Tools And Equipment

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Green wires with 6 cores! That's 720 different combinations, you did well to get half of them working :lollol:

Does your boss have a bad back? These spades are amazing; they do half the work for you. I think they are called 'Autospade' I believe that you get them through the gardening catalogues that pour through the letterbox at this time of the year.

see your other thread for non-incinerator suggestions.There can be local bye-laws about bonfires

Oh and another tip. Put some oil where the tines slide on so they easily slide on and off. I didn't on my big new rotovator and It was very very hard to slide them off again. Not nice when you have disovered a piece of nylon bailer twine rapped round the rotors and you can'get the things off and...

yes, but its a very crude centrifugal clutch mutch the same as on cheap chain saws. So effectively when in tick-over the head isnt spinning but as the rev's reach a certain point the head begins to spin. All a bit meccano..ish

Yes you can. It is a matter of smashing the soil particles so that they lose their structure. A soil crumb structure which we all hope to get when sowing or planting consists of bread crumb structures, each of which will contain clay particles, sand, silt and hopefully humus stuck together....

Could we see a pic of the two springs? It might help. Without knowing much about it, I do know that some clutch mechanisms using multiple springs, but without actually seeing it, it would be hard to say really.

I'm much the same as John. A good clean and spray but I do empty the fuel tank out. My Bro is a Garden machine mechanic and he fires her up in the cutting season if I have problems anyway!

Hi, Any feedback on Allen hover mowers. Purely for some rough banked areas, destroyed my old b&decker . I am looking at the 450 modelthanks Howard

Thanks a lot for your help. cheers John

Its probably because after a while they break or get too tangled

Popped into a different B&Q last night to help my mother buy some shrubs and they had the same extra long telescopic Fiskars longarm (extends to 5m), but they only had one and it had no label on it. The price underneath of £39.99 related to a smaller Wilkinson Swords lopper that was obviously...

I quite agree Kristen-nice play on words Woo. The Empress of Blandings would snort in approval I think.

Assuming its not something daft like a lose filler cap, and as long as it starts and runs with no trouble, then it can only be a leaky gasket on the crank case. When you say its losing oil, is the oil actually leaking out from it, if so can you see where it is coming from? The trick is to give...

Without wishing to hijack the thread ...I'm planning to make some fake front panels for my planters. The pots, tubs and urns I've got aren't really big enough. so my plan is to make some sort of box-shaped container (I've been vacillating for years on this one!) either a standard plastic box,...

I've got one of those Capney. It's a long handled one in metal and I think it cost £1. Bargain ! I grow in deep beds and it's just perfect for raking up between the rows to get rid of weed seedlings. I love it.

I bought a new rotary mower today from "argos" Challenge xtreme 18volt and it has a cordless strimmer with it, my strimmer died and mower is old so i went for it, reduced from £149-99 to £49-99, and it says rear roller on it

Just bought a 63cm Spears & Jackson one on offer in Argos. Only £33 from £50.Think i need lessons though, given my shrubs a bit of a harsh pruning. Will post some pics on my other thread later.

Why didn't i think of that... a good idea. I guess I'll give it a go and see...it's just if i decide to get something smaller and more manuaverable, i wanna be able to sell this as new!