Today I acquired...........

[Anguz]

A number 7

 

[Seadog]

Clamps from "The Muddle of Aldi".
Quite substantial, and only £2.49 a pair

Also Aldi

And a present for my new toy

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Bag is mine .

Contents cost me £20

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

The rest.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

 

[angellonewolf]

Do they work ?

 

[500e]

A number 7
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A modified No.12. Just found it been missing for a while
Always weld on the washer to make rotating the locking ring easier

 

[Dapph2]

When I did my degree (after doing an Onc and HNC, yes the long, hard way), microprocessor systems was writing machine code on some 8080 machines - load HX 029, MOV HX regA, etc, etc. Well after we'd done some basic stuff, flashing lights, timers etc we were given an assignment to write some code to make a tune. After hours and hours of trying various means nobody was getting anywhere, but I noticed the lecturer had started loading (laboriously because there was a lot of it) a successful effort into one of the machines with one of the students. So I sat down next to them and copied each instruction.
When I got home I worked out how it was done (register indirect addressing for anyone interested), and simply made up the bit I'd missed, changed the timers to give different notes and the next week loaded my effort. Of course it didn't work right away but didn't take long to debug, and before long I had La cucacha on repeat. The tutor was adamant I hadn't written it, and in some ways he was right, but imitation is the highest form of flattery, and why are invent the wheel?

Back in 1984 at the governments local Skill Centre doing a 38 week full time course in industrial electronic testing and servicing I got my Rockwell AIM 65 to run my machine code attempt :- a massive long loud farting noise followed by the opening bars of the national anthem ..not bad for someone who discovered he was dyslexic a few years earlier .

 

[500e]

A number 7
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A modified No.12. Just found it been missing for a while
Have couple of smaller ones always do the mod easy to lock/unlock the blade, it folded once in use and still have the scar and 1/2 arm of blood missing
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[Kayos]

A rod for my own back.

I dropped in my ex's parents who live next door but one on the way back from the bank on Friday.
Have a chat, cup of tea etc as her dad doesn't get out much with decreasing mobility.

He was busy on line renewing his blue badge.

Let him to it. Got a phone call a bit later - struggling to work out what and how to upload with the info they required.
Back down, sorted it, application submitted.

Get a phone call today, they've had an email wanting more info . . . Sounded like all the info we'd already submitted.

Back down - it's an auto reply email from the submission, just saying if you havent sent in proof of address, I'd, a photo etc, then you need to.

Two worried OAPs quickly de-worried.

Thing is, they've got two sons and a daughter, two of which live pretty close . . .

None of whom seem to be taking notice of the fact their small, elderly mum is struggling to lift their dads mobility scooter into the boot of their car . . .or that they really ought to be sorting LPAs for them.

I've been surveying quite a few empty properties lately, seems there's always someone around to sell the house when the owner has gone, but I've seen plenty to say nobody was interested while the person was just about alive

 

[Anguz]

A modified No.12. Just found it been missing for a while
Have couple of smaller ones always do the mod easy to lock/unlock the blade, it folded once in use and still have the scar and 1/2 arm of blood missing
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Do they weld easy in situ? Or do I have to remove the ring to tack with the tig?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Do they work ?

No idea yet.
Only one battery.

 

[Dozzer]

Because im getting to old to pull start the 440 at the top of a tree or wobbling about on a ladder.
And petrol top handles are stupid money for what you get.

 

[Kayos]

Because im getting to old to pull start the 440 at the top of a tree or wobbling about on a ladder.
And petrol top handles are stupid money for what you get.
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I'm always amazed at how much Makita kit is actually available

 

[Dozzer]

I'm always amazed at how much Makita kit is actually available

I have so much Makita kit it silly, but its so handy as i have about 10 batteries, so always have a few full charged available at any time,
This is quite heavy for its size but looks very well made, the reviews say it will only realistically cut up to about 6" but that's plenty for most Pollarding & limbing will be doing round the garden & up the woods.

 

[northwest]

"Got any bread, Mister?"


