Tools And Equipment

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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.....

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!

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.

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

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.

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,...

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...

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

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...

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

Thanks a lot for your help. cheers John