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Yeah, I first heard this When Humble pie covered it in 1971, then I heard Ashford and Simpsons original '66 version then Ray Charles, then John Scofield, and most recently ish John Mayer which finally 50 years later I decided that I had to try to learn the dam thing, which isn't coming that easy☺️ Google Search WWW.GOOGLE.COM

He's probably still trying to programme the fanuc robots from a sky remote or something.

A mate worked at a university. They cleared out the (pleasingly analogue) physics department. I had a van. His house is still rammed with robotic arms and oscilloscopes.

He is married with a new life in Cal I forn ia.

My mate is keen carp fisherman and had the pleasure to meet Mr Gibbinson. This is him with a chunk from Semtex Lake in Wales. I'm into sea fishing and mostly target bass with lures.

Last I heard he was living next to a weed farm, with an old flame, in California.

Where's silky been? I've been waiting for big news for about a decade now.

I got a guy from a local stove sales and installation shop to certify one that I fitted myself. The building control man that came out later was quite happy to sign it off. That was 10 years or so ago, I dare say things have been tightened up since then.

Woodpecker's larder?

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AFAIK the HETAS registered installer can self certify his work but not that of others. Building control could certify it for a fee if they have someone competent to do so (unlikely).

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Moisture in the wood and surrounding soil makes it difficult because until you can get the wood up to about 300C it won't pyrolyse. Moisture holds the temperature down to 100C. So if the mass of wood and soil conducts the heat away from the fire faster than the fire heats the wood it won't work. My device was a 12 by 38" tractor wheel with a cast iron hub in the middle. An exhaust pipe slid inside the hub onto a chainsaw bored hole into the stump. We tried it on the stump of a dead pine we had felled in a garden of a posh new 4 bedroom house. A very old vacuum cleaner blew air down into the hole where the fire was lit. A car wheel with a 5' flue pipe welded to its centre was placed over the exhaust pipe so the exhaust from the fire was via the flue pipe, this pre heated the combustion air. The fire burned through the middle of the stump til it reached the sandy soil underneath the stump. It worked but as it took many hours to get up to temperature and then it became uncontrollable it was deemed far too dangerous. I wrote about it here years ago from memory, it happened around 1980. The house holder was wakened in the early hours by the roar of a jet engine and the bedroom lit by bright orange. A long flame was flaring from the flue pipe until the vacuum cleaner hose melted. Then it subsided and he cut the power. He was a patent agent and immediately lost interest in my invention. The fire was out by the time I arrived in the morning and the laterals had burned out to the edge of the tractor wheel. I tried it once more on a freshly felled oak stump but it hardly got going during a day because the wood was so green, it would have needed a support fuel to get it up to temperature, so that was that and most firms earn extras by stump grinding now.

Put up pictures.

I've invented something better. Coming soon (about 2040).

Hello, I am trying to get some advice on how to affordably treat my four Western Cedars that a couple arborists have said have bore beetles. I live in the Portland metro area of Oregon which has been having drier and hotter summers. Both arborists have recommended either thousands of dollars in treatments or 10 thousand dollars to just remove the trees. I want to save these trees, but I cannot afford to treat them for thousand dollars. Is there anything I can do to help them? I would really appreciate any help from an expert. Thank you, Tyson

Not very light. Under 80kg probably ain't gonna move very easy. Depending on how close you are to the thing you can collapse the wrench easily to get things moving. It's better to plan the dismantle it pieces that'll be on the heavier side. Yes you can pull slack, it's obviously harder but just pull consistently and be patient rather than yarding on it. I tend to stop the line with as much slack as I think ill need when it gets passed back to me.

very true, and a very capable and knowledgeable all species angler, and a very quiet humble man, especially when compared to some of the chavvy gobshites these days.

"Meal Team Six"

Haven't posted on here in ages - so here's a couple of nice specimens - hope you enjoy. And yes, this seems to be a special year (for lots of stuff).

Lengthen it for a start and add helper springs/roll bars! Leave it single cab but add storage for personal kelter that doesn't fit in the cab! Make a bolster frame for forwarding if you wish but a trayback or dropside is more than adequate for chips (with greedy boards) or carrying timber. A trayback (aussie style) with pins would be light too!

Very knowledgeable and readable, interesting author in the carp world

I've tried most methods. The YouTube methods of pour a teaspoon of fairy dust oil and light it is never going to work. I had massive piles of brash to burn anyway so had a couple of fires on top of stumps and they went. I wouldn't bother if I didn't have loads of stuff to burn anyway and they're not in a location you can have a fire. I think you need loads of heat for a long period of time, can't see how else you'd do it.