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It started on September 23rd and did not stop until March. I was so fed up with standing at our back door in the rain, fiddling around with the keys while the shopping and my clothing became wetter, that I bought one of these covers for about £50 from Amazon. It was quite easy to fit, not too obnoxious and lets the light in. It has not rained since I fitted it in March!

Here you are then, a good laugh for you all to help take away the pain of Lock Down! There was a lot of pressure on the gearbox which made it difficult to find reverse after a push You can see the knife start to rock . The knife plus a lump of concrete was pushed out of the ground after I turned the log around to have a go from the other end.

just found a cure for the virus that has obviously covered her bits

Another angle on all of this which certainly needs to be discussed calmly. I think that they have a point about discussion in general being shut down over contentious issues by the use of labels. So people become, xenophobe, racist, transphobe, misogynist, homophobe snd now Covidphobe so everyone just withdraws from reasonable debate.

I agree, when processing 10 inch Sycamore through the Palax it goes through the four way splitter with ease, also when I use the Fiskars X27 together with Ash it would be the log of choice.

I’d split it the other way around too (butt first) - those unions will be tough buggers. It could well have been my poor mixing, but yes the concrete was the weakest point so a bit more concrete and more steel mesh. I have a video of my attempts but it was too big to put on here, needs to go on youtube when I find a moment. I started with it butt first and there was a sign of a crack after three rammings with the D7. So I turned around to see if it was just this particular difficult joint. All the other logs put through went so easily with hardly any change in Daisy Etta's engine note. Was it because it was so recently blown over and needed to be left for a year or two? The first video was a similar Sycamore with just as many branches and no trouble at all. It had been down for a year. The log will now be taken to the Lucas Mill as a punishment and die the death of a thousands cuts into lengths of 6"x8" and then cut into 16" logs on the Palax and conveyored into a one ton wooden box and so to the log burner. What would you mill it into? I will upload to Youtube the attempts by Daisy Etta purely for the amusement of all during this lock down!

Well it was fun while it lasted The score now is Daisy Etta 1 , the static knife 1, the Sycamore Log 2 , and the concrete nil After this attempt the knife plus a large lump of concrete were pushed out of the ground . I was impressed by the Sycamore it has only just come down in the recent gales so I thought that it would be easier to split, obviously not!

Couple more positive outcomes today on my half mile cycle ride to the farm yard. No traffic at all and not one bit of litter to pick up. No cans of energy drink, Red Bull , no sandwich wrappers or McDonalds cartons,Bliss1

Balalaika!

What instrument was this written for as it only has four strings?

Young talent!

How did I forget that one! Also Arbtalk will be about ten times more active than normal. Which brings me to think of all the work Steve Bullman does to make this site so good. He is probably not having much sleep at the moment tending to the beautiful little Maddalena So thank you again Steve for all your hard work

Wondering if we can find some positive outcomes for this Lock Down. Here is my first dozen 1. Giving up smoking (not me!) 2. More attention to eating fresh food and less sugar (Me!) 3. Lose that weight you have been trying to shift for years (Me!) 4. Meeting elderly and vulnerable people from your community to help them, which you otherwise would never have met 5. Facing your family and having to resolve issues that you would normally walk away from by going to work 6. Cleaning the house 7. Tidying up your bookwork and accounts 8. Finding time to read books like Norwegian Wood 9 Hopefully the country will try and be more self sufficient for food security and have less exotic imports with no account of the conditions or procedures of their production 10 less just in time globalisation in general. 11 More people working from home via the internet 12 Start that vegetable garden "Digging for Britain!" Any more

Thinking about this a little more and also referring to another link somebody posted, I cannot see how it is possible that one and a half billion people, living in close proximity with not enough health care, could have less fatalities than Italy China's Coronavirus Coverup -- Devastating Lies | National Review WWW.NATIONALREVIEW.COM And the irreparable damage they have caused around the globe.

I have often thought of the wealth of knowledge and experience that you and the doctors I know have had. One spent time in South Africa and saw many diseases that you would never see here. I was wondering if there was a doctors site like arbtalk where you could ask a question if you were a young doctor and needed some help. Somehow the retired doctor would need to be rewarded for his advice that found the right outcome. Need Steve Bullman's brains to work that one out!

One of the three doctors is ten years older than you. He said that he thought one of the problems was medical colleges trying to be gender equal. In his day there were only a handful of women in the college with him, but now they are forced to have equal numbers. He says it is an unfair but true statistic that a large proportion of the women being trained now will leave the profession for several years to have families and maybe not return. This is a large waste of education and leads to a general shortage of doctors. Maybe a hard fact of life. Now your wife is a doctor, so I would be interested to know her thoughts on this

Just had a whatsapp from a Chinese friend of mine, she was brought up in Shandong, left for Uk in 1990s and still has many friends and family in China. She says that the Chinese government lie about everything and that the true death toll is over eight million in China

I have three doctor friends who have rather worryingly taken early retirement. Pressure of general practice, long hours and form filling. If I put you in charge of the health service, what changes would you make to improve the environment for doctors and nurses?

I'll try and find some photos of my set up. But it's basically both heat sources into the Dunsley Neutralizer with a danfoss thermostatic switch clipped on to the top over flow pipe set at the desired radiator pump temperature (mine was 80*C) which then switches on the radiator pump. I was also lucky that I could just run the hot water as a gravity circuit. It was good as the central heating could be worked off timer or water temperature. I think that you would need a thermostat on the side of the gravity fed tank to cut out the heating pump when necessary to keep the gravity tank at a constant temperature

Bill Gates 5 years ago!

I know what I shall be doing in lock down, away from everyone!

Well, I feel slightly more in the mood when I play this while drinking my bottle of Batemans XXX at home in lock down!

So why was there not massive inflation, German 1920s style, after the last massive QE session in 2008? Also I would have expected a bog roll supermarket type frenzy on gold with similar mindlessness!