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I still imagine a light coloured native wood(like Ash?) suitably laminated and engineered would have been a more appropiate choice, and guessing as stiff and yet as light. Or even carbon fibre? The "contemporaneous with the age of the timber" comment, to me, does not sit well with the very clearly modern design of the support structure, for this an elegant design in stainless steel or alumininium would have looked better. Probably the result of design by committee. Marcus

Tell me thats not a metal frame it sits on? Like my eyes tell me it is? Marcus. P.S. I wholly applaud this use of this wonderful tree btw.

Easy, should be in the Ivy thread, but which one?

Right outside the local PS. I was voting. So deer activity would be unlikely.

Judging by the massive protective tree guard.

What mortar mix do you use Andy? since I always fancied such an oven. I got a pallet of old red brick set aside to use for such a project. Hmmm? Any way to incorporate a barbecue grill in such a construction?

Is possible more than 1 duck was laying eggs in the same nest? Equally well, an egg a day over 2 weeks allows for a dozen, and still taking Sunday as a day of rest!

But Hay! it were absolutely properly strapped on warnt it!

Yesterday and today. I will attempt to post the images first. The first image is my nearly filled woodshed, 26 bundles=13m3, and I reckon another 2 cube would have left me back to last year's fill level(near enough) The 2nd image is representative of the logs I sampled for moisture, from the centre of a bundle, and always picking the thicker sticks, and only sampled after cutting the 1.0m length in half, btw. this one was from the bottom row(they were stacked 4 high) and was sitting on 2 longtitudnal Sitka poles. It gave 12.5% moisture. As did essentially all the rest, quite a few 11.5(ish) and a equal number of low 13's. Setting aside the time I needed to move my saw and conveyor, I consistently averaged 15 min per 1/2m3 bundle, so 2.0 tightly strapped m3 per hour. Incl for the time collecting with the wee loader tractor and tidying the strapping away. The last image is the bottom row. Last year's empty Conc slabs to the left, but this year's mostly sitting on Sitka poles. Last 4 images are me moisture meter, and my much prized pile of Ash and Hawthorn for processing, though I still gotta figure out a method of stacking it to dry and allow for easy mechanical handling? Hmmm?

I just put 13 tightly strapped cubic meters into my woodshed, and having idlly checked the fortnight box of firewood in the Sun blasted garden room, where it not infrequently hits 30 deg and showing 26% relative humidity today and got a nominal 10% moisture(which seems entirely reasonable in the circumstances pertaining) I then checked my uncovered billet bundles, always checking a fresh cut face in the middle of the 1.0m length, drawn from the middle of the bundle, and always a thicker one And got 12.5% Which in the staggering dreauth we have experience this 2 or 3 weeks seems entirely likely to be correct(the dead grass up the moss being positvely crisp). So who needs a Polytunnel? Marcus

Oddly enough, I saw a stack of those up at Antrim Castle gardens last week. Literally a 4 or 5 high stack. So per Maynards post, all too often the design reflects transport or storage requirements, often ahead of human seating requirements. I also had a cousin spent a while container stuffing on a computer, and advising the design engineers, that "if you made that part smaller, or put an otherwise unneeded bolted joint in the middle we could fit more in the container".

Matching eyebrows, a nice touch!

Pics, or it didn't happen.

I definately got a 362C, with the factory-fit 20" bar, and after the wee026 the power was a relevation. All the chainsaw I will ever need.

The other side of our free prescriptions, and I had this from a mechanic that I used to work with, is that those working to claim their free DLA car, run to the Dr. "bigging up" if not downright inventing their ailments, and carting away the free prescriptions issued, which free prescriptions, obtained for these purposes were then binned, sure they cost nothing. But hey! the proved these folk were really really really sick, and needed their benefits, and more benefits, up to and including the DLA car. That is the problem with our free at the point of delivery NHS. P.S. I wonder has anyone managed to blagg the DLA car AND the extra weekly payment for being a registered alcoholic? That would be kinda neat in a rather preverse way. EDIT Now that mental health issues, no doubt including for "social anxiety" qualify one for various benefits(the new "bad back" I suppose) our flagrant abuse of the DLA/PIP cars can only get worse. So so easy to abuse.

Prescriptions should be free for those whom genuinely need them. Good luck with that one! Who judges? How?

Bloody hell! Yer a millionaire, with all them small Bisley filing cabinets. Since I tried to buy a couple for the wife I know what they cost.

I firmly believe there should be no red diesel, simples, only clear stuff, that way no angst nor opportunity for skulduggery. Arrange a cash-back to those who can argue they need it to keep food prices lower, or for whatever other well argued reason. Something like a sub based on acres farmed, crops grown, taxes paid, VAT returns or whatever. Now with everything being electronic and agribizz largely being a cashfree business this should be entirely possible. Oh! and bloody well tax jet fuel, to the same extent as petrol and diesel. mth

Ma dyslexia precluded me desire to be a proofreader!

Ya boo sucks to you . . .

Why would you take a blunt axe btw?

Pussies! Same as that old saw:"beware the man with only one gun'. As he sniffs in pure distain.

Aye but! Look on the bright side, iffen ye pay peanuts and get monkeys, they should be able to climb well! The Chainsaw H&S stuff could perhaps stand some finessing!

Back in my day it was fashionable to call it "diversificaction".

I do appreciate that aspect, but like the Parsons egg, it is good in parts only. I also "appreciate" the apre-game boozing culture associated with many footballers/Rugby players/Hockey players and their mostly shite diets. So only good in parts. Cheers