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He is still well and active in arb work I hope?

You are still a bit behind Mendiplogs!

I see that Stubby has a content count of 24,220. Will Steve be issuing a silver medal when he reaches 25,000? I am sure that many would subscribe!

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Buttock Tattoo Terror Lands Rotherham Pair In Hospital A furious row has broken out between a local tattoo artist and his client after what started out as a routine inking session left both of them requiring emergency hospital treatment. Furious film fan and part-time plus-size XXXL model Tracey Munter (23), had visited the 'Ink It Good' Tattoo Emporium in Wellgate, Yorkshire last week, to have the finishing touches applied to a double buttock representation of the chariot race scene from the iconic 1959 film, Ben Hur. Tattooist Jason Burns takes up the story. “It was a big job in more ways than one.” he told us “I’d just lit a roll-up and was finishing off a centurions helmet. It’s delicate, close up work. Next thing is, I sense a slight ripple in the buttock cleavage area just around Charlton Heston’s whip, and a hissing sound – more of a whoosh than a rasp – and before I know what’s happening, there’s a flame shooting from her arse to my fag and my beards gone up like an Aussie bush fire.” Jason says he rushed to the studio sink to quell the flames, only to turn round and see Tracey frantically fanning her buttock area with a damp towel. The flames had travelled down the gas cloud and set fire to her thong which was smoking like a cheap firework. “To be honest”, said Jason, “I didn’t even realise she was wearing one. You’d need a sodding mining licence and a torch to find out for sure. She could have had a complete wardrobe in there and I’d have been none the wiser.” Jason and Tracey were taken to Rotherham District Hospital accident and emergency department where they were treated for minor burns and shock. Both are adamant that the other is to blame. “I’m furious” said Jason, “I’ve got a face like a mange-ridden dog and my left eyebrow’s not there any more. I don’t know about Ben Hur – Gone With The Wind would be more appropriate. You don’t just let rip in someone’s face like that. It’s dangerous.” But Tracey remains both angry and unrepentant; “I’m still in agony,” she said, “and Charlton Heston looks more like Sidney bloody Poitier now. Jason shouldn’t have had a fag on the go when he's doing close up work, there’s no way I’d guff on purpose. He’d had me on all fours for nearly an hour. I can only put up with that for so long before nature takes its course. My Kev knows that I give him my five-second warning, and I’d have done the same for Jason, but I didn’t get chance – it just quietly crept out.” Ted Walters from the South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue service wasn’t surprised when we asked him to comment on what had happened “People just don’t appreciate the dangers.“ he told us, “We get more call outs to flatulence ignition incidents than kitchen fires these days now that people have moved over to oven chips. We have a slogan ‘Flame ‘n fart – keep ’em apart’. Anyone engaging in an arse-inking scenario would do well to bear that in mind in future.” On behalf of the entire Fire and Rescue service, we wish them both a swift recovery

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Just find it so hard these days to put a price on anything. Pre decimalisation ( yes I’m nearly as old as Stubby!) I could tell you the price of most common things. For instance toothpaste would be only a few pence apart depending on brand Just went to look for a 20 inch guard for the chainsaw on Amazon and the first one to come up was this Forester At £35, but postage included generously, I was slightly shocked but then a 16 inch Oregon one further down the page was £2.50! Sponsored Brand: Forester Forester 20 Inch Orange Plastic Chainsaw Bar Guard Price: £35.75

I have never done any climbing, I can see now all I need is a ladder and a pole saw. If I wave the pole saw near the power cable I could save fuel and power it electrically. I cannot see why he did not just build a trailer with a ramp, a roller and a heavy duty winch.

Not forgetting the laminar flow wing, which enhanced the dive speed and the ability to convert all that potential dive energy back into a climb, so rather than mixing it like the WW1 dog fights, the aim was to surprise the enemy diving from a height hopefully with the sun behind, letting off as many bullets as possible before diving through the enemy formation and recovering your original height ready for another attack. The other fantastic fact about the Mustang was that from conception to prototype was 102 days. The American "Cando" ability demonstrated by the North American Aviation Company

It was Moncton in NB and Edmonton in Alberta, I am sure I have some black and white photos father took. Father always teased me about not being a proper pilot as I had no seaplane licence. I put that right by going to Jack Brown's Seaplane base in Florida. One manoeuvre that was a bit of an eye opener was how to take off out of a lake that was too short. Answer do a circular take off.! There is a first time for everything I suppose While I was there I visited a nearby war museum full of every type of plane used in the last war. I was admiring three Mustangs when the manager came over. I jokingly said "What does it take to have a flight in one of these" He gave me the name of Lee Lauderback who runs Stallion 51 from Kissimmee. This is what followed... Spitfire MkIX at East Kirkby again. (Whisper it but I preferred the Mustang!) So rare to find somebody who likes splitting logs and likes WW2 aircraft How to we put this massive thread derail back on the track? Ah Yes, I designed my first static splitting axe on the fin of a Mustang!

