Farmer Tom
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Here's the bit that matters:- C6H10O5(s) + 6O2(g) --> 6CO2(g) + 5H2O(g) Getting that 6O2 is real poetry.
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I've had loads round my woodstack this year; mainly due to an enormous nest in a dyke nearby, but never had a queen inside. I still have the odd couple of wasps coming in and out of it. NOW, just so long as they don't look like these:- Species alerts - GB non-native species secretariat
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Reminds me of the thought that occurs to me every Autumn, why can't I briquette these ******* leaves? Truth be told, leaves/bracken are completely different chemically to wood, so it would be better to compost these and use them as a mulch to feed/weed suppress firewood trees.
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I have a boiler stove, so I can give logs a last toasting on the top so long as I avoid the blanking plate. The top jacket of water keeps the surface of the stove below 100C. This also gives wee beasties a last chance to make a run for it. Again I don't burn overnight either, so there's always someone around just in case......
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Remember to pack plenty of midge repellent. It's best to take to the Loch in the morning before the midges get going.
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Well, I always have a couple of those supermarket boxes in the back of the car, once they get a bit to raggedly I use them as a firelighter. I find a hayfork is a useful tool for stacking and rearranging the brash. Nice and long too so I don't get too hot.
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There was this little lady in her eighties who frequented my local with her husband. One night she said "Oooh, I've been out collecting blackberries with Cyril, Oooh, never had so many pr1cks in me!". The pub fell silent... then she realised what she'd said....pub erupted...
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Not quite the same, but I remember when I had an allotment, the 'envigilator' of the allotments was a bit of a Mr Malaprop. He'd say things like 'We've had a bit of vandamalism so I put up some barbledewire to act as a bit of a detergent'. Sam Bull, excellent chap.
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eh? surely that can't have been vine weevil then. Their larvae feed on roots, it's the adults who chew the leaves. ...unless the leaf was touching the ground...
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Are you taking the pith? Actually, how about chaps, should be cooler, though obviously less protection.
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Damage to the Dark Hedges Game of Thrones Dark Hedges trees uprooted as Storm Gertrude rages across Northern Ireland - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk Still, looks to be only four trees affected....
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I use a similar approach, but not quite the same. When setting the fire I place three logs, one each across the back and each side of the stove in a horseshoe shape. I then fill the middle with scrunched-up junkmail and cardboard. Kindling then goes on top, supported by the logs so it doesn't crush the paper. I usually get a good fire going quickly in the gap between the logs, with the inside faces of the logs burning. This gets the flue up to temperature in 4-5 minutes on my big boiler stove ( Aarrow Stratford TF90B). When the kindling has burnt through and fallen into the horseshoe I add more logs.
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Just listen to the sounds the wood is making while he's loading it. We could never get out firewood that dry here in the North West.
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We had snow off and on all day, thawed slightly then froze hard tonight. I'm staying off our road tomorrow.
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Yeah, me too. I've done a wind-blown willow, trunk at base 18",rootball sitting up at 90 degrees, cut it to 12" left of stem, trampled the rootball back down horizontal, it's now a thicket. edit: and the logs I left on the ground are also a thicket now.... BUT there's quite a variety of willow out there so you might be unlucky....
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Yeah, boiler stove here too. I use a mains/USB adaptor and a small USB fan, works well enough for a fiver altogether. Sitting on the floor, blowing round the back of the stove.
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6'1", 17 stone, desk job Mon-Fri, only get out to exercise with the trees at the weekends
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Does this apply to both saws or just the top-handled one? (I've no arb qualifications of any sort, and no idea of the regulations). (actually, I don't fancy the top-handled one, I'm a farmer after all.....).
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I bought my wife a torque wrench one Xmas, I can still feel the indentation on my forehead. I wouldn't blow needles across the carpet, sound like a recipe for a long trail of needles rather than a patch. Edit, I've been looking for an excuse to buy a billygoat, maybe we should have a natural tree next year.... .
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^This. Yeah maybe we're overreacting a bit.
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OK, so that's the date the neighbour's on holiday or up in front of the beak on a GBH charge etc... 'Know when to walk away, know when to run'.
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Back again, Database error The database has encountered a problem. Today at 16:05, exactly 100 people on 15 members and 85 guests. Seeing this about every third page I open ( including this one) A refresh loads the page correctly. Tom
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Just topped up. Curse you cizer! .....:001_tt2::001_tt2:
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Something like this? http://www.loxston.co.uk/Products/12/Deltrak-Irus.html
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Got mine from the book people, £6.99 hardback. edit, sorry, out of stock now...
