woodland dweller
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Hi one and all. Don't buy a thatched place as they are more trouble than they are worth. Been in ours for 25 years and this year the insurance are being a real pain in the arse, in that the 2 wood burners we use with flexie liners have to have the chimneys insulated as well. The only problem with this is that both chimneys have been recently rebuilt and are sealed up so any suggestions as to what insulating materials i can use and how i can get it into the chimney liner void. I presume they are referring to vamiculite beads. One of the chimneys is on a unthatched part and is 10M from the thatch and they still want this one done as well.
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Bam! And then you realise how old you are
woodland dweller replied to wisecobandit's topic in The Lounge
in our village we had a chap who would turn up in a Austin curtain sided lorry full of everything a housewife needed to run the house, salt in loaf size blocks that he would slice of pieces. Paraffin heaters. Being bathed in the kitchen sink as we didn't have a bath. A bottle of Vimto from the pub. Riding in the corn trailer and holding on at the top when tipping. When TV ended at 12 with the test card and started in the afternoon. -
Hi Andy, its a common Newt !
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Thanks Hanser for the link, didn't know how to do it.
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Hi all, a friend of mine who runs Oak-apple frames is having trouble getting hold of some curved Oak for a Rotunda roof they have to make for a client. The specs are 2.1M long with a 200mm - 250mm deflection and 160mm X 65mm section. Quantity 26 in total. They can saw slabs on their own mill if required. Check out their website some nice stuff on the gallery.
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hi all, if interested its this saturday 21st June. Near Wellington somerset.
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games for teenagers to play in the woods
woodland dweller replied to woodland dweller's topic in General chat
Thank for the replies so far. The woods are an ex forestry commission Douglas fir plantation so its fairly featureless and uniform, although their are some good hardwoods the remains of the old wood. We would like to keep the kids all together around the camp fire area. As its 25 acres we did not want to loose any. Already have a slack line course set up for our kids. Last year we pinned 20 questions to some trees in a marked area, so they had to find the questions to answer them. The thing they liked the best was a fir i cut down over the track which they could jump up and down on to get it to bounce, 30 kids bouncing on a tree was fun. -
hi all, i have the local youth club coming over for an evening of fun in the woods. I'm looking for suggestions for games they can play, they range from 10 to 16 year old and about 30 in total, girls and boys. Shall be doing hot dogs on the open fire for them and will get the pizza oven fired up.
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yell.com have gone bust !
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Hi all a must see you tube vid [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M57eCpaJuX4&hd=1]Sawing A Ponderosa Pine - YouTube[/ame]
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They should cost more to the customer as surely they will get a lot more 6inch logs if you sell by the cube or in a dumpy bag than larger logs. Any one willing to count them. Plus the extra time cutting and splitting.
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Well done and now you can enjoy it. Reminds me of our woods we brought from the forestry commission 7 years ago , 22 acres of 50 year old douglas on an ancient woodland site. It was sealed bids and as we had lived in the middle 0f it for 2o years it it was a worrying time as we had treated it as are own anyway and the thought of someone else owning it and restricting our use would spoil our lifestyle. Anyway the commission land agent after numerous phone calls was on our side so suggested on the day we gave him 2 sealed envelopes, one with our highest bid and one with the lowest, which i took down to his office an hour before the closing time. He rang us later that afternoon to say we got it but at the highest bid, It turned out that the under bidder was Woodlands.co who on the day brought another wood just 1 field away, who then split it into 5 small parcels and sold them a silly prices, so a close call their.
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Hi, i know its a bit late in the year but i need a couple of litres of asulux or brack-n to finish off an area in my woods.If anyone has an opened container they want shifted and can give me a price, PM please.
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Hi bolthole, they look nice, hav'nt had any for years, but make sure they are white all the way through, as the first time i had some i did not know this, the first ones i had had started to turn yellow and by heck did i ever feel ill afterwards. Learnt my lesson and enjoyed them ever since.
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tips for separating flue components
woodland dweller replied to woodland dweller's topic in General chat
all locked up, 3 straights and 2 bends, can't get any movement, i could jack the woodburners up, remove legs and lower this make break the joints apart was looking for a simple solution, thanks though. -
Hi, i want to change our 2 woodburners, but how do i separate the various enamel flue components that are stuck together with fire cement ?
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Hi rover, sorry but i just got hold of some cob. 3 phone calls and i found a chap 10 miles away who makes cob blocks for a living. Picked up 5 bags for free.
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Thanks for the replies, fire bricks at £2.20 each are out, so muttley i like the sand and cob method, just need to get hold of the cob.
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Hi, i'm in the middle of making a pizza oven and was wondering if anyone can tell me if its ok to use engineering bricks for the igloo shaped dome as i have loads of them or do they have to be fire bricks?
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all good fun, done it loads of times, but this got me thinking, i balance some stones and leave them standing and go on my way, along comes a family core look at that little child says running up to them, touches them and the whole lot comes down on his foot. Sorry to spoil your fun but could do some damage or do you knock them down before leaving. I like to do sand sculptures and leave them behind for children to take a look before the tide washes them away, the sculptures not the children.
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Blackdown Hills Woodlands Fair Saturday 6th july near Wellington Somerset, if anyone interested.
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we had a population explosion 3 years ago. The other half did some weeding one weekend and came in with 36 on her. She had to strip whilst i had to go over her with a magnifying glass and tweezers to remove them. That year if you put your hand in a flower bed you could see them crawling up your arms. living where we do us and the kids are used to them as we get them regularily on us. Horrible things, we have a bottle of surgical spirit in the house, just unscrew the top and place over the tick for a few seconds then lift off with tweezers, only the wife gets any reaction to the bites.For the cats i just pull off quickly. Always weed with disposible gloves these days.
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Do you do chainsaw work on your own?
woodland dweller replied to mr_magicfingers's topic in General chat
I work in my woods all the time on my own, but before i cut anything down i will always take a minute to work out what could go wrong, look for any dangers and then get on with it. Very safety conscious, as a furniture maker, carpenter and joiner for 25 years working on my own 1 mile from the nearest neighbour in a workshop with every machine the has the potential to remove parts of you body has made me this way. Once had a large 3 inch splinter pass through a finger and had to wait 1/2 an hour for the wife to return from picking up the kids to take me to A&E to have it removed. -
best spray for bramble and rhododendron
woodland dweller replied to woodland dweller's topic in General chat
Thanks for all the replies, it looks like timberol is on the shopping list.
