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  1. Haironyourchest
    Tax petrol too much and you kill the economy. Tax fags too much and you get bootlegs. And kill the revenue from fags. Your move.
  2. Haironyourchest
    It's the reality though. And TX & FL are booming because of it. And the ordinary people seem to experience the effects too, cos they voted heavily for more of the same policies in the midterms, in TX & FL.
  3. Haironyourchest
    Why does the OP want a 1.3 guage bar instead of a standard 1.6? Same bar, only difference is the width of the groove, surely?
  4. Haironyourchest
    California & New York are hemorrhaging high earners and even corporations, because of their tax policies. They're moving their operations to Texas & Florida.
  5. Haironyourchest
    So what's your personal strategy for (legally) minimizing your tax burden, Mick? Or do you just work as much as you possibly can and pay the higher rate, virtuous, like?
  6. Haironyourchest
    I signed up to the recall plan, just got the email to send the swivel in "for inspection and/or repair". I have to pay postage but they're giving a free steel carabiner with the returned swivel, so that's nice 👍. Estimated return is mid Feb 2023
  7. Haironyourchest
    Robots/migrants. Maybe both.
  8. Haironyourchest
    Chap in Australia sentenced to 4 years for not making a directional cut. Killed his stepson with a tree, manslaughter by negligence. The case seems to have hinged (cringe) on the fact that he just didn't bother with a directional cut. Tragic anyway, apparently he was relieved at the verdict, the guilt must have been eating him up. Victorian man who killed boy while felling tree in Tasmania sentenced to more than four years' jail - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU After seven years of delays and an emotional criminal trial, a Victorian man who killed the child of his...
  9. Haironyourchest
    Galvanized 2 inch welded mesh. The stuff they make dog cages out of.
  10. Haironyourchest
    Split them now, if you can. Easier to split green, seasons faster, finished product takes up less space than rings.
  11. Haironyourchest
    Or hang onto them until they know what caused the failure, and return them later, if necessary. My bet is the bearings blew up. The guy was using it as his main life support. Lanyarded in to change his main line over a branch, clipped back into his main line, weighted it, and the swivel came up apart. But his lanyard caught him. They might be underspecced for single point attachment, but ok for double. Who knows, at this point. I mean, this was the first catastrophic failure, it happens to pieces of gear from time to time. I'm very curious to see the analysis.
  12. Haironyourchest
    Traditional wedges and felling lever not doing the job then? Have you tried a long reach jack, like the Raipal?
  13. Haironyourchest
    Apparently there's a facebook post of the broken swivel, whence these photos came. Not on Facebook, ripped these off of somewhere on the web.... by the look of it the swivel had seen some use, going by the ware groove in the shackle. On a bridge too, most likely.
  14. Haironyourchest
    I've no doubt we can all put a good edge on a chain tooth, but it's still not the same league. I challenge anyone to a sawing race: my silky vs your chainsaw with your sharpest chain. Whatever head & bar set up you like, but your saw stays off, break locked 😉 No logs over 10 inches though.
  15. Haironyourchest
    Blood heck. Thanks for posting that recall notice. That's a bummer, apart from the gate (which is probably a fluke) and my possible anality about the bolt centering, the boss carabiner is a beautiful product. I hope they sort the problem and perfect the boss range, I still want one. I got the non-swivel zigzag, thought I'd try it on a swivel 'biner right off the bridge, get it closer to me.
  16. Haironyourchest
    100%. We don't think twice about touching a chain (if the saw's off), running a thumb over the cutting edge, and so on. Why? Cos chainsaw chains are really not all that sharp. A moving chain is a different matter. But a silky blade is a different beast, different geometry. And a silky is always in motion. Unless it's held in a vice, it's in motion, even the the motion is slight, but slight is more than enough to wreck flesh. Each tooth is a little knife, in perpendicular and back n' forth motion.
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    Bought a couple of these Benman handsaws. €20 a piece, handle included, on par with my silky (new blade vs new blade) but a touch shorter. Only bad thing it there's no "click" retention on the scabbard, so not really a climbing saw, unless modified to stay out in the scabbard.
  18. Haironyourchest
    The cynic in me suspects retailers in UK & EU have a pile of borderline lemons saved up for Republic Of Ireland customers. Oftentimes the return isn't worth the headache. Probably Iceland get the same treatment and the Canary islands. The UK have been very decent the few times I've really had to return stuff though, in fairness.
  19. Haironyourchest
    Thank's a million buddy! The top one looks like mine, off center locknut. Not sure about the others. I think I'll just remove the shackle and check with calipers. Will post my finding here. I phoned DMM after a week, got an answer phone and hung up, but they actually phoned me back an hour later! Customer service had got my email but we're waiting for an engineer to get around to looking at the photo. They requested some video of the sticking gate. Are the gates closing quite right on yours? Not the green tri-lock barrel, but the actual gate and key interface? It scapes as it closes on mine.
  20. Haironyourchest
    ....It's on constant with maybe 1second pauses randomly every 20s-1m. I don't hear it at all over the summer, both last year and this year it started within a week of now (last week of October). It tends to start after 10:30pm at night, hear it less during the day but do sometimes. I thought it used to stop earlier but this year I am still hearing it now (9:30) and later into the morning. I haven't been able to tell if it stops suddenly in the morning or winds down.... Your neighbor in one of the attached houses is using a Hitachi MagicWand® (the mains version). Given the extended duration and the commencement in the winter season, it's probable there's a commercial element, something like an OnlyFans streaming service perhaps, which kicks off when the summer job goes quiet.
  21. Haironyourchest
    "It's not a lie... If you believe it" - George Costanza
  22. Haironyourchest
    You're a star ⭐
  23. Haironyourchest
    Thank's for that, Gand. Good of you to remember. Interesting. Yours is the wide shackle version, mine is the narrow one, but the side view should be practically identical. Yours looks perfectly centered. I'm kinda annoyed about this. I also noticed the gate on mine is catching ever so slightly. I've emailed DMM with a photo, haven't heard back from them yet. Other stuff I've had from them is perfect.
  24. Haironyourchest
    That would be excellent 👍 it's a DMM Director Swivel Boss Locksafe D. The part in question would be the same on any of their "D" swivels.
  25. Haironyourchest
    I'll do that. They do seem to be a great company, I watched a mini documentary on YouTube about them, how they started etc. Heartwarming stuff, long may they last.

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