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It seems like Bracken is a villain of the piece here. Is there any effective control for it, other than herbicides presumably? Does anything eat it in sufficient quantities?

Milling finished so a quick update. The 18mm ply board with 45 degree blocks worked a treat. Fixed it to each quarter with a screw at each end and milled down to one board past the ‘centre’. Then removed the board, flipped the log over and finished milling the second half. In each quarter, the ray fleck figure is visible in the four centre boards as I’d hoped, so I’ve the option of jointing each set of four planks to make four 0.9m to 1.0m book matched ‘slabs’. Maybe table tops? Planks are generally very good, with a few small / pinhead knots. A few splits around the heart in some boards, but I’ll cut that off in due course. Overall, looks like grades 1A and 1B based on the pictures in the publication ‘Making the Grade’. Not bad for a 160 / 170 year old garden tree and thankfully no nails. Re the volume of useable timber, the log started as about 40 hft (hoppus measure). After milling there is an average 10 planks per quarter and a total from the four quarters of about 30 cu ft of planks including sap. Having measured the planks excluding bark, sap, heart and splits, the quartersawn heartwood volume is 20 cu ft with planks generally 200mm+ width with a max of 270mm width and up to 350mm at the flare at the bottom of the log. Interesting to see that the heartwood measure is half the hoppus measure, which I guess gives a better idea of the ‘value’ in a log? The upper log was milled slightly differently to the earlier sketch. I was looking for roughly 10 x 2 planks which will be trimmed to different widths after drying to exclude sap, etc. Just aiming to have some stock of oak, not for anything specific at the moment. There was a shake I’d forgotten about, we found a patch of rot from a broken branch and other issues, so we adjusted the cut pattern as we progressed to keep faults on the sides of planks rather than in their centre. Got 18 square edged planks with six quarter sawn / ray flecked planks, three either side of the heart, plus flat and rift sawn planks. All the planks from both logs now moved from the sawmill and about half stacked and sticked with 20 x 12mm sticks at 400mm centres. Waiting for storm Amy to pass in the meantime and after finishing the stacking, will cut and split all the offcuts for our stove. Nothing wasted! Overall, milling these two logs has yielded some good timber for my ‘a hobby woodworkers’ future use. And lots of fun! Andrew

Yep. Had mine since June 2020. Still in great nick. I'm a pretty light user though.

My point is more that Stihl has had the computer and injector working for six years. Why haven't they put it on other saws? They must have tried!

The people who couldn't book online died?

Zack Polanski condemns weaponisation of Manchester terror attack WWW.THECANARY.CO Zack Polanski said it's "problematic if someone is trying to weaponise" the Manchester attack to "silence protest against the genocide"

Unfortunately not. I will be with my 11 year old daughter and her friend. A bottle of Shiraz and a few tins of Belgium’s finest will see me through.

Ask the Indians forced onto reservations - immigrants always cause trouble. There is no future without war and suffering - it's already baked in. We just have to learn to take the rough with the rougher

Go on, you must have a link to one of those videos knocking about that you can post.

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Saw a bit on the bbc news about the Green party and their conférence/policies Reminds me of the famous Gérald Kaufman quote. “The longest suicide note in history” No chance.

if the Green Party under Zak get in we can do enough drugs to imagine that's the case

I'm not sure about that,the effects and outcome of letting a shitload of immigrants into the country was fairly accurately predicted, but no fecker listened. and here we are.

Bit early in the day for that kind of talk. It's possible we weave the fabric of the universe ourselves.

You having some Mushy Tea and listening to Gong?

philosophical stance - not a fact it's possible the future is already written into the fabric of the universe, just we can't see it in advance

🤷‍♂️facts, you can try as hard as you want but they speak for themselves. but the BHOAC back in around 2012/13 were concerned more about the rise of RW terrorism than any other organisation. Well they got that very very wrong didn’t they to say the least. 🤷‍♂️

It’s my mate’s wood. That is actually an old gravel pump. All 800kg of it! Purpose made bbq mesh and cover. We are camping there in a couple of weeks. Lovely spot.

You’re spot on, like.

God you sound old.

You're being a bit selective, your original post went back to iirc 2005? There was the racist homophobic London guy who used nail bombs, sure he killed a few and injured a hell of a lot 80-90??? C18 have been implicated in a few deaths and lots of attacks but due to their MO it hasn't been proved, there are several BNP and similar members found with home made bombs and arms. The NA guy , I think he was high up who got caught with a machete and was planning to kill a female MP ( can't remember her name). I'm sure that there are a few more bomb makers and guys found with arms knives etc but I can't remember names and instances but the BHOAC back in around 2012/13 were concerned more about the rise of RW terrorism than any other organisation.

Could be a place to visit one day.

I get the use of the 760 regularly and have had the use of at least three other models over the last 5 years. Zero issues so far. I love them.

Have you adjusted the carb settings yet, most carbs are set to 1 turn out on the H&L screws but try 1.5 turns and see if that helps. A carb kit may help but it may just be a blocked fuel filter, holed fuel line, blocked gauze strainer or just gunk in the carb. The 114 is an old saw, is the piston OK? Taking off the muffler and viewing the piston through the exhaust port will help. What is the compression like? 150psi + is best. Lots of things can cock up the idle but if the compression and piston looks OK, most issues are fuel system based.