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I mounted a new M-Tronic carb on my Stihl FS460 c-em brushcutter, but there is a white plastic dangly thing with red and black wires coming out of it that cannot be connected to the new carb. The old carb had a recess and threaded hole where this thing was supposed to go, and the end of the choke lever mated with it as well. From messing around, I take it to be a secondary kill switch, activated by turning the choke. Does this sound familiar to anyone? The brushcutter runs without it, but it's revving faster than before, putting out over10 thousand rpm with the strimmer head at no load - manual says should be 8'500. With the blade it's hitting 11 thousand. Any thoughts?

If the clutch nut is a regular hex (not a proprietary Husq thing) get a cheap electric impact gun from argos, like they use to remove wheel nuts. There is a twelve volt version you can run from your car. No need for a piston stop, leave the spark plug in, the shock impact should shift the clutch. You will probably have to cut a bit off the face of the socket wrench though, as they are slightly flared, as you know.

I tried to find it, Mick. I heard the story on the Dan Bongino Show podcast - a guy who I trust completely to not make stuff up. If I trawl through the back episodes maybe I can track down the source, but I really don't want to. If it comes up again I'll make a note of the source material. I remember when I heard it thinking it makes perfect sense, I did self protection training with an ex army guy for a year, and we drilled all sorts of scenarios with the class under stress. It was quite interesting seeing the psychological development of some of the attendees over a period of months - people who entered the class totally passive in the face of aggression gradually became able to trigger themselves to attack, throwing elbows, screaming and spiking their adrenaline in response to (simulated) assault. If this was taught in schools generally, never mind Russia, I'm sure the casualty rate would plummet. The thing is there's really not a lot a person can do against a group of committed attackers/counterattackers. Even if only three or four kids in the class could react together, a single gunman has no chance. But they are trained to "shelter in place".....I dunno. Remember when people freaked out over airline pilots being issued with guns? Mass shooters have distinctly chosen venues for their crime where they know a no-gun policy in in force. Meanwhile there are many documented accounts of citizens with concealed pistols stopping rampaging nutters.

In Russian schools the students drill for active shooter scenarios. They are trained to rush the attacker/s as a mob and take them down, instead of hiding under their desks like rabbits. This is actually the most effective course of action, if they can pull it off, and it instills a sense of positive self-protection in the kids. The mindset of "We are not victims, you mess with us, we will have you!" should benefit society as a whole, where kids have a certain level of situational awareness and look out for each other. Armed teachers is a first step in this direction, I applaud it.

Maybe I wasn't clear, I left the stand on the way up for ease of access, but cut them flush on the way down, before chogging each four foot section - which is to say cut them off the section to be dropped and also as far down as my feet - so even had I gaffed out there was nothing to hurt me. Also was on my own the first day and didn't want to run the saw without backup, so I used my silky - quite a different in diameter eight inches out from the stem just made it easier.

Tracked spiderlift MEWP with a bit of lateral reach and cut them back in small sections?

Try army surplus

Dude, I'm 336 years old. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about...

I did, but confess I skimmed it a bit. So, George Osborn. Cue Google search...I gather he was all about cutting national debt, so what about his position as editor? I'm missing something.

Some questions. 1. Who pays for it? Rough reckoning, everyone in the UK on ten grand comes to six-hundred billion a year (edit* - spread over two years) To put this in perspective, the NHS costs 116 billion per year. 2. What happens to inflation when everyone has an extra ten grand? Rent will go up, because landlords know their tenants have the extra cash. Shop prices will go up. Taxes will go up. 3. What will happen to the workforce? Many people will quite working and just live frugally on their ten grand. There will be a labour shortfall, so foreign workers will have to be imported to fill the gap. Will they be eligible for the ten grand as well? If not, then you will have an underclass of "slaves" who work, and "citizens" who don't have to. Hmmmmm. 4. Much of the extra wealth will be spent outside the UK economy to avoid being ripped off by inflation. 5. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!...It's a nice thought though!

The problem we have in the west is moral poverty, not monetary. Compared to our peasant ancestors even the poorest live like royalty today. Its a lack of moral fiber, backbone, horse sense, willpower, smarts, whatever you wanna call it. The deficit comes from poor parenting by parents who themselves were poorly parented and so on, since the industrial revolution. Also environmental pressure and TV. The youth being caged indoors and in school when they should be working the fields or forest from the age of seven. Combine that with a modern liberal snowflake policy that refuses to punish anyone....

As the fellow said, "If it's crazy but it works, it ain't crazy!".......Skip to 1:17 for the good bit

You know you don't have to pay your TV licence in the UK if you don't watch live TV. Just sell the telly and watch stuff on youtube. Better content...

