Billhook

Top comment, but I would still like to see the bottom line

Well that is the first bit of advice I have seen on the web, so I will go with that!

Leave it out Deep Thought!

I have just been trawling the web asking what the rules are in the UK about living with my wife who has been told to isolate because she spent the hour in Amsterdam, but shows absolutely no symptoms of covid. The are dozens of rules about living with someone actually with the disease but I cannot find any advice for my situation. Does anybody know the answer???

Just wish that there was a bit more conclusive evidence on how we should interact with one another. This virus is obviously more infectious but the danger of death or severe illness seems to be much the same as any flu virus. Anyone with a health condition will succumb to ordinary flu which is why they are so keen to vaccinate each year. So Face masks for a start. Either they are essential or they do not work. I posted this cutting on the face mask thread, what are we meant to think when two surgeons are saying this? But there are face masks and face masks so how can a top grade mask possibly be counted as having the same protection as someone with a scarf or a bit of cloth they have made for themselves? So we deem masks to be essential, so why are shop assistants ,children and people with conditions allowed not to wear one? My wife came back from Denmark yesterday and had to go via Amsterdam where she was one hour changing planes. She now has to be in quarantine for two weeks and yet I am able to pick her up and live with her in the same bed and then go into town shopping???? I think that the government needs to go back to school with the children and learn about joined up handwriting.

Blimey, have you a todger to match???

Be careful what you wish for as Storm Ellen is on her way today!

Just to remind you all. I have been watching Enfield all Lockdown!

I’m slightly miffed that they seem to cost £11.45 now when I paid nearly £30 back in March from Harry Enfield’s “I saw you coming” or his mate!

The ram is double acting from a JCB and the spring is solely used with the arm to grip the log till it is clear of the blade so that it should drop cleanly into the chamber, which it does 90% of the time, but as you know wood being wood it will find a way to be difficult! if you just use the arm by itself the wood has a tendency to tip back at an angle or fall sideways

Praise indeed from a well respected member of Arbtalk, thank you James

Playing around just about sums up my life story!

It is adjustable for height in inch increments, but I have it set at four inches. The arrow shape is so that I have maximum pressure on difficult Elm. The downside is as you can see on some pieces it leaves a U shape bottom to the log. Not quite sure why it only happens on some logs, but it may be that the knife angle is too sharp and I need to do some more grinding

Here at last is the video of taking a tall wind blown Ash tree from the woods to the stove via the new Lockdown Splitter without me lifting any logs apart from the last part of lifting a log from the box to the stove. My wrists are knackered with osteo arthritis so during Lockdown I decided to build a splitter around the Matbro Teleporter making full use of its lifting and hydraulic power. The Matbro cost me £7000 in 2010 and had done 11000 hours but the clock was broken so goodness knowshow many hours it has done since then, but together with the Sanderson muck grab it has been a great tool in the woods Because I was confined to the yard during Lockdown I had to make use of what scrap was lying around I did ask a local engineer to cut me a knife out of some 30mm plate which he was able to deliver and was very thankful for his help and advice. I came up with the idea of using the remote control designed for a winch to plug into the Danfoss electric controls on the Matbro Electric Wireless Winch Remote Control Handset 12V Heavy Duty For Truck Atv Suv WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Specification: Color(remote control): blue Color( controller): black Voltage: 12V Remote Range: about 100'' / 30m Remote... Some how it cost nearer £30 back in March but still good value as it saved all the expensive pipework and valves as well as being much safer The teleboom could crowd only to a certain angle so I had to tilt the logs against another log which was not too difficult. When it was tilted back the log was at a comfortable height for sawing. Then three or four rounds could be lifted over the box for the split wood to drop in An improvement would be a processor chainsaw but this will have to do for the time being

Would you need to be dried to below 20%?

I heard a lot of those stories too, and worse.........

