Billhook

What engine? It sounds like a V8 but probably a twin cam

Dangerous statement to make with all the lefties looking at this site! But here is another 25 http://list25.com/25-ways-lefties-are-better-than-righties/5/ Just proves that us lefties are all in our right minds whilst righties are left behind! (Mark Bolam is in a different space!)

More vindication here for Billhook http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2016/03/23/cricketers-have-been-holding-their-bats-wrong-say-scientists/ http://custombats.co.uk/cbforum/index.php?topic=22142.0

A left handed chainsaw!

Right hand drive cars are awful for left handers as we have to open the door with our right hand and then operate the steering wheel for most of the journey with our right hand whilst the left hand does the gears, radio, satnav aircon etc Left hand drive cars are bliss, just like most modern tractors.

Well we seem to have stirred up a hornets nest and they want to beat us up and burn us for being a bit different! We are a bit sinister whilst they are all dexterous. No Stubby, I am not Ginger and I am lost as to why that would be an issue! S.Varty the top handle I can operate in just the same way as an ordinary saw, it is just more dangerous with the saw chain in line with your head in a kick back. It is absolutely correct of you to bat right handed if you are a left handed bowler. I am the same and golf and hockey too. David Gower bats left handed but bowls right arm. This is the reason we do not do well at cricket. If you are totally left handed/right brained then you will also be left eyed. To discover which is your leading eye "Fire" your finger at an object with both eyes open. Then close one eye at a time and see which eye is looking at the object. When you bat "right handed" as a left eye dominant left hander, your dominant left eye is nearer the bowler and not screened by your nose. Also all proper cover drives and good shots are mainly done with the left arm, the right arm is just guiding. It is only village cow shots that are right handed In a similar way I bet that 90% of left handed golfers are in fact right handed at most other things apart from batting at cricket. I also mount a bike from the right side. This also caused me to be thrown off a horse when I tried to do the same. (It has happened a few times with the wife as well!)

Having fought my way up through a right handed world, at school being punished for bad hand writing, in art classes inability to cut out shapes with right handed scissors, music lessons, show me a right handed violin, cello, flute clarinet, oboe. Eventually bought a left handed Stratocaster in 1971 with a 10% premium. Bank cash machines, Carving knives tin openers, corkscrews, the list is endless. Chainsaw course I had to relearn to use right handed but I still have to start it left handed. . I bought myself a long pole extension for the hedge cutting. It was a Lidl special tool with chainsaw/Hedge triimmer /strimmer/blade strimmer and has been well made. I was trimming the top of a thorn hedge when I thought I could smell something burning. I thought that it must be the new paintwork on the machine but then it felt very hot on my left thigh and I looked down to see my jeans smouldering. The exhaust was exiting on the right side of the engine and I had the engine hanging on my left side. I now have a fourth degree burn mark on my thigh! Good job it was not a few inches more the the right! Seriously thought in these days of safety being a priority, why are the major manufacturers not building left handed chainsaws and other equipment? Lefthanders are 10% of the world population.

I have a Whites Coinmaster so I had better try that one out too. It is probably very unlikely and unluckythat you will be unfortunate to come across a Damascus barrel in the middle of a log! Tuning your Whites IDX reminds me of my youth porting and tweaking my Ford Escort. you didn't fit twin Webers on it as well did you?!!

If you have not nailed the job in hand, you are screwed.

I have an old C Scope and have just tested it on my old William Griffiths Damascus barrelled 20 bore and I found it still blips at 12 inches!

Sorry I mean in this case the numbers themselves do not blacken, dots are on other sites.

On the previous arbtalk the little circles below the page numbers used to blacken when you had visited that page so when you went back to the page numbers you could see immediately which page you had last looked at.

