nepia
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Read that book too last year and had a wander round part of Knepp in November '18. Worth remembering that Ms Tree is an authoress by trade and that the estate has to generate income. There is something about the place as described in the book that just seems too good to be true. But it is a fascinating and heartwarming story, there's no doubt about that. Derail over; sorry TVI! -
Streuth TVI, you have been one busy guy notwithstanding the assistance of Fish n Shipps. Full respect to you - you're doing a great thing as I'm sure many here think. We're not at all envious you know, just admiring. ?
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I take it they're the same as 'middlings' - the bits that are much smaller than a log but bigger than kindling. Very useful.
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Hmmm... I find a gorilla tub from the pound shop works OK! ? But it looks shite in the lounge compared to that.
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Yeah he's all right ?
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It's also a tool that makes you wonder how you ever got by without; I'm amazed at how much I use mine given the years I managed otherwise.
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I carry the battery in the cab but have been known to tie a plastic bag over the battery compartment with battery in place for transport in wet weather.
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I was at school with a lad whose dad was a dentist called Pickett. I recently had bloods done by a nurse surnamed Slaughter.
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I have a Husky battery polesaw and have never once wished it was petrol. With 50 mins cutting time per charge I've never run the battery flat either. Using the battery version makes you realise how little of the engine run time would be used actually cutting. If you're going to be using the tool a lot buy an extra battery. You won't miss the noise, the smell or the refuelling. You do have to make a positive effort to remember to re-oil though. All that said I have no idea about the Stihl polesaws!
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Dan, I don't really know what to say about your blades other than to point out they're for chipping wood, not reducing gravel size!
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My suspicion is that the fault is mine via overtightening the bolts with an impact wrench; I've gone easier on the replacement bolts! I'll still use the wrench though; the socket doesn't round the bolt corners. The blades are original bought from Global. They've always had elongated outer holes; the centre hole is round which centres the blade fine.
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My Jo Beau M300 tried to eat itself Monday morning. I'm as sure as I can be there was no stone or metal chucked in - the material was brush fresh cut by polesaw and stacked on grass although a gravel drive was feet away. I'm wondering if I'd overtightened a nut or perhaps there was simply an unforeseeable inherent weakness in the metal. I think I got lucky with the outcome; no damage to even the other blade, the anvil, the drum as far as I can tell and no debris left in the machine!
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Not wanting to gloat or anything but my logs in tarp-covered IBCs have been fine. neiln - I'm near you too; the logs are 10 miles eastish of you but on high ground. So perhaps the biggest factor is ventilation rather than the current weather...? Appreciate you probably can't keep yours in as good a spot as you may want to.
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That apparently you don't always have to provide customer satisfaction to get your money!
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Thank you! Great to see them being so useful; what a life! The Corporation of London use a herd of Sussex on Coulsdon Common, Farthing Downs et al near me in Surrey.
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Do you know I thought the answer to that was going to be obvious but my involvement in cattle is so historic that there will have been entire new breeds developed since! I remember de-horning (disbudding) but I don't think it was done on every calf. Or was it? ?
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I think you're right there. Cheers.
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Possibly but Google Images suggests that's a horned breed.
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They are. Anyone know what make?
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At a guess it would have initiated spalting...? The (dead) tree had been down a couple of months when he took the rings.
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Presumably you speak from the point of view of a miller. Years ago I sold some big MP rings to a specialist turner and he regretted the fact that I hadn't stood the rings with the endgrain on damp carpet.
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A source in Surrey, west Kent, north Sussex would be good; I'm dropping in on the OP later this month, trailer in tow.
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Certainly true of older wood. You don't so much split euc on a powered splitter as destroy it.
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A ratchet strap onto the headrest support - love it!
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Out of interest, and from a non-miller, what would you or anyone buying birch boards do with them? The stuff rots for fun.
