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Beautiful piece of work that arbgirl. :thumbup1:

You were right- very enjoyable. Nice rig too! Great productivity.

A real pity.

Righto......better catch a couple of birthday beers or summat then!!

I think that is a fair point Tony, but possibly a little off the mark in the case of a large proportion of the unthinking head in the sand brigade. I think that for alot of people who live in the world of tv dinners and endless soap operas, they have no realisation, or oportunity to get that realisation, that keeping up with the lates fads is what life is all about.... I'm the boss of the BBC I'm the monkey at the top of the media tree Your version of the riots in Cape Town Comes second-hand from me Chewing and spewing this revolution For popular TV All your opinions are carefully chosen By what we'll let you see Televised crap dressed up as fact Your soap reality We only want a chance to show the Editor's side Of struggle in the news Closer and closer to the State's eye view And further from the truth Push a microphone to the mouth of this youth Bewildered and confused Misreported, distorted, misquoted A ready-made victim to be used Quote you on things that you never said Put this pencil to your head Kill your revolution dead TV tells us what to be and what to say and what to do How to act and how to lie but never question why Fighting to stop this mass-deception Fighting to scrap the pass-laws Fighting to end misuse of land Fighting to close down diamond mines Fighting to feed their hungry mouths Fighting to change the world And here, we sit on a fence Built by distance and enforced by lies Is a full stomach all it takes To keep us pacified The stuff we are fed by the in-house drive-by of media has helped to give the masses a distorted view on what really matters for the greater good, and even to ignore the greater good, on whatever level.....

Haha- really looking forward to meeting you more than just a handshake at Capel mate...

Bizarrely enough the Michal Moore film 'Capitalism:A love story' is on as we speak.........95% of the total U.S. wealth is owned by 1% of american citizens........eg rockerfellers etc- the causers of world recession in order to increase their wealth whatever the cost to those at the lower end of the scale (including nature in that ) AKA the illuminati as referenced in other threads.....

Green issues always do in a hard economic climate, which re-iterates some earlier points being made.....

I cant answer that, and didnt realise that you didnt, but having read Tonys reply to this question, i would ask could they be re-introduced?

I really hope you dont mean that!!!!! Treat it maybe? You can use oak outside green, even for outdoor funiture, and as it never rots you dont need to treat it- that is to say the heartwood doesnt rot.

Until we kill the modern capitalist dream and replace it with something that doesnt scream 'ME ME ME ME ME SOD THE REST OF YOU ' then we will be gong down the pan fast.

Darren i SOOO hope you arent on the wind-up, as this thread has really touched on some of the things that are in dire need of change in our screwed up society and world, driven by capitalist selfishness, and a refusal to do anything that doesnt benefit oneself to the detriment of all around us. Oh- and i cant remember who wrote it, but it has only been the last 150-200 yrs that we as a race have raped the earth with little or no forethought of the consequences. It is grossly inaccurate and uninformed to assume otherwise. Before the onset of the industrial revolution, and moreover the inFernal combustion engine, we lived far more in harmony with the world around us, leaving far less of a footprint than we do now, with almost zero waste in comparison to modern man. We had no reliance on petrochemicals, and hence none of the foulness that comes from the use of them. People were far more in-tune with their surroundings, and much more in harmony with the earth, and above all much less wasteful. One can find all the reasons under the sun to get a job done, cut a tree down or whatever it may be, but greed and selfishness have got alot to answer for, on a personal level to a global scale, and guess what- the ones who really suffer are those who are still in touch with the earth, who leave no footprint and use no more than is needed, giving back as much or more than they took in the first instance. Where do i see arb going? If we carry on the way we all are, making petty excuses for our foul modern ways then i see it going down the pan with (hopefully) the whole of the most damaging animal on the planet- man(un)kind. If bees die out, then life on earth wont be far behind, and they are dying by the colony.....

Yeah i have heard that too. My neighbour when i was a kid kept about 7 hives in the edge of his woods, and one day years later, we heard he had got rid of the bees very suddenly.....Apparently the toxins build up in your system, and he was a sting or two from death!! He couldn't risk ever being stung again!!

