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You got the root ball? Thats where the most valuable walnut usually is, although the trunk does have value, although not much just as a stick. What kind on walnut is it too- as some is worthless. You got any pics?

Haha- very seasonal!! Quite cool really mate.

Did you /are you getting brown sludge in your fuel tank? If so it sounds very much like thisDe-Bug TM for boats1 and you can buy additives for it that you put in the tank when you fuel up for very little money such as index.html which sorts it out.

Mothers for family chrimbo day with awesome cooking:thumbup1: then rest of christmas at home probably playing lego with Oliver. Does it get any better?

Finally bought some tickets:blushing:

Very nice system FRANK. What spkrs do you have linked to that rather fine set up? And what is the stand? It was always Target stands years ago? I actually built one in CDT at school- sand filled and with spiked MDF shelves...I was very proud of it at the time as i couldnt afford a 'real' one!

Hahahaha!!

I wouldnt want one, but i dont think it could really be called a 19 y.o motor- it seems that most of it is new and galvanised and the body work has been cobbled together from various ages. And you need draughts to let the smells and water out of the cab in a landy:lol:

Some of the oldest living things on earth them bristlecone pines...Cool mac BTW! There was an amusing but incredible story in Thomas Pakenham's Remarkable Trees of the World..."a geography student in Utah thought he would find a bristlecone even older than Schulman's Old Man. And he did. He borrowed a tree-borer and found a tree in the snake mountains of Nevada and Utah that could be dated 4900 years old. But the borrowed tree borer snapped off in the tree. Incredibly the local ranger gave him permission to cut down the tree to rescue the tree-borer. Today all that remains of the tree that was the oldest tree in the world is a slice of the trunk on show in a gambling saloon in Nevada" Takes some believing how stupid people can be!!

There is what looks at a cursory glance to be an awesome landy on ebay. Its a 6x6 sandringham - the original 6x6 not 6x4- which looks to have been rebuilt on a galvanised chassis. 1990 Sandringham 6x6 Defender 3.5 Td Nissan Single cab on eBay (end time 20-Dec-09 07:07:04 GMT)

Naughty Boy:sneaky2: Not bought one yet. Hoping my mate wil furnish me with one like last year from his plantation!

In my ne'er do well days i had a daimler twin 6 v12. That was when rsturbo was considered quick. The look on their face when a yellow daimler old gits car pulled up next to them then left them standing with their sewing machine engines screaming was priceless:thumbup:

Yes, honestly. I can put a steak in front of them and they wont touch it. They dont come near us at mealtimes and if i catch them begging off anyone they get shouted at. I learnt when i lived on the road to make sure dogs dont take off strangers as poisoning dogs was a fave of those that didnt like 'hippies!'

I honestly think that depends on the dog. Mine wont take anything off strangers, and when they are running loose (all the time) people who dont know them wont get out of their vehicles. We have 2 labs and a mastiff x. If you have a sign warning that dogs are on the loose then you are covered when intruders get attacked. When the mastiff goes off he is in your face barking as he can put his paws on your shoulders with ease. I really hope that they dont come back and get away with it again David.

Well done Mat and Mrs Mat!

Elm will last for ever if permanently immersed, less if not, although it does last well. Oak and chestnut are both very very good, sweet chestnut being just about ahead in durability- whether in or out of the ground. I have onely ever heard that Jap larch is very very very durable- it was once described to me as 'self tanalising' whatever that is supposesd to mean!! Suffice to say if the sap wood is removed it is extremely durable,. The reason the boat builders dont use it is the coarseness of grain making it unsuitable. I think the soil association may have something to say about the tannins from green oak- not sure... Alder is an excellent material for the job. It doesnt leach too much chemical and is eminently rot resistant. Beech is totally out of the question as it rots quickly out of doors. TBH i would go for sweet chestnut mate. Stevie- when you say the 3" above and below ground for tanalised- well thats just the atrocious quality of modern day tanalizing. I am led to believe that the really nasty chemicals have been banned in favour of more eco friendly ones (WTF???) and the massive demand means that the pressure treatment is not getting in as far as it should. My mate who is a fencer says he has noticed the quality fall dramatically over the last 15 years, and it is not uncommon to have to replace rotten strainers after only a couple or three years, despite the promises made about longevity. I have seen 10" diametr tanalised posts with only an inch depth of tanalising and 3-4" stakes with clearly untreated middles too!! If concrete is used around wooden posts (a massive no-no) this will cause premature rot at ground level too.

Dave i'm very sorry to hear that mate.

I agree with SWB!

It will be done as soon as my missus has finished poisoning her mind with Bruce Forsyth and 'xtra-sh1t-factor':laugh1:

Great shots. Is pic six the frosty thorns? That was my fave:thumbup1:

Got it..........just not wired it back into the pc since i had the pc sorted. Of course when i say 'wired in' i mean just popping the jack back into the back of the pc:blushing:

Big saws, but they all sounded like mosquitos on my crappy pc monitor speakers! Drop starting those old saws would take a bloke of that build i reckon!LOL

Great pic of the stump Rupe. Very revealing. Top job then...

Thanks guys, probably sorted now. Gotta love arbtalk.:thumbup:

Next time fell the tree with the cat in it, hopefully onto the cat!! That'll stop it doing it again:laugh1: