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Post by golfer on Dec 6, 2019 8:44:49 GMT
The way I use a 'phone, I could save a bunch on that PAYG deal. I have unlimited/unlimited/4Gb. I struggle to use half a Gb each month. The maths says what am I waiting for? A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush as they say. e&oe ...Steve,imo,this one is the way to go. Minimum requirements is £10 top up every 120 days. The only reason I can't use it is that it uses the ee platform,which is very patchy hereabouts. You'll have to Google 1p mobile,the webpage won't copy? www.1pmobile.comJust spotted this! Take a look at 3 PAYG - 3p/min calls to UK landlines and mobiles, 2p texts, 1p per Mb data. Credit never expires and coverage is good nationwide. I've been with them for about 4 years and had no issues - and it costs me approx £10 EVERY 2 YEARS! Yes, not a typo!! Admittedly, I'm a light user and use internet phone calls (WhatsApp is good) where I can but I've not found a deal anywhere that can top this. Rich
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Post by sleepyjohn on Dec 6, 2019 10:40:25 GMT
Yes Mr Golfer,that's a great deal.I was using it myself until there was a " problem " with the mast hereabouts,and now there's no signal for any of the EE users! Apparently EE wanted to put up a new mast,and at the same time pay a reduced rent for the site.The farm owner said OK,and then when the old mast was down " changed" his mind and changed his locks. Unfortunately he owns all the high land in the area and is a Vodafone user!
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Post by banjo on Mar 9, 2020 16:54:23 GMT
Today I can randomly disclose that I lost my chainsaw virginity!
I bought it a good six years ago and after watching a couple of YouTube horror videos I just left it in the shed. We had some cowboy "Tree Surgeon" in to cut back an enormous Portuguese Laurel. "That'll be 400 sovs mate because it'll take two of us a day". He and his old man were history in about three hours! The tree promptly curled up and died. This week I decided that I would cut down the trunks but the bowsaw was killing the old coot, especially up the ladder. I'm still not going up the ladder with the chainsaw, but with my newly assembled Screwfix log saw stand I'm getting through the chainsaw oil apace.
The Chinglish descriptos advise me to regulate the oil flow with a specified adjuster, but I can't see it on the outside and it's not shown in the RTFM, only referred to in the text. They tell me to back off said oil flow adjustment when I'm done so it can't be inside the machine can it? You wouldn't would you? WTF? I cut up half of my felling into chimenea sized logs and half of the oil reservoir is gone already. To add insult to injury (figuratively speaking thankfully) the oil reservoir viewing panel has frosted up and the chain tensioner seems jammed in so far as the knob is spinning and I can't tighten it nor release it, and as I said it's at least six years old. It would appear that this is one (piece of) Chinese junk that's taken a one way voyage!
Edit: Does anyone know whether Portuguese Laurel will burn? Apart from the obvious fact that pretty much anything will burn if you get it hot enough. Best beloved constantly whinges about smoke ...
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Post by nob on Mar 9, 2020 17:26:41 GMT
I have an electric chainsaw Steve, the oil is a total loss system as you know, I cant regulate the oil flow, Ive used it to cut down a silver birch and Holly and some other bits and pieces, Its mostly used now to cut a couple of inch of the Christmas tree base to give it a clean cut for water uptake. As for the laurel burning I don't have a clue.
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Post by thistledome on Mar 9, 2020 19:59:16 GMT
Hi Steve. I was interested in your post and thought I'd have a look on Google, not having a clue about the burning qualities, I found this site HERE which you might find interesting.
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Post by banjo on Mar 10, 2020 9:12:49 GMT
Indeed! Thanks for the heads-up Mike. My (now dead) Portuguese Laurel bore no resemblance to what you'd think of as a Laurel, the trunk, all three feet of it (!) is at least twenty inches diameter and three sub trunks spring from it each about nine inches diameter rather like upside down bananas. Before it was crowned it reached at least seven yards high, maybe a bit more. After it died off, I used to put Christmas tree lights on it each year until I got cold feet about climbing it. I needn't have been concerned because cutting it has demonstrated that only the bark was splitting and the heartwood is still solid.
For the last three years, using trucker's "Dolly Knots" I've roped back an errant Mock Orange / Orange blossom into it to make the skeleton look a bit more pleasing and rein in the Orange blossom at the same time, prior to which it seemed to relish a strangling match with the grape vine growing over the pergola. It's never ending isn't it. Regarding the burning- thanks for that link. A bit more Googling (DuckDuckGo-ing here actually) reveals that pretty much all timber combustion gives off noxious gases and it's ventilation and chimney draw that counts. I was only thinking of burning it in the Chimenea outside, so I reckon it's worth a punt. I also turned up the fact that wood carvers love Portuguese Laurel? It was a cracking specimen. It was a horticulturist that identified it because no one else had a clue what it was. He said he'd never encountered one as large as ours. It had to be reduced though and that "tree surgeon" trounced me for £400, got a free garden swing out of us and killed it. I had to abandon cutting up because the rain set in and mine's an electric one like your's Nob.
I should add that I'm no gardener me. I just cut the grass, chop up her scatter gun pruning, sweep the patio, climb ladders, perform the heavy lifting, go to the tip, lug in the sacks of whatever it is she buys and so on. SWMBO'd has the green fingers!
