tommer9

I was somewhat disappointed the other day to learn that the Delabole Slate Quarry (very famous cornish quarry, deepest in europe or something yada yada...) uses a sand blasting machine to carve name plates!!! They still split roof slates by hand FFS!!!!!

The husky is a very durable piece of kit, and as has been said reliable and basic etc etc. Before reading the other posts i would have said steer clear of electric winches for log pulling, especially stuck logs. I used to burn out the solenoids on an X9 superwinch, even when fitting the 'albright' (better quality ) ones. This is why i ended up with a PTO winch, but from earlier posts i would say that it would be a good choice.

NIce one. My son and I went out for an aerial chill-out a few weeks back- great way to spend an afternoon.

We have to sort that lot out:thumbup1:

Tw@t! You can only smoke dried fish. Everyone knows that.:lol:

Sorry to have missed this one- sounds like a good time was had allround. Busy busy busy I am happy to say, plus 2 shows is my limit really, and capel and the APF are they this year. Hopefully show my ugly mug at next years do.

Yeah thats what i was worried about. They can always be checked i suppose.

Why...- were they there?

Dammit thats what i was going to say... 7??

cant wait to try mackerel, its a great fish. Anyone tried doing any meat this way?

Hadnt thought of that- I was under the impression that you shouldnt use softwoods or sycamore? I take it you have tried cedar? Do you put the wood in a box then the fish on that or straight on the coals or what mate? Get a biscuit tin, pierce the lid, and put a good handful of whatever wood you use, plus some herbs- fairly strong ones such as rosemary etc are fine- in the bottom of the tin. Put a wire rack about halfway up, put your fish on that skin side down as applicable, and for a couple of steaks like above, its about 10 minutes over the flame on the hob.

Isnt skipton in north Yorks? Could Bob not help- i think he does training, or could ertainly put you onto someone up that way as he is up there somewhere.

I've recently got into smoking fish at home, with a biscuit tin hot smoker, and beech sawdust. Tonights is tuna. I also tried trout and salmon steaks. If yo havent tried it then i would highly recommend it.

Wow man- i had forgotten that you had done that. Its brilliant. I reckon a busmans holiday is required for me, and you can give me some pointers. We have mostly granite and slate down here, other than on the Lizard Peninsular, which has examples of every kind of rock there is, including serpentine!!

Try Treebeard- he had one a while back for sale.

Good call. He could well be your man.

That is, as i have said before, stunning Dean, I LOVE that wall, and that stone, and if i am passing your way i will be bringing hammer and chisel mate!! Really really nice detail and tight joints, with everything level- what more could one ask for.

The fireplace was part of 10 months work and 700 tonnes of stone on that job. Back then we were charging 150 a day (6 years ago) and the whole job cost about 4 or 5 mill to build. i think our labour for the whole job was 134k. The job we have been on recently (first stonework for 3 years) we are charging 175 per square metre of face, including sand and cement, but not the cut stone.

Glastobollox. I love the fact that we were having the kliving daylights beaten out of us and our vehicles in the 90's whilst the levellers were chanting about battle of the beanfield on stage......I went once- the capitalist dream in all its glory. Needless to say i wont be going again. Those of you that are into it enjoy though.

Hahaha- yeah they are very lucky.

I have very very few pics since my PC died......here are a few hedges we did years ago, and a bit of facework- but the idea is the same. When i finish the job we are doing at the mo (its a long story, but i was quiet when i took it on) ill probably put up some pics to bore you with.

Thats just soooo wrong:thumbdown:

Yeah- have had for years- i tore a muscle in my shoulder when younger which pulled my thorassic spine across to the left, and have two discs mising each side of L4 vertebra, which has slipped forward and i now have a 90 degree bend in my spine there. A large part of my treatment involves deep tissue massage, as well as manipulation (usually in my cranial and thorasic vertebra from referred problems from lower down), and even ultra sound and lazer therapy. Ive not been for a while now, and ned my neck realigning, as i cant lift my right arm above my shoulder without excruciating pain if at all. You should try Roz Boisseau at Hawksland (she has been sorting me out for years), or Malcom |Retallick in wadebridge. I am sure there are others closer to you- in fact i recal someone mentioning someone very good in newquay, but i cant remember who.

TBH the concreting in of the pitchers is the least of the problems with that wall. The fact that the stones run up and down all over the place.....they should all be level- not running with the ground, not running uphill etc etc. IIRC the stone is an igneous stone, making it granular. This sort of stone (like most) is eminently workable with the right handtools (which TBH there is no excuse for not having if one is charging for stonework) so the shape of the stone cannot be an excuse. Dean mentioned Jumpers. If there are no jumpers in the surrounding stonewalls, then there oughtnt be in this wall, although down here jumpers are an essential part of the wall, to eliminate long horizontal joints. Vertical joints are to be avoided, the rules on jumpers being that you should only have two stones to a jumper. Given the size of the jumpers in this wall, compared to the height of the other stones, that would be fairly difficult. Dean- is the large jumper in the middle of the first shot a stone on edge?? That IS criminal. If i am building stone walls, a jumper would go into the wall as far or further than it is high.