AHPP

“Always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever.”

I agree.

I think it's a nice tree but at the end of the day it's his tree. My sympathy is with him and anyone else who is told what they can and can't do with their own property. Anyone on here who's happy to see him penalised, I ask you whether you would be happy for other people to tell you what kitchen cupboards you're allowed?

Is it though? Don't give it a legal label if you don't absolutely KNOW that label is correct, especially when doing so might be bad for you. @kevinjohnsonmbe may be able to help you. He's dealt with similar in uncommon detail.

I'm not even clever enough to tag him.

Aspen Bob has posted on here about the legality of fifth wheel towing before.

Did you take down the top triangles or go in between the teeth?

Baumpflege?

Handle before buying. Dad’s Stihl mains electric saw has an uncomfortably fat rear handle. Very tiring to use.

Is the silica dust a problem when in with burning stuff? And can you write more about your career please. It sounds from your posts I’ve seen over the years that you’ve done loads of interesting stuff.

Just a thought. Best of luck with it.

On a slight tangent, I’ve often thought a briquette maker would be a handy thing to have. Yields a product with some shape and structure to it so can burn in conventional log burners (probably easier/cheaper for you to acquire and rig up for a small kiln - unless you’re planning a bigger operation, in which case maybe a dedicated sawdust burner is better for you). One of my plans for my own firewood at home is getting a briquette machine (proper one, auger type, looks like a giant sausage maker) and putting it in the back of a van or box trailer. I’d do a round of local joinery shops, have them dump their (bone dry) dust into my machine hopper and use their electricity to extrude briquettes into the van/trailer. I’d then park the van/trailer near the house door and take them straight to the log basket until the trailer’s empty. No cutting, no splitting, no storage, minimal handling. I think the machines were about two grand when I last daydreamed about it and a 3.5 tonne horsebox would do for the trailer element. They’ve even got front and back doors for loading and unloading.

It may be more than your first machine cost but it will probably be less than the total of the next few machines you buy. Think of it like a section commander having seven men with different jobs working under him.

Mum’s Alsatian pole axed me on a verge once. I stepped round with my right leg out to look behind to see where she was and at that exact moment she was in the process of passing me at full tilt. Right in the side of the knee. Went flying. Probably looked funny. Didn’t feel funny.

You remind me of a bat trainer I did a seminar with once. He delighted in telling us we should have ‘due regard to’ and ‘proper procedures in place for’ ‘PBRs’ and other acronyms he thought made him sound superior. And he delighted himself further by steadfastly avoiding giving straight answers to questions like, “So let’s say that ash might have bats in. Could I cut that chestnut down then?” He didn’t give a fuck about what was right/wrong, good/bad etc. He just wanted to throw confusing and contradictory stuff out there, get paid and be back next year with updated jargon and a bigger bill.

Who was it?

Charfest in Dorset? Men with beards gather and share stories of getting taxpayers to fund economically unviable things. People don't want to buy biochar. They want to buy scratchcards.

Well written. I laughed.

I was only coming on this thread to congratulate whoever posted this incisive piece of social commentary. It shows up on the new posts page with the thread title. Yet more fine work. I should have known the author.

A member on here (based in Lancashire, can’t remember his name, hasn’t posted in ages) has a system of willow coppards for his chickens that I thought looked pretty good. He cuts the willow trees at waist height. They coppice/pollard/coppard (cut them and they grow back vigorously, multiple stems). They provide shade as they grow for a few years and the chickens wander round underneath them. He then cuts and chips the new growth onto the ground. Repeat in another few years and/or do some different ones next year. Apparently willow has some antiseptic qualities that are good for staving off feather rot etc.

How does one get money for carbon offsetting in the UK? As far as I'm aware, we don't have state run cap and trade.

I laughed.

MattyF has posted on here about one he made from carbon fibre sheet. I made one from a solid lump of wood, more in the spirit of the original than as a serious tool though. Sheet material and pins/bolts/sleeves/bushes will be better. There'll be build/design stuff online, probably on the American arb forums. The way I'd approach the design would be to copy pin locations (maybe spaced a tiny bit differently to account for your 13mm rope or maybe even with an adjustable pin, either by filing a slot from one of the holes or having different sized sleeves/bushes) from pictures of commercially available ones and fabricate out of whatever you like to fabricate things out of. I'd print a picture of it, stick it to the sheet material and cut and drill to that template. I'd probably make the outside shape (not massively important to functionality) something novel so it looks ragtag and cowboy. You might prefer to just copy the original of course. I've not made a tether. I'd probably use rope/tape sheathed in some kind of hosepipe.

I'd use it. Make your rope wrench big enough and then you can use it as a rigging wrench later if you make the tether strong enough (quite easy).

Is it cutting a curve and the bar binding?