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Why did the Polis stop referring to RTA's and switch to RTC's? Eh?

My first thought would be how clean grained is your proposed feedstock, to split along its 3.0m length, and if it is clean enough to split along 3.0m, surely it is of more value as sawlogs?, or whatever one calls sawmill quality timber. marcus

This! I have found that, as above, it can often be a tedious, mindless, even difficult, unpleasent & repetitive job, that is the best antidote, essentially one that does not require one to think. But one that clearly shows what one has achieved. Like pressure washing the yard or pruning a tangle of bastard jaggy bastard Gooseberry bushes, in the rain. marcus

I can quite happily tolerate rats outside, and do, there is not much choice in the matter. BUT! It took me 20 years, before quite accidentally, finding where the rats were gaining access to our blown fibre filled cavitiy, and thence to the roofspace. Where they partied and played merry hell each autumn. Not at or below ground level, where I had searched and better searched, but through the butyl rubber where it disappeared up below the lead flashing on a flat roof. Directly above a returned cavity wall below, which had left a gap one could stick ones fist through. mth P.S. I once shot a rat with the 12 gauge, standing just outside the back door, and, instantly after my rat-shot, my periferal vision spotted a mouse 1/2 way up the marble dash at the rear of the house. Pure reflex and the mouse instantly vanished. How I managed to miss the downpipe and various other plumbing fixtures was a mystery, since I only saw them afterwards.

Ah dont think one would be back to pass any comment . . .

Propane and Oxygen i.e. through a torch, piped in with a garden hose and safely ignited. WHOOMP!

My favourite "ranting" topic, sloppy wet "self-levelling" concrete. Optimium water/cement ratio is only 0.4(from recall) which is to say that for every 25kg bag of cement one should only add 10kg=10 litres of water, assuming the sand is bone dry. This sloppy wet magic self-levelling concrete is why so many lanes and yards break up in 10 years or less. Properly specified and mixed concrete should be good for much longer. But it is a proper bastard to shovel and level. marcus

Is that an "indvisible load" thinggy get-out clause, within constraints obviously.

Meh!, Simply cheap advertising for someone, 1 Company owner with FSH, & all tax deductible I presume.

Well I demand "best of three" just in case the next one gets it wrong. Only fair I imagine.

For me, at 60, after 40 years of mostly retrospective observation, it is a purely seasonal cycle, currently in my winter hibernation mode, only requiring a full belly and a warm bed, but! come some unspecified day in the early spring, I will burst into madly productive life again. Best described as like flicking a switch, so sudden, though not unexpected, as to be unbelievable. At 60 I have learned to live with myself, though it can be a gie long boring winter bytimes. But I simply cannot focus/knuckle down during the winter months, emergiencies excepting. Marcus

What winch is that?

Well fcuk me 6 ways to Sunday, that Meclac is the proper dog's danglies, and could probably scratch a dog's dangly bits, to the dogs immense and ongoing satisfaction. I like it. P.S. Requires a week/couple of weeks intensive training, a short break, then back on with a couple of relaxing pints in, to "go with the flow". IMHO

look on facebook, there is a winchmen group

"If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?" oops That was not addressed to you btw Mick, so dont go getting ideas . . .

Well a chain was a long established unit of measurement of length under the Imperial system like. So it could hardly be metric like! An, needless to say I got one o them chains stashed away for post Brexit use

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What can I say, but "Oh Good", & rub my hands with glee, for all us UK based woodland owners, especially previously undervalued Conifer woodland owners. P.S. I had predicted Brexit would be good for UK based business, so I was correct, yes? cheers marcus

Bowlandstoves, A favourite saying of my Uncle Tony, a lifelong bachelor and as mad as a box of frogs, unfortunately genetics being what it is, and Tony being my fathers brother, I sometimes see "the Tony" in me coming out. Such is life. When starting a job, he often said "let the dog see the rabbit", i.e. clear the site so as one could see the wood from the trees, so to speak. Marcus, the Hat.

But keep the bedroom unheated Ratman, that way they have to lie tighter for the heat! Or alternately they bring a few well fed warm fat cuddely dogs to bed. sigh The best laid plans o mice an men aft gey gang astray.

Tsk tsk, how could footings be measured in metric?

Bloody Yanks? Probably like tyre sizes. P.S. I tend to use whichever system, metric or imperial, gives me the nearest "dead on" or easiest remembered measurement. But for volumes of concrete it must be metric.

F... me, I would need binos to see whatever I was trying to grab, so hopefully it is equipped with radio remote control? mth

What are fungee? From a Professor too.

Another "failure to communicate".