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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.

I thought that this was interesting and informative

There are also numerous Richard Heads and Richard/ Roger/ Rodney Sole or Souls in the phone book from thoughtless parents!

Throw away the moisture meters and buy some Fairy Liquid! At 1.25 demonstration.

Perhaps go for a cheap padlock and standard door and hinges but when door is forced opened it sprays indelible bright orange paint on them

We had about thirty student archaeologists camping on a lawn next to a grass field which had a brand new wooden gate. I left the students at about midnight to continue their BBQ so I bet none went to tent before one and a lad in the village was off to work at seven and he noticed the gate was missing ( luckily the five cattle were still there) I had welded a nut to the top of the crooks to make it difficult for removal but they cut through it with a battery disc grinder and nobody heard a thing the nearest tent was 50 yards away Mind you the Batemans beer around here is a fairly good sedative! But even after removing it they had to load it in the dark which is not easy without making a noise.

What you need is a shallow pit dug all around the container and fill with quick setting glue in sealed thin packets. cover with astroturf , make sure you remember to take your draw bridge each time. Hopefully you should come along one day to find them caught like rats in one of those sticky traps!

I cannot understand why people spend so much time hand stacking logs when there is so much machinery available to make it unnecessary. In America it seems to be a signal of your firewood credentials to everyone to have an immaculate cord stacked in full view. I put mine in 6x4x3 old potato boxes which are rejects from the big farmers as they may have a couple of boards missing or are becoming a bit ragged. Each box holds 72 cubic feet or about 2000 litres or a bit over half a cord at 0.56 cord. In an open fronted shed and stacked as they fall from the elevator and ventilated by open slats in the boxes and the boxes themselves having air flow all around them, they seem to dry well stacked three high. Armed with a Palax processor which cost £2500 second hand in 1996 , and a Matbro 270 teleporter which cost £7000 in 2010, I find that I have a system which takes a lot of the hard work out of firewood. I do not touch the wood again after the Palax until I take it out of the box which I have parked in front of my conservatory with the Matbro. Three paces from the Aarrow Stratford stove. It may seem expensive to lay out this money but over 25 years the Palax has cost £100 /annum and the Matbro about £700/annum but it does all the farming jobs as well. I hate to think what my labour would cost at £15/hour stacking firewood by hand over 25 years! Let alone the medical bill Neither the Matbro or the Palax has cost me anything in all these years.. The Matbro is invaluable in the woods working on my own and dealing with hung trees or guiding them to fall where I wish. and of course bring them back to the yard. The other helpful thing about boxes is that you have a ready prepared quantity of firewood if somebody wants to buy a box.

Banzai!!!

magnetic stick . I sit here now uncorrected Stubby! On reflection, many of the cases are very old and I suspect any iron plated ones do not last long in the soil, maybe that was the purpose of them. Certainly brass gives a short sharp blip in the headphones and has a high number to match, but iron gives more of a blurred lower note with a lower number on the scale. Do you know when they started to change to steel plated ones?

I sit here corrected, as usual!

Yes the lead shot is negligible but the real pain are the brass cartridge caps. The old ones had cardboard tubes which rotted and left a coin sized piece with writing. I remember finding my first one with my first detector. Blimey, I thought, 12th century and King Eley!

I know, I know. All these threads would be easier if people stopped having a sense of humour failure!

Bbbbbbbbbut, you told me to shut up Stubby! So you must give a Flying F! I am now feeling cancelled all because I wanted to award you a silver star!

Interesting, the archaeologists said nothing about Devon. I will put it to them, but I think they were probably going on continental research or maybe even Roman research as we are talking early fifth century here, just after the Romans left.