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Re the building labourers on 150 a day - as I've mused before, construction is a totally different sector. For one thing it's massive by comparison to arb, with a magnitude more people to draw from. There are certainly plenty of guys kicked off building sites every day for being not good enough, and always more queing up to have a go, so the 150 pound guys have probably won't their wage by being the best out of a big pool of workers. There are also no-hopers waiting outside petrol stations in the rain at five in the morning, looking forward to earning 50 pound for a grueling ten hour day on some godforsaken dangerous site somewhere...like football, it's so huge there will be some who are good/lucky enough to earn big bucks, whereas in a niech sport like darts or polo, not as much money to be made even at the top. That, and construction is aspirational, investment based, and generally financed, so people will spend, while arb is generally remedial and a burdensome expense for most customers, like having a tooth out. I second Jamallio's ethic - it's a quality of life thing. I loath building sites. Don't mind small renovation jobs, shed construction, alterations etc, but full on deadline builds? No thanks. Part of the reason big sites can make use of low quality labour as well is the organisation - it's basically factory assembly, so you can train a guy up to do one thing well, and he will be productive as part of a big team, provided the management is on point. Arb is fluid and analytical in nature, requiring independent thinking and self motivation from everyone involved, it's like a special forces commando squad as opposed to a cavalry batallion.

Have you tried a distel hitch? I just changed the CT Finch lanyard adjusters on my lanyards for 10mm 75mm long eye to eye distels. Very little sitback, this is lanyards though not main line so I don't know. Try tying a distel and see if it makes a difference

No really, liquids can be mechanically compressed. Just not by a lot. I googled it

Just to be pedantic, all liquids are compressible to some degree - just not a lot. Except silicone break fluid which is compressible a lot.

My neighbour has one, its a plastic clamshell model, semi-pro and the latest version of the 039, 390 farmboss, but way more advanced, strato motor, spring antivibes etc. Its heavy. He is happy with his and has had it a good while...

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap...

Hey - I thought you liked Trump? You said he is a true Christian, like you...what changed?

Hahaha!! Someone's been doing their homoeowork!

Trump Derangement Syndrome. Yes, I was challenged by serve/searve - thick as fuck you see...still, we try our best. Climate change? Not caused by humans, natural, cyclical, dictated by fluctuations in solar output. And even if, hypothetically, it was caused by us, green tech and taxing fossil fuels won't make an iota of difference, it's just an excuse for more government control over the energy sector and economy generally. Trump has brokered peace with NK, Russia, resurrected the US economy, sorted out the illegal immigration problem in his country, put a conservative (soon 2) on the supreme court, and is now clawing back some of his citizen's wealth that was essentially given away by former administations to other countries in crap trade deals. The USA was on a path of slow managed decline under Obama, Trump has reversed that decline. He's the exact opposite of incompetent. He did what very very few politicians ever do - honoured his promises. You darn well better believe I'm a backer (said with a southern drawl) Edit: watching "The Apprentice" right now, as it happens! Very astute psychologist as well. He thinks deeply, doesn't always verbalise well, we (the backers) forgive him.

Cool beans!

Trump backer here. Thick as fuck - check ✔ bigot - check ✔.....enjoying every heaping serving of TDS each day as the outraged haters searve it up fresh off the griddle ?

Nice one gents, I'll check them both out, can't find Stihl on diyspearparts but will look harder later. Yes I think a piston will do, the cylinder is slightly scored but, assuming I can rebuild, the 461 will be repurposed as a stumper so it doesn't have to be high performance. Thanks for replies!

Do you have a water source at the top of the hill? If so, you could rig an endless skyline, fill a counterweight barrell (with a screw cap) and use that to assist the raising of equally weighty prices of wood. Then empty the barrell at the bottom. There would be a lot of walking up and down the hill though, unless you had a massive barrel.

