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I have a Maruyama long reach hedge cutter - 25cc or thereabouts. Bought used from a tool hire place after one season, blades where trashed but they sent for a new set of blades, was a good deal. They fixed jet carb so no adjustment possible and some elements of the set up feel a bit cheap, like the choke lever, but in all fairness, it has been absolutely reliable. I run mine on aspen, it sips gas. The gearbox is pretty beefy, two separate grease nipples for the pinion gear and the reciprocating element. One thing to bear in mind is the tightening wheel that tightens the head at your chosen angle can vibrate loose and sone slop can develop in the head. If the slop is too much the pinion gear will not mesh properly and start slipping - this happened once to me, and when I examined the gear I noticed that there was some wear on it - the sulution is just to firmly (not brutally, just firmly) tighten the knob each and every time you adjust the angle, and keep checking it. The wear on the gears haven't affected the performance of my model as far as I can tell - I presume one of the previous blokes who hired the machine let is run with slop and wore the gear.

Eggs, thats the example all your countrymen should be setting, as GB heads into independence. Resist the temptation of filthy lucre, whatever the source - and stand up for good old fashioned principles. Trust will be the crucial ingredient in the success of the new "retro" Britannia. We can stick it to the Man, but lets working Men treat each other right.

I would have thought they were pretty low grade. Often think I should turn one of my old handsaws into a briar slasher though, thin but springy steel.

Isn't the SF55 classed as a pure "brush saw" for felling small trees rather a brush cutter, hence the short shaft? It may be possible to buy a longer shaft for it. I use a FS460 and its fantastic - I think the 460 is offered in three different shaft lengths, the middle one being the default.

Dont paint, wast of time, the rust will keep on rusting and the paint will blister, there'll be rust stains - nightmare. Sand blast, then take them to the galvanisers. Then paint, if you still want to.

I read that in the middle ages the demand for yew by the English and Welsh for bows was such that the yew stocks of Europe ran dangerously low, till kings were issuing decrees forbidding the felling of any more yew trees. To this day the european yew has not fully recovered! And now they've discovered a cancer treatment chemical in yew leaves.

Never used them; maybe I should start...essential for anyone with a desk. The safety pin just came to mind, followed by the paraffin candle (not really modern but still very good). And tweezers. And the disposable Stanley knife blade...

They're part of that great family of modern marvels, a rawhide thong for the twenty first century. Sublimely simple, eminently effective and so cheap they might as well grow on trees. The Biro pen, plastic razor, panty liner, toothbrush, lighter, rubber band, PET bottle, bog roll, AA battery, Chapstick, condom, bandaid, plastic bag,...should be a memorial to them and their inventors.

Handy for restraining bad guys as well...my man-bag is never without: gorilla tape, cable ties, epoxy putty, super glue, baking soda (catalyst for super glue), lighter (to apply heat to various materials) SAK with pliers, flashlight...

I always give them my number with instructions to get the courier to phone me when he's in the area as I may be out and about and like to check stuff before I sign for it. The guys always phone me and I meet them where it's convenient for them.

Sitting in the van after a few hours strimming, I go guardless for the efficiency so I have to ware goggles under the face shield. My Oregon goggles fog up badly in this heat, from sweat and it's a real pain, so today I poured a teaspoon of sillica gel dessicant granuled into the gogs, theres a lip all around that holds them so they not touching the face. I was curious to see if they would absorb the moisture building up, and it worked!!! Not once did they get in my eyes, even if I look up - the lip of the face seal keeps them away. There was some fogging at times, simply removed by looking down and swishing the granules around the lens, mopping up the condensation. Before this invention, I would have been removing the goggles every few minutes to whipe out.... Might be of interest to some. Use the white food grade granules, not the coloured ones as they contain cadmium apparently.

Pass the popcorn please.

I'm so glad I live in rural Ireland... Everyone helps everyone, very few deaths. Kids learn how to stay alive around tractors, cattle and tradesmen. Hope it never changes. Different culture though.........

