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If you trawl through his other posts you'll spot a common ling

Yep similar experience with me, same timescale. Dad was so delighted to "get" the massive elm on the farm where I worked weekends. Took forever to do gobs and backcuts, as even without all the staples and nails at 2-4' above ground, the wood just ate any edge on the sawchain. Once on the ground the real ordeal began. Axes and mauls just bounced, rows of steel blacksmith made wedges were the only way to break the rings - dad f@cked off to the pub in frustration (and habit!) leaving me at it to get the next pickup load split. Obviously disappointed on his return. After several days of this horror we abandoned the tree and it was finally pushed into a bog hole, where it probably still remains, unchanged. Split it green is the only manual way to tame elm

All manner of scenes of ladies night at some sketchy east country bar, where only young, stupid and brave guys dare to open the door spring into my mind here. Long extension and a driver bit you're prepared to lose, finish the scene (and the night) here 🤪

Hey Peds, all ok with you guys up on the west coast? Down here in West Cork we seem to have escaped relatively lightly. No power for about 35000 residents in county cork, we're on generator supply at moment. Local radio reporting very few trees down or structural damage. It seems that though very violent this morning, the main core of the storm went further north up towards you. It's a gorgeous morning now behind it, still occasionally breezy but bright sunshine. To all dealing with windblow, look before you cut. Take care

As an aside to this, another local resident was gifted the piece of land including the structures I talked of earlier (there's actuaully about six other small sluices to go to differing fields plus the one major one). He reinstated the drop boards for personal pleasure of being able to play with the water levels. This hadn't been done for 70+ years. Suddenly thames water needed him to record water flows, heights, volumes etc when without the boards they'd had no interest whatsoever, and now he couldn't even permanently remove the boards again as this would constitute an unauthorised and uncontrolled flow!

Yes, I'd expect to find a rebate between the posts and the brick piers for boards to slip into or a second set of posts, now lost, that again boards would have dropped into. The spillway to the right, now built up wth debris and tree roots suggest that it was also important to keep water moving in the downstream sections of the watercourse, whilst lifting water levels upstream for other working purposes. Is this part of a canal feed system Eggs?

Possibly in your case yes. The monastery in our area had both carp ponds and a mill, but these were higher up stream and both linked in to the system talked of earlier but not influenced by it

We had something very very similar to this in the village I previously lived in . Old estate lands, very low lying and quite flat. There was a succession of sluices with associated spillways, to manage beneficial land flooding to bring in nutrients silt for the farmlands, protect our village from immediate inundation and also protect 2 other villages closer to the thames basin from devastating floods when the water tables rose to ground level. In our case they were originally constructed by a local monastery, but taken over by landlords and the big estates on dissolution of monasteries in the middle ages. Yours are missing drop in boards in the left hand channels, right hand channel allows overload to spill out.

..Fat bottomed girls, you make the rocking world go round !

One day your little fellow will have taken over the stump like this one in the aboretum in the New Forest

Is that the original Edvard Munch the scream?

Or one of the Morrison's oven gloves?

Jive torquin ?

Nothing more than a set of teeth required. Mustard or HP sends me to heaven

Keep working at it, then, suddenly 'pooof' it will happen. Took me hours, but I'm out now