Man is asleep in his narrow boat and is awoken by a persistent tapping on the hull.
Open the hatch and there is a duck tapping on the hull who asks him "Got any bread, Mister?"
"No!" the man shouts and slams the hatch.
Duck keeps on tapping on the hull.
"Go Away or I will shoot you!" the man shouts at the duck.
Duck keeps on tapping on the hull.
Man slams the hatch open and the duck asks him "Got a gun Mister?"
"No!" the man shouts and slams the hatch.
Duck keeps on tapping on the hull.
Man slams the hatch open and the duck asks him "Got any bread, Mister?"

I remember one day at the Metz bridge in Middlesbrough and there were a couple of kids hanging about as the workmen cycled by on their way after work the kids were asking "do you have any sandwiches mister?" it took me a little while to realise these kids were starving and they were literally begging for food. This was not that long ago either. Left a big impression on me.

 

[chunkytfg]

I have so much Makita kit it silly, but its so handy as i have about 10 batteries, so always have a few full charged available at any time,
This is quite heavy for its size but looks very well made, the reviews say it will only realistically cut up to about 6" but that's plenty for most Pollarding & limbing will be doing round the garden & up the woods.

I'm always impressed with not only how much of a range of products they have but also how many variants of the same tool they have. As simple combi drill comes in about 9 different types. even specialist items like the portaband comes in 4 variants!

 

[Mick Annick]

Because im getting to old to pull start the 440 at the top of a tree or wobbling about on a ladder.
And petrol top handles are stupid money for what you get.
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Can we have a review when you’ve had a go with it please?

 

[Dapph2]

Because im getting to old to pull start the 440 at the top of a tree or wobbling about on a ladder.
And petrol top handles are stupid money for what you get.
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Had a mains 14 " ( IIRC B&Q's green brand ) way back in 1993 , cut down 90 trees with girths off 15 inches to 40 inches to landscape my land , everything cut in metre lengths then stacked in 1 m high piles sheeted & weighted for 18 month .
Then turned in to multi fuel burner logs for heating our house. Sold it still in excellent condition for more than I paid for it four years later . Lovely bit of kit , chain kept sharp with hand files & occasionally renewed , bar turned often to get even wear and always used proper approved chain oil for it as well as giving it a proper clean , dry & reoil after each days use.

Main sorts wood cut apple, plum , cherry , pear , oak , sycamore leylandii , loads of ash and a bit of oak plus a fair bit of sawn timber as I built our small mammal farm .

Often ran it off a 3kva genny with a heavy duty 20 m caravan cable with 13 amp plug & socket on it

 

[Memmeddu]

I'm probably dumb but I've got another cutting torch

The other day happened to be working on a bucket, bosses have the stupid habit of closing gas bottles while passing by.
I was blindly (have to replace the lenses on my helmet) welding at such high currents that I've didn't notice that till I've laying a 1 feet bead already.
15 minutes to lunch I've just thrown everything cursing him pretty angry and hungry.
Came back after lunch break with my cutting torch and gouging tip, because otherwise I would have had to grind the bead down with the 9" grinder making me explode in rage due to the amount sparks hitting my face my arms and my neck.

Anyways hooked up my I think 30 euro investment to the hoses because I was initially thinking about using my Harris combination torch but we use fro at work and they are 3/8" threads so I've used this president in the picture.
Gouging tip on, lighted up at 0.8Bar propane and 5Bar oxygen.
5 seconds preheat maybe 20 of gouging.
This became my go to torch.
Boss showed up, we were already talking about getting a lever type of torch days earlier so he asked me I would have sold mine to him
My answer was a no because the torch was too old (plus my gouging tip is pretty expensive too).
Found the solution buying another one with a set of accessories too
Problem was the seller asked to delete the order due to a problem.
And repeat the order.
While doing that the shipping costs skyrocket from free shipping to 44 euro.
At this point I've bought somewhere else

Another seller 73 euro + 30 of shipping
But there are more cutting tips (1 on the torch and other 4 in the case) and the tip cleaner wich I was going to buy anyways.
The circle cutter is the only reason why I've chosen to buy it as a set and not just like a single torch for about 50 euro shipped.
I'm now going to resell the torch only for 65 euro maybe, no tips no accessories not even the case although I'm going to bin it .
5 cutting tips worth 10 euro each from AliExpress, the tip cleaner are other 7 euro, and the circle cutter looks like is not available or extremely expensive.
So I'll have a profit somehow