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I rescued an Ariel. 1956 sidevalve. Just had to sell the old girl

Would love to help, I've got some thick Ash (3 1/4) but I think it's probably a bit past it I'll have a quick look

I've just had some bands from Wood Mizer, it's been a while and so I was impressed with the price at £17.50 each before VAT. I tend to run them till they get very thin, which is probably a false economy given the price of them. I find I start to get snappages if the bands are sitting too close to the back flanges of the blade guide rollers. With a bit of space to move they seem to behave better.

I'm afraid this is the lightweight, namby pamby 'skimmed milk' version... Creocote rather than Creosote.

Morning all. I've been bolting some untreated softwood to a concrete framed barn and have given the timbers a coat of dark coloured 'Creocote' to give them a bit of lifespan. It claims it's oil based and by the smell and look of it I can't help thinking that I've bought a pot of mildly filtered sump oil. I can manage that myself for less than £8 a pot Have I bought a lemon?

That's fair enough, if you've got them, then use them, I bet rectangular plastic conduit is great! It's really easy to get hung up about 'the perfect sticker', but it probably makes more difference to timber value,board flatness and quality to spend time and materials/money on getting the bearers built up sturdily and really nicely in line with each other. I've seen too many stacks with only 2 stickers per board that are horrible saggy messes fit mainly for firewood. A bit of a waste of time and effort for everyone involved. I borrowed some samples of machined posh stickers recently, I'll get them together for a photo when my naughty Land Rover gets back from it's holiday with the spanner man.

I was just wondering about toxicity- Wikipedia seems to think that it has low toxicity for mammals 'similar to table salt'. But then all you have to do is think of the nasties that have happened to people working with Lead, Phosphorus and various other lovely elements. No doubt the Boric Acid is not very nice depending on the strength.

Larch on Larch wouldn't hurt. If the boards are going up as cladding then you won't have any issues with any minor sticker marks- they would soon weather down. 3/4in thick sticks work well for most timbers, you can go thicker if you want to dry softwoods faster or down to 1/2in if you have Oak in a place where you think it may dry too fast- lots of wind or exposure in a dry spot. As your cladding is probably quite flexible but is going to be fixed surface, you can use a wider sticker spacing than if you were trying to dry boards for joinery. For thin boards most folk would use around 16in spacing between sticks (anyone?), but your cladding wouldn't hurt at somewhere between 2 and 3ft spacing. Make sure the ends are well supported and that there is a bearer directly under each set of stickers. Pop or any bland white wood without resin is great, sticks will air dry really quickly, so a week or two stacked in a 'log cabin' style (plenty of air flow around them) and they are ready to go. Timbers like Thuja or Giant Redwood used as sticks can bleed a bit of red colour into whitewoods. If you only need to store them for a month or so in the current cold weather, then I think your Larch wouldn't come to harm if it was piled up without sticks. Hope some of that helps. W

One of our local chainsaw shops uses this garage package (Garage Assistant) for their jobs, machine servicing, stock ordering etc. They sing it's praises and say it's really easy to use, very flexible and UK based with no silly fees. I guess it would be dead easy to set up for fleet management, you can set all sorts of reminders. SWS Solutions | Free Downloads - Garage Software and Garage Invoice System by SWS Solutions.

Woodweb.com has a massive resource of different types and sizes of solar kilns, very useful and informative. Search Results from WOODWEB's Site Search Engine I'm interested in any more feedback about the Sauno/ Logosol kilns, sorry for the derail.

The angle of dangle equals the heat of the meat? Anyway, you could do it the via the Roger Day method? [ame] [/ame]

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Tough Mudder is all a bit too corporate and sanitised Mr Mouse and his mighty Tough Guy are indeed the original and best It's truly bonkers.

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That thing's not exactly mobile is it now? It does look like a Trekkasaw bolted to something like the old Kirchner horizontal singl blade saw that does the rounds of the shows. And maybe the bed is a section of Stenner carriage mill? The turning mechanism is just visible, I can see a big digger arm in the first picture! When it comes to cutting 5ft trees, surely swing blade mills are where it's at?

That was probably mine! The old Trukloder was a beastly little machine, very agressive feed with sharp blades,-to the point where you had to hold onto very frithy and leafy limbs to stop the chipper choking herself. The mounting was really easy, the whole Entec unit is just bolted down with 4 bolts through a flat baseplate. The whole rig was a bit nose heavy and was best taken downhill backwards, it's possible to get the chipper a bit more central, but it means cutting away on the baseplate. Before it was tracked, I had it bolted onto the bucket 'shelf' at the front of a mini digger trailer that was fitted with greedy boards, so I could chip and haul with the same 4x4. I think you'll have to talk to the 'wee chipper club' to find out if there is anything of that size for sale... Good luck!

Top effort, sending all those samples! Steve, just looking at your website at all your skittle varieties- do you have a copy of the mighty Pub Games book? What a brilliant read. [ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pub-Games-England-Timothy-Finn/dp/0362002460]Pub Games of England: Amazon.co.uk: Timothy Finn: 9780362002461: Books@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61%2B-DVdH0oL.@@AMEPARAM@@61%2B-DVdH0oL[/ame]

I still can't help thinking you look like the bad dude in The Simpsons Lleylandi is good stuff (sssh don't tell anyone)- and so is Lawson's Cypress which is quite highly prized in the States, and known as Port Orford Cedar over there....

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Still very happy with my Ace (1.6), bought to replace a stolen Tirfor. The build quality is a bit cheesier, but for the price it is superb, it has rolled and tweaked some monstrous bits of timber onto the mill for me. By the look of it, the 'mid priced' winches badged as Yale or Draper are exactly the same as an ACE so there's probably no point thinking that they are any better quality.

It's quirky looking stuff, must be very useful for saw plastics, bits of vehicle, adding grip to controls, lighting the dark.... I've not taken the plunge yet, anyone else? http://youtu.be/0FgGne5tYrg http://youtu.be/hPusY-UjhMY

If you are in Hailsham, you're not a million miles from Southern Sheeting Supplies in East Grinstead. They do usually have a large stock of seconds and shop soiled roofing tin. They've always been excellent when I've put up buildings- I generally get the sheets first and work the building out from there. Good Luck! Roofing Products, Cladding Materials, Metal Sheeting - Sussex UK Southern Sheeting Supplies

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One of the Land Rover magazines did a big test of LED spots and work lights last month. Very interesting reading, obviously the £300 Hellas and the like did very well There were some really top end bits of kit there as well as the £20 cheapies that wouldn't make you cry if you smashed one up. The Chinese jobbies all tended to need a lot more watts to give an inferior amount of light. I keep looking at the Durite and Britax ranges, they seem pretty decent in terms of quality and price led (durite, britax) work | eBay

Guessing it's best to stick to phenolic ply for trailer flooring, Stokbord does get a bit cheesy and floppy when it's sunny. It's probably quite easy to gouge bits out of as well. W