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Do you like big butts?

Google for a pallet wrecking bar/pallet buster. It's like a double crow bar.

Always hard to tell what posts are serious I suggest the op gets a 10" knife (sword) for his saw. That would be ideal for cutting pallets. You need to be careful though, wear a stout pair of boots and a motorcycle helmet

Here's a nice house for you that is inbetween the 2 sites, bargain! Anne Gloag is selling up Check out this 26 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove WWW.RIGHTMOVE.CO.UK 26 bedroom detached house for sale in Highlands, IV4 for £7,500,000. Marketed by Goldsmith and Co (Estates) Limited, Edinburgh

If you like substations, you should move to the Beauly area! The exisiting substation which has just been extended is about 50 acres, the new one will be about 1.3miles away as the crow flies, and a further 60 acres in size

To me it seems mad to build all these pylons, powerlines, and substations to take "green" energy down to the big cities, when the homes they tower over and bypass are still heated with oil, coal, sometimes peat, and the vehicles and machinery are mainly fossil fuelled too. Why not incentivise the use of renewable energy close to the source

For one of the other substation sites the area quoted is 860 acres Couple fear for 'Outlander' estate home as power plan sparks demolition concern WWW.HERALDSCOTLAND.COM The views from Annette George’s Highlands cottage are of an unspoiled, peaceful rural idyll, spanning lands held by one of Scotland’s ancient…

There's a house and land I've done work at for years, beautiful cottage, great location, plenty of acres. The downside is there's a pylon in the garden, 25m from the corner of the house. I don't know how true the stuff about the powerlines is, but not sure I would fancy that. (house has just gone up for sale if anyone wants to take a chance on their health....)

Tarps are ok short term but they can trap the moisture, a big dry shed is better for long term storage. I assume you don't burn a huge amount of wood, some people would have the firewood listed in your first post gone in a year or 2. There's a guy I know in his late 70's, knocking on for 80 who still cuts his firewood. Another guy says "have you seen the size of his wood pile, how long does he expect to live"?!! He was actually out with his tractor log splitter splitting wood for a firewood dealer in the last year or 2!

My advice would be don't go out and buy a tesco bag for life, you might not get your money's worth out of it.

Get the David Brown hooked up, jobs a goodun

This is the one I use for drinking water

I've got a few 205l plastic drums as water butts, one is a dunker with mesh on the top. The others have old household brass taps Cut the end of the tap off so the water comes straight down

Ah! The old green 240l general waste bins have been "converted" into your new general recycling bin. The old blue 240l general recycling bins have been "converted" into your new paper/card only bin. cue local uproar from people who can't read a leaflet (we sent very little paper/card for recycling, it is burnt on the stove/composted/used in the garden, so a paper only bin is surplus) By "converted" they mean the bin man stuck a new sticker on the bins. We live in exciting times

The Highland council is changing the bins about, general waste bins are now either 140/180 litre instead of 240 litre, and a lot of the towns and villages have new food waste bins. Tempted to go out at 5am on the collection day with the big trailer, free chicken food and compost material innit. Might get lucky and find something for my own dinner too.

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What saw is it you've got?

I think the current carbolic soap is more "carbolic flavour", not like the old stuff

Get these 2 lads from Cumbria to come down and fell it, they don't charge anything https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-69011665

How precious are you about the 2 rows of garages? You could try posting the job on checkatade/mybuilder etc.

I feel sorry for the hire machines. The average weekend warrior thinks wood chipper / green waste shredder / concrete crusher are 3 interchangeable words

Unless the line has been moved since streetview, it seems to go right over the driveway. Obviously hard to judge distances etc. Powerlines and timber lorries are never a great combination Inquiry opens into Skye haulier John MacKinnon's death WWW.BBC.CO.UK A Skye haulier was electrocuted escaping from his burning lorry, a fatal accident inquiry in Inverness is told. "Power had to be switched off for a short time to allow rescue workers to access the scene, cutting the electricity supply to every property in the Western Isles and Skye. The inquiry heard that firefighters found Mr MacKinnon's body about 10m (33ft) from his vehicle. The only clue then that he had been electrocuted was a hole in his boot. A post mortem later revealed that an enormous power surge had killed him." Apparently the first calls for help was from someone many miles away who could see a plume of black smoke coming from the hill so called the fire brigade

And in the green house I made these planters to try this year, strawberries in the bottom, various cherry tomatoes higher up. The planting holes are made by cutting a slot, heating it up till it's soft, ram a glass bottle in then let it cool. Give it more of a pocket shape than a drilled hole. There's a water device in the form of two 10" terracotta pots stuck together, with the bottom hole plugged. Fill it from the top and the water soaks out over a couple of days. The tomatoes are from seed, varieties this year are moneymaker, gardener's delight, cherry falls, latah, maskotka. Strawberries are an unnamed variety from b&m bargains.

A few more fruit trees planted this winter, this apple Katy has blossom on it

Rhubarb doing well here as per usual!