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Post by thistledome on Mar 10, 2020 20:25:39 GMT
All noted Steve. Our garden is in comparison to yours very small. My wife is the gardener, and knows all the names of the plants etc. I can never understand why so many of them have, as far as I am aware, got Latin or Greek names. When someone asks me what you call that plant in the garden I say “they are flowers”. Have you ever seen a Daucus carota? This is not a new Italian car, and you have not only seen one but also probably eaten one. Daucus carota is the scientific name for a carrot. Why don't we just call it a carrot? I think Carl Linnaeus has a lot to answer for. Anyway, I don’t have to mow the grass any more as we now have an artificial lawn. Mike.
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Post by banjo on Mar 10, 2020 22:39:37 GMT
The back garden is not really that large Mike, I make it about 40 feet by 27 feet. Trouble is it's rather "busy". My dad used to call it a pensioner's garden! Some parts of the border are going on 7-8 feet so you can imagine the little patch of green in the middle. I think the neighbours despair of it because they trim all the migrating flora like an engineer would. I don't blame them. Best beloved likes to think all the birdies prefer our garden to the sad bland spaces on each side. She does have a point there because we have lots of flappers visiting and a resident blackbird. She spends a tidy sum on feed, fat balls and worms. The mice love it. Moreover the last Goldie turned the patch into a moonscape from which it never recovered, so I couldn't ever think of it as a lawn. There are deep hollows everywhere which makes giving the grass, moss, ragwort and clover a haircut an interesting exercise. So far as Latin names go, botanists and biologists have a driving urge to categorise every living thing (phylum, class, name, yada yada- I did Biology "A" level at the local Grammar*) and there are so many carrot strains that "Carrot" in isolation is insufficient. Carrot 234 is hard to separate from Carrot 177 but "Daucus Carota" (I'll take your word for it!) probably sticks in the mind easier? Latin names are not true Latin either (I did Latin too in the first year!) I like to think of them as a way for the inner sanctum clique to exclude outsiders ... but then I'm a cynic. It reminds me of "Naughtius Maximus", "Sillius Sodus" and "Bigus Dickus", not to forget "Incontienta Buttock" of course. (He has a wife you know!) ;<D youtu.be/kx_G2a2hL6U(* I failed!) e&oe ...
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Post by Ratae on Mar 20, 2020 11:56:12 GMT
Hmmm....a suggestion perhaps! Last year I had a couple of fellas come around to take my old apple tree down. Over eighty years old and getting a bit dangerous. Two men with chainsaw, wood chipper etc. Cost £130 Anyway, I asked the chainsaw guy to leave me about 3ft of trunk and to make sure that the cut was left level. this he did. I then set a concrete birdbath on top of the stump. Works a treat.
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Post by Ratae on Mar 20, 2020 12:13:33 GMT
BTW guys....today is the 7th day of my self isolation period. Yep, last week I developed a sneezy cold and a slight cough, so just to be on the safe side and not wanting to give my pals an extra excuse to fouly abuse me, I decided to take this action. Apparently Psycho, Tug and Boycie have all followed suit. Greebo reckons that we are all a bunch of "Pussies". Anyway...apart from a touch of Arthur Eyetus in my hands, and mild symptoms of 'cabin fever'..... cuckoo, cuckoo, who's a pretty boy, wibble wibble...... I am feeling fine. Eldest son has been around and made sure that not only am I self isolating, but also self lubricating. He has brought me a bottle of Bells and a bottle of dry ginger, plus a dozen cans of J.Smith's smooth. I intend to battle my way through this remoaner virus, somehow or another! Up and at 'em!
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Post by nob on Mar 20, 2020 13:34:59 GMT
Stay safe Dave and everyone else.
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Post by pierre on Mar 20, 2020 15:34:51 GMT
Dave.I remember Mrs Slowcome had one of those.
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Post by nob on Mar 20, 2020 15:58:55 GMT
The Mrs will be at school throughout the Easter hols feeding these peoples kids. We were to go to Spain but that's all gone now. keep safe people.
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Post by banjo on Mar 20, 2020 18:55:43 GMT
Occy Health have caught up with Best Beloved at last. She has been advised as being "at risk" and to consider self isolating. This due to ace inhibitors, thyroid and chemo history. She still wants to go in and do cleaning and re-stocking. I fugure we're lucky with folks like that on the job?
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Post by banjo on Mar 22, 2020 12:36:12 GMT
Turns out that BB's best friend at work had pneumonia last week which turned into pleurisy but OK because tested negative for Wuhan Flu. However, not improving with intravenous antibiotics and on a ventilator has subsequently tested positive for it. That's a bit close for comfort. According to BB's other colleagues this is a developing trend with negative tests being followed up with positives. This lady undoubtedly contracted it from face to face proximity in theatre. It's making BB very apprehensive about working next week. BB elected to take Tesco up on its NHS staff offer this morning. The locusts had stripped the shelves by the time she had rocked up,bearing in mind that NHS passes were the entrance requirement. Hoi-poloi were in another queue with their noses pressed up against the window panes. The queues went right out of the store and there was a 30-odd minutes queue to pay. Not actually sure whether anyone was left working in the hospital. These are tough times folks, although the supermarkets are doing brisk trade. I've taken to thanking those folks that I encounter working in all arenas.
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