I would just like to say

Stanleysteamer · 2025-06-12T14:59:22+0100

kevstar said:
Just seen the plane crashed in India

Yer.
Watched the vid. The plane seemed to be in a normal take-off attitude.
Wondering how many may have survived and if it was a bird-strike.
It crashed on to a building where medics live as well.

Sympathies to all who are bereaved and injured. RIP the rest.

DanClarke · 2025-06-12T15:23:24+0100

... all the firewood is safely stowed away.

As a special "bonus" I deconstructed the large palletised crate it all came in and sawed that up for kindling.
3 full sacks of kindling that I don't have to buy.

Went out for a quick blast in the mini as a reward to myself.
That oil leak has not shown itself yet. I have no idea how/why swapping plugs 2 & 3 would maybe resolve it.
Or, there has been insufficient "blasting around" to get the leak to occur at the rocker-box gasket.
I have a big wad of kitchen-towel tightly folded and wedged between the top-side of the plug and the plug well wall and it is still clean and pristine. Very odd.

Stanleysteamer · 2025-06-12T16:02:59+0100

Years ago W bought a Stihl HSA 25.
Recommended by a friend who gardens very well and does a lot of it.
It works fine.
She cannot find the two sets of blades that cut "grass" (she bought an extra) although she still has the mini hedgecutter ones that she doesn't use.
She thinks she may have taken them back to the UK, possibly for sharpening.

But there is a bloke in the nearest town who sharpens blades and he has done them before. So maybe she left them with him and forgot she had done that.

So today we got around to going and seeing him.
He's gone, and gone bust!
So maybe they are in the UK. She'll be buying a new machine, different make.
There is a comparison site over here which rated the top 10 of these systems. The Stihl one doesn't even figure! They are all masses cheaper.
Stihl sell new blades but even on their own site the comments are rough as a badger's backside.
Yet they Stihl have such a good name??!! (Sorry, just couldn't resist!!!)
The guy who has borrows our land uses Stihl machines. (Strimmer and chainsaw). He has to buy the petrol for them FROM THEM as it is coloured specially so they can see if he has used normal (cheaper) petrol, even if it is empty. Then they invalidate the guarantee.

You just cannot make it up!!

Forrest Gump · 2025-06-12T16:16:09+0100

That might be a fuel called Aspen. Supposed to be fancy clean burning, doesn’t clog up the engine and good for the environment but it costs a packet. I stick to 4*.

Stanleysteamer · 2025-06-12T16:41:39+0100

Forrest Gump said:
That might be a fuel called Aspen. Supposed to be fancy clean burning, doesn’t clog up the engine and good for the environment but it costs a packet. I stick to 4*.

All i know is what he said and it's colour was different. Can't remember what colour it was, maybe I can find out.

Stone56 · 2025-06-12T19:15:21+0100

Stanleysteamer said:
OK, so is it the sweat band?
Huh, I've tried every sweat band under the sun, literally, and none of them work for more than 5 minutes. I wear bandanas, folded into a triangle, as they then absorb the sweat from the baldest part of my head, they last a while but I have to change them regularly..

But thanks for the thought!

Tea towel with a elastic band keeps the Sun of your neck as a bonus

Stone56 · 2025-06-12T19:17:55+0100

Stanleysteamer said:
I'd bargain with them!
Get this done and you can have a burger.......

Kids'll do anything for a burger!!!!

Now how do you know that

Turktowner · 2025-06-12T19:25:40+0100

Stanleysteamer said:
A pigtail? Never!!!

We who is nortical calls it a queue.
Besides you is follickly challenged intcha.

Turktowner · 2025-06-12T19:29:02+0100

Forrest Gump said:
I put a tea spoonful into a cup, couple if it’s a flask or my old bottles. Might work

Plastik breaks down over time, tickly wif heat.
Tratter up and buy some new mugs mebbe.
You've already spent enough buggrin about already..

Turktowner · 2025-06-12T19:30:12+0100

Stone56 said:
Tea towel with a elastic band keeps the Sun of your neck as a bonus

It ain't arf ot mum..

Turktowner · 2025-06-12T19:30:49+0100

Stone56 said:
Now how do you know that

Again, not bitin...

Stone56 · 2025-06-12T19:58:29+0100

DanClarke said:
... all the firewood is safely stowed away.
As a special "bonus" I deconstructed the large palletised crate it all came in and sawed that up for kindling.
3 full sacks of kindling that I don't have to buy.
Went out for a quick blast in the mini as a reward to myself.
That oil leak has not shown itself yet. I have no idea how/why swapping plugs 2 & 3 would maybe resolve it.
Or, there has been insufficient "blasting around" to get the leak to occur at the rocker-box gasket.
I have a big wad of kitchen-towel tightly folded and wedged between the top-side of the plug and the plug well wall and it is still clean and pristine. Very odd.

Are you free at the weekend Dan ??

kevstar · 2025-06-12T20:38:41+0100

Forrest Gump said:
That might be a fuel called Aspen. Supposed to be fancy clean burning, doesn’t clog up the engine and good for the environment but it costs a packet. I stick to 4*.

Its clear though init so if its 2 stoke machines its tinted with what ever oil he's using. Snot hard to replicate coloured fuel.

Mines is 90% cherry

kevstar · 2025-06-12T20:40:00+0100

Stone56 said:
Are you free at the weekend Dan ??View attachment 343007

A weeks worth of fire pit timber there.

kevstar · 2025-06-12T20:42:10+0100

Stone56 said:
Tea towel with a elastic band keeps the Sun of your neck as a bonus

Remember them tea towel holders like a cats ass

Def90man · 2025-06-12T20:43:38+0100

had a tip off that the was strange goings on at work tonight and found some of the travelling community exercising their lurchers in the middle of one of my silage fields.

doriz · 2025-06-12T20:45:29+0100

Def90man said:
had a tip off that the was strange goings on at work tonight and found some of the travelling community exercising their lurchers in the middle of one of my silage fields.

Did the hare get propper phooked?

kevstar · 2025-06-12T20:46:55+0100

Stanleysteamer said:
didn't know that!
Might have to look at what we laughingly call the "grass" over here. As we really. only have weeds.
What did you do to get rid of them, please?

Def90man · 2025-06-12T20:51:13+0100

doriz said:
Did the hare get propper phooked?

More than likely. There’s a lot about. They were at the river last week

kevstar · 2025-06-12T20:52:13+0100

Def90man said:
had a tip off that the was strange goings on at work tonight and found some of the travelling community exercising their lurchers in the middle of one of my silage fields.

Things been going missing locally, stuff from gardens & the sailing club ect Silver vans apparently.

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