I wasnt really making a point, just trying to understand the attraction.

Looking lovely there ace....Dont you mill your own sticks ? Whenever i mill softwood i always make a few for stock, that way you never/ rarely run out.

That is what i suspected. So given that you are getting the tracked machine, am i right in thinking that really it is too much to ask to rely totally on a micro chipper?

But in order to really make them work, they have to replace the drag to the trailed machine right, and then they come into their own? Sorry if i seem obtuse, but the difference between what i thought they would be like from hreads on here to how i found them was vast....

I am probably risking being shot down in flames here, but i cannot see the point in these chippers, because the 2 occasions i have had first hand use of them, once a JBm500, and once a greenmech like steve's/ AD15's, there was still a drag to the chipper, as on both occasions the chipper wouldnt fit any closer than a trailed machine, and i lent my groundy to someone with a greenmech and he still had to drag up to the car park. On top of that they are slower than a trailed machine, dont spit the chip into the back of the truck- okay on the job my groundie was on, but the chip had to be removed on the other 2 occasions, and the groundy each time was raking mountains of chip around the bed of the landy. Am i missing the point, or are they ONLY and advantage when there is npo chip to remove and you can put the machine under the hedge/ tree that you are cutting. I just dont get it? TBH i found them to be a TOTAL pain in the proverbials.

This i have heard before, as being a good prevention for hayfever. i think it is more than an old wives tale.

If we are allowed foreigners, then heres a couple from south america- Argentina, by the border with Brazil, and further up in brazil, in a restaurant:thumbup: (In zimbabwe the name for the giant centipede is 'jongololo') And a beauty from this country.

Yeah me too. It only becomes an issue if you start making furniture and it all get svery wobbly and falls apart, or large cracks open up in the joints of floors. I didnt have the time or energy to go into minutiae, just outline general guidelines. I have a heap of waney edged shelves throughout my house, most of which were semi green.

Johnty- i have only just noticed its the operatives course not the supervisors! Sorry to mess you about mate, but I dont need the places in that case.

Some pics to give you an idea of stacking...They were just going for delivery hence the odd pic, but you get the idea of the rebuilding of the log etc.

It is an intriguing tree to say the least. The twist goes right up into the tree, as if someone has just grabbed hold of it from above, and wound it round a few times. I am told there are others in the woods, but have yet to find them. There are some lovely and varied trees there, as it used to be a huge estate owned by (i think) one of the old cornish mining families. Well worth a visit if you're ever down this end of the isles.

There is reams that could be written on this subject mate!! When you have miled the wood into booards, you need to restack it very carefully, starting with a flat level base- concrete is ideal. Then put some bearers on the ground that are all the same height, and level. Then put your first board down. Then put a 1"x1" stick across the board at the same intervals as the bearers below- ideally ariund 18" apart. Then put your next board on that, and another layer of "stickers", repeating this until you have essentially 'rebuilt' the log. As for splitting- oak does split easily, but to combat this, as with all wood, the endgrain needs to be painted. There are products out there for the job, but PVA glue, wax, paint, redoxide etc etc will do. This is to stop the wood from dryng out at the ends faster than the middle, releasing stresses at the end and leading to splitting. Good stacking also makes a difference. As for using it green, yes certainly you can, but not for indoor use such as furnitue or flooring, as it shrinks and moves during the drying process. Outdoors, stacked up as described, the rule of thumb is that you allow a year per inch thickness of board, plus a 'yaer for luck' and half that for softwoods. Dont cover it in plastic or shut it away at the back of the garage to dry. It wants to be somewhere draughty- out in the yard with the worst of the weather kept off, and in time- depending on board thickness- you will get it down to about 20% moisture content. It will then need further drying in a kiln before it can be used indoors. Like i said, there is LOADS to say on this topic, and i have just scratched the surface. Paint the end of the log when you get it back to the yard. Its easier and better than trying to paint the end of each log!!