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Am not so sure that he has the ear of Starmer though enough to shelve the deal?

I believe it’s to keep the boring insects away - not the uninteresting ones, the ones that will damage the timber 😏

One thing he did in Davos apparently is meet with the Americans about Diego Garcia, which may be one reason the Chagos deal is now shelved.

What is the purpose of this?

Don’t forget to account for handling, positioning and storing logs, clean up and dealing with waste. Also remember that a proportion of the boards you cut will be rejects as they will be too bowed or have major knots hence weaknesses. Also as you have alluded to it is easy to totally overlook the part of the business that takes the longest - marketing and sales. If you spend two hours on production but then another four hours actually selling and dealing with the customers the equation is turned on its head.

Interesting, thank you.

I've been doing the same for a long time, Sodium Borate Decahydrate...A saturated solution of around 1Kg into 5 gallons of hot water... it definitely works.👍

Perenniporia fraxinea or more likely Rigidoporus ulmarius??

I am most taken by the one in the last picture of your original post, what is the maker and style? I have one laminated billhook, Stamforth Severquick, which only shows up because it has been hammered on the back of the blade.

I had a look a while back and would still consider for larger clearance works on a 8t+ excavator but for domestic stuff it doesn’t suit, primarily because you can remove the stumps but chasing lateral roots would be impossible. If it’s going on anything less than perfectly flat ground I feel it would be damaging on an avant or similar carrier over time (lateral stresses). We once thought putting a log splitting cone on a Vermeer would work great, which I feel is the same principle - the reality was it didn’t work and we consistently sheered fixing bolts (we tried free swinging, couldn’t get the weight in the log before it slipped), we were going to eventually damage the arms so scrapped it.

How do you know? I think you are right but it is very rusty and the makers name may not survive cleaning.

I remember seeing an early demonstration of a becker in around 1988, impressive at first but soon blunt? I had the same thoughts about the Dipperfox, how do you keep it sharp and what weight does it need to feed it down? With a conventional TCT cutter tooth you can normally keep going through something nasty and then swap the tooth for a sharp one.

If you want to gamble on new coins before they go mainstream, yes.

Do you mean brush axe, horrible bent metal head with a straight removable blade that never hits at a sweet spot and rattles when you hit a branch?

Thanks for the replies. Our local builders yard on Uist is selling 6x2s at £35 or possibly more now. I've been treating the timber I use myself with Boron and so far it seems to be ok. It's only sprayed on though. We burn all the off cuts ourselves and if theres too much I can easily sell it. My wife has horses so the sawdust gets used up no problem. Horse shit and saw dust makes great compost for the garden.

Avoid anything caustic - very common in ultrasonic cleaning fluids. It will turn cast alu a nasty black colour.

Steam fair was always great for picking up stuff, ive a fiskars bill hook ,axe, . Sandvik brush hook - what ever that is , then the standard pattern bill hook found in a skip.. but ive never had or owned Yorkshire pattern double edged billhook

The Honest eSIM allows you to roam quite a few apps including nav and messaging, I don't have it but was working in Lincolnshire this week and the phone signal is rubbish on my network up there. From £3.75 a month might be worthwhile in Wales? honestmobile.com/smart-sim

Worth a punt is it Weex.

I dont have one, but it seems to be the one that everyone uses.

Good points, and the little I’ve been able to glean over the internet points to operation not being as easy as the vid illustrates. But I could sell the Bandit and buy this without losing money. Take it to work on the back of the truck rather than a dedicated trailer.. Can’t seem to find any first hand experience though.

I purchased one of those hard wallet ledgers yesterday steve (Ledger nano X) You do not have to give out any info to use it. You would need to sell any currency to a third party not through the exchanges to keep under the radar though. You know far more than me about this stuff.

Another day, another handle.