Woodworks

Gave it a go but its too tight but a nice idea though. Yes does smart a bit ?

Good idea. Might work but I have done the thumb as well

Hope you can help. Had a mishap with a BBQ and burnt the back of all my fingers on one hand. None of my gloves will fit over the dressings and I use L or XL gloves anyway. Not needing anything fancy just something to stop the dressings getting dirty and not too hot. Thanks

Looked at that model at a show. It was by far the best designed machine there plus it was more heavily built than most of the same capacity. Liked the fence system so much its what I fitted to my old Wadkin

Presuming 6" beams are pretty heavy so there may be plenty with that depth of cut but far less that are stable enough with big beams on the table. The old adage "they dont make them like they used to" applies here. Cast iron table would be a must IMO. The classic older bandsaw that was always recommended was the old Startrite 352 (never used one but know lots of pros who did) Its on the small size though but has a more than big enough cut. I picked up a big old single phase Wadkin and refurbished it with smart guides and fence for less than £1000. Nice thing with a bandsaw is they are pretty simp[le bits of kit so getting and old one and bringing it back to life is not a very complex job.

They dont have feed rollers. The wood is pulled in by the action of the cutters which dont pull hard. You can stop a length mid cut on our RP120. Agreed they have plenty of potential for danger with the short chute but not as bad as they might look. They are for sale new but presume the OP is after a SH one Remet RP200 logger Chopper logs fire wood Pto Tractor Chipper Wood Processor WWW.EBAY.CO.UK INCLUDES A PTO SHAFT. 8 Blade variant also available to make smaller logs. Log size 18 to 30cm. Chipped wood and brash is...

When using our grinder I just dont go for it all in one go. A few gentle passes to each tooth giving a few seconds to cool between grinds. Never overheated a tooth yet and this is with a cheap as chips Lidl grinder

Had this email a few weeks ago. Dear All We are writing to you given the interest you showed in Defra’s proposals to encourage the cleaner burning of domestic fuels. We would like to make you aware that the Air Quality (Domestic Solid Fuels Standards) (England) Regulations 2020 were laid in both Houses of Parliament on 21 July. You can find the Regulations on legislation.gov here. The Regulations state that they come into force on 1 May 2021. The legislation will need to be debated in both Houses of Parliament before it comes into force and the dates for these debates are yet to be confirmed. These Regulations introduce measures to tackle harmful emissions from domestic burning as set out in our Government Response published earlier this year. You can find the Response at https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/air-quality-using-cleaner-fuels-for-domestic-burning/outcome/summary-of-responses-and-government-response The Regulations will phase out the supply of: traditional house coal for domestic combustion wet wood sold in units of up to 2m3, and introduce sulphur and smoke emission limits for manufactured solid fuels. These changes will be phased in between 2021 and 2023, with all sales of small volumes of wet wood being phased out by 2022 and sales of traditional house coal by 2023. We are not banning stoves or open fireplaces, and these policies do not seek to prevent their use or installation. Our intention is to ensure people move from burning more polluting to less polluting fuels. We are encouraging a move from burning wet wood to burning dry wood, and from traditional house coal to smokeless coal and low sulphur manufactured solid fuels. We understand that those who burn coal as a primary heat source are most likely to have their coal delivered by approved coal merchants and will need additional time to switch to an alternative fuel. This is why we are providing an extended transition period for those who burn coal. Sales of all bagged traditional house coal will be phased out by 1 May 2021, and the sale of loose coal direct to customers via approved coal merchants by 1 May 2023. The requirement for wood sold in volumes under 2m3 to be dry (less than 20% moisture) will apply from 1 May 2021. We recognise that small wood producers may struggle to meet the requirements straight away. Given this, small suppliers will have an extra year to comply (until 1 May 2022). Thank you for your interest in this policy area and for your responses to the consultation.

That was just the sort of thing I had in mind. Thanks doobin

Sadly I often cant get the truck near it as I work in lots of small yards

Just fitted an electric start to my processor due to a shoulder problems so I now need to sort a battery pack. There is not much space on the processor to fit a large battery and it needs to be tidy as this is a road tow processor. Wondering if one of those dinky lithium jump start packs would work. Probably only turn it on 10 times a day and I can recharge when I get back or in the truck or would it best just to lug a leisure battery about and just set it up on site?

