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  1. Squaredy
    Yeah it does look as if beaupre is a pop hybrid. Thank you guys for your help with this.
  2. Squaredy
    Where does one get the decent Patio sealer? My patio comes up lovely and clean, but within a week or two it is green again.
  3. Squaredy
    Ah but I guess you are talking from an arborist perspective? I only have to worry about milling. And drying. And selling.
  4. Squaredy
    I have been offered a supply of poplar/willow hybrid ‘beaupre’. This is a new one to me - can anyone shed any light on what this timber is like? I must confess I didn’t know poplar and willow hybridise - is this a common plantation tree?
  5. Squaredy
    Good shout. Maybe they are trying to keep it quiet - scared of losing street cred?
  6. Squaredy
    I am aware that firewood logs have sky rocketed in price. But I am after poplar - not ash or beech. And of course a lot of the logs I would buy are too big for a lot of processors. My last load had plenty at about 2 foot diameter
  7. Squaredy
    I had a load of poplar from an arbtalker last year, but that is all gone, and I need more. My spec is decent straight logs either 2.4m or 4.8m or a mixture. Diameter at least a foot please. I will pay around £80 per ton delivered. Exact species doesn't matter as long as they are not lombardy. Actually, one or two lombardy would be OK. Also I can take a mixed load - most other hardwoods and softwoods purchased except spruce, hemlock, willow. Message me and let me know what you have. I am based near Newport South Wales so within an hour or so is preferred.
  8. Squaredy
    I no longer use my kiln as it is simply too big and expensive. But I have used it many times over the years to dry all sorts of species. Larch I have successfully dried from green - but it took about 6 weeks and cost an arm and a leg. Oak at say one inch thick I would estimate would take three or four months from green, and even then you might find it is ruined by internal honeycombing. And I suspect the cost would be greater than the timber is worth. I have kilned air dried oak an inch thick and this took a week or so - no problem at all. Unless it is very thin oak I wouldn't bother. Other species may respond much better - ash, poplar maybe and softwoods, but not oak.
  9. Squaredy
    Can you not right click on the chain pitch and scroll down to properties. That always used to tell you the file size…
  10. Squaredy
    Just once I milled a MP log, it had been dead standing. What a nightmare - those knots are incredibly hard. I try to avoid them now.
  11. Squaredy
    And do you find that operating the touch screen is convenient and easy whilst driving?
  12. Squaredy
    All looks very Elmy!
  13. Squaredy
    He was not VAT registered. Also not organised. Did not know how to lay concrete level. Also as I found out two years later has no idea how to lay flat GRP roofs properly.
  14. Squaredy
    Human nature. I had a builder doing some work for me a few years ago and he told me in November he would never be able to submit his return in time for the end of January.
  15. Squaredy
    This person has really missed a trick. He/she or whatever should have identified as the prison governor and set himself free. He could even have punished a few of the warders he didn't like and any inmates who teased him.
  16. Squaredy
    You are not wrong, but the power consumption of a touch screen like that I would say is maybe 100 watts or less, whereas the electric drive motors will be 20 or 30 thousand watts. But yes, it all uses some battery power...
  17. Squaredy
    Never been twenty stone. About fifteen and a half I think. Good thing is my weight never varies, so it winds my wife up as she just had to look at a cake to put on a stone or two.
  18. Squaredy
    We should have a quiz thread…. The guess the log weight ones are always popular.
  19. Squaredy
    Hope the website holds up for you Les!
  20. Squaredy
    To my immense embarrassment I don’t remember exactly which decade it was or where I saw the figure, but it was either 1900s or 1910s and apparently one in five cars on the road was electric. So well done guys you were all about right. No-one fell into my trap of assuming it is the 2020s.
  21. Squaredy
    Quizz question: which decade has or had the highest proportion of electric cars actually on the road?
  22. Squaredy
    Agreed. In fact I would go further and say that there should be low tech electric cars. Why do the manufactures think that because you like the advantages of an electric car you want every conceivable bit of technology?
  23. Squaredy
    Although I do sometimes listen to a wider range of channels in my modern car, it is such a pleasure to get into my old Peugeot van and press 4 for radio for and 5 for radio five. Trying to navigate the touch screen on the Kia with its hundreds of radio stations whilst driving is not good.
  24. Squaredy
    Mmmmm that is a very good point.
  25. Squaredy
    I like my electric vehicle and generally it is good inside, mostly the controls are OK. But as I start to think about my next vehicle I am looking around and most electric cars have a massive touch screen fixed to the dashboard like this: It looks like they have gone to a car boot sale, bought a computer screen and fixed it on with a couple of screws. And the thought of having to use a touch screen while driving to adjust the radio or heating I think is positively dangerous. If it were a smaller integrated screen then I might forgive them but I feel this is just terrible design. Hopefully the motoring public agree with me and this is just a fad, but what do you Arbtalk members think? This is my current car inside - still annoying to change radio station - but at least it doesn't dominate the view!

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