Billhook

I think squirrels should replace all politicians in the World as they obviously have more intelligence than all of them combined!

My solar electric panels cost over 10 k ten years ago and even on the 42p tariff I still do not think it has paid for itself. However at the same time I went on a course in Wales with Navitron to learn how to fit solar tubes. I do not know what make they are but they have been fantastic at supplying hot water in the Summer months when the wood burner is given a rest. I would recommend them over the electric panels for saving money over time. Here are some similar to mine Efficient Solar Thermal Collectors (10 - 30 Tubes) SOLARSUPPLIESUK.CO.UK Our Solar Thermal Collectors are high efficiency double wall evacuated tubes measuring 1800x58. 5 Year warranty

Making more from less. I think he is on the right track but making hard work of it. I was keen to do something similar with my Urban branch logger which has a bagging attachment to make life easier. We use the branch logging all the time for kindling and they work on BBQs as well. I have enough to be going on with so going out and finding a labelling company and marketing is not my thing but surely an idea for those starting off with a limited supply of firewood and equipment

About ten months since I started this thread and a lot has changed. This Winter will soon be upon us and with our "Just in Time" society at risk of breaking down in a few days due to supply problems, preparation is everything.. While I am optimistic about the importance of firewood, I have my natural farmer's pessimism about food and water in the near future not forgetting fuel to power agriculture. Societies break down very quickly with shortages, look at Sri Lanka, Ghana and Holland with many others on the brink.

Not often seen on a white chalk background

Thought someone had been seeding the area around the bench for a minute but it turns out it was hemp agrimony and not smoke able!

Went down to the lake this evening an caught this busy little fellow youtube if you cannot see the video link IMG_3173.MOV

How many carbon credits can I claim by greening my JCB 806C swing shovel??

Thank you for those links It is almost like I did not need to see Hendrix live as he is so like the man. Reincarnation??? Certainly has the teeth to play with them! Back in 1995 Gregg Wright started a band called Gregg Wright's Left Hook and the bass player lived in our village. Gregg ended up staying with me for three months and it also was like having Hendrix in the house. He is left handed but plays with the strings strung right handed. At one point in his life he told me he was having trouble being asked to play Hendrix tributes that he began to question his own identity and many years earlier with Michael Jackson I am afraid not much of his great talent rubbed off on me!!

Just found this thread on a 2014 forestryforum site https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=77707.0

just had a closer look at the Are you experienced video and it is strung for a right hander

I see also that Randy Hansen plays a left handed guitar right handed, though I am not sure which way it is strung

I do not ride horses but we were in South Africa at a beach resort and they had these horse rides. Had a few beers so I thought what could possibly go wrong. Well for a start the horse made it clear that it was not going to let me mount from the right side! My wife and I followed the guide on his horse down the beach. The horses know the routine and walked very steadily behind the guide. But the kept stopping and wanted to turn back as I believe they had already done a morning stint and felt that two stints was unfair However the guide insisted that we reach the turning point at which my horse set off like Silver in the Lone Ranger. Nothing seemed the slow him down, pulled hard on the reins but no effect. We reached a steep sand dune by the farm and my horse bounded up and just as steep the other side I ended up with my legs either side of his ears! But I didn’t fall off. I am sure this was all a punishment for trying to mount from the wrong side!

I think a lot is to do with how strongly your brain is wired at birth. I am totally left handed, left footed, left eyed which they say is right brained. I was never told which way to hold a guitar, I wanted a guitar one Christmas aged about ten (please mummy and daddy!) went off to a music shop and the owner told me I was holding the guitar the wrong way round, but I insisted to hold it left handed so they had to change the strings . At school there were no left handed instruments so violins, cellos, saxophones, trombones, oboes clarinets and many more were not for me although nowadays I think they are available. Don't start me off on chainsaws! I shoot left handed with left leading eye, bow and arrow the same, snooker, I mount a bike from the right side although ambidextrous with the fairer sex!

As a leftie who plays leftie, also a chainsaw leftie, I do find the left right subject fascinating. I also play piano and enjoy boogie woogie where my dominant left hand provides a strong rhythm where my right hand does the fiddly bits. This is the same on my guitar, right hand doing the fiddly bits. Hendrix is a massive influence ever since I heard Purple Haze in 1967 when i was 13. I bitterly regret turning down an opportunity to see him and the Pink Floyd and Clapton near here at Spalding as it was harder to move around in those days at that age and just a bit too far to bicycle! 50 years on from day Hendrix, Clapton and Pink Floyd played Spalding in UK’s ‘first-ever’ rock festival – The Voice WWW.SPALDINGVOICE.CO.UK Colin Ward was – by his own admission – a rather naïve 17-year-old at the time of ...

A bit topical in the US

I must be stupid!

I am probably like you and a lot of the older generation who only will try to save up to buy equipment rather than having a lifetime of debt to repay. From the look of his equipment, there may be several lifetimes to repay!

just found this video which is interesting. Perhaps in my case here in the UK they are parasitic on water beetles or similar

I thought that this guy was impressive and honest about his work but it made me think about my Lucas Mill. I have the Lucas slabber and it works but is slow and hard work manually, easier with a winch. I thought that a band saw like this would sit nicely on the Lucas frame which would solve a lot of the problems he had with raising and lowering. I am surprised Lucas do not have one as an option. You could leave the bandsaw at one end on the extension rails and the circular saw on the other end to make it easy to switch between jobs

You do know that another name for cleavers is "Sticky Willie" now I think I prefer Bill as the other sounds positively pornographic!

Because I am not that clever!