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t20:
Still not working I'll have to get the laptop out.
Mike
t20:
try this its an attachement
hermetic:
That's a very old forerunner of a strimmer for clearing undergrowth etc. anytime from early fifties onwards. I have a similar wheeled strimmer with a B&S engine and a nylon line cutting head Looks like a villiers two stroke engine, If it turns by hand put a bit of two stroke oil down the plughole(cylinder walls will be dry), and see if you can get a spark out of it! Make a lovely restoration project! you could even use it to clear your local undergrowth. Get the spanners out!
Phil
hermetic:
Or use it for taking the local chavs off by the ankles, there was a chariot like this somewhere in my past history (lessons) ;-)http://madmodder.net/Smileys/default/kranke_200-1.gif
vtsteam:
That's pretty interesting.

In the early days of handheld brush trimmers we wore harnesses. We were cutting saplings in a wood with blades instead of strings. I remember a fellow worker on the crew ahead of me suddenly frantically trying to unharness, and finally pulling it off over his head and throwing the whole rig -- running trimmer and all off to the right. Then running towards me, and yelling over the noise of my trimmer as he passed, arms flailing, "Bees!!"
He'd hit a big underground yellowjacket nest. Seemed a good time for me to depart the area as well.  :)

Seems like that one would be easier to let go of than the old harness style, when in a hurry.
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