Haironyourchest

What about a modified bicycle break cable and handle?

I haven't been banned yet, but they did delete one of my comments, and sent me an email explaing why. I can't find the reply I email back, but I remember it ended "...P.S Bite my knob."

Is it just me, or is the Guardian being more stingy with its comment option in recent months?

Time for a meme

Got another one: When fellers ask for a drink from your water bottle. After years of dedication to remaining STD free, neary a hint of oral herpes nor nothing, they casually ask you to gamble it all, and abandon your nobless oblige, for the sake of forgetting their effing bottle. Really bloody irritating.

Try putting a g-clamp on the bar on or near the sprocket and tighten as much as you would with the mill. Then move it around untill the sprocket spins freely

People who can't or won't tie things down properly. Was helping at a removal once, boss decided to take a four foot elm log home with him, riding in the back of the chipper with the chute open, diagonally, he randomly threw a ratchet strap around it. I offered him an additional ratchet strap from my own vehicle while making a tactful observation that "Sure belt and braces, can't hurt" He refused, and I left the site first, stopping for petrol on the way home bout ten miles. It was winter, and after dark. As I was filling up, a series of freaked out motorists pulled in, one of them had hit the log in the road and messed up his bumper, another nearly missed it etc etc... Minutes later the boss arrives to fuel up. It was a cringeworthy situation, I can tell you.....

Is that a Bertie Ahern impression? (aka Mr Waffles)

I got annoyed a few days ago when the young muscle on site forgot his respirator and goggles (borrowed from the boss). Kangoing plaster indoors, dust everywhere, poor lad was suffering....I had another respirator in the van but it was a chemical charcoal filter, not really for dust, though it does work. I was sore tempted to fetch it for him, but then I thought, nah, that was me a few years ago, and you learn wisdom through suffering, I'll keep shtum and he'll buy his own gear next day, and never have to suffer again - teach a man to fish and all that. Two days later, same deal - no respirator, still suffering. What can you do?

Of course, any serious bad guys out there long ago sussed the way around all of this. Quite simply, stay offline. Use 15 dollar burner phones then bin them, don't surf the web or if you do, use an anonymous cheap smartphone and don't do it at home. Keep the phone in a lead envelope when not in use....or just be careful, live normally, don't google anything weird and only talk business face to face in the woods at full moon, while standing back to back....

They have the ability to hack your laptop camera to track your eye movement while you're online, to discover if you're a tit or ass man.....

Funny how these people, Don, Hills, Barry et al - have become part of our lives. I was listening to a thing the other day about Trump's communication style - the reason he appears, superficially, to be a goofball is actually an indication of a very powerful intelligence. He doesn't finish his sentences because he speaks in shorthand - apparently a lot of billionaire do it. Personally I have no problem following his train of thought, I just fill in the blanks - which is what he intends, he is the ultimate delegator, to the point where he delegates his audience to finish his sentences for him! Trump sees the world as a mind-map, a spreading web of connectivity, not a linear road where one thing leads to another. In trumps world, everything leads to everything lease, via something else. So he skips from Isis, to Nafta to this that and the other, and it sounds like he's rambling, but he sees the connections, the big picture, he just can't articulate it to the satisfaction of most people. The flip side is his personal grievances are bound up in the web, he appears to not be able to separate them from his thought stream, and he vents, much to the media's delight. But this venting does not appear to carry over to actual policy.

How bound this one? - When guys run their saws dry and think the lean out scream is their notifier that it's time to refuel.

Getting back to Trump - early this morning he tweeted that he would like to strip flag-burners of their citizenship! Whether or not you agree with him, I for one am greatly enjoying the drama. He's the gift that keeps on giving, never know what's coming down the pike next!

Ok I got another one: not un-reeling the whole extension cord. 1400 watt tool on a 50 meter cord, with like 45 meters still one the reel. Less of a big deal with 220V but very annoying....

Working on an old stone cottage today, arrived before the lads and noticed someone had left a ladder standing from yesterday evening (to fix a down pipe). The ladder was upside down. This did not surprise me, and got me thinking of all the different sites and jobs I have works on where guys wilfully used ladders upside down. Is there something going on that I missed? Is there an advantage to upside down? Its not a case of accidentally deploying the tool the wrong way, I think there is really a belief out there that upside down is better... Anyway, who else gets peeved by this, and what other weird behaviours have you been annoyed by over the years?

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Reading through the article, I couldn't find a reference to top handle anywhere. I may be wrong here but I think Mark was talking about people one-handing ground saws! I have seen experience guys buck logs with a big saw with one hand, other hand holding their fag or scratching their nether regions or whatever. Could it be thats all he meant, and maybe that was the target audience?

Yeah I think Ive found a home for it - I know a couple of people who life off grid with generators, will offer it to them. Thanks for the feedback fellows!

Great idea!

Ok maybe I'll chance it, I was always told that if diesel successfully ignites in a petrol built cylinder it would generate more pressure than the engine could cope with being of a higher potential energy than petrol, and cause damage. Sure theres are loads of pre-fule injection petrol cars around, I have a feeling my neighbour will chance it.

The scouts are getting in on everything these days!

So, looks like vehicular use is not going to happen. What about adding it to a central heating kero tank?

Just checked my gennie - its a honda GX200 :big grin: maybe I'll chance it. Don't use the gennie much though! Thanks for the input.

So she put 35 odd liters of petrol in the diesel picasso. There was a quarter tank of desiel at the time, so I guess the ratio is around 1 part diesel to 3-4 parts petrol. I have to drain the tank tomorrow morning and so on, hopefully its not banjaxed. Any ideas for using 40 odd litters of contaminated petrol? Is there anything that will run on that mix without damage? Push-mower maybe? Would it be dangerous to add it to a heating oil tank? If it comes down to it will have to bring it to the recycling and I suppose ad it to the "used oil" skip, but seems a shame to waste it.