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My Mother was a WREN at Treligga and met my father in the King Arthur's Arms Hotel at Tintagel in 1944. They were married in January 1945 and stayed that way for 62 years. I went recently to the Davidstow war museum and was surprised to see not only my father's records but also photos of my Mother training fire engine and ambulance as well as target marking for Typhoons rocket practice ready for D Day.

B17s, B29s, Heinkels , Wellingtons, Mosquitos and many others, they all bombed cities they all killed civilians. The Spitfires and Mustangs were killing machines but to see them all now out of war being flown at air shows to remind us of the futility of war but also to marvel at the engineering and design of everything brought together in such a short time, aeronautics, engine performance, radar. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but the Lanc brings a tear to my eye each time it comes over.

I think that you can become too focussed on tonnage when there maybe other factors such as the design of the knife, or even making a box wedge, .also the length and diameter of the pipework and operating valves. I have two splitters, one vertical built by a local blacksmith with a 5 inch diameter ram from a digger which is powered by the JCB Fastrac 2170 which pump is rated at over 90 litres.minute. He used a tine from a loading shovel as the splitter but mounted on the end of the ram. This is slow and steady but will split anything. My box wedge on the Matbro TS270 again has over 90 litres/minute and has an arrow shaped blade to put a lot of pressure on the initial opening split which is particularly good for recalcitrant Elm. But it is still quite slow and steady so in both cases horsepower seems irrelevant with the JCB at 170 hp and the Matbro at 120 hp both at 3000psi. I think also that pump output is not the main factor here but the length and diameter of the pipework and the size of the various valves and controls.

One more, I wonder how many logs you could split with a Merlin powered propeller splitter! (Trying to return to topic!) 9

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Much more interesting than log splitters! My father trained in Canada in the War,, starting at New Brunswick and then on to Calgary before going down to Pensacola where he flew Catalinas and then back to England where he flew Wellingtons and Warwicks on Coastal Command out of Davidstowe in Cornwall The English Lancaster is based near here at Coningsby, about quarter of an hour away and the beautiful plane is often around. You hear it long before you see it Here is your plane together with the flying Lancaster at East Kirkby Heritage centre where, they have a taxi only non flying Lancaster "Just Jane" I have been for a taxi ride in Just Jane. Sorry about the shaky video but the sound of 12 Merlins must have affected me!

I am confused by the scheduling system. Back in the 1970s, possibly in the hot summer of 1976, photos from the air showed a possible but debatable Long Barrow. We were told as farmers all the things we were not allowed to do to it, and the fines for not complying. I asked them to come and mark it out on the ground as there is nothing to see. It is a 60 acre arable field and the barrow is meant to be quite a long way out into the field which has been cultivated certainly since before the war and has grown deeper crops like seed potatoes for many years. It is on chalk so we would never need to subsoil cultivate. Nobody has been near the place. We also have two very important sites which have both been professionally excavated, an eleventh century Chapel and a sixth century Anglo Saxon cemetery. The latter had some very significant finds and has shed a lot of light on the so called Dark Ages but neither the Chapel or the Cemetery have been scheduled. We have voluntarily protected both the Chapel and the Cemetery with layers of "Terram" and grassed them over but until we hear otherwise or someone bothers to come out and mark it, we will continue farming the supposed barrow it in the same way we have been doing for over half a century. As for what you can do ,it is similar to listed building, if you have a reasonable officer from the council, you may reach a reasonable conclusion, but if you have an unreasonable one you are in trouble!.

“Molegrips” I have left undone those things that I ought to have done And I have done those things I ought not to have done And there is no hope for me!

My wife collects the last logs from the bottom, she is more flexible! Actually a Stihl Pickaroon is the answer. The Mole grips were for the camera I see the sound is hugely non synched with the picture, how do you cure this? It certainly was ok when I put it up but has become progressively worse.

You still have a lot of bending and picking up to do I came up with this solution some time ago before I built a processor.

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So on the minus side you have an old garden tree which has had generations of family activity with children swings, nailed and chained, maybe remains of an old iron fence inside, fence nails , wire. A few of these items coming into contact with saws can soon become expensive. I would have expected a much bigger root ball if the tree was fully alive, but it looks as though it has rotted The black water mark coming from the hole seems to indicate that the main trunk is rotten inside There are no nice straight lengths that I can see for milling You will have a big expense repairing the neighbours damage and making good her lawn and tidying all the brash without wheel marks and footprint trails You may have problems with people concerned about bats, replacing with another tree, or having to leave a certain amount of dead wood around for the birds and the bees and other life that benefits from fallen timber It looks as though you will have to employ a tree surgeon anyway to assess the situation if the tree is protected. Damage to trees protected by a TPO or Conservation Area WWW.SOUTHAMPTON.GOV.UK Easy access to key online services, news and information from Southampton City Council Access looks as though it will be a problem Meanwhile on the plus side..................

Thanks for that good advice