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Haironyourchest
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He's Craig Eastwood, Clint's reclusive kid brother.
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I got one of the Lidl €99 specials, as a loaner and beater saw. Alloy crankcase and all. It's been really good! Leaks chain oil something savage though.
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"Mock" was the operative word there! That fellow really took the piss. I'm thinking anyone who has money to burn on a stunt like that isn't in dire need of a home. Most unofficial dwellings are completely inoffensive, if not invisable, by the nature of the game.
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Gotta exercise due diligence. Pull the muffler, feel for compression, etc. I got a pro long reach hedger half price, ex hire, only a year old. They were quite happy to let me play gynaecologist with it in the back workshop. Blades were trashed but the motor hadn't even been run in yet. Got them to throw in brand new blades at half price. It's been excellent. Bought a rebuilt consaw from my local guy, just perfect. Hard to start but they always were. Same guy rebuilt my 254... He had a brand new ms251 one time, been run all of a day. Some old guy bought it new and couldn't get along with the elasto-start. Traded it for something else, that saw was going nearly half price, I didn't want it though.
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I get it now. Bottom of the file is smooth. Genius. Leaves a proper gullet and everything.
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Ah, the old barny-housey game! 😉 Just keep it a barn and live in the hayloft - more room for projects.
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Haironyourchest replied to Floclimber's topic in Employment
Amazon has a productivity monitoring system which combines wearable tech and cameras to assess their employees body movement. A.I can tell if the workers are scratching their arses too much. The day will come when this tech can be applied to any jobsite... Satellite surveillance, wrist and ankle trackers, a central site sensor up in a tree etc. Algorithms will be developed for different trades and jobs. Select "conifer hedge (dimensions)" from the drop down menu, number of men, distance to chipper etc... -
The planners are agents of a rigged system. The system is crooked. So when the "mafia" deem building shelter for yourself "illegal" - unless you are wealthy enough - many folks give it the middle finger. At some point we have to ask ourselves, do we want to exist to serve the State and the investor class, or do we exercise our moral rights as men and women?
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Haironyourchest replied to Floclimber's topic in Employment
I done about a hundred eight hour night shifts back to back in a hotel one summer. Just for the craic. Good times... -
Why not? Bad experience?
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I can count at least 20 people/families within ten miles of me, who built their own homes "illegally" (myself included). Wildly different styles, varying outlay, all way way below market price. They all bought land though, or have the use of land. I built my home at 18 and lived there for 8 years. Off grid. Cost 3 grand and about six months of labour, total. It's still standing, 20+ years on....helped a family member set up his first family home, ten grand cabin. Raised two kids in it for years before the main house was finished...three neighbours built illegally, raised their families, paid no rent and no mortgage, shat in buckets for years. One crowd got hassle but brassed it out and saved enough to build several legal houses and now they're landlords themselves. It can be done, but requires a big mentality adjustment. Area dependant as well. Not gonna fly in SW UK obviously...
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Best find an honorable small engine repair chap and buy an older reconditioned pro saw.
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Depends where you want to live and what kind of work you do as well. Can buy a house in Italy in the sticks for a couple of grand. (relevant before Brexit, obviously). Actually earning a living there is a whole nother story though. All fine and good for successful YouTubers and suchlike... You could get a whole working farm in Poland for ten grand a few years ago. Beautiful fertile soil. Could go self sufficient, as people had done for countless generations.
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This debate comes up in America all the time, and the results are known. Jacking up minimum wage only benefits the bottom tier in the very short term, as the wider economy repositions quickly to cancel out the increased wage. Employers can't afford the increased wage burden, so they sack the least productive workers. This puts more pressure on the productive ones who end up working harder to take up the slack. The sacked workers draw Dole which increases the tax burden which in turn is shouldered by the economy, further straining the employers by way of their customers having less disposable income...the landlord class cotton on to the increased spending power of the workers and raise the rent. The end result is you've removed some half-way productive people from the labor force and everyone is worse off...
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I bought it from a retired Rebel Alliance X-Wing pilot... Compared to my trusty old Husqvarna helmet. The X-Wing has better visability, better hearing protection, fit is comparable. It's early days, time will tell.... Visor doesn't fog up, but it's been warm weather thus far.
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Yeah, mine did this. The pivot point retention is wearing out. Solution: new ear defenders. They come with the universal helmet clips and everything. Might as well get the chipper ones while your at it.
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Thieves Target Selco Reading Car Park
Haironyourchest replied to chopperpete's topic in Stolen Equipment
The way the federal government report terrorism incidents in the US is biased. A "Trump Won" bumber sticker is considered a terrorist act these days. Same with "Mass Shootings". Every gang banger shootout in the Chicago projects where three or more people are involved is recorded as a mass shooting. It's all designed to bump up the numbers to scare the sheep.
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Treehogs are ok once they're modified. Gotta stiffen up the cuffs with plastic inserts.
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I got a one, think it's called a tornado. €80. Like it. Be careful with Chinaman's hat cowls. I did one chimney where I was meeting resistance and thought the brush was stuck in a bend. Turns out it was hitting the cowl. Forced it and could feel the rods winding up, then the head popped out between the cowl and the fluepipe (as we discovered later), and sheared the head off. Cowl was undamaged.
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Oh yeah, loads. His most painful one was a giant centipede.
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This chap has been stung and bitten by everything. Japanese giant hornet = Asian hornet, just different colour.
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Finished the paint job.
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Finished the fabrication, built three modular attachments for the pushing end, and a footstand, bought a 500kg lever hoist for it, cleaned and undercoat with Galvafroid. Now I'm thinking about colour schemes... Thinking maybe a maybe a white/orange Stihl rip-off, with black accents. Or keep it simple and go all dayglow yellow?
