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Everything posted by skc101fc
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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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Follow www.chainsawbars.co.uk on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram
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.🤪
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Help! Frustration with putting a tube in a tubeless tyre
skc101fc replied to Muddy42's topic in Maintenance help
It strikes me that the well in that rim is very deep so most short valved inner tubes are going to want to pull inwards. Perhaps a brass valve extender as ysed on some dual tyre setups may help? -
Dear God, I've lost the will to live any longer. Is there nothing that happens 'in the news today' that you guys can't turn into a tedious diatribe of competitive drivel, that suddenly loses all the interest the original topic ever had. FFS there's a whole world of interest out there but you just keep bringin it back to ME, ME,ME. I'm sick of reading this spittle dripping off your chins, hoping there might be a modicum of either wit or good comment about to be revealed.🥱
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I've tried that and absolutely no result at all ☹️
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The simplest ever, but funny... oh yes, the best. Thanks
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Jeezus, looks like the making of a great chilli con carné. Prob give me the shits for 2 weeks
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Is there more surgery ahead for you to correct the foot orientation?
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Hi Dan, no, I don't recall knee issues, I did get a bit of soreness just where top end of shin bone joins knee, but a small cut off slip of the wife's pilates mat sorted this out. It's well made, but as a generic one size fits all design, personal pad adjustments do need to be made. The vid that comes with it is very clear to follow. Once you get the heights sorted, and strap lengths personalised, you don't have to do any more changes. Clip on and off superfast with the quick release buckles for getting into cars, sitting down, weight bearing training etc. Vibram pad on the sole too so not skiddy on most surfaces, but even if if does slip, your natural balance reactions take control as normal. Without it I'd have been beyond unbearable
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6am? The only time I see this now, months shy of 60 yrs old, is when I have to get up for the first piss of the day. Yep, you're right, train, train and train again til it becomes second nature, and you're not scrabbling about trying to find the cheat sheets. To anyone offered the chance of getting on events like these, take it willingly. Your bleeding out buddy will thank you forever.
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Tree ID and Building Risk Advice
skc101fc replied to roco's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Fookin ' ell. We've some well dodgy tree identifiers in this group 😆 -
Great to see Greg Marah, Douglas Forest and Garden, involved with this one. He organised an event called Trauma in the Trees probably about seven years ago now, which covered both aerial rescue, and the most stunningly memorable first response training for our sort of catastrophic injuries, I've ever seen. Great stuff. He's also a supplier, with a try before you buy attitude, of top class arborist kit in county Cork, SW Ireland. Events and training like this are worth the weight in gold for giving real life experience in emergency situations, when panic just wants to take over the brain and stop you observing the whole scene.
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I bet the smell was at least divine, if not overwhelming. Did a few Lebanon logs with the lucas mill, and found it like catnip for cats - just wanted to roll around naked in the sawdust 😁😁
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Those pics looked like I'd had half the leg removed . No, the knee takes the weight passing through to the metal peg leg below. The shin is supported on the table running behind the body, with the ankle and foot hanging off the end. Clips on and off superfast. Best thing....look - no crutches. Takes maybe ¾hr to truly set it up for your height and balance, then you're away with it. Great instructional video comes with it. Best €280 spent...says my wife
