Billhook

A load of us old Codgers sitting around a campfire saying "Do you remember when" thread! At college up early after heavy night at pub for five lectures, maybe an arm wrestle at coffee time, show off lifting two 56lb weights above my head and clacking them together, drive 30 miles to play game of rugby in afternoon come back to party, dancing boozing, then spending most of the night doing what young men do best with girlies! Today wife gives me job list, tidy shed, I get up, spend ages making tea ,breakfast, go and buy newspaper spend ages reading it and tut tutting, forget about the shed, go down to yard tinker with saw or engine spend half my time looking for tools I have put down somewhere or my phone, eventually sit down have a rest and observe the beautiful sunset, find my phone just in time to send yet another picture to the picture forum here before retiring for a hot Radox bath to relieve aches and pains, not long before bed time then! Oh the joys of old age!

You can find all sorts of graphs and computer projections to enforce what ever your belief is. Just look at the hockey stick graph and the amazing death toll from Covid computer projections I have a great deal of trouble in the theory that CO2 is the main driver of Climate Change and find it far more likely that it is caused by the sun not being a constant, our orbit around it also not being a constant, our wobble as we rotate, the influence of other planets pulling us about not to mention whatever radiation and other energy coming at us from outside the solar system CO2 is 0.04% of our atmosphere and of that tiny percentage 95% is produced by the oceans and general life on Earth leaving about 5% caused by humans. Here in the Uk we produce 1% of that 5% which I make to be 0.0001% of the CO2 in the atmosphere I am willing to be corrected but it seems to me that the real way to control our emissions and abuse of resources if you believe it to be the cause, is to reduce the human population to about 3 billion, preferably by education and financial incentive rather than nuclear war

Where is World War on your graph??

I feel that we need to revisit this subject. One phrase I dislike is "The science is settled" The science should never be settled but always be able to answer questions when theories do not seem to materialise as predicted. Just to question any climate science labels you a denier in the same way as you might question the existence of particular God. I believe that the Earth is warming, but I am unsure of the cause and amount. A lot of the scare predictions do not seem to have happened. (Al Gore predicted ice free Arctic by 2013) I believe that we should all try and limit our use of polluting fuels and limited resources, breathe clean air and protect life on the planet. But there does not seem to be a proper cost /benefit analysis of the move to green energy. For instance what is the energy and CO2 emission of one Euro fighter takeoff and practice mission compared to a family car. It would not surprise me to hear that the fuel used would keep a family car going for a year, five years even ten years and the CO2 who knows. Then look at the energy cost of a full naval exercise with the Prince of Wales and Queen Elizabeth carriers and their fleet and aircraft. Then look at the pollution and energy and CO2 of every bomb and rocket in Ukraine and maybe all our efforts to put in heat pumps, insulate homes, drive electric cars cut out fossil fuels is just pissing in the wind and virtue signalling whilst giving the Chinese all the economic advantage building new coal fired power stations at will. Are we just in the process of a modern self flagellation? Flagellant - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

You are only as old as the woman you feel!

And the sunset

Me again I’m afraid, I am a hopeless addict perhaps need some rehab maybe in the Caribbean! Today full day on the Sycamore log which would not be my first choice but the tree belongs to a friend and it came down in one of the storms in his driveway and he wants to make a table from it.

I remember hearing about a chap going to the doctor with similar symptoms in one of his legs. The doctor examined his leg and concluded, "I'm afraid it is just old age and there is not much I can do" He replied "Well it's the same bloody age as the other leg and it doesn't hurt!" I agree with Woodworks on the subject of making machinery take the hard work out of firewood. Not many on here still use a hand saw or an axe to cut down a large tree. The physical challenges of old age are the reason I built the Lockdown Firewood processor in the first lockdown when I was trying to see if I could bring a wind blown tree up from the bottom of the farm to my stove without any lifting.

Same view from our bedroom, but with daffodils instead of snowdrops

Hard day’s work on a large log with the Lucas Slabber. Worked till sunset!

I asked my mother for Electric Ladyland when it first came out and she and the elderly record shop owner were so embarrassed that he put it in a brown paper bag. Still have it but a bit scratched now! When Hendrix died there were only two fans at our school and we were considered "Hendrix Freaks". Kenny Enahoro was a very tall and handsome Nigerian son of a Chief. We both went around with black armbands. Somebody came up to him and said why are you doing that, he is dead and gone. Kenny just said "Jesus Christ is dead too man"

Worth repeating Mark I think

My Missus must have some Nuthatch genes!

My Aunt gave me the metal one for Christmas. The male has not been confused by it is it has not attempted mating!

Spring is here say the froggies in the lake and also the Green Woodpecker Need to turn the volume up to hear the froggies!

It has been over six months since I started this thread and my goodness a lot has changed! I was wrong about a hard Winter but I still believe it to be a possibility in the next few years.. Have not forgotten the Beast from the East in 2017 which cracked the block on my 14 litre Caterpillar D7 even though it was in an open fronted lean to with walls on three sides and sheltered from the East! It will not be till next Winter now until we see some increased demand. I am doing to split as much as I can this Summer as we still have a big heap left over from the storms earlier on. Here is a summary of UK Winters The History of British Winters - Netweather.tv WWW.NETWEATHER.TV

Perhaps it is the State schools that are wrong if that is what you think!

Bramblings

Not Terrible Two though I hope!

Bit more about Navitron on here Navitron forum is no more WWW.GREENBUILDINGFORUM.CO.UK Apologies if this is inappropriate, but I suspect several here, like me, also frequented this forum, which has now sadly...

We appreciate all the hard work, time and money that you put into Arbtalk, so again many thanks. Your little girl is growing fast and looks fabulous!

Yes, I had not thought about the cost of keeping data. It would be good to hear from Steve on the subject