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  1. Haironyourchest
    Experimented with the Florabest first time yesterday afternoon. Better built than I expected, motor quieter and less vibration than expected. Gonna use it at work today with all the attachments and see what happens. The powerhead is a Kawasaki clone apparently.
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    Most of us practical types are, or can be if need be, Jacks of all trades and master of none/one/some. Most tasks simply don't require a master's level of skill anyway so why pay for it? Never been easier with YouTube to figure stuff out. And the gear for all trades is getting cheaper all the time, with the notable exception of climbing Arb.
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    Anyone else got one for the really dodgy cuts? For €150 its got to be a cheap insurance policy for a €1000 machine. Plus you now have an emergency pole saw to free the good one if it gets stuck. Bar and chain alone is worth 20 bucks. And a sacrificial hedger if there's scrub to clear with hidden stones. Plus an emergency strimmer for improving access to jobs, getting better visibility of ground conditions around suspect trees, etc. Of course it wont hold up to constant use, but that's not what it's for is it? Fill with Aspen and leave in the truck/van year round and it'll be there to save they day when it's needed. Also when some poor unfortunate comes hat in hand, begging to borrow this or that for half an hour, you can oblige and not feel like a doormat/flint hearted bastard. Well, I just bought one. Gonna put it together tomorrow and report. Nearly broke by 131 yesterday, and have broken it before. Just the price of the shaft is nearly three times the price of the Lidl 4-in-1
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    Heart surgery, no, but you can DIY your own appendix. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32481442 he was a trained surgeon though...done some crazy tree stuff in my youth, just thought it was no big deal, realise now how incredibly foolish and dangerous it was. Would not attempt same now. It's ignorance is bliss, people just do things because they don't realise it can't (shouldn't) be done.
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    I was using mine again today, now feeling I'm quite happy with last year's model. I cannot imagine the new one has a more efficient motor, more likely a seven or eight spline sprocket, giving higher chain speed. The blurb says 35min for the AP200 battery, which is the same as the old model. How can they get more power out if the same battery? Better motor? I doubt it. My guess is a bigger sprocket, thus sacrificing torque for speed. I'm quite happy with more torque less speed, it's easy to grind in the cut, giving very precise control.
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    Or bags over the wellies when you walk out?
  7. Haironyourchest
    And every raisin was once a sour grape ?
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    Just retrospectively Googled it Steve - could find nary a mention. It's not on Stihl.com, the only hits I get are the Arbtalkers post and the very briefest of mentions on the Stihl Blog from April - like literally just a throwaway sentence. Oh well.. I was using mine today on a spindly, ivy infested, leaner removal, and it was invaluable. Sometimes it's better to buy at the end of a production cycle when the glitches have been ironed out, rather than first off the belt.
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    Yeah it's called fairness - "why should the wealthy be penalised for being successful?" It's part of their national ideology (half the population anyway, the other half are more or less commies). Who knows how the tarrifs will work out. Maybe if other countries hadn't slapped tarrifs on US imports years ago D.T wouldn't be giving tit for tat now...
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    Ever heard of Bamboo Amathyst 9X? Most expensive salt on Earth, over two hundred dollars a jar. It's made in Korea by melting salt in a bamboo tube, wild stuff... traditional medicine in the east, studies are showing that it might actually have some health benefits
  11. Haironyourchest
    Ok that's cool. Re. Trumponomics, 66% of Americans think it's working pretty well... https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/29099-latest-cbs-poll-americans-happy-with-economy
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    Why the hate for Supply Side? It worked for America under Reagan, and Bill Clinton, and now Trump. Tax rates have been falling steadily across the west for decades and we have become steadily more prosperous and productive. Lower taxes, what's not to like?
  13. Haironyourchest
    Never fails, a month after you buy the latest gadget, they trundle out the new improved model...sigh.
  14. Haironyourchest
    Everybody pay littlle, small gov ? 18% is about tops, according to the Laffer Curve (Art Laffer the famous economist) if the gov takes zero taxes it has zero revenue to run the machinery of state. If the gov takes 100% in tax, people have no money to spend or invest and the economy collapses = zero revenue. Charge them 50% and they hide some of it or hire accountants. Tax the rich too much and they leave, and take the jobs with them. Etc. So studies were done and they figured the sweet spot for revenue gain was 18%.
