Bob Rolfe
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that may be the case but when my lovely wife starts with the axe on log and her soft hands get segs and blisters she may change her mind kinda sharpish lol but yep ......busted ha ha
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HI all, It's Bob's wife, thanking you all for all the tips on how to clean a log fire. When ours is fitted Bob will be in a good position now to make a good clean job of cleaning the fire lol
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thanks for that ill pass it on !
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the door at the front slides straight up behind the wall and it flips down toward you to clean it... but i hope thats not gonna be my job im on splitting duty lol
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right we are finally taking the plunge and getting a log fire... its took a while ive bee cutting trees for a good 16 yrs and ive been thinking of it for a while and its took me half that time to convince my other half that its the way forward heres the beast think we are going to have to sell one of the kids to the Polish travellers but i think it may be worth it in the end and the kids like to travel so its quids in all round lol ...need a log splitter now or may be ill buy the kids back and get them a brand new axe to play with.....
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class c for me... i dont feel dressed if i dont wear them ive had class a years ago. now we have to use the class c ive got use to the and theyve come on leaps and bounds since the old blue stihl, the newer hiflex are really good
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though you had shotguns dean ? ....get some buckshot in them and let fly lol
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got to have me one of those !
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Im on a klemheist. i have been fro the last few years now i find it easy to set up and if it sticks a little its very easy to loosen with just your thumb http://www.animatedknots.com/klemheist/index.php you could try here for a few ideas. i think everybody goes through different knots, ropes, through out there climbing life and its good to look at other peoples setup. i do it all the time you know "what rope you one mate ?" "nice harness what is it, how do you find it" blah de blah "rope" blah de blah "knots" and i think you settle down for a while on a specific system till you get bored and the grass seems better with a different one or you go on a course and some other new system is developed. change isn't always good but at least you lean that youve got the best system for yourself good luck
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dont see the problem looks like youve got 9 good ones left lol
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i personally like a good pollard that has been properly done and has been maintain well as in only taking back to the knuckle that has been formed. what i cant stand is the fact that some inspectors just feel that some trees need to be topped and it is topping not pollarding mandatory ie poplars,willows and limes yes i agree it does reduce the maintenance in the shot term but it does not in the long term. it leaves an ugly tree and usually means you have to come back yearly to remove epicormic regularly. a more subtle approach i feel would be is to reduce kinda heavily if needed and keep it up thus forming a neater tree or flop the poor thing and replace with a more suitable tree.
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thats bad enough i work for the council and all our vans are PINK !
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braces for me i like a little slack around my waist when climbing though you do get more dust around the wedding tackle than a belt
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wish i could get my kids up a tree . when i was at a young age you couldn't get me out of the tree
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i thought there was a right to light if you've had the same view of well wot ever there sun or a church or something for the last 20yrs and then its removed then you've got rights not sure wot it comes under though. i think its under building regs for extensions but its usable in the case of high hedges where a row has been planted and grown to block your light or veiw.
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next door doesn't want them doing and my customer does basically there about 20ft high blocking out the sun to there garden. we did them a couple of years ago and the customer was not happy really because he wanted to take more off but the owner wanted privacy now hes having trouble getting permission from the owner to take them down lower
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ive got a customer who is having trouble with some conifers... problem really is that the conifers are not in his garden there in next doors what are the laws surrounding conifers does anybody know apart from the right to light one
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i wonder if you can wrap the conifers in a fine net mesh, the new growth will come through the net and you could possibly get a job knocking back the new growth. just a thought
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Fungi or Carving forum................I dunno
Bob Rolfe replied to David Humphries's topic in Chainsaw Carving Forum
think ill keep my mouth shut in future lol well i didnt know there was 2 names did i ? well three if you count the common name -
Fungi or Carving forum................I dunno
Bob Rolfe replied to David Humphries's topic in Chainsaw Carving Forum
nice carving but i was thinking the fungi was many zoned polypore (coriolus versicolor) but hey it does give the old bird a winter coat lol -
big congratulations tommy i got a satnav garmin oregon 400t ... i love my gadgets
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Ok youve rumbled us. We cant hide it any more. That was skyhuck in the leggins. We didnt want the hairy arsed farmer that was serving so skyhuck served in that pub. Your lucky though dean served us in the next not a pretty site an arb lad in a leotard lol .
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Ok youve rumbled us. We cant hide it any more. That was skyhuck in the leggins. We didnt want the hairy arsed farmer that was serving so skyhuck served in that pub. Your lucky though dean served us in the next not a pretty site an arb lad in a leotard lol .
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its a dogs life! she doesn't seem to get arbtalk these days even though ive told her shes got her own bit of the site
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i dont think she was an innocent for one minute (least i like to think not ) the bimble up the hill brilliant day out and a jolly good night was had by all AND IT WASN'T ME SNORING !
