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Day 5 and the last early start till next Tuesday Cool and quiet. Hope it stays that way. Happy Friday and maybe get to pop out later on with the Herberts for a jar. Have a great Friday and a great weekend.

i had a quote from a solicitor a couple of weeks back for a litigation matter and it was £265 plus vat per hour

Think that was a bit of an urban myth 😀

Usually the two smaller knifes served different functions, one was blunt (chakmak) and used for removing burrs from the main blade and the other was a small utility knife (Karda).

🤷‍♂️ Mind you the one industry that is doing well under his tenure is the arms manufacturing sector, plenty of blood being spilt and dollars made under Joe.

forgot to say that folk law/tradition says that if you take it out of the scabbard it has to draw blood before you put it back

I used to have one Compleat with scabbard and 2 throwing knives it somehow disappeared quit a few years ago

My kukri which has spent a few shifts in the woods.

I much prefer the caulked handles too. I find the round section ones feel all wrong, much less directional control. I don't think caulked handles are expensive now @openspaceman Not much more than a fiver when I see them in agricultural suppliers normally. Made from decent Ash too, (not like a lot of tool handles these days, that feel like rubber and no doubt come from the other side of the world).

Found the bill hook in a field by a stone dyke wall, well rusted and no sign or remnants of any handle, the tang is 6” long with no signs of it being peened over in its past life, although I do see the logic in that and I do have two kukri’s with the tang peened over.

The shaped one, a bit like a pistol grip, the oval section also give one a feel that the orientation of the blade to the target is right.

Yes, that's the kind of thing I need. Is that 15 or 22mm cu pipe? I figured that 15 would be too small, but maybe not.

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Good info and picture, what do you mean by “caulked handle” I am guessing it is the flatter profile rather than round but as I say only a guess?

That is absolutely laughable. What world is that cartoonist living in.

I wouldn't like to use a billhook in anger without the tang being fastened to the handle in some way. As said, this is normally by peening it over a washer or by riveting through. They are particularly prone to slipping out during use, especially if the handle gets dried out. I recently bought a new handle off Ray Isles and iirc it even came with the washer. Mine too was a bit short so I carefully heated the tang and drew it out on the anvil, I have welded a bit of rod on if necessary in the past.

I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy, wars, jobs, my savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc., I called the Suicide Hotline. I got a call centre in Afghanistan, and when I told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck.

A Husband takes his wife to play her first game of golf. Of course, the wife promptly hacked her first shot right through the window of the biggest house adjacent to the course. The husband cringed, 'I warned you to be careful! Now we'll have to go up there, find the owner, apologize and see how much your lousy drive is going to cost us.' So the couple walked up to the house and knocked on the door. A warm voice said, 'Come on in.' When they opened the door they saw the damage that was done: glass was all over the place, and a broken antique bottle was lying on its side near the pieces of window glass. A man reclining on the couch asked, 'Are you the people that broke my window?' 'Uh...yeah! , sir. We're sure sorry about that,' the husband replied. 'Oh, no apology is necessary. Actually I want to thank you.. You see, I'm a genie, and I've been trapped in that bottle for a thousand years. Now that you've released me, I'm allowed to grant three wishes. I'll give you each one wish, but if you don't mind, I'll keep the last one for my self.' Wow, that's great!' the husband said. He pondered a moment and blurted out, 'I'd like a million dollars a year for the rest of my life.' 'No problem,' said the genie 'You've got it, it's the least I can do. And I'll guarantee you a long, healthy life!' 'And now you, young lady, what do you want?' the genie asked. 'I'd like to own a gorgeous home in every country in the world complete with servants,' she said. 'Consider it done,' the genie said. 'And your homes will always be safe from fire, burglary and natural disasters 'And now,' the couple asked in unison, 'what's your wish, genie?' 'Well, since I've been trapped in that bottle, and haven't been with a woman in more than a thousand years, my wish is to have sex with your wife.' The husband looked at his wife and said, 'Gee, honey, you know we both now have a fortune, and all those houses. What do you think?' She mulled it over for a few moments and said, 'You know, you're right. Considering our good fortune, I guess I wouldn't mind, but what about you, honey?' You know I love you sweetheart,' said the husband. I'd do the same for you!' So the genie and the woman went upstairs where they spent the rest of the afternoon enjoying each other. The genie was insatiable. After about three hours of non-stop sex, the genie rolled over and looked directly into her eyes and asked, How old are you and your husband?' 'Why, we're both 35,' she responded breathlessly. 'No Kidding,' he said. 'Thirty-five years old and you both still believe in genies?'

What do you mean by a flat anchor?

Second attempt at posting. @organic guy mentioned straps which I think mean two straps of metal on opposite side of the handle, I take a socket to be a frustrum of a cone attached to the blade. Ours were an incomplete socket formed by two cheeks of metal extended from the blade and folded around to form a socket as in the slasher marked 1 in the attached picture. You will see a ring of steel has been driven down this incomplete socket ant then rivets fitted to hold it all in place. Our work ones were the same but the head was a double bladed yorkshire style. You would see these in many agricultural shops until everyone had a chainsaw. Hook 2 is a round handle and you see the tang is peened over a washer to hold it. Hook 3 was my goto billhook given to me for coppice work, when the tang broke I added a bit and it looks like I brazed the nut on. I prefer these caulked handles. Hook 4 was the hook I used when picking up and dressing PSR material that was going to be peeled, it has measurements filed on the back for checking top diameters and a hook filed in the beak so it was used as a pickaroon until the tang broke. After 1987 I never got involved with softwood first thinning and caulked handles are expensive, my carving skills mean this never got repaired. The others are various swap hooks showing the peened tangs and one where the washer has rusted away and the tang is pulling out of the rotten wood.

With the greatest of respect there should be no need to keep adjusting carb screws, having to adjust the mixture is very often masking engine issues, auto tune is very reliable, it will keep the saw running at peak performance without the need to fiddle with adjuster screws, one of the main reasons I see is users ordering new auto tune carbs from dealers then find they do not run as they only have boot firmware on them, then they need to be connected to the service program.

Went through something like this a few years ago with a hedge trimmer that you could not tighten the blades ( shoulder bolts through the blades) the blades then tear the the non woody spindly parts of the hedge rather than clean cut it.

Another reduction, this time a lime. Background the tree overhangs 5 gardens however only 1 is impacted as the limbs have extended into his garden sitting a good 4-6m beyond the canopy line, this isn't helped by the back of the tree being crowded by a large chestnut. Also the garden we were working over is AstroTurf, with two big yew trees. No easy drop zone everything was rigged out and ofcourse a flat anchor across the top.

In that second photo, the close up, the brown bits haven't been cut, they might possibly have been chewed at by a blunt trimmer. Id have happily trimmed that a bit tighter than you have. But I wouldn't worry it will grow out again all to quickly!