Unframed Dave

I bought one for removing nails from pallets, if they were flush or sub, it couldn't get a grip. 

It does take up a substantial amount of room on one of my garage shelves, but could be handy if one's safety is compromised by attackers looking for lawnmowers. 

My Favourite Lurcher, meet George... Greyhound, Wolfhound and bearded collie.

52 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Apart from lurchers and "fast" dogs which still don't really qualify as they are bred for poaching, which crosses are used as working dogs?

 

One that springs to mind is Guide dogs. Often poodle crosses are used for those with dog allergies. Some, not all don't shed.

1 hour ago, openspaceman said:

I lit it for the last two evenings, house at around 18C now but my feet are cold

Yes but watch out as the slightest scratch has the red stuff gushing out

Indeed it does, I bleed like nobody's business these days. Shaving can be like a hammer film. 

Still lighting the burner in the evening. Never done it before, but I'm on blood thinners now and I'm trying to make the oil last. 

Firewood costs me labour, nothing else. 

48 minutes ago, Billhook said:

A load of us old Codgers sitting around a campfire saying "Do you remember when" thread!

At college up early after heavy night at pub for five lectures, maybe and arm wrestle at coffee time, show off lifting two 56lb weights above my head and clacking them together,  drive 30 miles to play game of rugby in afternoon come back to party, dancing boozing, then spending most of the night doing what young men do best with girlies!

 

Today wife gives me job list, tidy shed, I get up, spend ages making tea ,breakfast, go and buy newspaper spend ages reading it and tut tutting, forget about the shed, go down to yard tinker with saw or engine spend half my time looking for tools I have put down somewhere or my phone, eventually sit down have a rest and observe the beautiful sunset, find my phone just in time to send yet another picture to the picture forum here before retiring for a hot Radox bath to relieve aches and pains, not long before bed time then!   Oh the joys of old age!

Lovely, and so, so relatable. 

Isn't Balsa a hardwood? 

11 hours ago, Mike Hill said:

How far could you drive yours with water over the top of the bonnet?

 

Would you leave it stuck in a river overnight with the current flowing through it. Winch it out the next day and drive it home?

 

Tip it on its side, pitch the tent, sort it out in the morning kind of thing.

 

Sorry its a poser truck imho.If it makes you happy thats excellent,if it suits your boots even better. 

 

Your getting less load space than a 4x4 volvo estate and probably less reliability.

 

 

I like the last bit, I've had two volvo XC70s in the past. One petrol, one diesel. Best ride quality I've ever experienced, most unreliable also. Nothing but trouble and when a major steering component broke when I was driving it, the last one became my last volvo. 

Before anyone asks, I haven't a clue how the salesman got me to buy the second. I think he was Paul Mckenna before he made a name for himself. 

13 hours ago, LGP Eddie said:

If you mean viable off road vehicle as something around 20k that comes in overalls so you can dog it to death for 3 years and take it back under warranty for any squeak, then the good times have gone.

 

Why waste a build slot in that market when you can sell absolutely everything you can build for nearly three times the price, into a market where bumping up a kerb is considered off road.

 

However don’t let the fact it’s looks aren’t to everyone’s taste or it’s price tag is high detract from the fact they’re incredibly capable on or off road.

Indeed they are, I'm on my third disco. A 3, a 4 and now a 5.

Mine does a bit more than bump up a kerb, and it also drives from Norwich to Belgium several times a year. There is next to nothing that will do both jobs as well. 

The 2 litre plug in hybrid will be a game changer, but not available for the disco. 

Stupidly expensive, but until you've had a go in one, you don't really appreciate where the cost goes. It ain't all in the badge. 

He's called Heinz by the way. 

Nice to see, I've got one. Excuse the cobwebs. It hasn't seen the light of day for a while. 

There are some good charities. As has been said above, if you want to give, do your homework. 

We've had an extremely fortunate existence, born into comfortable homes, with parents encouraging education. Never short of food, clothes or toys. We've also travelled to some "developing countries" and seen the plight of kids with considerably less in the way of privilege. With that in mind, (and I don't give a toss about charity beginning at home where kids are involved, or adults for that matter, but especially kids) we decided to sponsor an orphan in one of these countries. It didn't take a lot of digging to find out which of around the three charities at the time had most of it's bottom line going to the kids. It was around 90% as I recall. 

