Billhook

I think that I could end up like Bond! [ame] [/ame]

I will give it a go with my two Stihl BR 600s!

It means you dig what he said!

Looks like an Arb trolley is coming his way from Father Christmas at the end of the year!

As the interviewer said ". How can I go home and sit on the couch and say I am too old to do something when I know that Lou is out there, ski racing down a mountain somewhere aged one hundred"!

Here is a bit of inspiration for you all. He is one hundred years old and still competing in downhill ski races, but listening to him being interviewed is educational. Still cycles 17 miles daily and goes off in a high powered motorbike and side car saying anything less than a thousand miles is not worth dressing up for!

You missed out Nigel! I cannot see any real change coming until we regain control of our destiny from the European Parliament. Certainly not wanting to be out of Europe in trading and goodwill, but not wanting to be run by a load of unaccountable bureaucrats, many with old communist agendas. As I understood it initially UKIP wanted to be voted in just to give the country a proper referendum on Europe. After the vote they were going to have another election and you could vote in whatever party, but at least they would have the power to change things. I am not sure where this idea changed into one where UKIP now has to have a full manifesto.

I wonder if Jack Bruce cut down a rowan.

What happened to the forty chainsaw file candles???

I cut 120 three inch lengths of two inch diameter yew (could be any wood)from branches. Drilled out the middle of each with a one and a quarter inch flat wood bit mounted in a bench drill, but not right through, leave a base. Then cut a slot across the top for the name card. There was enough room for four acorns in the hole.(held in place by the card) Put the mini yew logs on the tables as place markers with instructions to vernalise as well as to send us a Christmas card each year with a photo of their progress! Took a bit of work but left a good impression!

Confucius say, passionate kiss like spider web, soon lead to undoing of fly ...

Electric Firelighter from Grenadier Obviously not much good out in the woods, but although expensive they make an almost instant fire, go on for ever and are excellent at reviving an almost dead fire. We bought our first one back in the 1970s made by Pifco

Could have been worse. You both could have been married to Katie Hopkins!

All I could find on the web Wood - seasoned & dry kg/cu.m Afromosia 705 Apple 660 - 830 Ash, black 540 Ash, white 670 Aspen 420 Balsa 170 Bamboo 300 - 400 Birch (British) 670 Cedar, red 380 Cypress 510 Douglas Fir 530 Ebony 960 - 1120 Elm ( English ) 600 Elm ( Wych ) 690 Elm ( Rock ) 815 Iroko 655 Larch 590 Lignum Vitae 1280 - 1370 Mahogany ( Honduras ) 545 Mahogany ( African ) 495 - 850 Maple 755 Oak 590 - 930 Pine ( Oregon ) 530 Pine ( Parana ) 560 Pine ( Canadian ) 350 - 560 Pine ( Red ) 370 - 660 Redwood ( American ) 450 Redwood ( European ) 510 Spruce ( Canadian ) 450 Spruce ( Sitka ) 450 Sycamore 590 Teak 630 - 720 Willow 420

I was just driving past one of the farm field gatewaysthe other day, directly opposite a pair of semi detached cottages which belong to the farm. There was a small white van parked at the entrance and a middle aged couple were in the field but I could not see what they were doing as I had a big Mercedes right on my tail. Glanced in the rear view mirror and saw the man carrying something on his shoulder. I had to go down the road for some distance to turn round as the Merc was still right up my backside. By the time I had returned to the field entrance the van had gone, but there was a pile of sawdust. About four years ago I had heard that a load of Gypsies were on their way to the area and we put some fairly rotten pine logs across the gateways. About 18 inches in diameter and about twelve feet long and certainly not worth putting through my processor. It was one of these that they had cut up and taken. As I say they were half rotten four years ago so imagine what they are like having sat in the weather for that amount of time. The effort of chainsawing them, the risk of an earful from me (very frightening!) driving out from wherever diesel/petrol used, energy used in sawing/carrying and then ending up with a load of sodden rotten wood. It is almost a case of Karma causing them to be automatically punished for their deed, as I am sure it would take more energy to light it than the energy you might recover from it! It is no wonder that some people can make money selling unseasoned, wet, poor quality firewood if these are the sort of people who will take it. They walk amongst us!

2 x 9......... because I have a split personality!

We have a Clearview 650 with double doors and an Aarrow Stratford 90 with boiler. They both take large logs and stay in easily overnight. I prefer the Aarrow to deal with as it has a single door and the ashtray is easier to empty. Also the controls are simpler and it is easy to riddle and clean. Both do the job and neither was cheap.

I changed the blade on my Palax Combi from over 100 teeth to about fifty something and yes it is more aggressive cutting through the Ash but quicker and easier as long as you hold the wood firmly. You need to be especially careful when cutting small branches as it will snatch a length if not held tight and the sliver may jam the blade. However overall, now I am used to it I would not go back to a blade with more teeth, especially as it costs more to re-tip!

I agree. You can buy over a dozen new Stihl Picco chains for my little 170 for the same price as the sharpener!

These bloody things just prove that there are people out there who must have been released from some asylum and who need to be re-certified! Thank God your clip was only three and a bit minutes and not ten hours

Could strap Brian May to a chair and hold his eyes open with matchsticks!

It's ten hours not just ten minutes Mattmoss!

Thermal Store v Neutralizer We fitted a Dunsley some years ago which works in harmony with a gas boiler and an Aarrow Stratford boiler stove. Simple open vented system with few valves which has been trouble free. The only slight hitch was when we replaced the gas boiler and the plumber initially refused to fit the new boiler because he claimed that Dunsleys were deemed to be too inefficient under some European ruling. I never checked on this, perhaps it was more to do with the open vent part but he relented and fitted the new boiler in the end.