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If you are in SW Scotland, bring in round and I will put it in the lathe for you, metal cutting lathe but will still do the job, did something very similar to make a red squirrel feeder.
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£300 sounds a bit on the steep side to me as well. Get the local handy man in. Location? If it is London then £300 might not be steep.
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Not sure about going rate, I am fairly certain a handy man and a mate could put it up in a couple of hours. So what ever the hourly rate is for a handy man in that area and multiply hourly rate by say 3. For my garden shed I put a base of slabs down and then 2 pressure treated fence posts lying down as bearers for the shed base to sit on. Hopefully stop any water that sits on slabs from rotting the shed, maybe need to change the bearers in a few years, but that should be a 5 minute job, lever up one end of shed slide rotten bearer out slide new one in, hopefully.
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I've just had another one of those time wasters who bid and won some stuff from me last Thursday, hasn't paid, and not responding to any contact including texts as his mobile which was on his contact details. Why do they do that, tossers.
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No nothing fancy like that on it.
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Dam you Briggs and Stratton, wasted so many hours on the engine this weekend,no stripped down the carb again, cleaned all the jets, changed fuel filter, cleaned out tank, still same fault. So cleaned carb again, did away with pump, filter, tank, by rigging up a temporary tank gravity feeding into carb, same fault. Next step, change the two spark plugs. It just sounds like fuel related but surely I have eliminated that now. So plug change it is. Dam dam dam
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All done now Mike, very heavy 70 kg
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Good quality stuff, bought a couple of things from Mike a couple of weeks ago, well pleased.
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Just back from the woods, all the cut stuff burnt now. Did think about lighting fire at stumps but worried about peat fires at that area as it is a bit dryer than the burn sight I picked, the burn site was in a bit of a wet hollow. I did treat the cut stumps by drilling and injecting glyphosate and spraying glyphosate on the bits that were too small to drill.
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Never seen a mulcher in use so not sure, would a mulcher not leave all the chopped arising just on the deck, is that OK with rhody, excuse my ignorance here but I just don't know. Access is also a pain, I can get an ATV down there, but it is tight and a bit boggy in places. Cheers.
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And finally, look at the dam stuff
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Have to post pics separately and in reverse order sorry.
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Just as a bit of an update, so at the end of March a few of my friends came down and we cleared tons of the dam stuff but in the grand scheme of things we only scratched the surface, we probably cleared about a 30 m by 20 m strip of 10 feet tall rhody. I have left it since then to dry out a bit, probably about 30 piles of the stuff. Today I put 6 sheets of wiggly tin down, and had a bit of fire, it burnt incredibly well burning down as fast as two of us could feed it, fed it for 7 hours and we are about 60% through the piles, so same again tomorrow, will take just as long as there is a bit further to drag it to the fire.
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That's a good idea, take it you mean threading the sling through the scaffie tube?
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Clearing ground layer/understory of a small wood?
roys replied to benedmonds's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
That looks good, could be doing with that bit of kit myself. Nice one. -
Had a good and interesting afternoon through at Mike Dempsey's workshop sourcing the oak required, and buying a Laser Burnt sign of him. Both quality items. Good to meet Mike and good dealing with you cheers.
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Thanks gents, will give these a try.
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Cheers cat178, so I have checked the jets I can see in the carb they look clean, took the cap of tank in case it was drawing a vacuum, none of these made any difference still struggled to start for 5 mins and then away it goes again as happy as can be, weird.......
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Got a wee problem with my tow behind Wessex Flail mower, it has a Briggs and Stratton 16HP ( I think) engine. It will start with the pull cord from cold perfectly with the choke remaining out for 5 seconds, it will then run perfectly on full revs while flailing for about 25 minutes and then it will cut out and die. I then do the usual disengage the belt drive, put the Rev lever back to idle and pull the pull cord, it try's to catch, trying a bit harder as I quickly pull out and in the choke, die, pull pull cord again and the same just about catching, after doing this for 5 minutes it will catch and go to full revs again and stay there for 25 minutes again and so the same process will go on and on. Thought it was the fuel filter as it didn't look too healthy, changed that, no difference. Any ideas please?
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Any industrial units near by you that do powder coating. Take it to them.
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Ahhhh Typo Meant to type Need a small lump of green oak, not New a small lump. Guess I have had one beer too many. If Admin reading can you alter please. Thanks
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Help please Looking to make a console table, having trouble sourcing a bit of green oak for it. its rustic / chunky. 6x4s, 4x4s and 1.1/2x3s, nothing over a metre in length. i can get it online but would much rather buy and collect locally. Central Scotland. Thanks
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I got the CostCo shelving delivered as well, good shelving.
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Called the stroboscopic effect, and as you pointed out for obvious reasons can be dangerous in machine shops. To counteract it, fluorescent lights round about the machinery are taken off different phases of a 3 phase supply so in effect each light is flickering at a different time. Also different types of lighting can be used, for example a normal incandescent task lights at the lathe, which is in effect a white hot coil of wire and doesn't suffer the same amount of flicker because it doesn't get a chance to cool.
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I bought a 10W LED floodlight mounted it onto a scaffold tube I had welded onto an old brake disk. So the brake disk acts as a base plate the scaffold tube is vertical, used an exhaust clamp on the tube to mount the light, works great and is portable if I need it for something else other than sitting behind my lathe.
