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Dean Lofthouse

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  1. Dean Lofthouse
    Haha, yes Bender, it seems impossible doesn't it. If you didn't end up with blisters first time round your not doing it right
  2. Dean Lofthouse
    I do high fells quite often for the same reason as Peter. To fit a tree into a space that it wouldn't otherwise fit.
  3. Dean Lofthouse
    Be careful if you use that cut, it can just as easily make the butt stay up in the air whilst the tip comes down and spring the butt backwards, it doesn't always launch off like that.
  4. Dean Lofthouse
    These are all taken from within my woodland except the first which is on my drive and last which is my front garden.
  5. Dean Lofthouse
    Nothing on his web site, I nearly bought from abroad !
  6. Dean Lofthouse
    Where d'ya get the snare ?
  7. Dean Lofthouse
    I've been out after dusting off my Canon 10d and taken a load of photos. Problem is now I have tried to download onto my comp I've found out that windows 7 is not compatible with the 10d software, I have to use a card reader to import. I'll have to wait for my daughter to come home to show me how to get them
  8. Dean Lofthouse
    Might have a go at them myself, what a good idea
  9. Dean Lofthouse
    I suffered badly this week with sore eyes and it's not whilst cutting, it's just rubbing your forehead or eye brows after, you get an avalanche of sawdust in your eyes
  10. Dean Lofthouse
    I love the disclaimer on the end There could be a few jumping down your throat now steve
  11. Dean Lofthouse
    My woodlands on clay soil so there should be indicator plants/weeds for that, you can test yourself Rob
  12. Dean Lofthouse
    haha I promise I'll have a look through my wood tomorrow and take some pictures of what I find. It could be bramble mind for all I know
  13. Dean Lofthouse
    David, as we get older we get more interested in these things until eventually we end up sat in a deck chair on our allotments. I would love to expand my knowledge of woodland flowers, but taking in fungi has frazzled what little brain cells I had
  14. Dean Lofthouse
    Your just an hooligan
  15. Dean Lofthouse
    It would only be around double if I'm thinking right but a stem loaded straigth down will take easily 100 times more load than a stem loaded at 90 degree or even 45 degrees I reckon, otherwise pit props would be useless
  16. Dean Lofthouse
    I wouldnt sell it off in bit anyway, Id keep hold of it, I reckon your only going to pull in offers around £175 so best kept under the bed for rainy days
  17. Dean Lofthouse
    I,m doing logs at this very moment and thats not the type of logs you do on the toilet. It's all money in the bank. i want to be ready for the rush
  18. Dean Lofthouse
    Its all good for instilling confidence in your climbing system. If you can abuse to that extent without failure, then your body weight is going to have no chance of making part of the system fail, provided it is in good order
  19. Dean Lofthouse
    I have yet to break a rope or have a knot fail and I have abused some ropes
  20. Dean Lofthouse
    Spot on. What is interesting is most ropes fail just outside the knot, not within. Which would explain the fibres entering the knot on the outside of the radius taking all the load. This was interesting and so is the knot, a blood knot. Google Image Result for http://www.allaboutknots.com/html/7_breaking_files/image004.jpg
  21. Dean Lofthouse
    Of course !!
  22. Dean Lofthouse
    Lesson Number 1 Can you explain WHY a knot takes out strength wee Franky ?
  23. Dean Lofthouse
    Tony If you lived closer I would love to take you up on the offer and it's an excellent idea. The problem most have with fungi is knowing whether or not they have got their id right and not having someone their to confirm. I got the book and gave up because of this. A guided tour of fungi pointing out its characteristics and methods of remembering and id'ing would be excellent and would be worth the travel but not worth the travel that far. Good on you mate, excellent idea
  24. Dean Lofthouse
    A landrover sat on it's butt ton
  25. Dean Lofthouse
    You need to speed up that production Johnny, you'll never make money mate. I went flat out on my own the other day and did 1 ton every 1 hour 10 minutes on tree surgery waste including cutting rings etc, you should be doing double that with cord and a processor So that should be 12 ton in 7 hours which is 2 days and 2 hours, flat out, so I reckon the extra day must have been spent kicking stones around the yard with your hands in your pocket

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