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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!

1956 Cat D7 is all teddy boys and Elvis. And when I use her I am definitely all shook up!

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!

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"

Luca Sestak again, only 20 years old on this occasion, born 1995

Hands off. She’s all mine!

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.

Here I think I was biting off a little more than I could chew!

Thanks for that. Looks very useful. It would be interesting to see any more adaptations from Arbtalkers.

Don't think Jimi Hendrix would have sold many records if he had called the group "Band of Pikeys"

That is a Rhea! And whilst I might dream of having sex with good looking birds, that is definitely not on my list!

I do like to admire certain rears from afar! https://www.pinterest.co.uk/chris53620/babes-with-nice-rears/

Perhaps they were Vice Admirals? How many rings did they have on their sleeves?

What make and model is it? piccy would be good

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.

Never seen so many Painted Ladies around before, usually just the odd one or two

I will raise you one!

Sammy Squirrel has just created the leaning tower of peanutsa I thought that he might have broken his teeth when he came across the six inch long Tek bolt I feel a bit like Donald Trump dealing with Kim. Yes I could nuke him with a twelve bore but the following YouTube outrage storm would also be nuclear. Threatening him did no good so it is now a question of whether he is more intelligent than me. My wife is on his side! I feel that I need to rig up the cattle electric fencer next

Nine years on! Large Ash branch fell down in the drive and could not be assed to fetch the Teleporter so again an Arbtrolley is lurking some where beneath! Upgrade from a Panda 4x4 to a clapped out Volvo XC70 with 250k miles. Diesel still pulls like a train! Panda now classic car, vindicated by being listed in the back of classic car magazines. One advertised at £7250! Bought mine for £50 in the 1990s. Too valuable for mistreating now Same madness as Ford Escort México and prices

Not at all my experience. I welded some Matbro fittings to an old Sanderson Muck grab (£150 sitting in a local dealers yard looking lonely and needing a new ram) and it has done more work than any other attachment. The tines are strong as is the box section they are fitted to. The four tines on the top grab do occasionally become bent but are easily straightened. I load all the big lengths of timber onto the log deck with it. I can bring up half a dozen ten inch diameter logs from the woods and I like the ability to slowly release the logs one by one. Of course it will still lift a large tree if it weighs under 2.7 tons but the Palax processor is comfortable with 10 inch maximum But its other job is to pick up a mass of brash and I have not found a better tool for that job.

Found an example on youtube. Perhaps a slightly better and sharper saw would improve things and you can see why it is a good idea to slip a bit of timber under the logs

I just bought one of these and made a platform for it above a one ton box. I also slipped a bit of timber in the frame beneath the logs to make sure that the chainsaw never makes contact with the frame. Works well with no picking up! https://www.manomano.co.uk/p/black-powder-coated-saw-horse-for-woodworking-1185434 I might add that the vertical sections are only slipped into place so that if you have a big log you can just remove them all on one side to save lifting it over the top

The decking out front was a bit of an experiment with some Turkey Oak which I had lying about, but boy does that stuff warp and twist when left outside! I need to replace it with something else really.

Send him my regards. We are still looking after the statue of his ancestor SirJohn Franklin, who discovered the North West Passage. Tell Dan I will still be able to beat him at arm wrestling!

Well remembered Mr Spaceman! Just sitting down there now, in the sun which is a pleasant change, twenty years after it was built, and not a sign of rot as the whole. Cabin is a couple of feet off the ground perched on six large sandstones and there is a membrane between the wood and the stone The joints have settled nicely and you cannot push a bit of paper between the logs. All down to the full scribe method and the guidance of Dan Franklin at woodenways Cut the copper beech floor with the Lucas Mill and it needs another coat of varnish after twenty years of kids and adults messing about in the lake and then dragging all the water and mud inside when they come in to change!