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    @Bowlam - wakey wakey matey, upstarts are encroaching on your territory.
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    Sometimes these things happen for a reason. If you hadn't been let go, maybe an accident might have befell you inna few weeks. We just never know, and the universe works in mysterious ways. Synchronicity and all that. Could be for the best...
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    Back to the original post - Does weathering affect the integrity of a climb line? Here's the video of the break test of 19 year old rope. He starts with a piece of relatively new rope, and the old rope and the history of it, behind at about the 50 second mark. It was hanging in a rainforest canopy for 17 years, then in storage for 2 years. He breaks it in different configurations. 17 years in a rainforest canopy vs 17 years in the desert sun is obviously apples vs bananas. But one would assume a UK canopy in winter wouldn't be much more UV than a rainforest canopy. Whether we believe this guy is another matter. Personally I see nothing in his chanel that would make me doubt his honesty.
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    Be careful! Steve does Muay Thai... I heard back in the day, they called him "Raging Bull-Man"😳 Sorry, my little joke a bit late to the party.... With regard to ropes in trees, there a YouTube vid of a guy doing a break test on a polyester clime line that was stuck in a tree for 19 YEARS. It failed at just under it's rated brand new strength.
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    A family member has a 5.5hp petrol one, Jensen I think. It's fast on straight grained stuff. Not so hot on knotty. He rates it highly, personally I can't, as never tried it. Vertical electric hydraulic for me. Cheap, reliable. Slow, but there are ways to offset that. Use a wide wedge, build a bigger deck, modify the handles.
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    This one really annoys me. And it's always the uber-greenies. People who petition against roadside hedge cutting, burning, etc. But when it comes to their own hedges, the birds can go do one.
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    There should be one in the back pages of the instruction manual that came with your saw. If your manual is gone, google (name of model of saw + user manual) and it will be there as a free pdf...
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    I read BJ promises to sack 90 thousand civil service drones...
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    Weirdly, this is actually true. Our bodies do produce endogenous ethanol. At any time, the average adult contains around the equivalent of a shot of spirits, diluted in their fluid (we are 70% water or something)... People who eat a lot of starch contain more alcohol. There's a rare condition that makes sufferers be affected by this natural alcohol and can become impared, through no fault of their own. These people have to carefully limit their starch and sugar intake.
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    American Family Planning organisation was set up by a white supremacist ungenicist to keep the black population under control. That was their stated goal, back in the day. More black babies are aborted then born, these days.
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    Roe v Wade was terribly bad law. It was based on a lie. Jane Roe confessed later in life that she lied, and felt bad about it. High time it was scrapped.
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    Definitely?
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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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    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.
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    https://youtu.be/Gy1mFaT9K54
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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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