Understood, but still if it came to court, the landowner will be pushing his narrative and the pub guy pushing another. If it comes down to word against word, the outcome depends on who is the most convincing bullshitter really. I still think the pub guy would be fighting an uphill battle to convince a judge that the landowner was negligent for hiring him. If pub guy knew beforehand that he wasnt up to the job, then he himself would be negligent for accepting the job, and probably guilty of deception and as well, for misrepresenting himself. The convention is to take people at their word, if they are adults apparently of sound mind. If the landowner hired a fifteen year old kid with a saw though, then he would be negligent.

Another massive hurdle to overcome in S.S Africa is the age demographic. Check this out https://www.populationpyramid.net/sub-saharan-africa/2017/ The whole place is basically little kids, teens and young people.

They were doing ok until contact with Europeans. Its not about race, its about culture - but culture and race go hand in hand, and in the case of Africa are very close. We're taking about a culture that was still in the stone age two hundred years ago. Literally, the stone age. Little or no metalworking technology. Two hundred years ago. We in the west, and the peoples of the east, have been building complex civilisations for at least ten thousand years. The sub saharan Africans never left the stone age, they just kept right on at that level. The injection of technology into their cultures was detrimental to them - totally banjaxed the delicate balance of reproduction and food supply that they had maintained for probably a quarter of a million years before. The oral tribal wisdom chain was broken. The balance of power between tribes was broken. Our ancestors did this, but they and we should not be blamed, it was inevitable. It's was inevitably happens when a stone age culture meets an advanced culture, the stone agers get fucked. If the Chinese had gotten to Africa first it would have been no different. This is a culture that has no tradition of intellectual advancement. A culture that functioned in its environment, when homeostasis was operating, but one that cannot function now. Its too late. Individuals of any culture and race are capable of transforming themselves, and in that sense we all have the same potential and race is not a thing - we are not limited by our genes - but in reality our race and place of birth also ties us to a culture, and that culture is a powerful thing to overcome. Its like a gravitational force. The culture of Africa is, I repeat, still in the stone age. I was reading about Bennelong, an Australien Aborigine who was captured and became westernised. This is a stone age man who hob-nobbed with aristos in England. It can be done, but on a planetary scale?...I don't know...

Oxfam is part funded by government - taxes - in other words. That's why it made the news, the gov. is threatening to pull their funding if heads don't roll, or so I understand.

We should bring back tar-and-feathering, and the stocks!

Well, actually it sometimes is. Just to be pedantic, if the local pub chainsaw guy did hurt himself, and sued, the homeowner would only become liable if negligence could be proven. Or proven "enough" to convince the court. If the pub guy represented himself as an experienced and competent operator (and remember in the eyes of the law tickets are not the only indicator of competence) - given his reputation and self affermation as such - then the homeowner would have satisfied the duty of care. If the pub guy turned out to be lying about his level of competency, then how could the homeowner be expected to know? That the the crux of negligence - if you knew and didn't/did do somthing about it, then its negligence. If you genuinely did not know, then you cannot be convicted of negligence.

Some of my regular clients have live abroad and have holiday homes near me, I do bits and pieces as and when and bill them when they arrive. They'd be fine with mailing a cheque but it really doesn't matter to me, I know it's as good as paid. Unless they unexpectedly die of course.

I don't mind waiting six months for some customers. Depends on the person and the situation. What gets me is people who have, or could have in 5 minutes, the cash to hand but make you work for it. Latest job was "Call to me before the weekend with your invoice and I'll give you a cheque." Called in the afternoon to confirm "meet me at 8.00" - (this is after a half hour drive) waited half an hour and called again. Eventually shows up and we do the invoice together, then he goes to the office to write the cheque. How long does it take to write a cheque?? Five minutes, apparently. I imagined him fighting a Gollum/Smeagol type battle with himself to do it...some folks just have trouble letting go of the wadge..

Phone them and ask exactly how thick the finished, planed product should be then mill accordingly

Mental exercise: would you venture into or through a ghetto at night? Or in daylight? Racist graffiti telling you you're not welcome and gangs of youths giving you the hairy eyeball from street corners? Would you want your family to have to traverse these places? At present the no go zones are relatively small, but they are growing. If the birth rate and cultural self-segregation continues as normal, whole cities will become no go zones. This will happen with accelerated speed as the natives flee their homes when they see the tipping point approach. Yes, there will be war in Europe, not this decade but in the next few.

Funny thing, I did the CS32 course last year and the instructor supplied us (only me and another lad on the course) with 550xpg saws. Both refused to run properly, and we all three ended up using my little rear handle 201 for the last three days. For the assessment they purchased a cm261. Said they only had the Husqus because of a corporate sponsorship deal and wouldn't buy them again.

Maybe the OP is really an arborist and is trolling for lulz?