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Sure it probably costs the earth. But would be easy to build one, a polyethylene barrel halved and bolted together again longways would do much the same thing

This tread started off about stretchers. Just saw this Slix Stretcher Kits By ISC, in Wales. A flexable pasitic "spinal Board" that you can drag across the ground. Looks like something that might actually have some useful application, in that one could load it up with kit and drag it through the woods, giving it a secondary role as a stretcher if need arises.

Old Conveyor belt from a quarry, if you can get it. Cut it with a jigsaw, drill and bolt on. Will outlast the machine by many years. Will be 10mm plus though, might not bend and flex as well as the 3mm, if thats important.

Great to hear. I suppose that was why all the smoke - diesel wasn't burning. Thanks fellows.

Oh good! I was worried because diesel has a higher energy potential and I thought it might have detonated, stressed the engine etc. It was an expensive machine. Thanks for your reply!

Yesterday fuled my Maruyama 23cc long reach hedger with what I thought was aspen from a nearly empty aspen container. Wouldn't start, cleaned plug, spark test, pulled the filter out on the intake and left dangle while I cranked it, dried it out, still no joy. Tried the lighter flame at the plug hole test and no flame, also couldn't get the plug to go on fire, that should have alerted me! So this afternoon, prepared to clean the carb, though Id give it one more go, filled the tank with aspen from a new can, and it started and belched white smoke. Ran it for a while, and I kept thinking, wow, that lookes like unburned diesel smoke, but it can't be....then I remembered filling an empty aspen can with diesel (white) for a mini digger some weeks ago, little bit left so hung onto it for the van and forgot about it. Smelt just like aspen, to my nose. Realising my mistake, I emptied the hedger tank into a jar, refilled with aspen and it still smoked. I figured the filter was still holding diesel, so swapped out the filter and no more smoke. An inspection through the exhaust port showed no damage, but looking through the plug hole I could see what could possibly be a narrow vertical abrasion on on the cylinder wall at the 10 o' clock position, if the exhaust is at 3 o' clock. Just wondering if the ten or twenty seconds I ran it on maybe 30% diesel could have caused damage? Any notion?

Anyone know of a UK or European retailer selling the Thomson Uniscender? Cheers folks

Anyone on here ever watch the Dog Whisperer? Not that I presume dog owners (Im not one) don't understand dog psychology, but it was an eye opener for me. Sometimes the devil is in the detail, small modifications in family behaviour dynamics can have a major impact of dogs, apparently. Wish it worked on cats.

So they didn't find the barrel of moonshine then?

A sad day...Iron necessity as they say. A friend intervened with her dog - A chronic infection and four surgeries later and she still has all her fingers. Ive been bitten a couple of times, with no serious harm done, but one always has to think of children and the elderly. At the time, I let it go, but the one Rottie that bit my arm grabbed the arm of a four year old girl a few years later and dragged her into the street. I wished I'd followed my incident with legal action.

http://orig09.deviantart.net/e43e/f/2013/070/2/3/ultramarine_by_thomaswievegg-d5xoh4o.jpg Note the holy charms - no PPE outfit is complete without holy charms.

I don't think political experience is a prerequisite. He'll have aids and minders to manage the paperwork and hold his hand. It's the willingness to make full use of the powers of the office that is key, the details are managed by underlings. If he only does one think in office - abolish the federal EPA it will be worth it. That, and firmly establish that the emperor has no clothes (the emperor here being the nebulous social conditioning of denial, PC, fear of censure, etc etc, that afflicts the West) - and he's already pretty much achieved that.

My hiace used to heat up towing uphill. Mechanic just pulled the thermostat out "no need for it" he reckoned. Still heated, but not as much, the thermo gadget slightly impedes the coolant circulation, apparently.

Interesting. Maybe I'll get one, would be handy for roadside emergencies as well. Would it be seen under tree canopy though? I was reading they have a new signalling gadget out, it's a high powered green lazer, but emits in a flat fan shape, at altitude it's highly visible but not strong enough to dazzle. You pan the fan up and down at the aircraft, and it can't fail to be seen as a green flash, no direct hit required.

