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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 .

Jesus. You might as well save time and do it yourself.

A documentary coming on shortly excamining The piece of siht that was a bishop who regularly beat young boys ( his own son being one of the first victims ) in the name of christianity . 60 lashes with a kane every three weeks . The arch twat of Canterbry resigned when it was found that he knew about it and did nothing . The abuser was shipped off to Zimbarbwey to sorta sweep him under the carpet ( more countless victims ) where he eventually died .

I've started wearing a waterproof skirt (bit of tarp I found) to walk the dog. Saves putting waterproof trousers on. Useful when wet dog or wet grass brushes your leg. I give it about a week before someone paints PEDO on the front of my house.

Spit now ( easier to split when green ) but keep the rain off and the air flow going .

I don't have one but think a water proof gilet might be a good idea keep you core warm but let under arms breath There are some brands do them for farmers not cheap though

Great thanks mick

Yes every time I tried a new way/body part to press the levers I’d skew it sideways and both lose momentum and scare motorists.

Bungee and steer by subtraction rather than addition. Obviously hilariously dangerous next to a motorway. I mainly just wanted to raise the point about subtracting rather than adding when using machines. Helped me become smoother when I started thinking of it like that.

Splitting now means it’ll season better/quicker.

Hi all been given aload of cut down timber that i wish to use for firewood next winter or winter after, it will be kept in a barn to keep dry its all been cut up in to smalll sections my question is am i better off leaveing it as a unsplit log or split them to season quicker/better? some pictures attatched if that helps many thanks

UN environment report 'hijacked' over fossil fuels - top scientist WWW.BBC.CO.UK The US and other governments derailed an agreement on a global environment study, its co-chair says. https://unfccc.int/about-us/reports-highlights/quarterly-updates/un-climate-change-quarterly-update-q1-2025-0

Good shots of the inner gubbins there Dave, cheers.

I remember tracking an Arboreater up a motorway hard shoulder to the next site, maybe half a mile, took the whole of lunchtime, plus fingers were freezing so kept trying to find a way of just leaning against the levers. Did maybe 1.5 miles per hour. Yes, get a new chipper I reckon.

The whole series is being published now and I will even watch Chris Packam's effort. Only 82 MPs attended which is a shame but entirely expected. There's a syndrome about populations living under threats like volcanoes coping by ignoring the inevitable. We are like that now. The thing is it's now too late to avert these problems and it was because long dead politicians and dictators didn't take precautions, because the poor aspire to have their share of what the rich have had and the rich won't retrench because they are enjoying what they already have and want more. We have pickled the planet in our effluent. We knew we couldn't rely on fossil fuels beyond a few more generations, and then came the problem from the surge in use of the atmosphere to dump the consequential CO2, but resisted change for all my 3/4 of a century.

Clearing up to move house and found the old handle set up I converted to single handed use. Hopefully the pics are good enough to explain how it was done. Anyone up in Aberdeenshire is welcome to it.

Not by me, but I got it second-hand in spring, it worked well for a battery saw, I was pleasantly surprised, 1/4" chain is a fiddle to sharpen. Used it lots for light work, then put it away with battery left about 75% charge, 3 lights, but I left it in the saw, not sure if that's why it discharged? Looks like I'll have to have mess with it as Kram suggested, I have seen some info about kick starting it by connecting another battery to to two outside terminals for a few seconds, but I don't have another 36v battery to use, plenty of 20v! I wonder if Mark at Skyland has a simple practical solution? He is quite close to me, hopefully he'll chime in! Thanks for all the suggestions. I service / repair all my saws, but this electric stuff has a place but initial cost and the cost of batteries limits my use and of course the lack of power versus weight, I much prefer petrol for 90% of jobs.

Exactly. Thanks for that. I knew that briefing was happening sometime, (only because James Rebanks happened to mention it), but I don't recall it being covered in the media anywhere. I believe that this stuff should be front and centre of the national news: the impact that Climate Breakdown is having on food security. Here, and globally. Also, governments should listen and act on this kind of advice. Similarly with the National Food Strategy that Henry Dimbleby wrote a couple of years ago, which now seems to have been largely forgotten about. There's not a lot that's more important than food. Air and water, but they're goosed as well.

Resist that kind of nonsense. Get the manufacturer to show you it. Stick the brochures up their noses and show them the door, centurion. Treat them very roughly.

I’m guessing he’s wondered into a shop somewhere and the salesman has settled it for us, by telling him “what saw is best” for our intrepid hero.