Billhook
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Dunno, it looks like a custom built one, Gretch usually is not shy about putting its name everywhere. Certainly seems to have a low tuned E string down four semitones to C if my hearing is correct. Certainly gives a distinctive sound and Mark Winchester adds another dimension to slap bass!
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I can't count.........Oh wait a minute!
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Brian Setzer, great talent dodgy shoes!
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Me of course as usual!
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There is a ready made one for £35 on eBay and I do not think I could make it for that! https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&hl=en-gb&ei=ksORWq62IeOVgAbduImgCw&q=sawhorse+with+chainsaw+holder&oq=sawhorse+with&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.1.0.41j0l4.4665.15660..17453...1....2834.9126.0j11j1j5-1j1j9-2..........1..mobile-gws-wiz-serp.....3..0i71j0i67.j%2BShKg6nLqc%3D
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Just found my old electric Dolmar 219 in the attic! 1600 watt motor with a 20 inch bar Although unsafe for normal use without an anti kickback brake, I could weld up a frame to fix it in place and limit the saw to an arc to cut up to 20 inch logs This should work well and quietly with the Electric Portek Quick splitter here at home as the Palax combi will really only cope with 10 inch diameter . Quite tempted unless anyone thinks of a reason why it is not a good idea
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I C. E is correct! if your weird neighbour lifted her veil and seized some caffeine to put in her weighty veins then society may benefit!
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I before E except after C
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We are showing our age Stubby! Jonsered 621 and an electric Dolmar with no safety kickback device!
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Perhaps a bit of lateral thinking might find an answer in the climate. The hotter the place, Middle East, North Africa, Florida, South America, the easier it is to become very angry. Perhaps the Swiss Alps are much cooler. Don't hear of many gun massacres in the Eskimo community! Against my theory are people like Anders Breivik who are just nutcases and even the difficulties he had in obtaining weapons did not stop his actions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks
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It seems to be an issue of mental instability rather than weapons. Where do you stop the ban? Carving knives? Pen knives? chain saws? Axes? Stanley knives? Anyone can drive a car or lorry into a crowded area and kill more people than if they had an automatic rifle. Perhaps the issue of mental health needs much closer examination but then there are cases like Dr Harold Shipman who probably killed more people than any of these campus murders, and he would have passed most mental health tests.
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Do not see why you need to change the axle. The wheels on my Arbtrolley are only held on by quick release lynch pins or R pins and I am sure that a couple of these offset wider ones would fit but I have never felt the need so far. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/260mm-10-Sack-Truck-Pneumatic-Wheel-pair-offset-hub-trolley-wheel/372214307643?hash=item56a9b39b3b:g:i~0AAOSwLUpaeFzy
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So are any of the dates visible and can you see the oldest or have they all been hammered in too far?
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It was built so my wife could carry garden tools when the arb trolley was not hitched, but mainly to take the wheelie bin down our long drive to the road which was quite an effort uphill on the way back!
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Quite happy with the original Arbtrolley, and although I have the workshop and welding skills, by the time I have faffed about finding the right size steel, measuring, cutting, finding correct centre of gravity, finding the right axles and puncture free tyres, bearings, wheels, drawbar , paint, it would come nearly to the price of a new Arbtrolley even with my labour at minimum wage! i found it necessary to make four simple slide on tubes with hoops for the big bags i did weld up a small detachable drawbar for the little Stiga mower which happens to be exactly the same width as the trolley. I bought it off eBay without a deck for £120 and it has worked well the trolley also has the little bar just visible under the bag in the photo, which means you can lift a fifty gallon drum quite easily
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https://www.ilivehere.co.uk/skegness-why-oh-why.html
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We have a 20 radiator system with 4 underfloor heating arrangements. This has increased over the years and is right on the limit for a 30kw gas boiler working in conjunction with a 26kw Aarrow Stratford wood boiler via a Dunsley Baker Neutraliser. To make any wood stove work you obviously need good quality dry, seasoned hardwood. My advice would be to work out the theoretical size of stove you need then double it. This is not only because in the real world it will not manage the advertised output but also the bigger the stove, the bigger the lumps of wood so it will last longer and hopefully through the night so you do not have to draw straws with the missus on who has to go and feed it at 4.00 am!
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Nick Mason recording I believe. I fitted it to my burglar alarm system which triggered a CD player linked to a 400 watt PA system in my garage. Frightened the local vicar!
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I am sure my first time went something like Her " Well you aren't much good as a lover" Me " How can you tell that in ten seconds?"
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Very envious as you have all the old cars (and pretty ladies) at the Festival of Speed and Revival. Too far for me I am afraid but we are near Coningsby and see the BBMF and near East Kirkby which has a Lancaster "Just Jane" which does taxi runs. There is a museum there and they also have a "Pistons and Props" every year and the Mustangs are a regular feature. I think this was a father and son double take off and it blew my hat off then blew my chair away when I went to pick up my hat. Harvard first followed by the two Mustangs! Spine tingling!
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Well done Maria! Takes a lot of courage to do that. I had a bit of Dutch courage before I was forced by some "friends" to go down the Cresta (from the beginners halfway point not the top!) Still came out on the Shuttlecock bend several times and ended up in the straw. Lt Colonel Digby Willoughby (sounds like a cartoon character!) then played the Beatles "I wanna hold your hand" over the tannoy. Eventually made it round to charge down the finishing straight. Never measured the speed just the time but I do remember that we were going so fast that you only needed to turn your head in the direction you wanted to go and the slipstream off your helmet pushed you over to that side. We wore metal knuckle plates to protect our hands from the ice wall but I see you wisely had your hands behind you.
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Where do you hear that, Duxford? Here are a couple more from my excursion in Florida at Kissimmee in 1992 with Lee Lauderback up front (thank goodness!) Cockpit view of that take off then touch and go at Winterhaven. Was not quite expecting that vertical take-off and stomach somewhat left behind! Not too noisy in the cockpit, better sound to the folk on the ground I think.
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I am also practising hard to play like Luca Sestak, I think it may take a little time!
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Current ear worm Nils Lofgren
