born2trot

Hiya

 

 

 

Was Rae the guy that discovered the key to the North West Passage?

 

 

 

I will see if I can track the book down, sounds very worth a read.

 

The 200 year old canoe cup looked like a shallow kuksa to me, this may make sense as I guess there are links to scandanavia (villings) from Orkney?[/quote

 

You bet he was the guy that found the missing link to the Northwest passage thats why its called the Rae Strait , NOT John Franklin ( i dont recognise him as a sir ) . As you say the scandinavian link is still strong there with seamanship at the forefront of this , they were brilliant rowers and boatmen .

An interesting little story is that the ' little maid of Norway ' who was also Queen Margaret of Scotland sailed from Norway to Leith in Scotland . She took ill on the voyage and their boat was blown off course but landed in what is now known as St Margarets Hope in south ronaldsay , Orkney. Only a child she died just a couple of days later...had she lived she would have become queen of Britain and united the crowns 400 years earlier.

Hi baggy, Hudsons Bay company took over North West Company in 1821. One of my great heroes John Rae an Orcadian ( orkney man ) joined HBC shortly after. The company used orkney men for many generations because of their toughness and resoluteness for hardship. John Rae was all of that and more and was the first ' whiteman ' to recognise that the native eskimo were a peacefull and intelligent race and not 'savages' as they were then labelled. There is a great little book called ' Fatal Passage ' about John Rae and what life was like in ' The Great White North ' at that time.

Be that as it may, It's not going to be quarried on my watch. The type of rock is actually documented from the 19th century as being 'remarkable trapstone' with unique qualities but to give it's name would give away the location.

 

They'll dig this up over my dead body. I'm not interested in the money side of it at all. It will go to one of my boys hopefully one day. The one I can trust with it. I hope I never have to sell it.

 

I just want more people to stand on the top and look out over and maybe paint some pictures or write some songs or some hippy rubbish. It's got a power to it that I can't explain.

LOved the passion in your words there stereo, good on you

Can start a new thread on the ethics of hunting if youse like, not on this one though .thanks for the replies

To one day have the cash to buy a house in France and have something along the lines of a Caterham or Westfield in the shed! A BIG v8 in the Landy..I'm still thinking about the rest!

I knew a landy would be in there somewhere !! Dont spend too much time thinking

Get my new business to work and build it into something my kids will want to come into.

Drive anti-clock round the Med in a Land Rover.

Get a bike license & ride across Russia.

Heli-boarding into spring powder in the 'States or Canada.

Drive some sort of early 70's muscle car around the US.

Spend a winter in the Alps with my snowboard and a Lancia Delta Integrale.

See all 3 of my kids grow up, get married and give me grand children.

Now thats a proper bucket list

Not sure if this has been posted before but here goes anyway. I'm sure there are many on here well and truly in mid-life and beyond , i wouldnt call it a crisis but you realise time seems to fly by and the things you must do to make your life complete must happen sooner rather than later.

Mines would read something like ... Completing some of the portage trails in wild Canada, epic sled dog journey of Iditarod proportions , visiting the giant redwoods , training a top class trotting horse , a whale encounter .

I'd be really interested to know whats on your lists

I've got a stein super plasma and it has 5 quite large vents on top. These are covered by a fine mesh gauze but I'm sure it would be no trouble to remove this and pull some of the dreadlocks through thus managing to get the helmet on. You would look like an extra out of Alien but your not on a fashion shoot after all.

£300 quid for a just run in 346xp ? Thats a bargain is it not ?

I would love to do that, I use to have a clydesdale cross, he would have done it no problem but the old fella gone now, he was my pride and joy too.

 

Actual most of the trees have matured to a full size so is coppicing still the right term for cutting down mature trees and allowing it to grow from the base? sorry for my ignorance

Yes it is , but remember you will not have any regrowth if you dont have a deer control strategy ( there is some good lads that know their stuff on here that can advise you on that ).

He is a beauty , thanks very much . I forgot to add you could extract the timber ( especially if its only coppice size ) with a pony , no problem if its a good site.

Hi born2trot

 

i did do the basic training at college a few years ago and I'm still scared to death. They showed us the health and safety CD and it was like watch a horror movie, i finished the course but that was it

 

nice horse is he yours?

Thats Jonjo a pure Dales pony , my pride and joy. He would pull a house down

Hi Louise, there is nothing to be scared of using a chainsaw, with the right usage and ppe they are a very , very safe tool. Take the basic cs30/31 and do some of the coppicing yourself ( you know you want to )

After having numerous light 4x4 trucks, my first choice would be the Isuzu

Hi Lee , I traded a superb isuzu duty and superb golf tdi for a blingy L200 warrior , a mistake of the most monumalistic proportions

Hiya

 

 

 

I would apper that the shape of these canoe cups varied a lot, their is a facinating read at the link below, including a photo of a 200 year old canoe cup that looks very like a shallow kuksa

http://webapps8.dnr.state.mn.us/mcv_pdf/articles/9_200-Year-Old_Canoe_Cup_Recovered.pdf

Hi baggy, I dont think they would have varied alot certainly amongst people in the same canoe. Could you imagine someone with double the size of everyone else dipping it into the hooch ? lol Its on my bucket list to do some of the portages in Canada would be an adventure of a lifetime. There would be natives in Quebec that will kill you for one of those cups there that good imo

He was the ranger , the butcher , baker and candlestick maker

oh yeh and postman ..

Any feedback on the weight/balance of the 201, I hardly ever use my 200 anymore, I have a cheap top handled saw that I use I find it lighter and more comfortable, and am not to worried about it being slightly less powerful than the sthil. I even prefer to climb with a 171.

Agree Butler, 200 is just not the massive leap of faith its made out to be.

they say the 200t is the best,because it is......

I know it is , ive got one.. Its just not the massive leap you think its going to be . Well it certainly wasnt for me anyway and as Matt says the rear handle has its advantages aswell . I just think some folk think its the absolute be all and end all .. its not... well sort of

Swinny that last comment was not aimed at you btw.

Tom it must be time LR paid you royalties

Its true though

The ' voyageurs ' would have just been copying what they learned from the native indians . ELG may have info think he's from New England .

Use to do it for 10pence a metre , dont know what the rate is now. There certainly wasnt the time to do pruning cuts ! It was cut to 2-3 inch pegs roughly but realise that was purely commercial purposes.

( was a great job to take the dog to btw )

They are very light, manoverable and useful in the tree for small felling jobs.

I find they ease the strain on my wrists when choggin stems down.

I really rate them, but many dont.

Matt , some people will just never understand the engineering principles behind why there is top handles and why there is rear handles . They just say the 200t T/H is best because someone told them so.

Got quite a few friends in the forces, one of whom has recently returned from Afhan/Stan/ghan.

 

Those lads are one of the worlds Elite fighting units, Royal Marine Commandos, to be having to deal with that sh*t on a daily basis must be gut wrenching and morale draining but they do it for each other.

They'd happily fight an enemy they can see, but you can't fight hidden bombs, IEDS and w***kers who use kids to do their dirty work.

 

My thoughts are with them all the way.

 

Come home safe lads.

One of the soldiers said it was about 10% cause , 90% for each other , that sort of tells you alot .

You dont need anyone on here to tell you whether to take your dog to work or not. Sounds if your minds already made up , thats it .