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Up and getting sorted for sales meeting. Was incredibly mild yesterday, when I left the house, dawnbwas just starting, not a cloud in the sky and it was 10 degrees! Got to 15 at some point yesterday too! Think the same out now! Be good and return home safely! Delhi, Gait.

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I had over 50kg of Cherries this year. A mix of sweet and sour cherries. The Sweet Cherry Wine is lovely but the Sour Cherry is really nice, almost Port like taste and colour. I also do Red Wine Kits, I prefer the Wine expert Private Reserve Kit. A bit pricey at £120-£150 for 30 bottles but the quality is amazing. The £50 kits are great as well and aging them in Oak Barrels really improves the taste, if oaked wine is your thing. I'll also have a kit of Porter on the go most months. I used to be heavily into all grain brewing and all the science that goes into that but its too much faff to have a brew day and all the cleaning that goes along with that. I "used" to distill as well. Around 95% with my full reflux still. If I "was" doing Rum then its the continuous still as it retains the flavour of the mash.

That will keep you going for a couple of weeks in the coming winters.

Sorry Rich, I assumed at the mpg it was a 2.8, but it transpires that it is a 2.4.....

Actually, it seems that my Hilux is a 2.4. I too, are surprised!

So it’s just a matter of upgrading or changing the track motors?? Obviously I haven’t even look at the costs!

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Has anyone tried these with the woodland trust broadleaf cell grown trees?

Judaism.

Yes, I was planning to rack it off three times probably, based on other stuff I've brewed. I'm largely going on what it says in the C.J.J. Berry wine making bible. Regards killing off the yeast, what do you recommend, a Campden tablet, or something else?

This was such a beautiful line! I reduced the tops of these massive limbs because of some mechanical issues, but I don't show the pruning itself in this video. Some of the main mechanical features why I pruned the way I did are not on video... And it is difficult to show this clearly with the footage. This surely is one of the widest London planes I have seen and climbed. And it was not the only one there

I can't say mine is too standard, I find it almost impossible to pull over....with the decomp in....pop up piston and the base of the cylinder taken down, ported and muffler mod. It is a bit mad and prefer the 346 TBH but it is FAST..

Looking good, keep racking it off in to a new demijohn to get rid of any sludge in the bottom that may taint the flavour. It should stop fermenting at some stage where you can kill the yeast and add a little sugar if needed to taste. 👍

Species dependent really, plus if there’s a through draft etc.

Only the surface of the log will be wet if the thing has been fully seasoned in the past and the only way the log will get completely wet again is to leave it in a bucket of water. Rain will just cause the surface to get wet and a week or two inside will dry it again. Best get a moisture meter, even a cheap one will give you useful information. 20% and under is ready to burn.

Perfect thanks on that note i have a couple of piles that have been on our land for around 3 years im in the process of splittling that now for use in the home, if these logs do get wet how log do they genuinely take to dry and be good use in the fire? thanks

Insufficiently secure with your own masculinity, Mark? Real men wear skirts. Tell Mosh and Thrasher they're wrong.

Totally agree, my boys are 20 and 17 now and had breathing problems for the first few years of their life’s so slept on edge!

Yes, another vote for splitting now. I'll add to stubby.... driving rain off certainly, airflow is more important but if it is stacked, only the top couple of logs will be affected by normal rain, the rest will keep drying if you cannot get it under cover. Even today after this weekends storms the lower parts of my log stacks are surface dry.

And the thing is when they are older and no longer waking you up you will still wake up anyway as you have become conditioned . In fact I have never had a proper nights sleep since they were born and I'm nearly 73 now .

This all day long .

Yep . The underside shot of the center swively bit , I just put a blob of weld on it . You can use either handle .