Tools And Equipment

Always ask a professional Invicta...It saves the kerb side mechanic costs.Use their links for expert advice ....your mower is an expensive purchase and off hand advice could be a disaster!:dh:...no offence meant to you Invicta,but unless you are a proper mechanic.....

My garden hose has a life of its own and I think it hates me!.

As you say in your earlier post if the buyer needs to clean and touch up paintwork it will detract from price. Even though this will not improve the performance I have decided to give it a spruce up, i have the paint anyway so its not costing me anything other than time. You would not sell a car...

Hello Has anyone in the hillingdon area got a rotavator my daughter can borrow or hire for a weekend. They have moved into a new home and the garden is in a bad way. Thanks Gill

You say cutting trees, do you mean the odd branch, or bigger? There are a number of folding saws that I find useful around the garden, which vary in price from a few quid in somewhere like Wilkinsons, to the tens/twenty pound range if you go for felco.I have used in the past a sheathed...

Our lads remove them simply because they are wider than a barrow and so easier to hide laid length ways. Funnily enough we had three barrows stolen in a week but the picks and shovels were left:D

Thank you all for your replies, I will look into the Felcos and Gardena as well as the Bosch. I am not sure if I can take her in to a shop as I live 350miles away and would have to wait until I visit her, but I could be an option.Thanks again

Got any links to that Iceni? I found one on Amazon for £200 but not less.

It's working now my friend got it going , I don't need to push it it drives itself if that makes sense my friend said it's a good mower and very sturdy solid but heavy I can store it where I am working.At the mo it probably needs petrol think will use it for this season than sell it and get...

I have been given a second hand petrol strimmer by a friend of mine (took pity on me when he saw me struggling with a 10 year old electric strimmer). The strimmer runs but it needs a service and a good clean up. I would like to get hold of a user manual for this strimmer, any suggestions where I...

The Ryobi will fall apart, they are cheap **** and simply wont cope with strimming a large area.Buy a second hand stihl, FS85 or similar... pleanty on ebay should be around the £200 mark, a second hand stihl will be farr more reliable than a brand new ryobi plus you can get spares, try...

Its on the forecourt of a couple of petrol stations I use, sold in 5 litre containers along with the coal and BBQ stuff, given the silly price I think they probably do very well out of it.The stuff I've bought is called Bartoline.

Thanks all for your advice I did not go for it.

Any advice on this model for £75 Victa Wilkinson 18 inch "Silver Streak" model rotary 2-stroke petrol powered push mowerThanks

I cant understand a pump up sprayer not working, I can only guess but I would say either the nozzle was blocked or maybe you didn't tighten it up hard enough and there fore there was no pressure building up in the tank.As to the trigger spray, they are OK for small areas but hard work to use...

If you mean "soaker hose" you can buy joints in B & Q although they are not made specifically for it, they do fit. (I think they are made by poly pipe) The ends are simple, fold it over and secure with a cable tie. I just googled and pipe connectors are probably cheaper on line. I would...

Kristen - thanks for the input. I especially liked the trebuchet bit. cheers DM

Ill give an honest answer based on laziness. But i wouldn't advocate itFor any long grass, anywhere were there might be dog or cat mess or when strimming cow parsley then I wear a helmet. Obviously also when I'm using a blade on it or strimming near gravel.For regularly trimmed edges I...

Oddly enough he does, though I can't understand how come. I think they grow back. He once crushed his thumb flat in an accident involving a car, a jack, and an uneven road. He was told at the time that although they had tried to reconstruct it for cosmetic reasons, it would never ever work again...

"You have to offset your arms" OK But that's easier said than done because the machine jumps around quite a bit on our hard clay soil, so if I was working between plants I would want to be right behind it to make sure I could stop it rotavating a plant!But as I said the negatives are not...