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Will C

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  1. Unfortunately @GA Groundcare I think your right but the modern tec and needing the right computer to fix anything is sending us all backwards as simple things can no longer be fixed locally to many people and I don’t believe we are using significantly less fuel than we were 20 years ago to make up for it. This isn’t a dig at you more a rant at society and modern tec in general!
  2. It’s about the overall package for me, if I’m pricing it up I’m pricinglike for like delivered to my door/local dealer. Just be honest and don’t add the postage at the end make it plain to see. we buy all our saw bars and milling stuff from you guys - bars because sugi bars offer the best value for money in my opinion and the milling kits because you stock good kit at sensible prices and back it up with good advice and knowledge over the phone or e mail if needed. All the rest I buy local if I can as I feel it’s important to buy local as far as possible. My priority is local dealer, uk dealer, followed by rest of world. There are exceptions when you need a cheap crap item for a one off throw away job then unfortunately Amazon or fleabay normally wins.
  3. They also make up for other parts that are undersize and need compensating for, similar to owning a m edition bmw
  4. Now we need to make the points harder to get than tiger tokens
  5. I’ve still got a couple of the brass tokens somewhere from working peace work. Still got my cauliflower knife as well, was a proud day at 13 ish year old to buy one I could keep sharp with my own wages! I made a extra few quid being quicker with a sharp knife.
  6. Maybe there will be a revolution soon! The only worrying thing is there will soon be enough immigrants to stage their own then those of us who have grown up here will be kicked out! For the record I have no issue with immigration but it needs to be controlled, I think something similar to the points system Australia has could work. I think the navy need to be towing these boats back to Europe then rendering the boat useless once everyone is off it back on mainland Europe. If you apply and meet the needs of this country or have a genuine asylum claim (not many) the navy will pick you up next time they drop a load back!
  7. I seem to remember you need to mot the mot exempt car to transfer the number plate. Yet another random anomaly in the law, sure some one will be along soon to blame the eu/brexit/covid for the lack of common sense!
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    Jokes???

    It reminds me of he invisible man posters everyone had in the late 80s/early 90s
  9. Just bung it in and ride it/cut with it like it’s stolen, is a basic 2 stroke motor in either machine not a space ship! Decent quality oil is decent quality oil. Decent oil vrs cheap crap I would say spend on good quality and the machine will last longer but apart from that I stand by my first paragraph!
  10. Got to love a mk5 smiley face transit. They were the last of the proper transits in my mind, got a bit girly and soft after that
  11. Not cheap but are they good? I would rather spend on decent kit than buy a crap one for half the price that doesn’t pour any sense and leaks after a couple of months, if you do that on a £20 Jerry can from fleabay they suddenly seem expensive and yours looks cheap all of a sudden 👍
  12. What sort money are these? Our old can has a dodgy seal and these Look good.
  13. It goes to show sometimes nature does know what it’s doing!
  14. Seem to remember he said a single sheet of a4 paper could be used folded once to set and single to not tear, once set - but at that point almost everyone on the course had rizla so it was the easy measurement tool!
  15. Sorry Doug that’s as much as I can remember, the set the same I used i towed with a allis charmers model b and then promoted to a grey fergy about 30+ year ago, I was about 11 and I’ve slept since then!
  16. It’s easy to see the difference if you measure out from the shaft with a stick or similar. There staggered in 3 pairs, first pair does most of the work, second pair does a fair bit and 3rd pair just clear the crap out. when I had Predetor grinders I used to put a new pair in the leading pair, move the old ones to the second pair and them to the third pair. The old third pair used to go in the scrap bin. yes you can sharpen them but the time involved was never worth it, just price them into a job. Unless it was really stoney shit job, in which case I would sharpen on the machine with a batt angry grinder and diamond disc in between changes. I also kept a few in various states of wear so if I broke a tooth it could be changed with one in a similar state to it’s pair to keep the wheel balance.
  17. I did a training day with a bloke from ransoms years ago for a self propelled gang mower - a folded (4 thickness) rizla is a about right to set he drum to the static blade, once set you should be able to spin the drum with a single folded rizla but tear a doubled one. no idea to the gearbox but it’s not doing 100mph so I would just say any half decent gear oil would be fine and better than no oil! Use one like that as a yoof, Seem to remember they are just a chain driven over run dog clutch (plus release handle to take out of gear for transport) in the gear box so nowt that can’t be fixed by a ape with a lump hammer!
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    Splitys

    Original patina?, if it’s factory paint and not been welded it will make that upwards all day long!
  19. Funny how yew get preconceived ideas, probably comes from me working with machines, if it’s got oil in I normally end up covered in the feckin stuff 🤦‍♂️
  20. I had always imagined a oil rig to be a basic place with sticky floors and inhabited by tobacco chewing inbred imbeciles that are the missing link from ape to man! That looks like any normal office! You have just shattered my illusions!
  21. It may be a few grams lighter but a sugi bar from Chainsawbars Will out last it by years. I’ve still got one that’s about 6 year old and has done a lot of broadleaf woodland felling. Think I got 2 seasons before changing the nose. The stihl light ones are made by Cadbury in comparison. It’s not all about the last gram for me but value for money.
  22. In fairness 90% of ours is this end, try not to go past the middle, that seems to bring on a nose bleed, more to the point there a bit strange over ‘tuver side in the east!
  23. We cover the whole island, 26 mile long by 12 mile wide.

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