Do you really need a separate kindling axe? I just use the Fiskars X27 with a car tyre on a large 24" diameter lump of ash. I think that the weight and lack of any give in a good chopping block on a concrete surface helps the Fiskars shock the wood into splittingwith less effort. Try and keep up with this bloke! [ame] [/ame] ps I think he needs to do a work study so that his log stack is nearer and higher and he has a barrow or box nearby to put the split wood in to save too much bending and lifting

See what you mean! It is like flying a helicopter on its side down the hedge! [ame] [/ame]

I think that the mower in question would have been one of these trailed Hayter models that use combine cutter bar knives on three square spinning plates, so four on each plate. topper/ mower | eBay We had the misfortune to operate one until my father heard a story about a knife coming off like a frisbee and cutting a dogs leg off some distance away from the machine, so it was scrapped. You were lucky on that occasion, or I suppose that you would have been very unlucky if you were hit by it.

It clearly states that the contractor was using a flail type and not the open circular saw type. It really is going to be a one in a million chance for such a thing to happen and terrible for all involved. it is a bit like a piece of metal falling off the back of a lorry on a motorway and bouncing in such a way that it goes through a car windscreen behind and kills the driver. In both cases the victim is very very unlucky. There are all sorts of possibilities with a flail. Sometimes the direction of rotation means debris is flung out of the front instead of the back, and perhaps a guard had been removed. But you can make all the rules about checking guards and making sure no one is nearby and then the law allows the operation of those totally unguarded circular saws in the videos. The latter makes no sense to me. Sometimes the pins that hold the flails fail, and I know of one incidence when a flail broke off on a trailed machine, came out through the metal cover and went into the tractor tyre with enough force to puncture it.

And another off youtube with someone standing close by [ame] [/ame]

If you think an enclosed flail is dangerous take a look at these with a circular saw blade totally unguarded, spinning in line with the operator on the second video and presumably still legal [ame] [/ame] [ame] [/ame]

I have a Woodchuck Dual which looks similar but may be a little more versatile as it will roll quite big logs and has the peavey point. Very well built with a retractable point and log lifter. [ame] [/ame] Here it is with the removable log lifter, [ame]https://www.amazon.co.uk/Woodchuck-Tool-Inc-Dual-Jack/dp/B00D9F3QKE[/ame]

I have only seen clegs this year but the Chrysops is really a very beautiful insect, also called a Deer Fly https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tabanidae+chrysops&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHqPmu2PvUAhUlJMAKHdoJDUkQ_AUICigB&biw=887&bih=410#imgrc=o7aFmgtG_sDSqM: They are the noisy ones who test your reactions with a few low passes before going into silent mode for the attack! The Horse Fly Clegs on the other hand are dull looking and fly silently. Both very vulnerable once they have settled and begun to feed but only if they are in a place where you can swat them, probably difficult around your soft and juicy bum area! Wiki says . In general, country-folk did not distinguish between the various biting insects that irritated their cattle and called them all "gad-flies", from the word "gad" meaning a spike. The most common name is "cleg[g]", "gleg" or "clag", which comes from Old Norse and may have originated from the Vikings.[3] So it may be of some consolation that the Vikings also met some local resistance here when they invaded!

I think you've nailed it!

And some just go round and round Making a lot of fuss!

Some youtube clips on the subject Obviously not as good as hand planting but better than doing nothing. [ame] [/ame] [ame] [/ame] [ame] [/ame]

Drone technology has somewhat passed me by and it is great to hear of these initiatives. It seems to be a win win situation. We had an archaeologist here looking at a site of interest and he brought his very expensive drone which took off and began to photo map a field in a predetermined search pattern all by itself and then land itself at the foot of the archaeologist. Cost a few thousand I believe. Not wishing to be left out of this Brave New World I bought a drone off Amazon for £67.99 [ame]https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01M629244/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1[/ame] I was very impressed with the technology at such a low price. read the instructions and did a flight test in a sheltered spot, all very simple and easy. Thought I would have a go at photographing my house with my wife slaving in the herb garden and took about a dozen very high quality pictures before thinking that I ought to land it before over confidence crept in Pushed the throttle lever down to land and it went higher and off to the South. I pushed all the emergency buttons and it was totally unresponsive to any input. Also the camera was not working. Ran out into the neighbours garden to see it disappearing towards the South until it became a small speck. Fruitless searches in the nearby park were not helped by the appearance of a very large bull with heifers in tow! But I did enjoy my ten minutes of glory for £68!