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    Yes but there are ways around that, if you're wealthy enough to hire the right accountants, business managers, grease the right palms in government etc. Though we're finally starting to catch up with the buggers, Amazon, Apple etc.
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    Sorry, been busy sawing. The sofa was originally purchased from a store by my neighbor's wife, who is a local girl. So obviously it was good enough for her and, by extension, I presumed, other local girls. Meaning that they would probably not fault me for having the sofa in the house...though by the time it came into my possession it was looking a teeny bit ragged...I'm a happily married man (not to a local girl though, she made me replace the sofa fairly soon after)...I dunno what all the innuendos are about, you lot must have dirty minds or something......
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    True. But those guys are travellers too - "perpetual travellers", see, if you spend less than 180 days a year in a country, you are not considered resident, so don't have to pay income tax in that country. So they spend five months in Switzerland, five months in California, and a month in Dubai and they never pay any tax anywhere. Cunning, ain't it? Ah jeez, I feel your pain though dude, I was an "other" as well growing up, still am in many ways. Can be tough sometimes...
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    Someone should start a thread called "Ever bought anything good off a traveller?" --- I bought (was pressurised into buying) an old sofa once. Got them down from 50 to 20 (sofa was worth 200 new though) and good enough for the local girls. Found out later it was my distant neighbor's old sofa, they sold him a new one on his condition they take away the old one! The hard sell was brutal though...bought a manual rotary pump one as well, not bad. Guy I worked for bought a genuine Honda generator for half price. Lasted about three hours.
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    Just to clarify, are we talking about Irish travellers or New age travellers? Or both?
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    I noticed my assessor doing that, whistle secured through the little plastic d-ring on the chinstrap. Thought, what a great idea - went for my whistle and it was gone ? fallen off my harness and lost. Maybe a couple whistles, one on chinstrap and one back of helmet.
  21. Haironyourchest
    The heat is savage right now. Last few days out been coming home with a headache, drinking 6 lt or more over the afternoon, with rehydration powder every so often. Still got a headache. I take it to be simple heat stress, as not dehydrated, urine clear. But I'll try salting my water a tiny bit today, and see if it makes a difference. I thought the rehydration powder (dioralite) would have enough sodium to replenish but maybe not..
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    Actually I.Q is very dependent on education and environment. Mexicans usrd to average 80 on tests in the USA, but their average is increasing. The Irish used to be 80 too, when IQ tests were invented, but the national average climbed over the decades and now it's on par with the States, British etc. It's a silly metric of intellegence anyway, as it's only about visual pattern recognition and such, so a very narrow mental application. I know people with genius level IQ who are clueless at the simplest practical tasks...
  23. Haironyourchest
    Step 1: Find out whatever animal or insect eats frogweed (some type of frog maybe) in its country of origin. Step 2: Take a holiday in said country and smuggle back a breeding pair of said animal. Step 3: Release animals/insects into your pond. Step 4: ??? Step 5: Profit!
  24. Haironyourchest
    I've only worked with one coke user, a head chef. He was a complete jerk...from working on a couple of stoner crews and talking with others who have done, I get the notion that it starts out chill and great comraderie then slowly gets messier and messier. Maybe it's me, who knows, but I'd now be wary of falling in with a crew where everyone is smoking on the job. At least with drink you can't really do it at work and get away with it...
  25. Haironyourchest
    It's not what you do that makes for work fulfilment - it's who you do it with, and how you do it. I figured this out around early twenties. I can be happy as Larry digging trenches by hand in the rain, in the right company. And sometimes the right company isn't who you expect...pub friend's can turn into horrible people on site. My first real job was on a hippy building crew. Flexible hours, cash money, free lunch and complimentary grass into the bargain. Idyllic as it sounds, it was incredibly stressful...unspoken site politics, passive aggressive backstabbing, subtle bullying, shaming, you name it.

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