they are expected in late Summer, so this seems a bit early for so many, possibly reflecting the increased warming.
  24. Never seen so many Painted Ladies around before, usually just the odd one or two

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