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Stere

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  1. Well one of the pull rings on the hendon adjustment pins somehow broke without me noticting and lost a spring so need to get a replacement spring. Hendon Spare Spring - Radmore & Tucker WWW.RADMORETUCKER.CO.UK Spare replacement spring for use with Hendon Tripod Ladders. Weight - 0.02 kg Brand - Hendon Ladders Only happened as the rings to pull the springs/pins are very weak/filmsy ,I think i will see if I can find more beefy ones to fit and replace them. Chunky one:
  2. Stere

    Thistle spuds

    That article is a one of thoose top 10 lists written just for ad revenue? Seems like junk content and a slightly random list as I can see alot of the ones they recommended are rubbish brands? Felco fiskars a wolf are decent, Spear & jackson once was many yrs ago a quality brand but it hasn't being for decades, the rest are some random low grade chinese stuff?
  3. Tree planting is very hard work. Highballer: True Tales from a Treeplanting Life by Greg Nolan WWW.GOODREADS.COM Highballer book. Read 5 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In 1983, at nineteen, Greg Nolan was...
  4. Being using this blade recently it works really well, you have to use it with the same motion, you use with a scythe. The grass this year is denser than ever as its being exceptionally wet weather for this time of year. Would work even better i reckon if the strimmer has some kind of grass cradle fitted.
  5. Why is the plastic grass so lumpy looks like a japanese moss garden 🙂
  6. Google just gave me 2 slightly conflicting info /search results on pin v pinless with regarded to accuracy. Not sure they are better?
  7. Locum GPs are on about £800 per day so not all front line staff are that poorly payed. Others are though esp the support staff etc.
  8. Yes better off using it with a saw tooth blade for the 1 inch blackthorn etc Oregon Brush Cutter Baltt EIA, 110975 200 x 25.4 mm : Amazon.co.uk: Garden & Outdoors WWW.AMAZON.CO.UK Free delivery and returns on all eligible orders. Shop Oregon Brush Cutter Baltt EIA, 110975 200 x 25.4 mm. They work well don't but mulch brambles though.... so best to have both blades
  9. I wonder if one big factor in the recent scandals regarding poor care quality & culture across whole hospitals is due to staff shortages. Is there was a surplus of nurses and doctors it wouldn't be an automatic job once qualified. I suppose like chainsaws tickets everyone who passes isn't actually that competent but they can't get rid of any if are they are desperate for staff?
  10. My only concern with grass mowings near/on spuds was that it might encourage blight as they go damp mouldy etc but probably doesn't make any difference?. Blight is forcast with the hutton criterea /climatic condition for commercial premeptive spraying. I sometimes stick mowings between the rows after the spuds have being earthed up.
  11. I used to love doing that in school coz nearly everyone else couldn't & the ones that could, couldn't get to the top as fast. I had a scaffold pole at home my dad had tied between two trees I used to spin around and around on as a a high bar and also a trapeze with a raised platform spent hrs playing on.
  12. I still think food is relatively cheap. Valid reasons to grow your own is more to get interesting & tasty stuff thats not in the shops as it doesn't really save any money imo, as food would still have to get loads more expensive for that.... Grow you own both privately and as any larger enterprise, has to compete with the low cost of food and the low cost of the mass global transport of said food, from industrial scale automated/mechanized farming in regions with the ideal soil type climate to suit each crop. That is why any modern small mixed market gardens have to have added value (be organic/specialize in some thing unique/ have a niche) and are very hard to make any money from. Its also is why the once common historically localized - (low food miles before it was a trendy idea) market gardens, near each city and town died out. This may change in future its current trends continue though. There is a well run local place the does veg boxes that buys in some stuff and uses voulunteers alot for free labour, sometimes run courses etc. Prices are more expensive and if if all labour was payed minimum wage it would probbaly be even more v supermarkets. I mm not extacly sure how there finacial model works but id say its more like a non profit/ charity the relies on community goodwill, and ran by people with other sources of income. Also another more commercially run place has a farm shop thet buys alot of fancy more processed food lines along side the veg they grow. Id summarize/guess all there profit is from the stuff they buy in & that subsidized the cost of the stuff they grow. They sell posh jams etc for 5 quid a jar v lidl that sells jam for 30p a jar. 30p a jar is cheaper than you can buy empty glass jars when I looked into it. So probaly you pay more for the jar than the jam with the lidl jam.....wouldn't be suprised if the the packaging is the higher % cost of many foodstuffs which underlines how cheap the actually food is. Also id guess why the alotment is full of the types you don't like. GYO ethos tends attracts people with "alternative" views, socialists/ hippies etc basically. Becasue they are idealists doing something the doesn't make finacial sense.
  13. One day there won't be any left as they don't plant new ones now.
  14. Compost bins always the sides/corners that are slowest its all about temp / surface to volume ratio (large bin works best) and also turning so its best have a row of 3 bays. Having insulated bins (some companies sell them) and correct ratios of N to C are also factors in composting speed... So the ideal compost bin a a 3 tier system the first is turned into the second then that goes into the third. (Get a decent muck fork makes the job alot easier.) As for construction material, ideal is concrete blocks. Thoose daleks are pretty useless takes ages to work and would fill up with one cut of even a small lawn etc. Probem is most peoples composts bins are way to small for the size of there garden so most useful material goes into the council green bin. so people are giving away the fertility of soil in there garden and being charged for it.
  15. What is a quillet? | Redlake Valley Community Benefit Society REDLAKEVALLEYCBS.ORG Mention the word " quillet" to estate agents up and down the Welsh Marches and they will know what you mean, although... I'd not heard the word before...
  16. Road kill turtle? (shell top and noggin looks abit flat im thinking cutting a dome shape is abit tricky?) its decent though prob better than my first attempt would be.... 🙂
  17. I read that some sponge filters need oil on them to work better.
  18. No idea about mains ones do they make any ones that aren't "fisher price"? Scythe with a ditch blade i found very easy to use and effective but the sharpening/ peening required is difficult though & abit of a skill to master.
  19. Battery run time is very low on the makita I have only 10 -15 mins for x2 5amp. The power is 1kw motor same as a 35cc petrol. Will do brambles easy/very well with a oregon mulch blade but need 6 bats and double charger etc if alot of brambles. Makita DUR369APG2 Twin 18V LXT Brushless Brush Cutter Kit | Toolden WWW.TOOLDEN.CO.UK We are the UK's fastest growing Power Tool distributor. Supplying Power Tools, Hand Tools, Tool Accessories and...
  20. Texas never back down slogan on the kids tshirt.... 🙂
  21. Supposedly it can get too hot in summer to lie on. I did say its ok for footy pitches. Also I like moss and stuff in lawns, never got the lawn must look like a bowling green obession.
  22. Stere

    Dolly

    Yeah real shame makita is stopping hope spare parts don't vanish too fast. Kind of hoping some other company might take over making petrol models when makita stops?
  23. Stere

    Dolly

    I see crocky is asking £1000 for a new 7900 on ebay that were a bargin @ about 500 quid new a few years back on radmore and tucker Makita DCS7901 Chainsaw Brand New WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Makita DCS7901 Chainsaw.

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