We sponsored a child, chosen at random for us in Vietnam. He lives in an SOS village in Ho Chi Minh city. 

We receive letters several times a year with photos of him. 

Three years ago, we visited him whilst on holiday there and were so impressed with the work of this charity, we decided to sponsor another. 

Only covid has prevented us from going back to visit again. 

There are lots of reasons not to give to charity, chuggers being high on my list. But if you want to, you find a way. 

Worth an ask. 

Thanks 

Fair point, cambrai. 

Long shot I know, but my French isn't brilliant, so worth an ask. 

Thanks for sharing, very useful. 

I'm a big fan of the ego stuff, but not the pole saw. 

In engineering terms, it's a bag of shite. 

The plastic chain guard is flimsy and the oiler on mine leaks like the exxon valdez.

damski, some helpful advice from a fellow ****************wit. 

Put the saw down. 

Dave 

10 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

@Unframed Dave do you see what I mean?

As much as it pains me, on this occasion, I do. But, perhaps helpful advice rather than taking the rise is the way forward. Or even a combination of both. Providing of course this isn't a total wind up? 

15 minutes ago, Will C said:

Some one goes to A&E with a chainsaw injury they do not get asked if pro or diy so all the figures get lumped together, the result of this is yes as an industry we do suffer with higher insurance and red tape because of diy ****wits.
 

No

Sorry, but if a pro goes to hospital, they go accompanied. H & S procedures kick in, which is where the majority of weightings data will come from.  Completely different ball game. If it weren't, chefs would be uninsurable due to all the accidents and crime involving kitchen knives. 

And of course they ask the nature of the incident leading to the event. 

I'm still failing to see where the need to be rude and insulting comes in? 

Dave 

4 minutes ago, bmp01 said:

It's an professional arborist website / forum, have your say, but no point getting embroiled with it, you can't win. 

This type of subject will always end up in the same place - for a reason,  there is no right or wrong answer. But as non-pro's you and I are guests here, best to roll with it.

 

BTW unusual user name, ABBS mod?

I agree entirely.

And yes, I'm a mod on said shooting forum.

37 minutes ago, MattyF said:

Yeah I think it is when they are accounting for most of the injuries or fatality's , why our insurance premiums go up and why we are surrounded in so much legislation we have to roll with so we can then be undercut by a weekend warriors doing it for beer tokens and the firewood.

Your insurance premiums going up is SFA to do with DIYers. It's everything to do with what you do being dangerous and every industry sectors premiums also going up. Insurance ratings for your industry will not be effected by DIY accidents.

I still don't see the need to be rude and insulting.

"Dumbing them down just so some amateur ****************wit cheapskate weekend warriors don’t cut themselves isn’t very high on my priority list." 

"DIY ****************wits." 

Is it necessary to be so disrespectful? 

I personally joined up on here to learn from the experts and have done a great deal. 

I've been using saws, for over twenty years as a ****************wit. My PPE is professional quality.

Despite trying many times to get on a course at a cost that represents reasonable value, I have found zero availability in reasonable travelling time. I have found providers that want £700 a day, which frankly doesn't represent good value to a weekend warrior. I have approached trainers to come to us, so that I can share the cost with a number of fellow ****************wits, none of which have ever followed up with their promise of "getting back to me". Perhaps profit is more attractive than the aim of the training? 

My son and wife wear the same standard of PPE as myself when working in proximity to me and none of us have any scars, whatsoever related to tree work. 

I get your drift, but really, do you need to be so rude to make a point? 

The original poster has asked a sensible question, perhaps have a stab at answering that instead of having a pop at the public would be more constructive. 

Personally, I'm all ears for a solution that makes a saw safer, which one of us is a ****************wit? 

1 hour ago, Khriss said:

( vegan sausage roll they can shove up their arse thou) 

I prefer ketchup, or if I'm feeling racey a dollop of mustard. Each to their own though. 

I know bees release an attack pheromone when they sting which encourages others to sting you. I assume wasps do the same. 

Best advice when I was keeping bees was to head to the darkest area available to you. 

Seemed to work for me.