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Big old Elm. Died suddenly about three years ago had only a touch of DED may have been a combination of age and DED Four foot diameter trunk weighed over three tons and the Matbro did not like it as it is only rated at 2.7 tons so red lights flashing but it drove well with no rear end lift. Lucas Mill to see what is inside next job Hopefully some nice floor boards Two more 15 foot lengths to bring back I bought a cheap (£10) little angle finder off Amazon for measuring height with trigonometry so I thought I would give it a go. It said that the tree was 63 feet tall and we measured it after felling at 64 feet. Load of rubbish machine, I think I should send it back ! IMG_0939.MOV IMG_0932.MOV

As the original poster, I always value the way these threads develop and I have learned a lot thank you all.

I think that also helps my theory, for you being strongly right handed and holding the axe in the way you do, I would think that you would bat and play golf so called left handed.. I am totally left handed but I hold my axe like my cricket bat or hockey stick with dominant left hand at the top of the shaft. I am sure that this is why I am so good at splitting wood with an axe compared to right handers operating the wrong way (turns round and dives for cover under the bed to avoid the mass of abuse about to come out of my computer!}

OK time to give my favourite rant about English cricket and the way it is taught to children. I am a total leftie but although I bowl left arm I bat right handed. I also play golf right handed and when I played field hockey I held the stick right handed. I noticed that all the cack handed hockey players were in fact strongly right handed for all other tasks and most left handed golfers the same. When at the crease in cricket my left arm will provide the main power for all the conventional classic cover drives, the right hand is really only a guide. But the most important thing is that my leading left eye is facing the bowler unrestricted by my nose if I was right eyed. My conclusion is that the so called right hander batsman should be renamed as a left hander and all children should be taught to bat opposite handed to what they bowl, bit like David Gower In particular, some of the greatest batsmen of the modern era including Brian Lara, Clive Lloyd, David Gower, Adam Gilchrist, Alistair Cook, Michael Hussey, Kumar Sangakkara, and Matthew Hayden all bat left handed yet are actually right-hand dominant I see this article has appeared recently to back up what I have been preaching for years but it does not mention the leading eye To find out which of your eyes is dominant, "Fire" your finger at an object with both eyes open. Hold your finger in position and close one eye, open it again and close the other and see which one is actually looking at the object. If we start teaching the kids properly we may start winning again! Cricket players more successful when batting the 'wrong' way: Current T20 World Cup batsmen like Chris Gayle and David Warner use the opposite stance -- ScienceDaily WWW.SCIENCEDAILY.COM Cricket batsmen who bat the 'wrong' way have a stunning advantage according to new research. Batsmen who adopt a reversed stance (right-handed people who bat left-handed...

What about these heat recovery devices for the flues, have any of you had success with one or do they lower the temperature too much and cause condensation and tar build u inside the flue? flue+heat+exchanger - Google Search WWW.GOOGLE.COM

Those tongs are brilliant for positioning the log between the rails (you can see the Lucas Saw rails in the background) once you have established the centre of gravity. The pivot means that you can swivel the 1.5 ton log around with just one finger! They also seem to grab the log first time without me needing to leave the Teleporter and hammer the jaws in, as I have had to do with other makes.

I AM GOING TO MILL THAT LOG! It actually belongs to my neighbour who wants a table or two from it. Massive sycamore that was blown over just clipping his house and breaking a few roof tiles and denting his beloved Freelander!

An axe surely! Right from the start with a bit of wood and a decent flint and some binding, this was not only a useful tool for chopping and splitting wood, but also vital for defence from attack by animal or human. Followed closely by a spear. I think these things came before fire and flint work.

Just had a look on "Anything Left Handed " website for a chainsaw which came up with no result" Anything Left Handed WWW.ANYTHINGLEFTHANDED.CO.UK Left handed products and tools for left handed people - online left-handed shop

Another thing which literally threw me on a lot of occasions was the fact that I always mount a bicycle from the the right hand side, left leg over. I do not ride horses generally, but when in South Africa we went for a ride down a beach with a guide. I tried to mount the horse from the wrong side and it did not like it at all. Come to think of it, it could explain my problem with some ..Nah forget it!

Trowels have a hardened edge on one side only usually., to suit a right hander.for cutting bricks. To pass my chainsaw certificate I had to be right handed and now can operate with either hand.

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Bought these wood tongs with a 1500 kg capacity and 50 inch opening and fitted a weighing scale out of interest to see how much weight was lost in seasoning. Will have to wait a year for the results! This one weighted exactly 1500 kg

Thank you for that, all I can say is that it works perfectly for me and cost very little

I'm sure that I can easily become part of the current victim culture by listing all the ways you right handed barstewards make life difficult for us lefties! I can start with chainsaws but go on to screw threads, saws, serrated knives, many hand tools and electric tools which have the trigger guard button on the wrong side, bolt action rifles, double barrelled shotgun triggers. trowels, fountain pens, scissors, cheque books, card machines Just remember, left handed people are the only people in their right mind! 16 little ways that the world is designed for right-handed people WWW.INSIDER.COM Lefties have to endure lots of little struggles in a world designed for the right-handed, from swiping credit cards to cutting with scissors.

Saw this idea on youtube but thought I could improve his original idea of coloured insulating tape on the end of the main black heavy duty 1/2 inch wide tie with a bright yellow 5mm tie fitted to a hole drilled in the black one. It folds neatly out of the way when not in use and will not be knocked off like the magnetic ones or mislaid like the bolt on ones. Works for me anyway

Anyone had any experience of either of these?

Never seen anyone with pricks on their balls before! If you make a little right angled triangle with the base and height the same length, the angles on the hypotenuse must be 45 degrees So if you walk away from the tree until the hypotenuse lines up from your eye to the top of the tree then the vertical height must always be the same as your distance from the tree (plus your own height to eye level) May need to put a small spirit level on the base line to help you keep it level

A lot of people make a lot of money selling fresh air!

Covids are indeed very smart. I learnt the other day that they can recognise human faces as well. There was a story about people who'd caught crows to ID tag them, they were mobbed and squawked at forever after by those particular crows. The next generation has been told as well!

They tried that s few million years ago but found that they had a much quicker result by developing claws, teeth and fast feet! When they caught the Zebras with their nets they found that they had no teeth with which to eat them I'm talking!

Understatement Stubby! They have far more neurons/square inch and their brains are a match for chimps. When chimps seem to be intelligent by poking a stick down a hole to bring up a termite, they did not imagine the tool they needed but really achieved the result by playful messing about and then learning and copying. Corvids when put in a cage with a glass jar with a bucket of meat in it that cannot be reached with their beak, can use abstract thought to imagine the tool they need so when a straight piece of wire was placed in the cage the crows picked it up and bent it into a hook around its feet, to hook the bucket of meat out of the jar. The scientists were so amazed by this that they tried the same with a different crow and this one made the hook by bending it in the bars of the cage. They also filled a jar with water and the reward was just floating out of reach. They placed some stones in the cage and the crows worked out how to bring the bucket up by filling the jar with stones, something apparently that most human children cannot work out until they are over 5.

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