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Kenwood chef. Don’t ask me how but my wife’s first operation of this resulted in this bent pin. Tried hammer and screwdriver, won’t budge, tried hot water on it, won’t budge. Pliers no chance can’t get purchase and the pin is too thick, it will not budge anyone have an idea how I can get...

Hi, I have this ancient patio and costs dictate I cannot replace to I’m re jointing it and cleaning it/tidying up. This I believe is the 1939 original one and it appears to be laid directly on mud! There is a drainage issue. The blue circles are where water accumulates. The red square is...

Thanks all - just bought a new one and it’s going great

I phoned up the support line for the strimmer and explained the fault He said it was probs due to after market spools being used not recommended He said the gear on the spool doesn’t fit the gear in the strimmer head. I checked the strimmer and there are 2 triangular notches which hold the...

Right, issue is the gear is knackered. It’s broken basically. Can anyone recommend a good brand? Electric corded is fine as it’s light work at home. This McGregor one lasted 2 summers. It was only £40 I think

No idea sadly

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So, I read that the line should be out the notches. Did that. The spool immediately unravels as soon as I turn it on. So I wonder whether the spool is wound the wrong way for my strummer. So I rewound it the other way. Worked for about 2 mins and then completely unwound and the line came...

Hi, I have a MacGregor strimmer. I have a recurring issue where it will work for about 1 min and eventually the line unravels. I suspect I am not installing it correctly. Here’s how I install it. The line fed into those notches like so I put the line through the holes in the strimmer...

Hi, There is a 15 M fence in my garden on its last legs. It’s about 7ft tall but would replace with 6FT. Guy just told me these days that would be 4.5k which I think is ridiculous. He said it was cost of wood . I just priced materials online and it would be no more than £1200 even not...

I never knew. I thought they would go out beneath too. Ok so I have a Gert machi mattock, and them roots are gonna get whacked tomorrow. And there’s nuffin we could do about it

So I got all the roots I could see on the first one but even having cut through all of them it would not budge. It seemed like there were roots directly below I could not access. Do all roots go out sideways? Seems impossible to get to the ones underneath

There’s two side to it. One has a blade horizontal to the handle, the other is like an axe, vertical to the handle. Makes sense it’s the Horizontal one. Things might seem intuitive but bear in mind I work in a professional job and I’ve spent more time measuring my knob with dental floss...

Nobody told me it would be hard work

Wrong house, sir

Do I smash through them with the flat end or the vertical end?

There is no way in hell either of them would come up with a mattock underneath. I’m 16 stone and with my full weight on it, having cut the roots for 2 hours it wouldn’t move. They look smaller in the pic than they are!

I have a mattock. In the end I had to axe it from the top and split the stump repeatedly from the top. Is that how it’s supposed to be done? The roots were THICK like 3-4 inches some of them, not sure if the mattock would do it. I cut all the roots with the saw and tried to prise it up...

So I have one of those electric chop saws and a spade. If I dig out the soil around and just slice through the roots with the electric saw then if I jam a fork into what remains and pull hopefully it will come out?

I have a few tree stumps in the gravel border I am creating. I am not attempting to dig them up due to time and from what I hear it’s an absolute nightmare of a job! They were felled last year. Question is, they have been left for a year and are a bit dank and wet. Can I preserve them when...