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Never heard of a dutch letter or a dutch rudder .........and I am half dutch. Now I'm all confused Easily done mind PS Mr STUMP, sorry to hear about your mates ebay woes and good to know how that particular scam works - good heads up.

yea, know what you mean. I think reading these threads will pay off at some point and taking 5 minutes to consider the possibilities before charging in will also help. Once I have tried a few things hopefully it will become easier to spot the potential.

yea, nice job Would agree with previous suggestions re keeping it out the wet - as long as the water that will inevitably get onto the top of the polythene is given somewhere to go. Also like the suggestion of mesh as anti-slip Also wondered if a possible improvement might be to give it a very gentle camber each way from the centre to help shed water??

nice use of a gnarly bit of wood. Just wondering where the access hatch is for the bucket under the hole :lol:

haha obviously not subtle enough - from his expression he has just realised you have rumbled him

not surprising considering the amount of coverage foraging has had in the media the last few years. Where ever someone can make a buck, everything else comes second in the eyes of enough people for it to become a problem. Arnt human beings a brilliant species Any word of increased poisoning incidents as yet as this is sure to follow

Phew - a bit of time to catch your breath and get all those little maintenance jobs, servicing, shed clearing up etc etc done and a bit of recovery before the next mad rush. Not to mention a bit of time to spend with family and or friends. Always a silver lining. PS dont tell anyone, else you will suddenly have a list of stuff to do round the house etc etc

Cheers Steve - will have a look. The idea is to save on the sweat eventually and for when I cant do it manually anymore. Not a problem at the mo as big bad and ugly enough to lug a few bits of wood, so been prioritising other jobs

haha absolutely, although not many would take it to the point of adapting the house to suit. Had a number of people thinking I am a bit round the bend - which is probably about right - normal is boring Mind you, modern houses are adapted for their heating systems, so not that far fetched then

yup, from the fat into the fire

just working my way through the drinks cabinet - who knows what I'm gonna see

Whatever it is you are drinking/smoking Stubby - stop, you've had too much :lol: As for Shane - book him into rehab pronto :lol:

yup, think that is the key issue - most suppliers are relatively small and the membership fee would be a killer

Thats exactly what I have planned, but going to make the trolleys. Slight complication is that the house is upside down so have built a trapdoor into the floor and going to winch the trolleys up - massive double glulam beam directly above the trapdoor In fact some of the dimmensions and bits of the layout of the house have been dictated by the wood handling requirements Yes I am a bit anal, but also hard won experience growing up in the sticks off grid and it being my chore to get the fire wood in manually. Our stove does the hot water and heating, but as we are super insulated we only use at most a couple of small builders buckets a day in the depths of winter to keep the thermal store up to temp so should be able to get at least a months worth in in a couple of hours. Sticking with the labour saving theme the 'trolleys' will be wheelless frames so that I can stack the fresh cut logs directly into them and stack them under cover to season. Come time to use them I will have a few wheeled frames which will slide in under the frames to wheel the logs indoors. This system eliminates multiple handling of the logs and will be a blessing when I am no longer fit enough to it manually - just need the time to execute the plans now PS currently looking for a good hand winch to lift the trolleys upstairs - any suggestions? Plan is to fix it temporarily or permanently to a big 13"x13" pitch pine post supporting the afore mentioned glulams. Not sure what the trolleys will weigh fully stacked, but will definitely be less than 200kg to give an idea of SWL Sorry about the hijack Mark

Probably need to offer your services to AA oil. Eddie seems a bit busy and could probably do with a hand. One take north, the other south - divide and conquer :lol:

Fair enough - we'll just have to amuse ourselves till then. Bloody jobs eh - always getting in the way of the good stuff

hey Eggs, yup should be there this year Terry

the crowd is gathering - video would be good

be interested to see that

Cheers Spikey Yes a bit more reading today and have to agree re the strainers, but luckily its just a straight-ish run with only a gentle curve along the way.

Bosuns chair - been used for centuries at sea and still used today - tried and tested. As with modern gear, if you look after it, it will look after you.

Just wondering if anybody has used the Clipex fencing system Clipex Fence Solution | McVeigh Parker Got about 150m of fence to replace with no machinery access and the slope is very steep so got to hump the gear in and do the job manually. Clipex seems to tick the boxes as far as ease of installation and also seems relatively easy to move it at a later date which is a definite posibility in 3 or 4 years time. Grateful for thoughts on Clipex or suggestions for an alternative approach to the job.

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yup, they still have about 25% market share apparently, but are used to a bigger share of the pie. Modern economics is a strange beast which defies logic and common sense - it leads everybody to expect continual growth and yet we live in a finite world. Something has to give somewhere as growing populations cannot keep the numbers going up to a sufficient degree, so the squeeze goes on producers and suppliers. Beyond that, modern accounting practices are twisted and turned to fiddle the figures to best effect. All governments need to crack down on this ............... um, silly me, of course they wont as the governments are some of the worst offenders at cooking the books All we can do is vote with our feet on this one and support the small local producers and shops. Unfortunately, for the most part people are either too lazy, too ignorant, too short term thinking, just too short of cash to pay the bit extra or in too much of a rush to make a significant difference.