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  1. You've misunderstood. I am an enjoyer of private property. I don't like rent-induced poverty or homelessness. My take is that the current system has long failed and most landlords are necessarily arseholes for exploiting that system. Same with drugs and drug dealers. Agrarian Justice is where I'm at if you care: we should have our private property but not at the expense of others fundamental wellbeing or "natural" rights. Agrarian Justice - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG Housing people in tears who are about to be homeless - good Reducing rents on tenants who are in dire straits - good Paying your taxes - good Actually caring - good Point is, none of these things should be remarkable. These should all be basic human decency taken for granted. The whole system must be utterly broken if we have landlords saying they actually care about people as if it were a novel concept.
  2. And I bet you've made a ton of money out of it. So that's a world's smallest violin situation. Whinging about the hard life of a UK landlord while the poors are giving food banks a workout. You could always sell up and be completely free of serf related issues. I'm sorry for how it might come across, it's not personal.
  3. Okey dokey, well, as long as you're alright I guess it's just supply and demand, nothing to worry about. Profiteering off the most basic of human needs isn't just OK but should be encouraged as entrepreneurship in pursuit of the infinite growth our economy demands. What could possibly go wrong. Honestly I hope it doesn't spread to your areas and the rest of the country. But really Cornwall's the canary down the coal mine and (making some educated guesses about this forum's posters) you're lucky to be relatively old and well-off.
  4. I've had the wood burner going in the evenings for over a month now. Maybe I'm becoming less tolerant to UK weather as I age, but this has seemed like a particularly underwhelming summer.
  5. Padstow. Not all arseholes but around 99% probably, is that fair? They extract more from society than they contribute, profiteering from the most basic of human needs. Supply and demand is OK and there's nothing theoretically evil about renting property, or selling cocaine for example, but in practice these people do tend to be arseholes. Hang around some landlord circles and see how they talk about things. You can't throw a stone in Cornwall without hitting an arsehole renting three properties to full time working couples who can't get a mortgage, yet still whinges about how they don't make enough return on their "portfolio". Cancer.
  6. You'll be expected to spend out on proper chainsaw boots. They protect more than just the toe cap area and are rated in different classes depending on chain speed, like trousers. Standard steel toe caps will have the same rating as a pair of flip flops.
  7. I'm trying to blow leaves, not bust ghosts mate
  8. Well yeah. Landlords in the UK are not struggling for cash. Obviously they're relatively good employers for that reason alone. This thread was originally about arseholes though. For the sake of accuracy, regardless of how they treat hired arborists, landlords are some of the biggest arseholes known to mankind.
  9. tenner

    How much?!!

    Could be worse? I pay nothing because I'm broke. Two appointments per year. Quality has gone down noticeably over 5, 10, 15 years. If I lost this NHS dentist I'd be doing home dentistry because there's zero NHS dentist availability in Cornwall. The high prices are probably linked to how many people miss appointments (my dentist is on the rocks because of this) and because so many people who are well-off enough to go private choose not to. Obviously nobody should have to go private, but something is obviously broken if we have rich people getting NHS care while any number of poor people can't even get a dentist or doctor appointment, let alone afford to pay for it.
  10. Torx 27 will do the job too, funnily enough. I didn't have long enough imperial Allens once and the Stihl t handle bailed me out I'd try that cylinder, think I've run worse. But don't those 181's have NLA pistons with NLA thin rings or some weird consideration?
  11. What's the state of leaf blowers these days? It's gotten to the stage that I need a 2-stroke leaf blower. Are battery blowers at the stage where professionals are ditching 2-stroke blowers in numbers yet? Has anybody used one of the cheapo B&Q/Lidl/etc blowers for sub £200? Any of you lot switched to battery and have a 2-stroke blower laying around you don't want or can't be bothered to repair? I've got 5 years experience on strimmers, saws, mowers, hedge trimmers, but never touched a leaf blower. Bit unsure. Thanks.
  12. Absolutely this, and not just financial struggle. I think a lot of people are experiencing fallout from a few years of mental and physical health problems piling up. Kids, students, and the elderly had a particularly rough time but we're all in it together. I'm not sure about the exact ratio of arseholes (it's always been off in the UK) but I feel it goes both ways and some people are genuinely being more kind, empathetic, considerate, post pandemic. Confirmation bias is a thing too, don't focus on the arseholes.
  13. Do you find it smells a bit like frying bacon? First time I ran it I legitimately thought someone was having a fry up.
  14. tenner

    Too much?

