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OK Endex/game over, we now have the winning comment:lol:!

"E" tha girl bes up for a challange then Broonie. Iffen she marriet ye. tee hee.

Yep, I am still using the Wahl DOG/animal Clippers, the wife bought in the cattle grooming place. Cos they were seriously cheaper (and seriously. literally identical to the human clipping kind) Still going strong, whereas the cheap ones sold anywhere else simply did not last, I went through 2 or 3 of them

My 40 odd acres of mixed age Conifer and Lodgepole, oldest plot about 40 years, youngest plot probably 25 years old. I was offered (i) £10,000.00 for the lot or (ii) A tonne price at the Roadside, but I paid for all "roadmaking" to extract. Now I may just be a trifle cynical, but I would deduce the road making contractor and the timber extractor would have a very close working relationship! So I would realize very little. And Prob in both extraction sceanarios, in Moss, would be left with a massive rutted wasteland. So if/when I get a roadway in (and I am getting there year on year) I will employ a harvester to cut the timber directly. After I establish a paying market. BUT More importantly I am deriving great pleasure from bringing on the naturally seeded (by Jay's?) Oak and the very Occosional wind seeded Beech. By this I mean cutting away competing overshodowing tress and bushs. By the time I die in 20 to 30 years I hope to have and to leave some REAL woodland for future generations to enjoy. Marcus

I will have my Stihl stickers ready and waiting:001_tt2:

Thanks Gavin, I am shamed/inspired by watching what the wife achieves. Since retiring at 40, from teaching, due to Arthritis (the pain meds were such she could not function, at the level she felt the pupils required) Since got 2 replacment knees (which were a failure) still in constant pain despite the meds. But simply says nowt, puts her head down and battles on. She does fall over occassionally (literally!) when a knee gives way. But picks herself up and continues. One tough Lady!

Does one perhaps partake of the odd CowPie there Stubby, or was that your father?

Spot on Doobin, The No.2 gets a trot right round my skull about once a month. Simples! But before I simply used cheapie disposable "Bic" type wet razors. My reason for stopping shaving was driven by the analysis paralysis induced by the vast and growing number of such razors on the market. I were reduced to a gibbering wreack each time I re-purchased.

A combination of sciaita (due to doing too much the previous weekend) and just plain "being down" (being manic/depressive or as is now described Bi-Polar) Saw me spend most of this past weekend of absolutly magnificent weather in bed (and it was me birthday too!) But got a bit done last night until I surrundered to the midges at 22:00 hrs. Playing with my new (6 months ago) Magnetic Drill. A Rotabroach Panther, proper magic that tool is. Now need to source an invertor welder (but waiting until I get a Genset sussed, cos I ud might get a bigger one than our mains supply will drive) Regards all. PS First GOT to finish the ensiute for the daughter before the end of June. GULP! And then put down about 10m by 8m of concrete before I put the shed roof over. Ah proper HATE laying concrete.(As does my back!!) Marcus

very very impressive

"T" Cut?

But if the Snap On dosnt EVER break, AND one is attempting to loosen obdurate nuts, SURELY it is INEVITABLE that one will OCCASSIONALLY shear the bolt, and bust knuckles/fingers anyway. Ca?

Ding! ding! Seconds out! PS I'm in Doobin's corner.

The area of "shrub" that naturally regenerated on the bare peat (where I got a height dozed into a hollow) only about perhaps an acre in size, mostly goat willow and birch with a few whins and lodgepole pine, plus misc flowering shrubs, Rowan etc. Plus I planted mostly quickthorn/whitethorn/hawthorn hedges over some 500m, which have been growing uncut and unchecked for prob 8 years and flowering in parts for the first time this year, and the smell on a damp morning was heavenly. Is all proper HOOCHING with bird life and game trails. not 100m from the house.

Enrib, not intending to offend. But (i) Not all statements by all posters on the internet can be taken at face value:001_rolleyes:. (ii) Genuinely puzzled that there was not a better = purpose designed bit of kit for this very particiular and often repeated operation. (iii) I fondle my big 15"/18" Bacho adjustable spanners, ditto the Record 24" (or is it 30") Stilson, quite regularly, and despair seeing "professional" fitters using utter dung of adjustable spanners. Regards, Marcus

How would "virgin" tool steel differ from any other tool steel. As far as I am aware scrap steel is a vital part of the blend for any steel production. And cough cough I know tradespersons in different trades, who make a good living, doing things a certain way. Simply because that was the way they were always done. And they know no other/choose to learn no other. Irrespective of the changes in technology and materials affording a "better" way. Seriously. PS Wanna drill a hole in high carbon tool steel. First stick an old dull drill bit, or length of re-bar or round section steel in the drill. "Bore" until the tool steel is red hot. Smother the area in builders lime and walk away. Return after the component has cooled. And bore a hole in the now annealed steel. Or for the brickkies, try the "Donegal" bond. (Prob from a hungry Donegal farmer being thrifty) One can "look it up" Saves wastage and more importantly TIME. Looks ugly, but hey iffen it is plastered after, no odds. regards, Marcus

enrib, Sommat kinda disnay add up, in respect of your claims re tool life. All employees in that Garret fixing section must have been built like Popeye, and working 24/7 forby. Anyway such misuse and abuse of tools simply tells me that someone (incl perhaps the Snap-on rep, were failing to identify the correct methodology for removing these seized bolts. There are means other than a simple spanner, incl simply welding a square or hex section of bar to the bolt head, the intense localized welding heat also being perfect to assist breaking the bond. etc etc.

thanks for that, cheers marcus

Generally an apparently superficial inspection of the care taken in the design and manufacture, i.e. how the item is sculpted & finished. can tell a lot. for spanners avoid big clumsy akward ended ones=cheap rubbish. toolsteel is cheap, the finish costs money, irrespective of the brand. Having said that I bes a sucker for Bacho stuff. And other than buying a reputable brand name, punchs and chisels are a proper "pig in a poke"

Presumably!

Fails on all the "S"sss Shape Shine Shadow Silhouette. Or was it just failed on the brakes?

Probably delivering to a submarine

By that I mean, do commerical harvesting operations give any consideration to sap levels, and if they dont, why does the traditional (as I understand it) wisdom dictate that we should only cut trees when the sap is down. Or does this only apply to hardwoods/ be more pertinent to hardwoods? In respect of less potential for shaking I appreciate that in Scandavia the ground being frozen and snow covered is part of their particular metholodgy. Cos I am considering cutting some Sitka to get a chance to play with my sawmill, so will the timber be relatively useless if I do fell it now (but not that worried as I need to start somewhere and can use it to make raised veg beds for the wife) regards, Marcus

BINGO As seen in OUR local community and repeated across ALL others. Hey its "free money"

(i) I got a sawmill (well I will have shortly) (ii) I got "unlimited" Sitka and Lodgepole Pine to cut. (unlimited being for me to cut during the remainder of my lifetime) (iii) I am "handy" and reasonably multi-skilled. SO How best do I turn my trees into "added value" cash, bearing in mind rural located with low population, but near the seasonal high traffic flows to the North Coast/Portrush. I am/was probably thinking of Organic garden Pods.(aka a snobbish Wendy House) Simply because; "One" would NOT wish to risk ones childrens welfare playing in a wendy house made from nasty toxic:001_rolleyes: treated timber. m