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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 🤪
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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
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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!
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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?
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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
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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.
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..Fat bottomed girls, you make the rocking world go round !
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Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version
skc101fc replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Picture Forum
One day your little fellow will have taken over the stump like this one in the aboretum in the New Forest
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Is that the original Edvard Munch the scream?
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Or one of the Morrison's oven gloves?
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Jive torquin ?
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Nothing more than a set of teeth required. Mustard or HP sends me to heaven
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Keep working at it, then, suddenly 'pooof' it will happen. Took me hours, but I'm out now
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Yep true when you're in a car or van without a snorkel fitted. When your in a tractor of that size, in that depth of water, he was just being a show off excitable little twat.
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There was also always a drain off spigot at the bottom of the angled back face to strip out water and sediments. ...clever folk those old timers. Simple solutions to everyday issues.
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My dreams are slightly more sexual !!
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Aaahhh. Thanks
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..What, did he lower the limbs down on the long extension lead he was plugged into?
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Burrs is tricksy, devious things. Never know what ya going to get until ya start taking cuts into it. Could be rot, could be fifty yr old birds nests encased in wild bark or could be the most incredible grained slabs or bowl blanks ever seen. Take the outer layers off crudely with chain saw and make a decision once you see how the grain looks whether to sell it as a lump or process yourself. At the moment it's like trying to guess the contents of a sealed dustbin bag
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Feel for you there mate, black cats always shine so much, and oh that smell and warmth when they've been lying out in the sun - you just have to plunge your face deep into their fur. Dogs just stink!
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skc101fc replied to Rob D's topic in Chainsawbars
I'm with you completely there Stubby, though 11yrs your junior. Wishing it wasn't the way of the world, and things would be so much better if we could all look someone in the eye before letting out a complete train of thought that should never have been said. Still, an essential skill and tool for modern business. Thank God I'm not self employed anymore and needing to put myself out there! -
Further thoughts on my branch logger (Remet CNC R120)
skc101fc replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I realise this is all drifting away from the original branch logger topic, but my two pennies wort, I use char from rinsing out the whisky casks at work as biochar on my own smallholding. It act not as a fertiliser but more a soil improver, very much like lime does. As quite rightly said earlier, it has no nutritional value on its own. The carbon remains locked into it for exceptionally long periods, as seen on archaeological digs. Instead the fertilising components, naturally and applied, are able to chemically bond onto the char, and slowly leach out rather than be washed either away or down through the soil profile and so remain close to the surface, available for root uptake. Another benefit to me personally, is the grains dont break down in size and so assist drainage on a peaty loam mountain soil, which otherwise waterlogs at the merest sniff of rain. -
I think that's the point of them, cheap and disposable, a bit like razors. Use them till they don't do the job anymore, then get another one.
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Save the money, buy her a set of wellies, or a plank laid out to where she parks her car.🤪
