muttley9050
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Been making some gates. Never made any this big before. Made from 40mm box steel salvaged from old stillages and 22mm English larch cladding. Quite happy with how they came out.
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Buy a reasonable bow from Merlin. If you have land to shoot on and that's all you intend to do then you don't need to spend loads,If you want to buy a kit this would be better thec the previous one mentioned 68" Adult Gent First Shot Kit WWW.MERLINARCHERY.CO.UK Ready to take your first shot? The First Shot Archery Kit is perfect for you. Combining a quality take down recurve bow with all the accessories you need to get started. An archery club could be useful although I've never been to one except in my role as a scout leader.
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I don't think it's sapele but I don't know what it is. Helpful I know.
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That's well priced. Is it all metal construction and good with Milling chains?
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I'm quite adept at hand filling. But when you come home from work with 6 190 link chains, some with metal damage, it gets rather laborious trying to get them back to prefect with all cutters the same length. Especially if the metal damaged teeth need 4mm taking off. That's a lot of hand filling
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There is a cheap one in the community workshop here. Don't use it. Prefer hand filling or my Granberg 12v
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Kevin's advice is spot on for your average town /Village development plan. Planners should consider it but can ignore it too. Government policy rules.
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Looks good. There will be none of that elm if you move down south you know.
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He must mean the new forest. 🤣
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The time has come for a new bench mounted chain grinder. Been looking at what's available. Oregon grinders seem to be popular. They have the compact for £60. I assume by the price that this isn't up to much. They have the professional compact for around £200 and the professional for around £300. Then the professional hydraulic but not interested in that. Is there much difference in ability, accuracy and ease of use in these two or will the £200 one do the job? Or does anybody else have any other recommendations? £300 Ish is my upper limit. Will mostly use it for 190 link Milling chains. Managed with a Granberg precission 12v grinder till now but bored of the faff and want something easier. Cheers chaps. Opinions gratefully recieved.
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4 days of logging fills the log shed. And while my mates botek was here I got him to line up 3 ash and one big oak for Milling next week.
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Will post some up later in the week I only have cheap recurve bows though. Nothing flash as I only shot targets at home
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What area of the country do you want to end up in?
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A good bow and decent hunting arrow will take down most things. In the right hands of course and those hands aren't mine.
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Good thing about a compound bow is once its drawn there is no weight to hold. Sounds like a legal bow though.
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Thought you were selling up and moving?
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You could easily draw 40 pounds but as said above you are better staying slightly lower. Try 25 to 30.You can just replace your limbs later to increase your draw weight..If you get the wrong Length bow your draw weight will be off anyway. Measure your out stretched arms finger to finger and divide by 2.5. This is your draw length and go from there. I always use merlin archery. They're a good company. Buy the minimum kit you need. Bow arrows and boss and see how you get on. Don't get dirty cheap arrows. Sometimes I shoot weekly, sometimes it's weeks or months beteeen. My main bow is around 48 pounds. I Quite like shooting with my sons bow because it's less heavy you can have more fun with it. Plus usually when I'm shooting it's with friends, my son, scouts etc so the range is never far enough to warrant that weight.
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My first instinct is don't buy that kit. You don't need to spend loads but you don't really need a quiver. . If you can shoot properly you don't need an arm guard.. Finger Protection is optional. I never bother but finger protection like pictured in that kit will make it hard to hit the side of a bus.
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I shoot quite a bit. Got a few bows of different sizes. How tall are you.?
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Definately not a genuine conversation. But funny all the same.
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Too true. Shame ill never find out.
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First season of banshee down. Very good. What a ride
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I think your right. I'm in no mad rush but need a van finished for next summer. Saying that. I sold my van 5 days ago and miss having a van alot. I have been looking at badly converted camper vans and think at the moment they are cheaper than the equivalent empty vans. Will converted campers sure still holding their money. Sold my van for 20k and the plan is to spend no more than 10 on a van and conversion. Can't get much of a van for 6k right now though. Welfare vans can be good value though. Especially as they usually come with eberspacher etc. My last van was a welfare with 35k miles on it. 4 years old and I bought it for 7.5k. Nothing at that price these days.
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The van market is crazy. But I have just sold in a crazy market so have a bit in the bank. I want a van big enough to sleep me and my partner, my 17 and 12 year old kids. So we can all go on a europe trip next year. Currently two frames of mind. Convert something like this 2017 Vauxhall Movano 2300 cdti Low Loader luton box van with sleeper pod Vgc! WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Or just buy an older coach built. I will be selling either way after Europe to get a smaller van anyway. Pretty sure this will be the last summer my daughter will come so will only need 2/3 Beth after that so will get a panel van mwb high top again.
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Will be insterested as to how you get on. Just looking for a new van now to convert as the old one sold recently.
