What I broke today...........

[Kram]

Parkside chainsaw, the side adjuster bevel gears are just held in place by the thin wear plate.
Its been a good saw, a lot of pro use cutting low stumps in the dirt with a blunt chain, roots and a lot far too big for it.

Still in warranty but its a minor fail, easily repairable if I cant find a replacement wear plate.

 

[Bobupndown]

Parkside chainsaw, the side adjuster bevel gears are just held in place by the thin wear plate.
Its been a good saw, a lot of pro use cutting low stumps in the dirt with a blunt chain, roots and a lot far too big for it.

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Still in warranty but its a minor fail, easily repairable if I cant find a replacement wear plate.

Do you reckon those Parkside chainsaws are a decent enough buy for non professional use then?

 

[Kram]

Yes, certainally for the price, its great value and will do everything most people need from a ground saw.

It would have been useful today!

 

[indy4x]

The Jeep



This isn't the bit where it broke

Fab afternoon/evening driving Sarn Helen in South Wales. Halfway through there was a clicking from the suspension as the front panhard rod bracket (track bar for the Americans) had developed a crack. Managed to finish the lane and nurse it nearly home

About 1m from home it started spluttering and cutting out, thinking it might be fuel I freewheeled downhill into a petrol station and chucked some fuel in. Bloody thing wouldn't start.

By now its raining and a farmer friend lived round the corner so he came and towed it back to his yard

Tomorrow's job is to try and find out what's the problem

I had previously suspected the fuel pump may be on its way out, but I can hear it spinning up when I turn the ignition on.

 

[Arc Tourist]

Decades ago on a desert trip in my van, I had the same sputtering and cutting out you described. The fuel filter was the issue. It was clogged to the maximum.

 

[lchris21]

....not today but a few weeks ago .........1/2"torque wrench fell off the top of my toolbox in my garage, point load straight onto my middle toe from about 6ft up, which Id precariously placed on the edge and no I was not wearing steel toecaps.....just trainers as you do
Lesson learned..dont lend tools to mates and lazily put them back when they are returned, so it was his fault

 

[gaz1]

....not today but a few weeks ago .........1/2"torque wrench fell off the top of my toolbox in my garage, point load straight onto my middle toe from about 6ft up, which Id precariously placed on the edge and no I was not wearing steel toecaps.....just trainers as you do
Lesson learned..dont lend tools to mates and lazily put them back when they are returned, so it was his fault

nope its your fault for being lazy and not putting it away where it should be

though 6ft high is at the term totaly stupid place to put it

 

[lchris21]

nope its your fault for being lazy and not putting it away where it should be

though 6ft high is at the term totaly stupid place to put it

its like cityscape in my garage........floorspace is at a premium so all the residents are high up

 

[MattF]

nope its your fault for being lazy and not putting it away where it should be

though 6ft high is at the term totaly stupid place to put it

 

[Farside]

.1/2"torque wrench fell off the top of my toolbox in my garage, point load straight onto my middle toe from about 6ft up,

Back in the bus garage, a 1" ugga-dugga gun fell nose first onto my big toe (left).
Nail eventually fell off, the toe got very blue and went in a sulk.
For the next 20+ years the nail never grew back straight, then gradually started doing it.
Workplace supplied some utterly useless 'clogs' which didn't have a steel toecap and that minor accident caused a bit of an upheaval, with everybody being issued proper safety footwear, after the union reps got into it.

You wanna know the best bit?
Some ashholes blamed me for the loss of their beloved clogs.
Twits.