woodyguy
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Are you losing weight? If not then it's enough.
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Rob D on alaskan mills is a good place to both buy and get info. Buy a big old chain saw and get a 36 inch bar for it. Then a granberg milling chain off rob and an Alaskan III 36 inch (better value than 30inch). Then a cheap aluminium ladder off google and drill holes in each rung to get a straight start. Voila!
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A ton then
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Basically some species contaminate more readily than others. Grain certainly isn't fully sterile after 90 mins at 15psi but it may well be good enough. Having grown from grain on wood chip I've occasionally run into problems with contamination so wary on using with dowels where any contamination will then be magnified many times over. So always made dowels by putting onto the active growth on agar. I'd be interested to hear how you get on with using grain for dowels. Not necessarily a problem but something I've avoided because of the potential for contamination. Always good to experiment, so good luck.
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I wouldn't personally make dowel spawn from grain spawn. You need a pure growth such as on agar bottles as its not possible to get the grain fully sterile. If not very very careful you can get a mixed growth on the dowel which are then contaminated. I've had better luck/experience from growing on agar then adding the dowel. Not done 25kg at a time of dowel though to be fair.
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I managed half a day hedging before I hit a nail and stripped all the cutters off one side. Wasted £30+ quid. Easy to sharpen with a diamond sharpener but no need as it was broken before then. Save your money.
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I'm really fed up with the new Apple policy. I wanted to travel to California to pick up my new iPad but they insisted I had to buy it on-line and be in for the postman to deliver it.
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I've bought several saws off ebay. All been good and no surprises. But you need to be savvy and not buy from a first timer whose selling it for a friend!!! Lots of pictures, having sold saws before and don't expect something for nothing. Have an email chat with them and if you have any doubts then don't bid. If you can find a seller you trust then all to the better.
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Looks really good. Like previous my first thought was where's the braces but I've not made gates with that quality timber before. Classy bit of work.
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Any comments from female arbs???
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Thanks for sharing. I'd totally forgotten what a delight old Jack was. Spent Saturday planting Hazel to re-establish coppice (or copse as Jack would prefer). So great to see his knowledge shared.
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I've got mainly old carb saws but also a 241. Initially I was sceptical but it seems to run very well and has a huge amount of grunt for it's cc's. So I'm a reluctant convert. -
No, you demolish Chatsworth and build a huge housing estate on the Capability Brown park. Then an hour's drive away, perhaps on a brownfield site in Sheffield, you build a large house, vaguely like Chatsworth but perhaps built of breeze blocks and set amongst a bulldozed reclaimed bit of land. Job done!
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The 241 is sweet but heavier and much more expensive than the 211. I've got both but use the 211 more.
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Very common on some garden shrubs such as Forsythia, but never seen it in a sycamore. Thanks for sharing.
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Only six universities in Britain buy this journal. So sorry Athens won't let me download it.
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For price and power to weight the 211 is hard to beat. I use mine more than any other saw.
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Looks tasty. I grow them to eat, so tuck in!
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Although there is no untouched virgin forest in UK, there must be plenty of areas of Ancient wood that have always been wood. Some is documented by Rackham but much will have escaped documentation. The fact that it was intensively managed from Saxon times onwards doesn't mean it hasn't always been wood.
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Thanks for sharing. Always been interested in shepherding since reading John Muir's accounts of the Seirra Nevada prior to him getting the National Parks set up. Nice details in this article.
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nearly 6000 sigs is a good start.
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Too many variables to answer the question. How long are the logs? How small are they split? How are they stacked - in sun, in wind, how well covered. What MC was it on cutting. I was drying sycamore to 20% in 6 weeks when it was hot in July. That is fully seasoned. But Oak I cut this month I don't expect to be fully seasoned in under a year. Get a decent moisture meter and start drying to see. Ash needs to be sub-20% the same as any other wood.
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Thanks for sharing. love these ancient relics preserved by rising sea levels. Similar to the ones on Rannoch Moor engulfed in peat.
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38 degrees did the forest bit well and got it changed. not sure that they are into the subtleties of plantation vs ancient forest. might be worth a try.
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50 years to a decent size and 400 years before it has the biodiversity of a proper wood. You can plant plantations but you can't make a wood, you can only continue it. The national forest is a good idea if it transforms waste land and set aside to grow trees. But lets not kid ourselves that any of this replaces a single acre of the magnificent richness of ancient Oak wood.
