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Haironyourchest
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I know the one. Absolute monster machine and heavy as hell. There's one hanging in the corner of the local Stihl place, been there gathering dust for ten years or so.
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Novice: top or rear handle 18v Makita for occasional use?
Haironyourchest replied to EdGreen's topic in Chainsaws
Virtually nil. Don't climb it in a strong wind though.. If it does topple, it will topple slowly, so just relax, bend your knees a bit, and ride it down. -
Valid Complaint re Reversing Defender near a cliff edge?
Haironyourchest replied to chopperpete's topic in Arb-Trucks
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Strimming rock borders it's got to be the bump head. I got so tired of constantly stopping to change out the cord. I still use the alloy head and thick cord without the guard, on really tall grass with no rocks. Then it rocks. The guard gets in the way if you really need to blast through stuff.
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Get yourself a Celox Z-fold Rapid. It's what they use in the military for trauma bleeding. Can plug holes where a tourniquet won't go.
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I have several iterations of the alloy heads as well. The jet head, the traditional, a mad one you unscrew to clamp the cord etc... They're good for really tough stuff like briar with the serrated cord.
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I have a FS460, sees a lot of hours in the summer. Been strimming for years. It's the best strimmer/brush cutter. The auto head with 3mm or 3.5 mm perfectly suits this machine. In terms of efficiency, cost per hour, there is no better head. There is a bit of finesse required though. You got to load this head with the right amount of cord, not too much, and it's got to be a cord of a certain hardness, or the stresses inside the head make the cord weld to itself. Also the alloy eyelets can get flung out and lost if you don't clip the head cover in properly, and them it gets spun off when you rev up. And the spring can fall out. Get spare springs and eyelets. Once you understand the quirks, it's dynamite.
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Stihl Autocut 46-2 tap-n-go head. There is no argument here. Get a tap-n-go head. You won't have to stop to change the cord. You won't have to cut the cord. Your cord will always be exactly the right length, or nearly so.
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An elderly client dropped by to my house yesterday to pay me and chat, as she often does. She got out of her car, mask in hand but didn't put it on. Clutched that mask for twenty minutes, like a magical talisman! Nowt so quare as folk....
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Bolam's on fire this evening.
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Jaysus... (shudder)
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It's quite expensive getting set up for climbing. Then you have to get all your gear checked twice a year, which costs (if you want to be compliant, for insurance etc).
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Ireland for the win!
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This it it. Healthy canopy, not much light for the ivy, and not much water either, in the dry spells, as the tree will out compete it. If the tree is poorly, the ivy will have a larger share of water, nutrients and light. At some point, the balance will shift in the ivy's favor. So it's fine, it essentially hastens the demise of genetically or otherwise sub-par trees, and also replaces them as habitat. Probably helps them rot quicker too.
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The reality of felling and crosscutting twice the bar length is a bit different. If your chain is filed slightly off par, or bat rails unevenly worn, and you're cutting tends to "curve" then your cuts don't line up and it's a serious pain to separate the rounds. The bigger the diameter the more hassle it becomes. Everything has got to be bang on, which is hard even with a new bar and chain setup. If you can easily rotate the log, or work around a standing stem, its a bit better. But a bar a tad longer than the diameter of the tree is by far the most forgiving.
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Cyclone flex rods, dill powered. Can sweep from inside. Bit of a hassle to set up but easier and safer than messing around with roof ladders and risk breaking slates etc .
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Golf this Sunday, he'll be telling his retired professor pals how beastly we were.
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It's delicious. The young shoots. I've had a knotweed version of rhubarb fool a few times, and in a crumble. Very much like rhubarb in flavor, but nicer, less tart.
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See my commentary for explanation. It's an open secret in Ukraine apparently, his whole inner circle of ex-entertainment people are cokeheads. See, the meme conflates Z with Scarface, getting high in his office while the feds close in, his final hours, in other words (here I am, explaining the joke, jeez).... The video, popular on alternative media, originated from Z's own Twitter or something channel. Made by himself, of himself, out of his gourd.
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A little home brew head-swap with the photoshop phone app. There's a selfie video doing the rounds of himself langered in his office, rambling, under the influence of something, with what looks very much like lines of coke on the desk.
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Wifey got a chuckle out of it. She's quite enjoyed bits of this thread I've read aloud to her.
