nepia
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Fair enough John. The roof is your weak point probably; so many get screwed by a kick straight through as they were built 30 years ago of ply and glued on felt. The gun cabinet idea sounds good; perfect for a double barrelled 880!
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Do you have any references? I may have to revise my estimation of the stuff as I have access to some 12" stems.
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How about beefing up the garage itself? You'd protect everything then, not just your saws.
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Depends on whether they're breathable or not: treating breathable ones with standard waterproofing will wreck the breathability. But if they're just plain 'waterproof' any decent treatment should do the trick - Nikwax as mentioned or neatsfoot oil on smooth leather, which keeps the leather pliable as well.
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Dries fast, ends up very light and burns fast with OK heat but nothing special. I use it the same way as softwood - for lighting/rekindling a fire.
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Sounds familiar. Friends in Reigate, Surrey have a grabbed back horse paddock they made out of woodland: they made efforts to trace an owner - unsuccessfully - then fenced it and maintained it for 12 years. But whether they have registered it with Land Registry I don't know but they certainly regard it as their own. They're not the only ones in the road to have done it either.
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There's a turner on here (rarely) whose premises are in a furniture factory: their chairs have a four-figure price attached and as for the antique ones... how about a very simple King James 1 kitchen chair in beech for £3000?! Put your prices up and make chairs!
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Lucky you... Ivy can be a lifesaver for bees too: it's about the only thing with nectar in January/February if there's a warm spell that wakes them up. Note 'if' there's a warm spell...
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Have a look at what Hilliers have to offer. Depending on budget they could plant them for you.
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Feel free to laugh but my first thought was an alder with the dark colouring and the fact that it's in wet ground isn't it? Beyond 'alder'... that's down to those who know what they're on about. Jon
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...Just down the road from me in a garden in Reigate: I wish I could say I took them but not the case.
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Works for me for my permanent logstore at home. ~£25 for an 11'x6' sheet of mesh. Bend the end spines a bit to interlock at the corners. I've also made a cutout window for ease of access.
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Anyone like the new Stihl oil & petrol tank caps?
nepia replied to Andrew Barrett's topic in Chainsaws
Easier said than done it seems (waking up Stihl). There was a long thread on this topic quite a while back that got a bit heated by chilled Arbtalk standards! Given the number of people who've had caps fall open, and I include myself, there were still some who saw no problem. However... I've found that if you don't overfill and you check the cap after closing there is no problem! Sometimes the white outer part and black inner section don't counter rotate as they should when you remove the cap; they just need the smallest anticlockwise twist against each other and you're sorted. So my opinion is that although the caps aren't the greatest design the problem is actually user error. -
A real stockbroker belt nestbox that one; no messing about with holes in trees!
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Is Elm making a comeback or is it just a fairytale?
nepia replied to David Goss's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
[quote=jonny.;Susceptible species to the more aggressive O. Novo-ulmi are Ulmus procera (English elm), U. Hollandica ( Dutch elm) and U. carpinifolia var. sarniensis (Wheatley elm). Interesting as yesterday I scrapped a 10" sucker of what the T.O. told me was hollandica, the 20+"dbh parent being some feet away and last year at least was in rude health. I was given to understand that its success was due to hollandica's resistance to DED. This is in deepest suburbia near Epsom. Jon -
Does the fact that the contract winner is a way off necessarily mean that no-one local will do the work, or some of it anyway? Is there no subbing allowed? One of my last employer's computer systems was contracted out to a company 4,000 miles away but it was run by locals.
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...indeed not. Ordered a bar at 4pm yesterday and it was on my doormat when I got home just now. Excellent Justin - say thanks to Jake for me.
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Run hotfoot to their legal department I suggest. The law does sometimes allow its spirit to supersede its letter and, without knowing anything about the Act myself, I cannot believe that the course of action hypothetically undertaken by your hypothetical member of the public would be within the spirit of the Act. Whether I'm right would be for a court to decide.
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Possible but awkward. However I may just give it a go: it makes sense to keep the whole appliance together as most of the time the rolled up sheet hangs in the garage and the handle lives under the driver's seat. Serves me right really for leaving the handle in gardens, woodland, green waste heaps... The simple ideas are the best - cheers.
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Funny you say that: I was thinking the self same thing Friday. Mid afternoon and there was almost a dawn chorus going on.
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...next year's log pile! How's the leg?
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Thanks for that. The guy I sell to is very happy to take it (10-14" dia) so I guess that W/Elm isn't all that different then. I'll keep quiet about small diameter stuff! Cheers, Jon(athan)
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Nice spalting Ian - quite advanced I think!. In the first pics the wood seems to have a pink hue: is that just the pics or an unusual colouration?
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Big J, out of interest how does Wych Elm compare with the real stuff? I ask as I have a source of occasional W/Elm logs (just one or two at a time - small windblown hedgerow trees)? I've had no problem selling them to a miller but in light of your comments above I'm thinking about it a bit more deeply. Thanks, Jon
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Exactly the same as my MS230 when I changed. The hedgetrimmers (Stihl) needed both L and LA screws adjusting.
