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  1. nepia
    Cotoneaster I'd say - cornubia? If you are philanthropic by nature offer it to turners if you can find any that will take green wood.
  2. nepia

    Jokes???

    nepia replied to brownie1964's topic in The Lounge

    How do you milk sheep? Invent an iPhone and sell it for $1000.
  3. nepia
    If you're ever in the market for a polesaw look at the Husky battery one; flippin' brilliant. You get at least 50 minutes cutting time to a charge and that's a lot of polesaw cuts.
  4. nepia
    So true, so true. I need to get to a shop and try hiking boots on again as Parcel Force have just thrown my Scarpas in the bin!
  5. nepia
    Out of the box they were as tight as a tight thing - I thought I'd wasted a lot of money - but they soon formed around my feet. I guess the answer to your question now is probably down to what socks you're wearing. But they're free and not in bad condition at all - give 'em a go. The worst that can happen is that they don't suit you in which case someone else can benefit.
  6. nepia
    In the short term - keep moving gently. Bad backs seize up so you need to keep the muscles on the go a bit. Sitting still, especially at a computer, is absolutely the worst for the back.
  7. nepia
    Size 9? Stunning; I have a pair of Meindl Woodwalkers in 43 clogging up the garage. They're too worn to be of value but there's plenty of life left in them - a bit like myself really. Interested? Jon
  8. nepia
    Many Happy Returns kid!
  9. nepia
    You'll do better there than Vis Express; 3 weeks so far to change a pair of lenses...?
  10. nepia
    I hadn't even considered the yellow flowers coming from the trees; I thought they were from hidden clumps of herbaceous perennial! But now you mention it... no idea if the flowers are from the tree. Better pics needed!
  11. nepia
    Which shrubs Brian? All of them? Close-ups of the now removed ones are needed for ID please though I would say that the ones with spikes of yellow flowers are Golden Rod (Solidago). Annoying of your tenants but at least you can knock the price of replacements off their deposit as they shut the door behind them.
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    Too young. I still regularly play a solo album of his; really good stuff.
  13. nepia
    Many Happy Returns PeteB. I'm three and a half years ahead of you! ?
  14. nepia
    Tell the client 'I'll be there 9am' or whatever. You've then given yourself a deadline - something to work to; the time pressure becomes your motivation.
  15. nepia
    Works for me. I'm retired from the day job and have plenty of my own work to do but still do the odd day for a fairly local company: it's good to get out. I learn, I meet other people and go to different places. The whole occasional 'out of the ordinary' experience has benefits.
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    In my mid 20s I could do 17 - yes, honest! - wide grip overhand pull ups. I couldn't come within a country mile of a one armed.
  17. nepia
    Not exactly but you got the place name wrong so I thought it helpful to provide the correct name for the two members that had asked for a location. ?
  18. nepia
    The other thread Al's started says Edenbridge.
  19. nepia
    Thanks again. Jonathan, RHI sounds like the archetypal politician's 'good idea', i.e a very bad one. Beau, point taken about logs being a luxury. So going back to my earlier speculation about domestic woodland management becoming viable the suggestion is now maybe not because the demand for firewood would drop due to non-firewood economic effects, i.e. the broader Brexit effect. 'Speculation' being the operative word; we're in the same position as all those pre-Brexit vote speculators who were making predictions!
  20. nepia
    Thanks for the valid points chaps. Big J - RHI is gobbledegook to me. It sounds like your thinking is to scrap it...?
  21. nepia
    ...just Buy British - lamb, pork, beef... Said while trying not to sound jingoistic ?
  22. nepia
    Agreed that most things are money driven. But if Brexit leads to Baltic kiln dried becoming the expensive option would that kick start the domestic market? Whether the end user gets to pay more for their cube than now or not would then be down to competition-induced pricing. N'est-ce pas? To go back to your earlier comment about consumers not paying more for their firewood - if I remember correctly your prices are at the high end as the market goes (no inference intended - I'm sure the quality earns it) and you sell well. That suggests to me that others would be prepared to pay more unless Dartmoor is inhabited by the country's most generous people!
  23. nepia
    But would they need to pay more? If a greater acreage of home woodland was put back into management there would surely be economies of scale coming into play (machinery in use 5 days a week instead of 2?). Transport costs could be kept down by using locally sourced firewood so would the retail price need to rise? Debate please! I'm just throwing my own ideas about.
  24. nepia
    The naive view of possible benefits from one ignorant in the ways of commercial timber production... Expensive to import = we help save some virgin forest in the Baltic States and Poland currently being mullah'd with no regulation. Increased demand for domestic produce = long overdue management of some of the thousands of acres of abandoned woodland on our doorsteps (much lapsed chestnut coppice a few miles away from here in Kent for example). Naive I'm sure as I say but someone come back at me and start the discussion...
  25. nepia

    Loading ramps?

    nepia replied to DanBous's topic in General chat

    Know what you mean and it was a bit of a fiddle getting everything to stay in place while loading but with the chocks there was no problem in the end.

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