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Well one does have aspirations . . ., for the next but one, but not yet gestated, generation. Fingers crossed.

Is that another way of saying the purchaser will only leave the very very best trees, that is, taking as many of the acceptably good trees as they can get away with, simply to line their own pockets? Because as a woodland owner, that is how I would understand such wording. My woodland is worthless conifer, but I still know there has to be a clear dichotomy between those who own woodland, and those who earn a living from felling trees and selling timber. Especially if the tree felling party if offering tree felling/tree retention advice to the woodland owner. Regards, Marcus

I really really want to preserve the natural colouration, but that I presume means using vast quantities of resin* Which, for 1 I resent paying for. The other option is creosote which will leave it "near enough" but I will lose the pleasent reddish colour. Or gallons of Osmo Natural Oil Woodstain, in Red Cedar perhaps Or allow it to naturally oxodise to the silver grey such pieces exhibit in the various piles in the Moss. *I could make up formwork and pour concrete to the rear, and only use the resin for the front, but that still leaves me with the surface finish issue as I do not imagine it would look right glassy smooth. Having though as I typed the above, tending towards the Osmo solution, and I can still creosote the back for some economy. Regards, Marcus P.S. Ratman mentioned using oil somewhere above, thanks.

All the bog timber hereabouts is referred to as "Fir", and from the fibrous stringy nature of the wood, clearly conifer of some sort. over where I was born, it was all Oak. mth

Yes indeed, I can see that too, 2 dragons tearing a man apart!

Well seeing as the house was built in a field that had been cut-out peatbanks. And there was always a soft spot on the new(ish) access road, which I tasked the diggerman to investigate before I laid any kerbs or paid for any asphalt. And "voila" The diggerman looked perplexed when I asked him to treat it with care and leave to one side.

But how do I preserve it? , a shallow tray(which I have not got) and gallons of creosote spring to mind. I suppose I could stand stand it under cover with the legs in a couple of cut-off 45 gall drums and periodically and liberally douse with creosote, as it naturally dries Nervous of letting it dry/get too dry though. mth

Absolutely non-artistic me, can actually see the makings of a running man in their, & very clearly being attacked by a winged dragon.

see att image, just under 2.0m square, intention is to bolt it to a sturdy galvanised support and artfully mount the 3 digit house number across it as it sits presented. If I can get it sufficiently preserved, it was dug out last spring/summer and left in the grass, and does not appear to have deteriorated any since. I have only so far given a quick pressure was to establish how much was peat, and how much was actually rootplate.

And, perhaps?

see this image; Photo taken looking due north, i.e. glass facing fully due south.

I spoke to the NFU about my intentions to re-engine the "G" Wagen. As long as the replacement engine is not of more cc's than the origional OM617 no odds. So I can go from a 88HP N/A 3.0 litre to a firebreathing 388 HP T/C I/C 3.0 litre beast. No odds. Seriously!

Draw me a diagram of the shear forces and bending moments and how they differ with the plate up or down. The towball is still carrying a vertically applied load when static, and moving, more-so when braking. Plus when moving it is subject to longitudinal acceleration forces, causing a bending moment in the plate carrying the towball. I cannot see how these forces differ due to the low or high mounting of the plate, EXCEPT If the towball was stupidly high it could concievably cause an overturning/lifting moment during braking, and perhaps dangerous when cornering? regardless of braking, but this should be more than counteracted by the excess downforce caused by the load on the trailer rotating the hitch downwards. The mounting bolts should be engineered to withstand forces in any concievable direction. I will now do some independant research. Anyway, intuitively I imagine it has more to do with the stability of the towing vehicle, than any failure of the riser plate. Regards, Marcus

It it was ever finished, its been 22 years and counting, P.S. I am currently looking for a"G" Wagen hearse?

this should work. BTW , having enquired re the cost of putting the wee red 1884 G on the road. I intend to minimally fettle her to go through the MOT, and tax her for 6 months each from Feb to July. Hopefully driving all 3 to our Donegal meet over the late May Bank holiday weekend. The other 2 are already fully road legal already.

see image taken this morning

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I my current post pub "witty" state, I ud be tempted to suggest you were rather not actually the sharpest tool in the First Aid box!

Fcuk you Eggs! wander? Pot-Kettle-Vantablack

Well fcuk-me!, I met our next door neighbour down the pub this afternoon, during the Rugby. (i) The car following immediately behind the just-suddenly now-stationary right turning vehicle, (which was being driven by his wife) swerved out onto the wrong side of the road, i.e. the inattentive following driver could not get stopped, and due to pure blind good fortune, did not meet an oncoming vehicle and the van driver, 2nd behind, while attempting to get stopped, merely clipped her nearside tailight,(absolutely the only damage, per her husband) before rolling over the hedge into the field. So, 2 questions; (i) Why the fcuk was the driver who blindly went onto the wrong side of the road not prosecuted for dangerous driving? (ii) Why the fcuk was an Audi A8 provided as a courtesy car(as volunteered by himself, who recounted the story) and I smell a big over-inflated personal injury & other expenses claim. (iii) Why was the air ambulance sent for, at all, ever. JHC! WTF is up with people. Marcus

Ere! some o us are a lot closer to the Artic Circle than you southern Cornish Riveria softies. We got a couple of figs, but due to my harsh deliberate underwatering, the Fig has generally shed the semi-ripened fruit. I imagine I was too slow with the hand pollination of the Peach last year, so only 1 fruit properly set. No limes or lemons. And the grapes are wile slow getting away, might need to shovel on a few kg of granulated lime outside to sweeten the dour essentially acidic ground(i.e. all cut out peat bogs where the house is built) to their taste. And considering investing in a 20 tonner of limestone chips levelled across the front of the ground at the house, both for asthetic reasons and to hopefully influence the underlying water table in the locality. Considering putting in a mezzanine floor (using galvanised weldmesh, but dont tell the Wife!) to better utilize the 2 story high, fully south facing, otherwise wasted glazed space at our front door. But I got a 3rd "G" Wagen to MOT first! Fingers crossed. Marcus

And voila!, the Peach coming into blossom this morning. Even the lost-all-its-leaves, and-I-thought-it-was -dead Brown Turky Fig in the other corner, has produced fresh buds and a couple of tiny figlets. Aint nature wonderful. Fingers crossed. P.S. I deliberately underwatered to attempt to persuade both plants to send down roots to find the water, that is down there in abundance, in the subsoil, but deep below their planted at floor level, level. P.P.S. The bloody Avocado or Mango stones (and I really cant remember which now) that were merely carelessly stuffed into the soil, sprouted, refused to die due to my underwatering and are now threating to take over. An Avocado I could work with, but a bloody Mango tree, inside . . . marcus

Sommat to do wi G Wagens obviously