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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.

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When you have agreed to tip a two ton load of logs on their driveway and on delivery before being paid, they say "You couldn't just stack it in the shed down there could you?"

Just found this site which confirms everything I had previously thought. How accurate are the weather forecasts?

I do not think anyone here is saying that there are not genuine cases. and those people should be given all the help possible. Many of them, including yourself, have a good attitude to life and do their best to overcome their problems and all the best to them for that. . I went to Skegness the other day which must be the mobility carriage centre of the universe. It is really quite dangerous to walk down the street window shopping as you are likely to be mown down by one. Many of them seem to be enormous girls who are still in their thirties. I also spent a week cycling around Copenhagen recently. What a contrast! Firstly I am quite fit and cycle regularly and I was trying hard, but unsuccessfully, to chase the beautiful blondes with their hair streaming out behind, but I could barely keep up with the grannies on their bikes. There is only one speed which is full speed! Not a mobility carriage in sight in the whole week and there was one old man who must have been in his nineties, riding a tricycle. On the front was a special frame in which he carried his crutches! Now that's what I call spirit!

Would Betel consider taking on someone whose is obese with a food addiction alongside those with drug and alchohol problems?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2diPZOtty0

Could put an impotency drug in all junk foods and advertise it widely!

When I said that I would not be surprised if 90% of people claiming disability benefits were either making it up, self inflicted, or lacking in Headgroundsman's spirit, I thought I was being generous in leaving the other 10% to genuine and worthy folk. Do not forget that it is these folk who suffer most from the other 90%, not only with the labelling but also the lack of funds and resources which should be sent in their direction and not to the unworthy.

We have planted geranium macrorrhizum on the top of a low bank and the rabbits have not touched it in 30 years. It is a perennial and will spread nicely over time to cover the area. The flowers are attractive and the leaves in Autumn go a lovely deep red colour. https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/search-results?form-mode=false&query=Geranium+macrorrhizum

But on closer inspection I would describe it as Fit healthy normal sized volunteer, padded up for police training program, hanging on for dear life! Now show me a fat tree surgeon climber!

Thank you for that Mull29! It looks as though he will have a serious disability now though, as he probably will not be able to sit down for a week or two!

Do be careful and wear masks and gloves. Quote from Wiki All parts of the plant are poisonous, and can be lethal if consumed in excess. Symptoms of laburnum poisoning may include intense sleepiness, vomiting, convulsive movements, coma, slight frothing at the mouth and unequally dilated pupils. In some cases, diarrhea is very severe, and at times the convulsions are markedly tetanic. The main toxin in the plant is cytisine, a nicotinic receptor agonist.

Very bad luck about the back, but an inspirational attitude to life. How many people claiming disability benefits are putting it on and how many even with an injury have not bothered to try and help themselves in the way that Headgroundsman has done. If you remove the self inflicted overeating diabetes/heart/lack of fitness/bad diet/badTV back/too much central heating I would not be surprised to find a figure of over 90%.

Show me a photo of a fat tree climber!

This is your record Bewarethemoon! My own view is that they are probably likely to be much more scared of us in a woodland situation, especially if we are armed with chainsaws and axes. Frisky cattle are much more scary for me, bulls in the wrong mood also! Cannot see them living in towns, does it happen in Europe or Russia? They are just too wild. I think that a well monitored and educated introduction in the right place, by that I mean all the locals being educated as well beforehand, would be o.k. The main worry is the disturbance to sheep and cattle but there may be an area where the deer population is becoming out of hand and there is no farming and little human habitation where it would be appropriate. Dare I suggest an uninhabited Scottish Island for a start to see how things progress? Could be a tourist attraction.

Monty Don discusses introduction of wolves. BBC - Podcasts and Downloads - Best of Natural History Radio Wondered how you lot felt about not only having to to keep an eye on machinery and humans but also for what may be in dem dark woods.