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And yet, when I fitted seat rails from a VW Sharan, so that I could use the 2 otherwise unused seats from the Ford Galaxy, into OUR Steyr Puch Van, I took it down to the DVLA in Coleraine and "fessed up" a woman came out, looked at it in the car park, and happliy taxed it a PLG. But that was 15+ years ago.
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I have wondered at how they "get away" with washing their ponies down in the pristine stream at Appleby, using plenty of bog-off detegerent, and nary a word said about the Environment or pollution. This information From a widely publisised image.
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Prison perhaps?
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Did they indeed even know who they sold it too, though I appreciate quite a few landowners will possibly be swayed by a large brown envelope full of undeclared cash. But still everyone is supposed to be trweated the same in the eyes of the law.
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Bloody 'ell, never mind the air dried vis-a-vis kiln dried conundrum, look at the astounding value the softwood is in comparison to the hardwood! ah fink leastwise. -
Wot! like the parents of Eton pupils will ensure that the education of their children takes priority over their online gambling, smoking chip eating, couch surfing and vodka guzzling habits. Per another headline shrieking about the injustices of the middle class school children getting an unfair advantage during their extended absence from School, simply because their parents care about their childrens education, and ensure they participate in the distance learning provided. Like wot the oiks dont. But: "Its not fair" they shriek. FFS!
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Gents, Twas a headline I read, about parents "demanding" a vaxxine, before they allow their little darling to return to their Schools. and my instant thought was could it be that a percentage of these self-same demanding parents were also fervent anti-vaxxers. Anyway I thought I would take the opportunity to get in on the fake news business. Cheers, Marcus P.S. I guarentee their is a grain of truth in my thoughts.
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For their children before they will allow them to return to Schools. Can this be true?
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Anyway my air dried wood is coming out of the shed at 15%, so there is that, so why would I pay for wetter kiln dried stuff?
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Safe enough to say now, but last spring, during a very hot dry spell, I lit a bonfire some 15m upwind and South of my log pile which had been toasting in the Sun for some days after a prolonged dry spell. I was watching keenly with the hose ready once I saw both the bonfire flames and the wind pick up. A very rotten conifer stump, sitting positively toasty in the strong Sun, was easily kindled by a spark carried on the wind, I then misted the area with the hose and kept an eye on it till dark. Frightening how easy a fire is to start when stuff is truely dry. Marcus
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Lies, dammned lies, and statistics! Which specially as said statistics are being bandied about by professional liars, aka Politicans, does leave one mare than a touch disbelieving.
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And the problem is . . . Nature dont give a flying fornication . . . Not that I approve of such actions.
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In our new build, I installed a small steel plate below the wood stove, with a suspended oak floor beneath that, probably NOT to approved specifications, but 25 years later all I got is the odd scorch mark on the oak flooring, where I was a tad(alcohol induced) slow in lifting glowing embers. N.B. The wood stove is relatively long legged, so I had no concerns about excessivly downward heat.
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Wor daughter told the mother that people need to be fit to survive being put on a ventilator, I imagine the panic about needing ventilators simply because(some of) the infected could not breath will prove to have been a must-be-seen-to-do-something reaction, rather than a truely measured clinical decision. By that I mean they imagined it could do no harm, but actually there are now some doubts as to whether the ventilator may have made things worse, for some at least? Which is why so many died, anyway, after the ventilator merely prolonged their agony. Btw, speaking with a cousin who was relating about a local bloke in his 40's, and fit, hard working and thin, he spent a couple of weeks couch bound with Covis19, anyway he said the recovery was brutally tough, with even taking a shower feeling like a hard days work. So many unknowns, variables, confusion and hysteria.
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You spoil that woman . . .
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Da Da!
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Dan, Handling and storing firewood is a proper bugger, I started with potato boxes, but they were well rotten before I ever bought them, and with outside storage they then deterioted even faster, and I had no way of emptying them either, and then we are remote from any source of cheap IBC's, and pallets cages on our wet ground rot SO quick, hence my billet bundles method(copied from the Germans, so there must be some merit therin?), But which is still bloody tedious. I would love a PTO driven processor, but where to go with the cut lengths so produced. And, all in all, one really needs to be working on a concrete surface, so as to allow for the clean-up and disposal of the resulting bark/splinters and ensuing mulch. And then a big airy shed to store the logs in. Or just stick to a chainsaw and Axe. Marcus
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When woodlands are similar to the fishing industry
difflock replied to Sutton's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Bored as I am, I am currently re-reading the "dead horse" thread.(an kinda surprised it was still findable) Chortling already! -
When woodlands are similar to the fishing industry
difflock replied to Sutton's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Sutton, Apologies if my remark sounded a bit condesending, it was not intended too. That "codwood" thread was a real gem mind, only bettered by the "how to move a dead Horse" thread on the farming forum, which had me, and others in hysterics. The Link might work? How to move a dead horse? | The Farming Forum THEFARMINGFORUM.CO.UK We have a slight problem 17.3.hh shire cross collapsed and died in it's stable last night on our small livery yard. It is a BIG beast. The problem is that it has died in about the worst... -
Put it on backwards for them, an hopefully they will not return!
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When woodlands are similar to the fishing industry
difflock replied to Sutton's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
You new around here then . . . An, me an all the rest are getting more than a little stir-crazy ah fink! -
When woodlands are similar to the fishing industry
difflock replied to Sutton's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Kevin will be along in a minute . . . -
I started to think that some of the brewers had given up on the hops, an simply started adding cresote instead, for more "bite", best expressed, as me ould Uncle Tony used to say of certain food or drink, by "that ud turn the eye in yer heid". So yes the fad for more and more hops was just that, a "fad", BUT Brewdog got their balance of alcohol and hops "just right", for an IPA.
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If I were tackling that, I might consider moving/removing the shed first, to "let the dog see the rabbit", then probably move the founds and shed back tight up against the fenceline afterwards. Figuring if you stay really low with the chainsaw you should be below the nail-line, but obviously need to carefully clean the bark and soil/stones away first(with a pressure washer perhaps?). The sort of job I relish as a challenge, BUT without the pressure of time or needing to turn a profit on the job. Marcus
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Well, I only wear gloves in extremis, and mostly hoking through hardcore or ploutering about with mortar('cos my skin hates cement) I never wear them working with saws or timber(though I know I should), Agent Orange easily getting the resin off my hands when washing them. And I still got ALL the tools I bought over a 40 year period, only having lost 2 knives, one recently(probably below the roofspace flooring I was working at), a laser spirit level(left on a G Wagen bonnet that the wife then took to the town), and a wee short extension for my 3/8" socket set, most recently(most preturbing that, specially since I dumped the drum of workshop scrap in the interim, hmmm?) I also know where I lost the first knife btw. I suppose that puts me well up on the Obsessive Complusive index. Hmmm, FFS! now pondering about the likely whereabouts of a particular hammer I havnt seen in a while.
