Billhook
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That may well be part of the problem but an old man of the woods came round today and observed that the teeth had not been "set" or whatever the term is for introducing a little splay to widen the cut enough for the main blade to pass through easily. The wood grabbed the Florabest making it nearly impossible to saw. I expect that the steel is good enough to maybe take to a saw master to correct, and the handle and fold out mechanism are sturdy enough. "Spoiling the barrel for a ha'pence worth of tar" comes to mind.
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All of you lot are watching too much telly when you should be out there chopping logs!
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The Hawthorn may not be in leaf yet but the Blackthorn is starting to flower "Beware the Blackthorn Winter" Next week you will all be searching for your pullovers and gloves!
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April 16th here in Lincolnshire, it has warmed up a bit today and it has been really pleasant in the sunshine but the hedges still look dormant
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Very apt given the current situation.
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Yes, it must have been something very subtle in the angle of the teeth or perhaps the way they may be splayed slightly to give the main blade enough clearance to move freely. It certainly grabbed a lot. But also the quality of the steel and although you could not see it on the video the blade did bend quite a bit more than the Stihl one when it grabbed. I am very ignorant on the finer qualities of a saw blade so perhaps one of you lot will enlighten me. Firstly there is the steel quality, then the length of the teeth, the number of teeth per inch, the angle of the teeth in all directions, the angle of the sharp edge, the angle of the blade triangle, the depth of the whole blade, the curve of the blade, the taper of the blade and many more things that I have not thought of since I have been celebrating my wife's win on the National with Tiger Roll!
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Sad to see she has abandoned her nest. Maybe there are so few insects/snails around at the moment or maybe there was not enough greenery in the hedge to protect her from the magpies, jays, jackdaws, carrions or maybe the sparrow hawk finally cleaned her up. Maybe it was just too cold and wet and miserable. Dicey business being a songbird these days
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The Stihl had been used a bit but the "Florabest" Lidl was straight out of the sealed packet!
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I bought a Stihl folding hand saw from Amazon for £27.50 and it performed well. Yesterday I was amazed to see a very similar looking saw at Lidl for £3.50 Here is the test!
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"Spring is Here" I think that we can conclude was a "Premature Especulation"!
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Both a bit prickly?
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Blackthorn has not flowered yet. "Beware the Blackthorn Winter"
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Brimstone last week, but no hawthorn leaves.
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So what songs do you like to play with that set up?
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Well that does surprise me as you are normally well ahead.
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Our hawthorn hedges seem to be very late to come into leaf this year here in Lincolnshire. Hardly any leaves showing
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On a more positive note, there were three of these leather chairs dumped in one of our fields and rather than pay the £200 I took them down to the log cabin where they are fine. They are tidy and comfortable enough to relax in but not so good that I am bothered about mice chewing them, or people sitting in them with their muddy boots on.They actually go quite well with the poplar logs and copper beech floor.
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Watford seem to have found a good solution!
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My only real success was a few years ago. There is a layby on another quiet lane which had a continuous dumping problem. The council put up a sign saying "Strictly No Dumping, Maximum Fine £20,000" One day I discovered a heap of porno mags placed right under the sign. Of course I needed to examine them for evidence! However in this case the evidence was there in the form of a local man's name and address, printed on an envelope subscribing to the mag. Called the local council officer who came out and agreed with me how important it was to look through the mags in case of other evidence! Went away and said he would deal with it and I expected to hear nothing more. However a local man was named and fined £200 for littering and it was in the local paper a couple of months later. My only regret was that the paper never mentioned the nature of the material in the litter!
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I agree Peasgood, I just meant that it would have been slightly less inconvenient to have it in a gateway because cars are now becoming stuck in the very wet verge. I have had sofas. armchairs, brick rubble and general waste dumped in the fields as well as a great number of cars over the years, some burnt out. They seem to have almost solved the car problem by presumably making it worthwhile to trade in, or the owners more traceable. In the same way I hope the proposed deposit system on plastic works as well as it did on the old Coke bottles. Can someone not come up with a scheme to reward recycling of garden waste and trimmings? It must be cheaper than sending people out to clear up stuff in the middle of the road.
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Previous sin. Had the whole of the wide verge to dump it, but still puts it in the middle of the road.
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Rudyard Kipling at his best. My first Airedale pup in 1982 lived for sixteen years. The only dog I have never had to train by repetition. Just to show her something once was enough. Devastated after having to make the final dreadful decision ( why do they never die quietly in their sleep?) I went out straight away and bought the two Airedale sisters as pups, the two on my avatar in front of the dozer. It seemed like a good decision as the old dog seemed to come back to life again in the two pups. The last one of those two died a couple of years ago, again aged sixteen and I am still so upset that I cannot bring myself to buy another and go through it all again.
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This is becoming a regular occurrence around here. If they have to do it because they are charged at waste disposal centres could they not just back into a field gateway, why tip in the middle of the lane? The last time it was a load of hedge trimmings, this time turf complete with fence posts.