    That's way too much, send it to me for safe disposal. Forwards chain creep means overly loose clutch springs therefore backwards chain creep logically means overly tight clutch springs 🧠 No but really I'd measure your squish and confirm it's not too low. One of my 254's ran and cut great with 0.017" squish, which might even be OK on a 50cc saw, but I wasn't comfortable. Would rather have long lifespan than very high compression personally.
  15. Dirko HT is great. Think that's what Stihl endorses. The tube comes with a little twister thing so you can get every last drop out as well. Gasket deletion or fitting a thinner gasket will bump up the compression and make her rip more or explode faster. Measure your squish before and after to make sure it's sensible. I fitted an aftermarket cylinder gasket once without thinking about or measuring squish and later realised the squish band was 0.017" which is apparently dangerously low. Conventional wisdom says aim for 0.020" minimum. Way easier to understand with a diagram for me. Lowering cylinder changes squish and the goings on of the combustion chamber.
  16. Stihl Super or Ultra? They're both green but Ultra is supposedly better. I went through 5L of the Super and it lubes alright but smells bad and is rather smoky.
  17. tenner

    FR Jones

    I got a full refund from PayPal. If you paid through PayPal just go through their resolution centre, upload a screenshot of the invoices, link to FR Jones site, and state that they're in administration. They'll get 20 days to respond and you'll get paid the day after that window expires.
  18. There's some rough edges on a few of the puns here, nothing a belt zander couldn't smooth up though
  19. This thread is 13 years old but yeah. Another cause of lean condition at different angles can be the fuel tank just being slightly too empty and/or the filter and line not moving freely inside of it. Not really a thing on the 200T with a moulded line though.
  20. Their website doesn't have an SSL certificate so I doubt the payment handling software would actually work even if you tried to buy something. There's an entry on Companies House (dissolved) and relevant social media pages. I'd bet on the business just being a shambles rather than a scam. My money is on someone starting an online shop in 2017 using a cheap web developer who moved on to greener pastures. Prices probably haven't been updated since 2017 so look very enticing. CUTTERS AND CLIMBERS LTD overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK FIND-AND-UPDATE.COMPANY-INFORMATION.SERVICE.GOV.UK CUTTERS AND CLIMBERS LTD - Free company information from Companies House including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges... Login • Instagram WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world. Cutters & Climbers WWW.FACEBOOK.COM Cutters & Climbers. 713 J’aime · 5 en parlent. Climbersdirect, is the first choice in climbing for all equipment . Main Dealers For; DMM, Teufelberger, Rock Exotica, Marlow, Edelrid, Wild... £5 says if you ring them up and get through to someone, they'll whinge about how their web guy (who they were paying £1.59/hour) totally stitched them up
  21. Nice saw. Good on you rebuilding your old man's saw, I've been there. Parts availability doesn't seem great but chainsawpartsonline.co.uk has Meteor pistons for the Husqvarna 45 which is the same bore. That'd come with a piston, ring, wrist pin, circlips. A brand new cylinder won't be cheap if you can find one. I was going to say salvage the original cylinder if you possibly can, but adw was faster! 44 seems to share some parts with a few saws and strimmers from that era, i.e the 244RX. Might be worth keeping an eye out for old parts machines if it comes to that. Upload a photo of the cylinder and piston though, it might not be as bad as it seems. edit: there's a 44 Practica on eBay currently, with haggling enabled.
  22. Just get a Silky Bigboy? Even less than £100, no petrol, no batteries, no kickback, suitably foolproof.
  23. Is that 7 star Metaxa in a different league to the 5 star? I love a good brandy but wasn't impressed with the 5 star at all.
  24. tenner

    Dolmar

    The MOD just spray painted blue Makitas? Doesn't seem half as exciting as ye olde green Stihl and Husqvarna army saws

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