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Apologies, It wasn't Bruce Hoadleys book. It was How to season and dry your own wood by Alan Holtham. Chop end of wood to be lathed. To avoid end splits. Turn wood to almost finished size. Weigh item Microwave on defrost for 1 minute Leave to stand for 30 mins. It will crackle and make noises whilst cooling. Turn item upside down. Another minute defrost. Stand 30 mins. In all microwave and stand 4 times. Leave overnight Re weigh item. note weight. Repeat 4 more defrosts and standing sessions. Finish in lathe on slow speed as it may be out of true. Varnish etc. Obviously adjust and learn with experience. This applied to a 280g bowl.

357xp Sprocket disintegrated going though a pile of wood on oregon easycut sawhorse, doubt that was the cause, its had a hard life. Also snapped needle bearing and lost 1 roller. Fixed now.

Dont know if you have but dry the pine cones in the house(greenhouse in summer) then they open to shed the nuts, otherwise if they sprout they have to tackle the cone as well. If you have stacked acorns layer upon layer in tubs they root over winter and will become a tangled mess. As soon as they sprout they need spacing out. Some will be rooting now.

Im going to touch up my trailer I bought no nonsense aerosol from screwfix, not used it yet though.

Yes you have to do it in a microwave in short bursts over 24 hours. Its in bruce hoadleys book Wood a craftsmans guide to wood technology, dont have the book at the moment will try to get it over the weekend.

Brilliant news, can confirm the traffic light system is real also connected to the number plate recognition system, therefore officers alerted by your previous dodgy encounters or likewise if good on previous occasions your not worth their time.

When I did my cpc tachograph and driving regs day the tutor said Horseboxes going to gymkanas used to get away with it, but now they can view it as hire or reward, because you hope to win reward i.e rosette 1st prize for show jumping. Then of course these have been hogging the roads for years at 20mph in 7.5 tonners with faces like a theme park rider, getting upset with everyone else. Going foxhunting on a car licence in a truck and parking obstructively with attitude, in my experience anyway. Back to the point an unfortunate part is down to discretion of the officer, that is why vosa is controversial, vague law, many interpretations. You get let off or hung to dry. Stay home on benefits is a winner with little risks, I just couldn't do it.

If O licence happens and tachographs for tree surgeons and foresters they are going to work smaller and less profitable days. The maximum a HGV driver can work in a fortnight is 90 hours. Regs determine which Sunday this starts, no pick n mix. Also specified is a minimum variable rest period according to what you have already done. So if you work(includes driving time) a big day you have to compensate in that 2 week period. But it wont work by having a big hit on the job then having rest of week off you will have to travel out the to job more, pollute the environment we were all trying to save with extra trips. Everybody will lose expect Tacho installers and enforcement fines.

I agree with you, problem is times are hard for many and thanks to the diy age of the internet, anyone has a go. I wouldn't. Ive have been asked to "part with!" lengths of unprocessed timber. I think if you just say you are a wholesaler to vat customers or some other catagory who is your average customer, it will save alot of backlash later, buddys are only going to give out your contact details to others, you are more likely to get rogues sniffing around. Also payment issues more likely. "I will pay you when I know how many bags I get out of it" when the truck you have paid for arrives with timber to collect the promised cheque.

Quote from moving on newsletter published by VOSA "Vehicles were mostly prohibited for obstructions in the window – although this has improved dramatically since the introduction of fixed penalties. Speaking of which, around £106,400 in fixed penalties were taken by Leatherhead teams over the last year. Not a bad record for a team of 6 – 7 people." Do you imagine they have competative targets etc between depts? What is the criteria for obstruction in window? A size, percentage or discretion?!!!!! Fixed penalties, what a fab idea, " It will cost you X amount for this tree to be removed, but for every dog or cat turd we encounter it will be a fixed penalty of £30. Anybody that gets in our way on the job whether friends or the public, postman £30 per incident. Excellent business model on a level playing field backed by authority.

