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Entirely practical and ultimately pragmatic.

Entirely possible, & possibly quite practical, but entirely unpragmatic. I imagine.

Until this spring I had only been very selectively thinning around them, to encourage them to reach for the light. This spring I clearfelled the surrounding birch. btw, they were mostly about 1/2 this size 20 year ago when we bought the property. but the leader shoots, or this years growth, look quite promising. cheers M

Recently been re-locating young-uns like this that are over-fond on sprouting on the footways/tractor tracks.. The last one I mentally marked and felled around. Remarkable how many Oaks are coming, from presumably Gray Squirrell dropped Acorns, a good 1/2 mile as the Crow files from the nearest mature Oaks.

Been nuturing them this 20 years, a mix of mostly Oak with sporadic Beech.

V pleased with this fell, done on "auto-pilot", when getting tired. In among a pile of rubbish hindering good access, with a couple of other "hung-up" trees (small though) to focus the concentration elsewhere than on the felling cut.

my old girl, the 4WD DB1490 appears to be nicely matched to my re-shod on Ex slurry tanker "Russian" tyres log trailer, in that the tractor marks the softish ground exactly the same as the loaded trailer. Also much easier to manouver when towed behind the winch, since the tractor and trailer "yoke" can be turned through virtually 90 degrees.

Went to steel stockist, local family firm, looked around their stock and picked the 90mm box, also bought a length of 100 by 6mm(&would rather have had 10mm) flat to make brackets etc, then pondered over time, so by the time I started measuring and cutting it all fell into place, really pleased with the anti drip fabric coated "tin" from Steadmans, at 0.7mm thick (as opposed to the standard 0.5mm) it is simply twice the product. I oh-so-nearly, did not get it hot dip galv, but very pleased I did. Cost, for hot dip galv, about 70p/kg, used about 15m of the 90mm box at nom 10kg/m=150kg + a wee girder at about 30kg, say 180kg-200kg at 75p/kg=£300.00=bloody hell! but a tidy looking lifetime job.

I will "artistically/autistically" clad the lower end (the second "bay" away from the back door) in waney edge planks sawn on my Logosol mill, so as to have my logs nearer hand and bare foot accessible. Then open up the currently closed in bay for tractor storage and access. Then I gotta "finally" (pending this 5 or six years) build my boiler room around my outside Solarbayer boiler. Getting there! M

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So on my laptop at home the Photographs are displayed, on this work computer, they are not?? cheers M

So 5 bes the answer. ok more tomorrow. Anyway I was more than a little pleased with my fabrication skillz using nowt but a tape mesure, a steel rule, centre dab and 4.5" Angle grinder with the thin cutting discs and a crap buzzbox air cooled welder. I found when I went to Rotobroach the 14mm dia holes for the woodbolts, that I did not have the correct size centre for the cutter. So promptly fabricated one from a 6" nail, which worked flawlessley. regards marcus

Erm! try again Anyone How many 800 by 600 images are we allowed? Cheers M

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I certainly hope so, and am pleased to confirm, that the much discussed, among us students, horny middle aged "Mrs. Robinson's" hypothis is indeed true. Or as a sage older farming neighbour so succiently put it "The older the Fiddle, the sweeter the tune" tee-hee!

going on 57 and loving it, never been happier, glad to wake up grumpy any morning, since in my day job I look after Cemetery admin(amongst other things) and have good cause to realize that it is indeed a luxury many do not get to enjoy. Took me a lot of years to learn to be content, but such is life I suppose. I even tend to get a bit philsophical re the whole "cycle of life thing", and derive more pleasure from watching nature succeed against the odds,(and even at a cost to me, bytimes) than any technological marvels. Life is good. Marcus

very tidy, both the forging and splitting. what steel did you use? m

Our 1998 SDP 290GD Van has been sitting parked up in a grass field since Feb 2013, I sliped(i.e. dragged) her out, unstarted (& not the slightest sign of sticking brakes at all btw) sometime earlier this summer with the tractor, and left her parked up on concrete, nonetheless grass was still growing out from the bottom of the drivers door, today. All 4 tyres were still 100% inflated btw. I put a new battery in her this evening, and turned the key, she started 100% ABSOLUTLY on the first turn (the Yausa battery I fitted does kick out 700 A mind) No farting spluttering or misfires at all, at all, at all. Only for the weeping steering box, I would be minded to take her straight down for her MOT. Complete with grass and north facing moss covered panels. Cos a brief test drive up and down our lane was 100% good. And still remarkedly rust free beneath, cept for the outriggers. True testimony to German engineering. Marcus

[ame] [/ame] As a Conservative/Unionist, what else is there to say!

The Best laugh I have had in a very long time, it really really belongs in the; "truth is stranger than fiction" or "you couldnt make it up if you tried" Sounds more like the cliched plot of an over-the-top Political sit-com set back in the 1970's.

I could not bring myself to watch that pretentious puke. m

Ah! Another case of "failure to communicate", because as I often retrospectively analyse, the picture inside my head was so clear, that I failed to tell the whole story, skipping a key fact or component. Cos, its obvious innit! BUT NOT To someone else. thanks Eddie, indeed, proper fascinating stuff.

cept ah canny see how the PTO shaft with a Hardy Spicer yoke can self align on the winch PTO stub, as per Eddies photo, cheers, marcus

Eddie, Puzzled or perhaps intrigued how the PTO connnects/disconnects remotely from the cab. m

As in it cannot make sense for me to go down the RHI route, even at a deemed and capped £2,000.00/year over 7 years. Plus £2,500.00 up front When we only used 250 gallon of kero this past 12month, I was gobsmaked when I checked today at lunchtime. The Morso obviously does stirling work in the front room:lol: hmmm £16,500 return over 7 years for £11,00.00 outlay now. might actually be worth it after all:lol::lol: but if I remove the oil boiler for to qualify for the deemed payment, I really need to add in the cost of solar hot water install for the summer months. m