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This is not meant to start a political debate, but there are some amazing people in the NHS, you can rock up with an injury like that and they take in their stride. Can't be complacent for a second when using some of this kit

When we started doing this it sped up cutting output so much, and meant consistency across various cutters.

Cut it off, put L shaped, bracket on each upright so you can put it back in, just with a bolt/wingnut to secure it? Or maybe a U bracket it drops into? Would mean you'd need to undo a couple of nuts each time you want to remove it...

Wait till you get an electrical fault with a gas boiler... plumber and heating engineer washed their hands of it as 'its electrical fault need and electrician mate, we only do gas and water'. Call electrician out, you've guessed it 'nah can't sort that mate as its in the boiler so plumber or heating engineers job'

Nah, life's too short for me to do that. But each to their own.

Ringo is awesome, if you realise you're gonna be another ½hr getting back to the car open your phone and 5 seconds later youveput another ½hr on the parking. But trouble is every car park is a different app and often no signal in the carpark🤦‍♂️ And in fairness card machines on ticket machines often faulty, so good idea but only if the tech actually works😄

Ok fair enough cashless is a bit extreme, but tbh I'm not that fussed if geeks at Visas h/o find out I'm having my hair cut every 4 weeks, and a doner meat and chips on a friday night.

The card provider is charging that to arrange the transaction, not gonna do it for free are they? I think its fair for the convenience of having a card to access your money. I'd happily pay more not to have the hassle of going to a cash machine then having the change rattling around in the glove box .

It really annoys me from a customer point of view, barbers or kebab shops who only take cash, and I'd actively avoid them. Make your customer leave their car keys in your shop and walk to a cash machine because you don't want the 1% fee for a card transaction, and you want to dodge the tax

Well said

I've had lid of 5l petrol can chewed, they've just gone through fuel cap on mower, and I've also had them chew through a rubber hose on a saw can't remember if it was fuel or chain oil but a blighter to change. One bit off a bit more than it could chew with my brothers bottle of chain oil... chewed right through the cap and he found the culprit dead floating in the oil! Do seem to have a thing for caps it seems!?

This is so true. Think most other dealers hated them but from customers point of view they had great website, great prices and pretty good customer service. But you bulk buy high value items like saws, and throw them out at low margins you need a lot of cash to buy the next lot (when you've taken out operating expences you haven't got much left). So you borrow to buy the next lot... then interest rates go up to more than the profit you're making, so you borrow more, to buy more, to sell more but it multiplies the problem. This is how I see it, so probably not surprising they've gone bust?

1. Cut it regularly, the clippings certainly won't kill the grass (fair enough if you don't like the look tho)? As steve says, mulching mowers are good, I know someone with about 5 acres and you wouldn't really know it wasn't getting collected (they do collect cuttings fom a smaller area near the house) 2. Get a few sheep (or find someone who's got some and looking for areas to graze them, then they'll look after them?) 3. Maybe don't feel you have to mow it? Cut round the edge, and perhaps some paths through it, and just cut the rest once a year? 4. Do loads of trips to the compost heap... I suppose if you've got that much grass and you want it cut and collected you're gonna have to, sweeper setup will still need emptying?

Yea i think their claims of 'whole house heating' are quite ambitious, I'm not expecting it to and think the gas CH will still be very much needed. But is the few hundred kg of masonry holding heat around the stove actually a benefit in real life, will it maintain a more steady temparature in the house than a traditional stove? Or just a nice theory on paper? I really want something that will sit in the living room that will cheer the place up, so not really suitable for a eco-angus. But definitely an option for further down the line to have in addition to whatever stove i fit, for hot water etc. Thanks for the input.

Masonry Wood Burner | Ecco Stove | Whole Home Heating WWW.ECCOSTOVE.COM Ecco Stove is a masonry wood burning stove built for Whole Home Heating solutions allowing customers to heat their whole home without relying on the grid. Saw this company at the Arb show last year, didn't have time to stop but looked up the website since. I'll be fitting a stove before next winter, thinking of something we'll have burning all day every day pretty much, and wondering if i go down the route of masonry stove? Looks like they give out a more gentle heat, but will keep kicking it out all night, and won't roast the room so much? Anyone got any feedback/thoughts/experience with this company or masonry stoves in general? Any advantages/disadvantages They do an additional hot box for hot air ducting/hot water, but got a working gas boiler so from what I've read on other threads on here, probably easier to keep that for hot water and top up heating if we need?

DB 1490? Nice tractor

Yep

Local chap has this trailer which I've hired, can do 260kg at 9.45m or about a ton close in. He strengthened the frame and put a fair bit of weight at the back to keep nose weight low.

Who made this rule tho? Yea I get both your points here, but that's my point could be an easy add on to the job, so the tree surgeon gets it not a lanscape gardener.

Fully agree on these points, and on your comment below, he's a bit of a nerd🤓. Also if tree surgeons did offer to plant a tree(s) when they removed one (for a cost), it'd be more business now, better for environment and more tree's =more business in the future? In theory not a bad idea in fairness😃

It was happening a lot with red diesel a year or so ago, as they'd sneaked an increase in the amount of bio-diesel they mixed in with regular red. Obviously being plant based it gave the bug more to feed on. The fuel additives will only help prevent it happening in future if you add it to fuel, it won't sort the problem if you've already got it. As someone mentioned you'll need to pump out the fuel and filter it.

Easylift R-160, Narrow Tracked Spider Lift | MC Property Maintenance WWW.MCPROPERTYMAINTENANCE.CO.UK The Easylift R-160 is a narrow tracked spider lift offering a working height of 15.8 metres for internal or outdoor... These guys argunear Lavant I believe, this one is 1.9m might be too close to risk it...?

My little brother was going for the husky 120 as his first saw but this got me on the hunt for a 2nd hand saw, just picked him up a 2nd hand MS240, don't think he'll be disappointed with it.

Like this idea. I reckon if you go down the scaffold tube route you'll regret it after about the 2nd hole, be a blighter drilling 50mm holes through sleepers I would think?

All the best with recovery, thanks for writing this. Worth it if it saves one person from having an accident. I don't do much grinding but same applies to saws, machines, processors etc. Maybe put your bank details on here, sure plenty could chuck something in there to help you along?