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Thanks for the heads up. I would advise against it too. I shall feed back with the result but anyone that takes a single anecdote as a working method needs their head examining. And now is not the time to need the NHS.

So, Not sure anyone else is going to have the same issues that I did, but I filled the too low, crazy wandering chase with mortar to put strength back into the render.....so I can cut another one about 2.5 inches higher. This will give about 5 inch drop-still none the wiser what the drop does...

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Confused now. I was using a plain angle grinder and a normal diamond 5" blade... These chasing blades screwfix are thinner than the blade I already have. I could try to squeeze two blades together on the spindle :sneaky:

Yeah now I remember. Lombardi poplars were good for that, but from a harness, you could spear branches down and sometimes they'd rattle all the way down through the canopy and end up so deep you fell them again on the ground. Stihl 064 with a daft short bar on it would scream through a spear...

Ah there we go. Never heard of it. ... Will go for that. Thanks.

Perfect. Cheers.:LOL:

Thanks for the heads up. But what is your angle?

I know that I have never learned a textbook way and would guess there may not be one as it sounds inherently dangerous and would be ruled out in favour of a safer but more laborious and expensive method. But I have played about with the method. I don't know of any undercutting aspect as it's not...

Hard to know if this will work. Stuff galvanized steel mesh deep in the hole. Then chuck mortar in little by little. Should clog/ form/ build up eventually. Maybe I am thinking of the wrong situation. Pics would help.

Newbie... Apron flashing to polycarbonate roof lean to. Wall is rough cast render. I set a shortish peice (mistake#1) of wood as a height guide onto ledger board and used a 5" diamond blade to cut a line. Worked not bad. Then cut about 8mm off guide board and repeated to make hopefully a...

Q1 No Q2. No Is it as simple as that? Q1. Is a neat question but one that misinforms a great deal and leads to a sampling bias that should not be the basis for recommending a novice not buy proper chainsaw safety gloves. Q2. ????? How about .. Q3. Do you know of anyone that would have...

And as for FFS, where have you been 'listening' for people to say this? You have never heard of anyone's gloves saving them from an injury? Well that's that then eh ? Chainsaw gloves are a pain to wear compared to builders gloves,.... Because they are built to argue with a chainsaw chain...

so,. If you want to go looking they are still there looking much like they did when I did my ARB course 23 years ago. Accident records still show an awful lot of life changing hand injuries. If you think the chain brake will always work, you are crazy. If you think the hand guard will always...

I don't think you are going to be believed, so you are probably not going to increase the chances of people being injured. But damn that is some irresponsible and Ill informed input right there. People use chainsaws with all sorts of levels of expertise, sadly, and in all sorts of less than...

Depending on your compass, you might want to ask hire firm before you use their machine for this to which I'd expect they would decline.

Get and wear gloves. No saw will ever mitigate against user error. Virtually all accidents are caused by the user. So many ways to set yourself up for an accident without knowing it unless you have had a solid period of learning the right way. Many cuts, many positions, many limbs under many...

Get yourself a cheap sprayer and make a thin PVA mix. Set to medium mist and if /as you are breaking any parts the dust is dampened and then 'locked up' once dry.

..... whatever you fill it with....? I wasn't a brickie when 'the new way' - mastic filler- came into play.... I bet someone would have asked how mastic gets by doing job of mortar.... is it really immaterial? Thanks for the input.

Putting an apron flashing into a roughcast rendered brick wall. Cutting blind into the render. So the chase 15mm wide 25mm deep, may be mid brick or hit the mortar bed, or a bit of both Whichever I finish with I will use hall clips to hold the lead in place. If I use Leadseal and the chase...