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If you've got a tipper/flatbed type vehicle (or trailer!) best thing for it is a good quality skip net, with a heavy duty bungee all the way round. Only takes a couple of mins to pull it over and bungee round the rope hooks. Anything that isn't tied down has to be sheeted; sand, soil, stone, woodchip, logs, tools etc
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Planning is fine, permitted development, and it's rural anyway........
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Thinking about the possibility of building a shed, maybe 9-10m long, and width of about 4m - clear span, no middle supports. Probably larch clad sides and a box profile roof. To do the frame all in timber would need some fairly hefty joists. Or trusses, either bought in or homemade? How do steel frame kits compare for price and ease of putting it together on your own? Any recommendations for manufacturers that do "off the shelf" kits in what would to them be quite a small size?
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Seems ironic having the ghille kettle and the sack of kindling, when there's a bonfire smoking in the back of the photo 🤐 Not used mine in a while, it's great when you're camping
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Each to their own I heard of a community group who bought a container for storage. Then someone decided they didn't like the look of it so they were/are going to get a joiner to do a proper job of cladding it, possibly with a nice apex roof too. Could've just built a nice cabin with the timber in the first place. Personally I think a container painted green/brown/whatever (with a roller) looks totally fine in the countryside
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The road I put in at mine with a friend is 40mm scalpings, which is similar to type 1, but doesn't meet the standards to be called MOT so couldn't be used on a highway. Can get it from a local quarry for notes.... I think official MOT type 1 has to be blasted rock? It's laid about 6" thick with a layer of membrane underneath. Compacted with a double drum roller. I've had 8 wheeler lorries on it (so 32t) and it didn't leave a mark. Back when I was a teenager we extended the driveway at my parents house the old fashioned way - dug it out by hand, put bigger rocks at the bottom then progressively smaller stones up to dust then a layer of chippings on top. Compacted by driving the car over it. Was fine for cars.
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3.5t transit x2 = 7t of wood Bit like farmer jones selling a tractor trailer load of logs "how big is the trailer then?" "oh it's a 10ton trailer"
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Posh pants? Exoboxers - would you want these for Christmas?
scbk replied to Arbmam's topic in General chat
They told me to check the tree's menstruation -
Posh pants? Exoboxers - would you want these for Christmas?
scbk replied to Arbmam's topic in General chat
Wait you guys are wearing pants? Weirdos
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Rare sight in the Highlands of a lorry load of beech
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I've got a Honda ed400, little suitcase generator, not made anymore. The only outputs on it are 12v and 24v. You can hook it up to a dead battery, go off have a cup of tea and come back to a charged battery. Handy if you can't get another machine/vehicle to the dead one for a conventional jump start with leads
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This is now up on the Carr's website, £480 Logger Frame Pack | Carr's Billington Safety CARRS-BILLINGTON-SAFETY.COM
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If you had the young females you wouldn't need a heater! I keep getting told there's a rake load of horny milfs within 200yds of me. I don't know who they are, and why they're in a field at this time of night
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A woman was playing a round of golf when a bee stung her. Fearing an allergic reaction she ran to the clubhouse and told the pro that she had been stung. He asked where and she said between the first and second holes. He replied "your stance is too wide".
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Most disgraceful customer supplied refreshments.
scbk replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in General chat
So long as it's warm and wet, that'll do for me. I kinda like the fact it's different everywhere you go. Always makes me smile when the sweet little old lady comes out to the garden with a tray containing what looks like the entire contents of the kitchen: Cup Saucer Tea pot Tea cosy Milk jug Sugar bowl Spoon Plate with carefully chosen selection of "posh" biscuits Crackers Butter Jam Scone Napkin Cuddly toy etc etc -
It sounds a pretty dangerous situation. I suppose the only thing to do to keep the public safe and prevent litigation is cordon off the area to your front door with heras fencing and warning signs until such a time as a full and through raking can be carried out. Once complete, the works will have to be signed off by an authorised competent person. They might see it fit to arrange for a skid test to be carried out on the surface. If/when the path meets the required standards, the inspector will issue you with a "Pafftag", which you can hang on your handrail, the next inspection is due 7 days later;
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I'm not on facebook but can see the link, it's the video from 5yrs ago of a tree being felled next to a road, and a punter nearly gets squashed https://twitter.com/itvlondon/status/1050725133369966592?lang=en
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Found a new hi vis vest for when working in public areas 👍
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You'll need a good hi vis vest for that
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For outside work in the pissing rain, around stone, soil, etc just get cheap ones, they won't last long anyway. Buy a nice one to keep dry inside the shed for sunday best
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Chain link is horrible to work with, you don't need it 7/8ft high if the guard is set back from the tree. I can't remember exactly, probably 6"-8" gap, their heads can only reach so far? I think it was the BTCV book on fencing that has a page or two discussing tree guards etc. And also deer fence height depending on deer species and area fenced, they won't jump a low fence if it's only a small area? Fencing By Elizabeth Agate | Used | 9780946752294 | World of Books WWW.WOB.COM Buy Fencing: A Practical Handbook By Elizabeth Agate. Available in used condition with free delivery in the UK. ISBN: 9780946752294. ISBN-10: 094675229X
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I've also done it for stock/deer in a parkland with 4 fenceposts in the ground, and 4 timber rails on each side. To get in for maintenance you climb the timber
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I've done rings of heavy grade weldmesh, 4ft wide rolls so that is the height, which I think is ok for roe deer if the ring is wide enough. You only need 1, maybe 2 posts to keep the ring in the right place. The heavy gauge weldmesh is pricey, but could be reused in the future. I was using 2" weldmesh, don't know if that is rabbit proof, but you could clip rabbit netting to it To get in for maintenance you untie one end of the mesh and pull it back
