John Barleycorn

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Sounds like you were lucky with that "topsoil". I know a farmer on heavy clay who goes round his fields shovelling up the molehills & flogs it as topsoil. Nice & crumbley, fine grained, looks great, but once it get wet & dries out it sets like concrete !

Are those "nurse logs" the fallen stems that seedlings take root on and grow on into straight lines of massive trees ? When first seen by Europeans they thought they were plantations.

My Grandfather was an ambulance driver at Gallipoli and a relative of my Mum's also fought there. As a kid we visited him at the Chelsea Pensioners Hospital. Dressed in his red coat & three pointed hat he only told us of the wild tortoises that they recruited, assigned ranks and that wandered around the tents with stripes painted on them. Also of being kept awake by the incessant croaking of the frogs in the marshes, driving men to fire into the ponds, which would cause them to stop for a minute. He spared us any account of the true horrors of that disastrous campaign.

I am going to try the new breathable roofing under felt fabric. But it only seems to come in 1 or 1.5 metre width, so would need to make a sloping stack & use several strips well weighted down. Its very thin, but very strong and you can get it in black so it will absorb the heat.

You limeys might sell logs in little bags, but here in Texas we do things different.

I have the chance of a large amount of pine & am thinking of hiring a kindling machine for a few days. However I have foreseen a problem in drying it. I currently make a small amount of kindling by hand, because you can always flog a customer a few bags when you deliver a load of logs. A couple of Scots pine logs felled three weeks ago have already developed blue stain, in fact its dark grey/black. I can understand customers being prejudiced against black kindling (without it being a diversity issue !) Even the unseasoned "green" pine kindling in bags can develop a white surface mould unless it is dried in a very good airflow or sun. Is this problem caused by summer felling ? High sap/sugar content and warm temperatures ? How can I prevent it if I get blue/black stain attempting to dry logs, or white mould in the bag ? I could make & store a few thousand bags in the shed, but I think they could be unsaleable. No I dont have a pollytunnel.

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Grossly untrue 40 years ago I just scraped through my O level maths (2nd attempt) Yet my 18 year old son has taken his A level maths & Further maths exams. The complexity is way above my head, I cant even describe the questions.

Surprise surprise Yet another Yank war film.

Nice old trees. Like so many there seems to be nothing coming along to replace them. Seen a lot of isolated veteran trees in fields, probably survivors of hedge removal. When they are gone, there gone !

Too much exposed soft steel rebar. Eyebolts could be cropped with even a small boltcutter. Even a little plumbers propane gas torch would melt the brass innards of your padlock.

Just flushing out the cylinder with water is not good enough. The gas adsorbs to the surface of the metal & then vaporizes when you start cutting. When cutting any container that has ever held a flammable substance it should be thoroughly cleaned and then filled with water to as near the cutting level as possible. I know of a case of a welder killed when working on a small oil storage tank. People had gone inside & thoroughly cleaned it with pressure hoses first. Yet when he started welding it vaporized an explosive gas/air mixture. The blast blew him out the door as a fireball.

He turned up with that pile of wood as a betrothal gift. I told him to jack off & pack it up his arse.

I told him to toss me that pile of wood, but his hearings not what it was.

That old pervert needs splinters in his arse before he can get his chopper up.

When I first drove Land Rovers 30 years ago they all came with a hole through the rear chassis crossmember as standard so you could fit the PTO option.

He said it's some kinda complimentary medicine. Doctor told him his impotence was "lack of wood"

Hanks got woodworm up his ass un he needs to coax it out

Use "Rootrainers" if you are thinking of pots

The book you need is "Tree Planting & Aftercare" published by the BTCV Its got a shed load of useful info, including collecting, storing, planting etc. Cost about £10-

Fish Pie Chop pound of onions, fry in oil. add 2 cans chopped tomatoes, garlic, salt & mixed herbs to tast. Precook fish (cod/whiting etc) in oven Pour sauce over fish. Put mashed potatoes over fish & sauce. Grate cheese on top. Bake in oven

I suspect its to give weight without being wider or thicker, so it will allow a narrow deep felling cut.

Well as a last resort you could always crush them and use as chain oil.