Loads of choices of finish. Found some pics of the surface coat going on dads place. Half the house is done as in the picture and the other half we slate hung with insulation behind. The later is more expensive on materials but can be done by a competent DIYer saving a few bob.

If this is your last house start with sorting the insulation. Long term this will save you more and be more environmentally friendly. Have a look at external wall insulation (EWI) and if thats not an option internal wall insulation (IWI). Fitted EWI on my dads old farmhouse and its been transformed with no internal impact. We converted a barn with IWI and a ground source heat pump and its brilliant but we were starting from scratch not disrupting a functioning home. Once insulated you wont need much of a heating system. No point in changing your current night storage with new ones if they still work ok. To all intensive purposes direct electric is 100% efficient the only variable is how long it can store the heat for.

I am dyslexic so laugh away no skin off my nose on that one ?

You do the maths and I think you can say with certainty it's not possible. I may have done the maths wrong so check We all have to bare the responsibiles of our choices every day and this in no different. Not saying the other way is great and we may end up down the herd immunity rout anyway but I would like to give the alternative a chance in these early days. The stats I posted are not extreme. If I wanted to do that I would have use the WHOs original death rate of 3.4%

No it's not possible. If the ONS numbers are correct and we have 50000 excess deaths probably due to Covid 19 For the table to be right the UK would have a population 177 million and all of us have had the virus. As it is the science is pointing to a lower death rate than was first thought which was 3.4%. Nearer the 1% seems most likely at present from what I have read from recent studies. Say we go down the herd immunity rout which seems to be favoured on here. Maybe 60% of us need to have for that to work? Put that into Arbtalk members which are at 37161 so 60% of them have it equalling 21696. 1% death rate may not be far off as are we are not all that young and the majority are male which is clearly a bad thing as far as surviving it is concerned. So by the time we reach herd immunity we have 216 dead Arbtalkers. Does that sound like good plan or might it be better to try and stop the spread of virus now in the hope we might have better treatment or a vaccine in the future?

Do you honestly believe that?

They dont update the graph very often but I have been logging the numbers each day. It could be just a blip but does not look like its dropping any more. And a graph someone had made of recent numbers. 10th 245693 11th 244191 12th 242965 13th 244600 14th 243517 15th 245913 16th 248600 17th 252926 Edit. Page now updated showing the rise Covid Radar COVID.JOINZOE.COM Discover levels of COVID infection in your area based on millions of contributors to the COVID Symptom Tracker

Cases start rising and more deaths I imagine unless we are smarter about our behaviour. The Covid tracker app is already showing a slight increase of new cases. Oh and a heads up from the other side. My OH got back from her shift on a Covid ward yesterday and there is still not enough PPE for the current low level of cases!

Our BC officer said the plastic membrane was mainly there to stop the concrete drying out too quickly which would weaken it it. He reckoned concrete was pretty much waterproof anyway. Bit of this wont hurt Everbuild 202 Integral Liquid Waterproofer 5L WWW.TOOLSTATION.COM Long term water protection to mortar, concrete and rendering. BS 4887. Hazard safety codes: Xi, R36, R38, R52, R53.

Not doubting it good for a solid wood but still nothing like the values you get from proper insulation materials. Also hard to escape the inevitable problems with movement and air gaps

I posted as a follow up on yesterday as the interactive chart shows how you cant get herd immunity quickly keeping the R down as the government has promised it will.

As J says you will end up with lots of gaps due to seasonal movement pretty much negation the insulation value of the wood which is not great to start with. Might be of interest https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/types-homes/energy-efficiency-log-homes

One take on it. Nice interactive chart on this page Without A Vaccine, Herd Immunity Won’t Save Us | FiveThirtyEight FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM Daniel Arlein has already had COVID-19. In March, the 36-year-old small business owner and DJ, who lives in Brooklyn, tested...

Love this to be right but not holding my breath.