If I was a proper young arborist, a climber and all that, I'd go to London for work and beat the system by living in a tree. In summer time it would be quite nice I think. Pick a huge fluffy tree in a park, out of the way of the main routs, and do the rope magic, set up a wee platform up there, bit of camoflage netting, tarp cover etc etc. I could leave a rope hanging down, painted so as to disguise it as a vine or creeper, and come and go with my ascenders. Buy a gym membership for the use of the showers, and rake in the shekels...... And, it would be the safest place to sleep in London.

I'd check out the army surplus and see have they any old "Jungle Boots" or Desert Boots". Canvas sided, light, breathable and rugged.

The barbarians are at the gates, and Nero is rosening his fiddle-bow...and we have socialism to thank for it.

Or they live in sheds in somebody's back yard...or living room This Irish lad used to live in the ?shed in a living room? flat in London

Even a smile and a wink while talking on the phone wouldn't be unwelcome.

Second the low ceiling benefit. And add velux windows for light if you gonna overhang the roof, makes it much nicer inside. If you want to keep the "vibe" but within the hight limit, consider angling the walls out by 20 degrees or so, so that they are perpendicular to the rafters. It would make a visual difference. Bit harder to fit shelving and so on, but also means you can have more space near the top of the wall that would be wasted otherwise, nice deep shelves.

Plenty of healthy fats, the diesel to white starch's petrol. Lard, fatty cuts, olive oil, loads of butter. Most dense energy source of all foods - look at the Eskimos....

They sure are, never met Charlie, but Mayrick and me go back a long way. I remember him telling me about that project - big slab walls? - he's a talented guy thats for sure. I always wanted to have a go at building a proper log cabin. Would be hard to get the interior suitably finished for paying guests though, without tons of work, or using machined logs, or boarding out the inside - and that defeats the purpose

If only internet rows could be settled with fists....wait...idea! Its genius really - dig this - everyone has an android connected to an online account, and a motion tracking suit. You don the motion suit, your opponent dons his, and you both lot into your accounts on "Keyboard Warriors" - your movements are replicated in real time by your opponent's android, in his own home, and vice versa. Make sense? You could involve VR headsets as well.

Bleach? Vinegar? Super strong solution of backing soda in boiling water, and pour into the seat? At the end of the day, the proteins in the milk are now in the foam of the car seat, and bacteria are breaking them down and releasing some kind of gas. Killing there bacteria will stop the gas, but the dried milk pro tine will remain, and will most probably be colonised by bacteria again. Maybe pure bleach will break down the protein into something the bacteria can't eat? Of coating the milk solids with backing soda in solution, after the water has evaporated, leaving baking soad dispersed throughout the foam, will preserve the protein?

The second pic is the log cabin right? I've built a couple to timber frames. Way easy to finish the interior the way you want, cavity walls mean you can hide wires, pipes, easy to install switches. Insulation wise I would say there's be no difference. Logs showing would look nicer, but more work to finish. Could pick nice looking logs and put one in ever corner, floor to ceiling, (square off two faces) for the rustic feel. Leave a few branches sticking out for hangers. I know a guy in Pembrokshire who does that kind of work, M.C Rustics.

Like the kid who swallowed three packets of pop-rocks and drank a litter of coke..... I was watching a thing, the US army has invented a type of expanding foam that can be injected into the abdominal cavity of shot-up troops and it expands and solidifies to stabilise traumatised organs and stop internal bleeding on the way to surgery. Pretty wild stuff for bullet and shrapnel wounds, not so much for chainsaw injuries though. But - just googled it - there exists an aerosol spray version too! Coincidentally, the arm injury in the pic looks like what happened to a friend who got bitten by his top handle, a skidding series of shallow cuts all up the arm. http://science.dodlive.mil/2015/09/06/hemorrhage-wounds-helped-by-sprayable-foam/