My 461 blew up, bearings gone, cylinder and piston gone. From running it half throttle too much. Now looking as a massive bill from the Stihl shop with OEM parts. I would try and rebuild it myself, but having trouble locating a meteor rebuild kit in the EU or UK. Every positive hit sends me to ebay USA, where they are plentiful and cheap. They will ship to Ireland, but I'm just a bit wary of buying from ebay and the US - although I hear good reports. I'd rather buy from an EU seller, but there seems to be no rebuild kits my meteor for my saw around, even though they're made in Italy. Can anyone tell me why this is? I'm just curious, is it some kind of Stihl patent thing in the EU or what? Meteor kits for older Stihl saws are available in the UK.

Maybe he's communicating with Andreas via Ouija board? He (Blugg) mentioned something about being autistic and a resteraunt...now he's replaced his original announcement with the letter "P"......or maybe LSD is involved? Tis a mystery.

That would be Nikolaus Stihl, grandson of the founder, Andreas Stihl and current chairman of the company. Can you post a link to the visit? I'd like him to autograph the inside of my 461 air filter cover.

Interesting notion, always just accepted it as a fact of life myself, but it would be nice to have such a product. I don't get along with blades myself. There use to be a lethal chain head that was supposed to be very effective but too dangerous for my taste. I'd imagine one of the plastic pivoting tri-blades would be good though never tried.

Well I'm afraid you will simply have to tolerate their existence, like it or not, they're not going away. By the way, your own royal family use homoeopathic preparations...your rant is the typical one, I've heard it so many times...tonight, if/when my acid reflux plays up about ten minutes after turning in, I will do as I always do and take a Lycopodium C30 from the bottle on my nightstand. The pain will instantly get worse for five seconds, then subside completely for the rest of the night. My girlfriend is well studied in homoeopathy, and we went through five or so different remedies before we tried Lycopodium (spagnum moss). None of the other worked for my thing, Lycopodium works every single time. I have lost count of the smashed fingers cured with immediate Hypericum, never to trouble again. Same with bad bruises, burny pee, hangovers, sinusitis et al. For serious injuries, modern medicine is great, no question. Thorn in finger? DIY and don't worry about it, the worry is more dangerous to the immune system than the infection IMO. By the way, homoeopathy works on animals. Top racehorse guys use it on their horses as it produces no side effects. You will be a believer when you see a chronically anxious dog change temperament after a remedy.

No debate?? No, sorry, homoeopathic treatment has a long history of success. Like all things medical, you need to know which remedy to take for what ailment, and when. Consult with a classically trained homoepath if in doubt. You don't have to like it, but it exists and helps millions on a daily basis. I speak the truth, you can deny the truth, and I understand your position, but it is still truth. Some things in this world are not yet understood by science, and maybe never will be. It matters not.

Good for redwoods...I'm sure it's been posted before but why not, just for fun?

If you take the homeopathic preparation as soon as you get the scratch, it will not become infected. I have been doing this for twenty years or more. Mind you I also use iodine. When out immune systems are not weakened by antibiotics and over vaccination in childhood (I was lucky, only got the MMR) we can actually fight off most everything. People back in the days before antibiotics recovered from lost limbs, gunshot wounds, all sorts of terrible injuries. I will always promote the homoeopathic route, as I have seen it work small miracles on myself and others - by all means scoff on - your scepticism feeds the publicity and curiosity of the general public. Some of them will remember the debate and experiment, experience the results and become converts.

Forget the sillica - ask for Kimtree C30!

Not really, you could make Sillica C30 at home for free if you wanted, not hard at all, just not worth the bother. It really does work.

The silica reference was to a homoeopathic preparation of silica - literally nothing to do with the dessicant bead packs you find in shoe boxes and noodle packets. The homoeopathic pills are sugar pills with the spiritual energy of sillica in them, but no actual atoms of sillica. Though the do look identical (coincidentally) to the wee sillica dessicant beads. Very confusing, I know. Just go to your local pharmacy or health food shop and ask for homoeopathic Sillica C30 and put one pill under your tongue and dissolve. Repeat once or twice a day until the Blackthorn fragment pops out. It really works.