I agree absolutely about not being able to effectively monitor a casualty while in transit, and maybe further destabilising said casualty. But I get the feeling that we're drifting into mountain rescue territory a bit. Surely a lot would depend on the distance from the worksite to the nearest roadside or roadhead? In a UK type environment, how far from a road would one ever be likely to work? Yet even a short distance over rough ground might pose problem for a paramedic crew - mountain rescue, no problem, but for your standard 999 call out? I dunno. Locating via whistle would be a matter of course. Strobe beacon, while a great bit of kit for hikers, not really relevant for arb (anyone do arb at night? If so, then yes, absolutely) Having said that, I would still not bother with a stretcher. Assuming a three man team, the incapacitated could still be dragged out if time was a crucial factor. Unless the stretcher was lugged from the vehicle to the worksite before work commenced, it might not be much of a time saver anyway. Smoke flares would be handy for heli-evac though - there are places even in UK where a chopper might be what is dispatched. A lady was airlifted to hospital locally not long ago, we're 90 min from A&E and if the ambulance is on another call...

What a fun thread. Oftentimes it stayed on point long enough to nearly be interesting. Coming back to the stretcher thing - what about those mountain rescue stretchers with the single folding mountain-bike wheel underneath? Two guys could absolutely transport a casualty long distance with one of those, with minimal effort, depending on the terrain. I wonder if part of the resistance to the uber-preparedness mindset is unconscious denial. We think that if we don't plan for the worst, the worst won't happen, kind of thing - not really rational but is makes sense psychologically. Like the anti gun people in America - if they can make weapons go away, then violence and crime will go away too. The ancients used to do this all the time, its called homeopathic magic. Guess what - it doesn't work. There would be no risk of stretchering a casualty out of the bush provided he hadn't sustained a spinal injury. If it was a fall or a crushing event to the spinal area, then don't move. If a cutting or puncturing injury, then why not? If one was working off the track, the medics might not be able to locate you easily. Why slow them down by making them hike into the forest, and out again? Remember the Golden Hour? While they are on route, you guys could be moving to meet them at an identifiable landmark. Also, there may be times when an injury is not severe enough to warrant calling for EMS. A badly sprained ankle or knee, for instance. Rather than do a "Weekend at Bernies" and risk all three of you going down in the brash, further exacerbating the injury, just get the stretcher. One thing about tourniquets - its life or limb, unless they are on for a very short time. A pressure bandage would be preferable, unless its like a severed limb. Has anyone considered carrying smoke flares to aid the EMS in finding your location?

Could be the tank breather valve

Ha that funny, I just got back from a MMA open in Cork (spectating, me) place was full of McGregor clones! I always expected beards to come back but wow. Some savage action in the cage, one nose broken, some blood spilt, great day. Maybe I'll compete next year. My money's on Nate - he hadn't trained up properly last time. Connor needs to start thinking about his film career. I see a Dwarf in his future! Sorry, just checked, I was thinking of Chad Mendes...

I broke the head on my last 131 when it hit the ground - cracked at the compression sleeve where it tightens to the shaft. I think there is too much travel in the "jaws" that clap onto the shaft - thus putting the alloy under constant tension. I modified my next head with a piece of beer can. https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipOTIN3eh5N8bCl8SEZTSUUio3gU0sUlbu6jt55M

HT 131 very powerful but fragile at full extension. Somewhat flexible secondary shaft, which is probably a good thing. Never oil the inner shaft - I did and am still paying the price, long story but just not a good idea. When it's retracted it's very robust, savage torque with a sharp chain is unstoppable.

Precisely why the big T needs to win in November. It's make or break time, as far as I can see.

Sounds horrible. I hear Yew can be nasty for blistering scratches etc. I chewed a leaf of Aron's Rod once mistaking it for sorrell - god the pain was fierce. Lucky it came on quick before I swallowed it. Burning acidic pain, nothing helped but it faded after an hour or so.

There's a product called Helicoil which repairs stripped threads, its an insert, you have to drill out the damage threads, re-thread and then insert the Helicoil. Supposedly works well

Just an idea but what about painting a big evil eye on your barn, maybe an inverted pentangle or two, some occult symbols and so on. Hang a few skulls about the place....Gypsis are superstitious non?

I wonder if the "propagating from a leaf fragment" thing was arrived at by laboratory propagation in ideal conditions, perfect soil temps etc? We have loads around here, and I whack it down with a slasher and strim certain patches every year, it never seems to spread. Where other plants have established root systems the knotweed would have trouble getting in anyway, it prefers disturbed soil.