Billhook
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Here at 3.50
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Lyre Bird Chainsaw imitation
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So I take on board all the comments here concerning firewood sales. The stupidity of using dry or wet firewood to dry other firewood, the fact that having dried your firewood by whatever means and then selling it to someone who leaves it in a heap where it regains all the moisture it has just lost. I suggest selling logs not as firewood but as a work of art. Chainsaw carvings perhaps with each log representing a politician, wooden, split down the middle both left and right, processed, then elevated to a great height before a sudden drop to the bottom, sometimes wet and a lot of times rotten, usually ending up in a log jam! -
The four quarters should now easily go through the Palax processor Three in the photo, I took one away to test
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Re-welded the horizontal knife with a pair of gussets. First day without rain since September 22rd so started up Daisy Etta to have a go at a two foot diameter Ash log several feel long. ”Too easy” said Daisy Etta “ I really need a bit of five foot diameter oak for a proper work out! Sorry about the first link glitch 4E36209F-752D-4C08-9327-37CE29CA13DE.MOV
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It’s that time of year again! After a relatively mild wet windy spell which has dragged on since September 23rd according to my diary, we have had a sudden series of clear night skies and white over ground frosts. And guess what, the Blackthorn has just come into flower!
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Sorry if this has been posted before
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And I say it was the snake! He was the root of all evil, now who made the snake? Oh, wait a minute....................
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Yes, just the same argument that it was manufacturer of the artificial fuel who is to blame for enabling the Panzers to be able to go to war
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“You could argue”.and you do! I will argue that if Dunlop had not invented the tyre and Henry Bessemer the steel making process and James Watt the steam engine and many other British inventions we would not have the capability of going to war in a mass destructive way. So it is all our fault!
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They have certainly got God in a big way and you need to be very careful with heathen British attitudes One thing that we have bigger than Americans is our gallon Having said all that I love them, and at a certain level of society they are not only very generous, but very capable and their can do attitude is not to be sneered at. They saved our bacon twice in the two World wars and have kept the peace in Europe.
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In case you become too excited you had better watch this "Dust" scifi film first!
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Oops indeed! The scary bit for me in the Good Morning interview was when at 3.27 Phillip suggests that there may be a sinister side to all this and she gives a little smirk. The guy with the mutton chops looks like your normal deranged scientist who has tunnel vision, very much like Frankenstein.
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I just take the first two or three inches off the top of a log in inch square lengths with the Lucas Mill
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Or the scene from the cult film Dark Star, where the captain is trying to reason with an intelligent bomb
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Put the photos on the Elm Flooring thread. I am not sure what you wood turners are after. Those burr like lumpy bits?
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So the first series of photos shows the old soldier in the middle of some parkland and it measures four feet in diameter at chest level There seems to be a lot of interesting lumps and bumps but Ian not sure what wood turners covet most Very sad to lose that tree The second two are of a two foot diameter hedgerow tree that is covered with ivy and is hard to make out The last photo is of a large limb Both trees were in full leaf in 2018 and died suddenly and completely in 2019 The ground is so wet that we have not been able to take any machinery to them All the elms that have died previously due to DED took several years to die, starting with a few patches of pale leaves in the crown and steadily becoming worse over time. I really thought that these two were immune and going to survive
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Very sweet and pretty child. Well done both of you. Interesting choice of name. My mother was christened Alexina Madeleine Macdonald. Alexina after her Scottish grandma , Alexina Roy, who was always called Lena, and Madeleine after her mother Madeleine, who was always called Madge So we nearly have it in our family MadgeLena!
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They seemed like a nice bunch, and also seemed enthusiastic about my offer, but perhaps they have enough around here Certainly will have if wood burning goes out of favour! Wilds of Lincolnshire normal abode but now in the Royal Oak At Isleworth warming up for the England Ireland game at Twickers. (Only as a spectator!) Should be interesting with father versus son in the Farrell household
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No different to other species really. Like Oak you will get plenty of movement as it dries. Elm will make very beautiful flooring. Thanks, I was hoping that you were not going to say don’t do it as they twist like hell after drying I have rather given up on wood turners/ carvers. I even bothered to go out to the local pub where they were having a meeting and I told them that I was putting any interesting looking knotty or burred stuff on one side and if they came and wanted a piece they could perhaps give a little monetary offering to our little Church. As I have heard nothing I expect they resent giving even 50 pence to the collection box!