Wherever you go in the uk it seems to grow, it self seeds freely. It is brilliant for habitat for certain things. E.G greenfly, aphids-ladybirds and birds. Yes boring when there is too much of it. However I don't buy the whole native idea. We have excellent non natives such as the redwoods, monkey puzzle etc, If these species get wiped out in their native habitats, they could be restored by uk seed. I have thought for a while now the need is to plant trees as a whole, we are more desperately in need of trees for many reasons, flooding, soil erosion, habitat, timber supplies, air quality and so on. If we all stuck to the prevalent attitude of native we must, native its not diversity as a whole. Sycamore is not a problem tree like willow for example in New Zealand this was introduced and is a weed everywhere along with gorse and troublesome. If someone had planted Elm in the uk in the pre 70s what would they have now. Conker is going the same way it seems. I suggest plant up to 80% sycamore if you want for coppice and can get transplants cheap enough and eventually to grub out. Space the other 20% with native to leave a nice mixed woodland for future generations. Maybe the odd specimen of foreigners as well. I personally dont subscribe to all this idealism conforming pressure, think outside the box. Its like when the hedges where removed to make fields bigger, now they are replacing them. and a real bugbear is why do we have to waste resources at hedge planting at a nearly impossible in many situations at 6 per metre? Stock proof? What in the middle of arable country or roadside? How often are they laid to restockproof? I would go up to a metre apart for hedging Thats probably the survival rate at maturity. My point, Your land you can do good in many non conforming ways. I wish I had the assets to plant my own woodland my way. I wish you well have a good think get a few ideas. If winds of thought change cheap trees can be stripped out and a lucrative set up could be done later. We need timber we need trees.

Thanks for the follow up, nice to receive ongoing info.

Those you refer to with dodgy vehicles are of no fixed abode therefore futile to pursue as it costs a fortune to chase em. As for clean and tidy I know someone who is obsessed with running a tidy and legal outfit on an 8 wheeler HGV. He got told his rear number plate needed lowering an inch, flexing muscles of authority? Number plate was highly readable. At least next time they tell him to move it an inch the holes are ready predrilled.

This has been covered in an issue of classic tractor magazine this year. Sorry cannot remember which issue, but if you know someone who keeps them, have a look.

The sky at Tekapo is awesome, the mount John observatory is massively expensive, I went to a planeterium at wellington whilst in NZ learn lots, especially as the sky was upside down to what I was used to. Motueka the sky was good, first time I saw milky way it was very clear.

A few of us should get together and buy 50. Im in.

Log-bags.com Is the heading advert at the top of the firewood forum page from time to time.

Yes we used kerb in the pepperpot shakers.

Plus h&s unguarded chain, or the hassle of a guard getting knocked about in that situ. Nice luxury to have.

Too late to edit "pricing is god" should read pricing is good" Duh Humon failure!!!!

You are doing the right thing splaying weed out I think. If they regrow next year the spray should get at least some of the weedkiller. You could drop a tiny amount of expensive granular residual herbicide in the tube during the dormant season but I think its getting outlawed or hard to use/obtain. This do's happen with tubes and sometimes the tubes sweat with vegetation which is quite yucky. Ants can also build skyscrapers in the warm of the tube. One hole in a fence or agile rabbits and hares over the top of a fence is bad news. Assuming this is why you bought the tubes. I would stick with the tubes, as the trees are doing well, if its grass its not a long term problem, but nettles, docks or other strong perennial weeds will need dealing with, because in time as they get stronger the trees will be deprived. In 5 years you will need to do little and think it was worth all the effort

I will make enquiries, but certainly worth getting word out to nurseries. Pricing is god Your price is probably ok but 1ft will probably be slightly expensive at 50p. Straight, strong tall trees at 15ft probably worth more than £7.50. Trees are sold by a circumferencial girth measurement at 1 metre high of the ground for example 10-12cm. Depending on how much you want to put in to marketing you could try crowders nurseries at Horncastle Lincs and probably deliver in worthwhile quantities to you. Be interested how it go's.

It can be a nuisance but it keeps the respect with the machines, i.e someone turns up without safety gear and a shops own brand saw, would you leave them to it??? Whereas a pro with good equipment is here for the long run to keep his good name. As well as the brand safety image, Their Chainsaw operators don't get negative labeling like for example "organ donors" with motobikers. (Nothing against bikers personally.)

Have a look at the thread DIY chainsaw stand, lots of input on various models. I have an oregon easycut sawhorse which is brilliant for smaller stuff in multiple. My review is in the arb review section or "oregon easycut review" in forum