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  1. Squaredy
    Anyone know where I can buy new sawmill blade roller guides from? They are for a Norwood but I am pretty certain they are the same as Woodmizer and others. The original set I bought direct from the USA, but is there someone who is selling them in the UK apart from the crazy price main dealers? Mine are not yet worn out but I need to replace the bearings so it makes sense to have a spare set here.
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    I think you have hit the nail on the head. Wives. They go to the gym. Mine goes two or three times a week. This costs money in membership fees and petrol, and she expends loads of energy for absolutely no purpose. How about we all train up our wives in chainsaws, splitters, etc; they cancel their gym memberships and we put the saved cash in a beer fund. It is just a win win situation. Maybe we should even sell our hydraulic splitters and give the wives an axe - after all, that would burn far more calories and be a much more effective cardio workout. I have made a start training my wife as you can in the pic.
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    Or maybe the author of the article was simply not being very precise with language. Maybe he or she meant to type "Smoke Control Area". Is it possible a journalist wasn't quite 100% accurate......? I find it amazing that there is not a simple map available somewhere on the internet that shows you if you live in a smoke control area. The gov website suggests you simply contact your local authority. How many people will bother to do that? How many people illegally use their woodburner in blissful ignorance?
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    Hi Kevin, I will help you by replying and getting your post back up in the 'today's posts' list. I also have a serious (and nosey) question, as an interested sawmill owner in your area. Why do Cardiff Council require such a large capacity machine? I understand the advantages of being able to pick up a large stem and hence the need for a large grab, but can't a large diameter tree be cross-cut to make it manageable? And surely a smaller setup is much easier to maneuver? Also are you really saying you want a trailer capacity of 14 tons? Giving a total trailer weight of around 22 tons and a train weight of maybe 30 tons???!!! I know plenty of timber trailers with a capacity of 8 or 9 tons which are available off-the-shelf but the size you are specifying is likely to bump the price up from maybe £15,000 to nearer £80,000. Hope you don't mind my observations.
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    You scoundrel.....say what you will about Poplar, but do not sully cricket...... Alder was used for clogs, so I am guessing it has some flexibility, and it is fairly soft. I like lots of the products on your website by the way, very nice.
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    Thank you that is interesting. Thank goodness for cricket. Looks like you will get your willow. I guess you have tried Alder and Poplar? Black Poplar is meant to be very resistant to abrasion. I will browse your website with interest.
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    Please excuse my ignorance but why is cricket bat willow essential? Just curious and nosey!
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    Is this one with a shuttle forward/reverse and therefore no clutch? If so first thing is to check transmission fluid level. If it is a fault with the drive I suspect it may need a good agricultural engineer. It is essentially robust Ford mechanics so should all be fixable, but machines like that are never cheap. Still you have a fighting chance unlike newer machines.
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    Thanks Les. I love the contrast with the dark Beech top and slate floor.
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    Hi yes I have a fair bit of Alder available. Mainly about 30mm thick and square edged at 100mm wide and 150mm wide. I do buy logs and mill them when I can, but it is not a big seller and often I don't get offered the logs as people assume they are only good for firewood. I have an Alder kitchen, and Alder floorboards in my bathroom.
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    Nice truck....wish someone had a vehicle like that near me.... Timber lorries are just too big sometimes.
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    Yes that is what the books say, but try using it for a fence post! The point is for rot to take place you need moisture and oxygen. If you submerge a piece of timber totally it will last a long time, almost any species. If it simply gets wet and has air around it Alder will rot quickly. Great for indoor use though.
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    Furniture of all sorts. And yes it rots quickly if it stays wet. Indoor use only.
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    WOW! Why do people think Alder is not a good timber? I sell a fair bit. If you have no use lined up for it I would be interested....as long as it is available at a wholesale price.
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    I should make the change back to loose tea. I love the smell of it brewing, and it is a nicer cuppa too. I was brought up on loose tea and was quite glad in the eighties to throw off that "faffy" method. Maybe the "faffy" method needs to come back.
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    Another significant contributor to ocean pollution is flushable wipes. The manufacturers are totally misleading us all in describing them as flushable. They should be described as "flushable so long as you are OK with the risks you are taking in blocking up drains on your property and then eventually starting to eat the wipes as they disintegrate and break down into tiny particles and find their way into the Tuna, Salmon, and other things that we like to eat." There is no such thing as a genuinely flushable wipe....they are all harmful, and eventually the legislation is going to change in some countries....twenty years too late. By the way, same problem with so-called "moist toilet tissue". Do not flush them. Any of them. And by the way, I recently discovered that tea bags contain plastic. No wonder they never seem to disappear in my compost heap. Yet another scandal.
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    Was that you Steve or are GCHQ on to us?
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    Very insightful and sensible words indeed. Sadly it isn’t the way the world works. Can I live on your planet please?
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    Yes thank you I had an email back from the customer saying he had been contacted eventually.
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    Hillsborough. Absolutely proved after 28 years of denials to be a big conspiracy and deliberate cover-up. I'm afraid conspiracy theories have a bad name these days and everything seems to have a conspiracy theory, and no doubt many of them are nonsense. Some are just waiting to be proved. Anyone who really likes a good conspiracy theory would enjoy researching Britain's worst ever terrorist atrocity - the Lockerbie bombing almost 30 years ago now. Why did the only man ever convicted of this bombing get released after just 7 years......?
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    Yes ash from waste incinerators is apparently very nasty indeed. Even pure wood ash is not good in the long run as it is highly alkali.
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    That is exactly what happens in Cardiff, but sadly it also has its problems. The air pollution caused in Cardiff has been a huge local concern, and now they are sending all the waste ash from incineration to England (2500 lorry loads per year) as it was causing so much dust and distress in the Cardiff landfill site that was taking it. Incinerating waste is not the simple neat solution it at first appears.
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    And I am pretty certain nookie is carbon neutral. DEFRA should encourage it. Maybe a RHI (Renewable Hump Incentive) if you have enough of it.
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    Yes the owners may well think £50 is derisory, but that is because they are thinking of the value of timber, milled, dried, and maybe even turned into a finished product. Which is the same as thinking that a barrel of water is worth a lot of money because it could be made into top quality whisky. But yes, of course, if you place a high value on it and want to offer more then that is up to you. But the real commercial value is very low.
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    Yeah Bennets sawblades are superb.

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