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  1. SteveA
    What Mr Fox says :thumbup:
  2. SteveA
    Haha! okay, so now I know it's your fault! Because of doing the barn I'll be pushed to find any spare time for a week. Dammit!! Maybe I can squeeze a couple days in?? I'll give you a phone tomorrow. cheers
  3. SteveA
    Cheers Murray - hope you're good over there. Been waiting for a date to do CS2 but haven't heard a peep. Deadline for submitting to Farming Connect looms!!
  4. SteveA
    I've been looking at Cladco to supply wiggly sheets for a Dutch barn (for hay). For the barn we're building at the moment we'll be going for zinc standing seam - although pure zinc roofing is incredibly expensive! ....may go halfway and use aluminium sheets with a zinc coating. Euroclad make some called vieo & they also offer free training courses for DIY fitters.... very tempted with that! VIEO Roof System : Euro Clad — Metal Building Solutions cheers, steve
  5. SteveA
    Where we're up to so far....
  6. SteveA
    The bottom ring (whatever you call it) sits on dense concrete block foundation piers, 12 in total.
  7. SteveA
    This truss is slightly different bracing to allow for a mezzanine floor, for better access at head height.
  8. SteveA
    Hi Simon, thanks for your link.... you're doing a proper quality job there mate! Well done, looks ace Ours is a bit, ummmm, a bit less precise shall we say. Here's a photo one of the trusses (Larch): Cheers, Steve
  9. SteveA
    15" for every day stuff on my 550xpg and I carry an 18" Sugihara in the rucksack in case I need to cut bigger stuff. cheers
  10. SteveA
    Reading between the lines - what else might one expect from a Tory newspaper in the run up to a general election?
  11. SteveA
    That's good to hear. Number one is the really tricky one.... some kind of hybrid Turkey oak??
  12. SteveA
    1) Tree one was straight until 3m (10ft), then the trunk has bends for another 3m (10ft) until it reaches the main branches of the canopy. Had a few small side branches. Fairly round, but not perfectly round. 2) The trunk on tree two (with the hairy buds) was very straight until 6m (20ft), I don't remember having to remove any side branches from the trunk on that one. I would say it was very round. 3) Tree three was a bit more bendy and with more side branches. Not perfectly round.
  13. SteveA
    I think they should go - because it's not right to have people in power with huge responsibilities working against their own job description.
  14. SteveA
    - Tree number one is confusing me because the buds don't look like Quercus cerris / (Turkey oak) yet on the same tree the bark does have orange colour in the fissures. Do any other oak varieties show an orange colour? - Tree number 2, I would say is Quercus cerris / Turkey oak... and is a very hairy bud version! - Tree number three doesn't have any orange colour in the fissures of the bark so I reckon that could be a Quercus petraea / sessile oak.
  15. SteveA
    I also thought number two tree buds look very hairy.... & not just on this twig, all the twigs at the top of the tree looked like that... here's another photo of number two:
  16. SteveA
    Is this Turkey Oak? Tree number three/ photo number three:
  17. SteveA
    Is this Turkey Oak? Tree number two/ photo number two:
  18. SteveA
    I've taken photos of the buds from the three oak trees.... Is this Turkey Oak? Tree number one/ Photo number one:
  19. SteveA
    Here's an example why the Chief Vetinary Officer should be in tune with the impacts of Climate Change: http://www.liv.ac.uk/media/livacuk/climate-research/docs/vanDijk_Baylis.pdf
  20. SteveA
    Yep. Being serious.
  21. SteveA
    I think Natalie speaks complete sense on this. It's sickening how we end up with people in a position of power like climate denier & fool Owen Paterson (ex Secretary of State for the Environment). You're welcome to post it on a free speech thread, if you like
  22. SteveA
    I find economics confusing; which is probably how they like it One thing for sure is that the increasingly rich/ poor gap is causing major problems in society.... when it gets to the point where ordinary people (some of which work their arses off) are having to resort to food banks something has clearly gone very wrong. I'm not saying people don't deserve bonus' for doing a great job.... but it's the shear scale of bonus that is wrong. Footballers get paid far too much.... but it could be a great help if they were taxed at 80%
  23. SteveA
    Let's not forget how much we're being ripped off by major corporations not paying taxes, bankers bonus's, trident, high speed rail, private finance initiatives (building schools & hospitals), unecessary new roads, NHS privatisation, low wage economy (zero hours, etc), senior chief executive (public sector pen pushers) salaries have doubled in the past 6 years ....etc, etc! There is plenty of money to be had if you look in the right places. The total austerity package brought in by the coalition is about the same as bankers bonus's paid in the same period (£80 billion ish I think?). That's where a lot of the money comes from cheers
  24. SteveA
    I agree, clarification is needed on a lot of the policy section and they are definitely aware of this. Members are regularly pointing things out and they are working on it. The website went down today due to the amount of visitors/ people signing up!
  25. SteveA
    Not out.... but: MC413 With regard to recreational fishing, the Green Party will seek to end the practice known as 'live baiting' (where live fish are used as bait for other fish) as soon as possible. Barbed hooks and double and triple hooks will also be banned, because of the damage and distress caused to fish by their use. No barbed hooks!.... *steve gulps* Errr, work in progress!

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