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Old 17-01-16, 04:42 PM   #651
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Option 2.

I have a 3m x 3m gazebo I can put up, but it's not really waterproof, and a complete liability when the wind gets up.
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Old 17-01-16, 05:10 PM   #652
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I wish someone would come and buy my 125 then my garage would feel like a garage not a corridor.
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Old 17-01-16, 07:38 PM   #653
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Today I have mostly been tinkering with my post-hole spade. The odd clonking sound heard on Friday turned out to be a rotten fence post, which has now been replaced. Thankfully the pitiful amount of snow we had last night did not freeze the ground at all.
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Old 17-01-16, 07:45 PM   #654
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Today I have mostly been tinkering with my post-hole spade. The odd clonking sound heard on Friday turned out to be a rotten fence post, which has now been replaced. Thankfully the pitiful amount of snow we had last night did not freeze the ground at all.
I only had 2 holes to dig, but I dug each hole in about 20 mins using one of these post hole augers. Saved a big back ache too

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/11169...s=true&ff13=80

Sold it on for the same price as I bought it.
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Old 17-01-16, 08:10 PM   #655
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I only had 2 holes to dig, but I dug each hole in about 20 mins using one of these post hole augers. Saved a big back ache too

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/11169...s=true&ff13=80

Sold it on for the same price as I bought it.
Still got mine and it's earning it's keep at someone else's garden

Had to use mine to start holes then shovel them out

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Old 18-01-16, 07:21 PM   #656
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I only had 2 holes to dig, but I dug each hole in about 20 mins using one of these post hole augers. Saved a big back ache too

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/11169...s=true&ff13=80

Sold it on for the same price as I bought it.
I've got the two narrow shovels hinged together near the bottom with long handles jobbie. If you scroll down to the similar items list on your link there's one there, called a post hole digger. Wonderful bit of simple kit I've used several times.
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Aye, i nearly got that, but my auger wss brilliantly quick, except when it caught on the main electric cable for the house, which had disguised itself as a root.

i could have used that spade for digging out the loose soil, but i used my hands instead.
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Old 18-01-16, 09:09 PM   #658
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Got a new pilot road 4 fitted to my front wheel then refitted the wheel tonight. What a wonderful bit of kit an Abba superbike stand is, almost more important than owning the bike itself.
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Old 24-01-16, 08:11 PM   #659
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Finally fitted a proper fender extender!


Looks better than this. Lol


Also fixed the sticky rear brake lever and throughly cleaned and re-created the chain. Plus a but of work on the Scooby. Nice Sunday afternoon.

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Old 25-01-16, 10:19 PM   #660
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New clutch cable. Buttery smooth changes and no more creeping forward when revving with clutch in.
There's also a 'new' (SH) fuel tank which has had a paint tidy up on the underside and awaits a repair kit for the fuel tap which is clean and in bits in the kitchen.
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