Indeed you have hit the nail on the head. A difficult one. Certainly I would have a lot of reservations about doing a dig in a foreign land, say India or Australia with ancient aboriginal sites. So that is one aspect,not to upset the local population. The other aspect is respect and would I mind having my body exhumed in 1500 years if it was treated with respect and was done to discover something about the way I lived and perhaps might give some useful knowledge. So the answer to that is that I would not mind. In the same way leaving your body to medical science is fine as long as it does not become part of some drunken medical student party with my body parts being thrown around for a laugh The archaeologists took these graves very seriously and the students were not allowed to give the skeletons nicknames and respect had to be shown at all times. The bones were carefully labelled and packaged and have undergone analysis at Sheffield. They discovered much from some of these new methods such a strontium isotope testing where it was found that one of the women was brought up in Kent. The conclusion was that there was a lot of coastal shipping traffic from the Baltic, (one woman had over 500 amber beads in a necklace, the beads coming from the Baltic) they probably hugged the coastline down to Calais and came across and then up the East coast of England. In the first dig I was asked if I minded if they brought some American Veterans from the wars in Afghanistan who were traumatised. I thought that it was a very odd request as troops that may have witnessed their best friend blown to pieces by a roadside mine you would think the last thing they would want to do is deal with skeletons. They came to the dig with their heads down, I think they had retreated into themselves and tried to shut out their memories with a bit of help from the bottle and stronger. However working with the team on a perfect site was very calm and their was a lot of good socialising in the evening at the pub and after two weeks they were very different people. The skeletons are certainly my own grandparents (times about 50 greats!) and probably those of my Danish wife and they will be returned to the beech trees with a ceremony when the research if finished. I have not had any bad feelings at all, in fact very good feelings that their lives have been respected and that they can show us a thing or two. Firstly the equality of the sexes seems to have been very different even to today. The women were more like the queen bee and in charge. The men were the drones, the foragers the protectors. I would think that the women maintained control by controlling who married who. To make a 12 year old girl pregnant in those days was a death sentence so I think arranged marriages were the result Indeed there was a young woman cradling her child in one grave which brought a lot of tears to the eyes There is a lot of comfort for me too. I have been to America, Australia, New Zealand , South Africa and Zimbabwe and in each country on the radio there were indigenous people demanding their lands back. It meant that the settlers, even after five or six generations on the same land were left feeling very vulnerable Here I know I am living where my ancestors lived going back a long way. The footprints at Happisburgh, just on the other side of the Wash not far from here were 850,000 years old. Happisburgh footprints - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

There is a circle of beech trees about 100 yards from my front door in the middle of an arable field on a South facing slope on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds. The old man who lived nearby and who died in the 1950s, told my father that a man and his horse were buried under the trees. I always thought that it was one of those tall stories but if true may have been some survivor of Waterloo or similar. A metal detectorist came by and asked if he could look around so I suggested the trees and the field where I could keep and eye on him He found some brooches and there was a skeleton underneath. The University of Sheffield were conducting a dig about fifteen miles away and I asked them to investigate. Here is the video. If you are not interested in archaeology then Dr Alice Roberts is worth watching without the archaeology, especially as she likes wild swimming! I bought myself a Deus XP and found the little boar's head with the red garnet eyes. My heart jumped when Alice said that it was her favourite object of the series. The mind boggling thing is that red garnets were only found in one place in the world at that time-- Sri Lanka. So how did sections of African elephant tusk (they found five altogether and dated to the same 6th century period) and red garnets from Sri Lanka arrive 100 yards from my front door 1500 years ago? The silver bracelet and Roman bronze bowl, nearly 2000 years old are also fantastic finds

When I was at school we had to do rifle training as part of the CCF and the officer in charge of the range insisted that I used the bolt action rifle right handed. Having been brought up on a farm I had been rifle shooting from a very young age and was not a bad shot, But Left handed. I challenged him to a duel, lying side by side resting the fore-end (no dirty jokes here Stubby!)on a sand bag. I told him to imagine that we were at Rorke's Drift and there were thousands of Zulus coming at us. So let's see who can fire the most rounds / minute Of course my left hand never was taken away from the trigger and my right hand operated the bolt, whereas his right hand had to leave the trigger to operate the bolt so I was nearly twice as fast as him! It is still against regulations he insisted, which about sums up the army for me.

Left-handed people are the only ones in their right mind!

But we know that really we are better than them!

I've been looking for one of those for years! She even tightens the nuts up anticlockwise which is better for a leftie like me. Perhaps there are some special glasses which invert everything like a youtube camera. might make driving difficult though! To further my cause as a victim in this current victim culture, why is so little done to help lefties when authorities bend over backwards to accommodate other disadvantaged groups. For years I have had to put up with bloody right hand nib fountain pens (marked down in exams because my writing is so appalling) , right hand scissors, right hand serrated knives (cannot cut bread straight), right hand cash machines, cameras both viewfinder and trigger, chequebooks rulers the list is endless I am a victim and demand compensation!!!!!! 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...

Type has an e on the end, or is your vision impaired???

I have always treated my bishop with great respect, I praise him continually and confess my sins!

Its all right, I am not drinking pints of it! Xray of wrists indicates Osteo rather than Rheumatoid so I do not think it would help much anyway as the damage has been done via a misspent youth!