Macpherson

The destruction of reason, I think she has this in a nutshell.

I don't think it's a common practice but I come from an engineering background and bring with me perhaps a slightly different mindset when it comes to how tools cut... you too I guess as I've seen your work and I've also had a go at taking carpenters tools to the nth degree of sharp 👍 I had to force myself not to watch any other of the amazing boat builds just for the amount of time it takes... but I did get drawn in to Mathew Cremona's huge bandsaw build a few years ago, cheers.

Hi, yes I've done this successfully with the intent of keeping the chain at a steady temperature and therefore maintaining the optimum tension throughout the cut specially on bigger logs where a long chain can get quite warm and sloppy. I'd say it works and reduces the gouging that can occur when stopping and starting in the cut which eventually leads to less planing. The max I can mill is 42" [ and that's rare ] so nowhere near as much as many on here and I've no experience of how slack a real long chain gets when it expands due to temp. I also think that the water acts with the chain oil as extra lube leading to less sharpening, particularly if the wood is hard or dry... anyway it's easy enough to try but you do need waterproofs😄 Also I've watched the whole of the rebuild of Tally Ho since someone on here mentioned it years ago.. what an undertaking and what great craftsmanship, cheers.

A wee bit of country anyone ?

Also handy for hooking the winch to👍 but my age and sore back can't imagine an 80"+ set up😁

As an unpolitically minded observer I can't argue with any of that... there needs to be a rout of these would be globalists and their agenda on both sides of the house and honest people with our countries interests at heart put in charge of this sinking ship... if any such competent people exist ! Cheers.

Heat it in the oven till yer spit bounces off.. it used to annoy my mother a lot 50 years ago😄

Yes I also like it for the same reasons, I milled some random Cypress a few years ago and I dip into the stack every now and again when I need a nice piece of figured wood... much of it has very nice pillowing of the grain.👍 I'll never like it as a hedge though😁

Hi, that sounds like a good plan, it'll still be green in April I'd think, I paint the ends with SBR a waterproof pva. If you're worried about bugs or fungal staining, paint the planks with a solution of Borax, Ikg mixes well into 5 gallons of hot water. And I'd probably soak the posts in real creosote. Cheers Bond It SBR Waterproof Concrete Latex Admixture Wall and Floor Bonding Agent WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Also ideal as a bonding agent for new to old concrete. For improving a mortar's, render's or floor screed's abrasion and chemical resistance. Key coat applications to substrates with... BORAX 1kg - Sodium Tetra Borate Decahydrate Powder. Make Slime Great 4 Cleaning WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Borax is a naturally occurring mineral deposit produced by repeated evaporation of lakes and riverbeds. BORAX - Sodium Tetra Borate Decahydrate. The solubility of Borax increases... Traditional Creosote - Creosote Sales WWW.CREOSOTESALES.CO.UK

Hi, you should check out the ' todays milling ' thread there's just about everything you need to know on there. For my tuppence worth I'd say mill it asap and stack it to season or it will be very hard.. as said a year an inch plus a year so 3 years for a 2" board, paint the ends to prevent cracking and weigh down or band the stacks. Not sure that oak's ideal for cladding but if it were to be used for this purpose I don't see why it couldn't be put up green in a similar fashion to the way Larch is used... but I could be wrong there, good luck👍

Groomed for sure, but by Klaus Schwab and co as were many of the others who would lord it over us. It's not even a secret anymore... they're remit must be to destroy every aspect of the normal life that we're used to, and not just here but globally.

Mountain from 1970, I thought I'd throw this in as it's rare footage with the sound being not too bad.. which is unusual.

Not read any of this thread since June but I mostly run older saws and had noticed that my usual oil, medium viscosity from Northern Arb was running through too quickly and not that tacky.. I'd normally expect the oil to last at least 2 tanks of fuel. Switched to Gator oil ET50 which is SAE 50 and it's as tacky as I remember chain oil to be in my youth. So 20 litres of the tacky stuff is the same price as 25 of the thin stuff... I'm definitely using less oil and what gets used stays on the chain much better... but the chain cover needs removed and cleaned more often due to increased build up of sticky chip and it's much more of a mess on your hands.. so pros and cons👍

I think the time is long past since the ambitions of the WEF could be classed as a conspiracy at least in my opinion.. I guess time will tell. As to ' what do we do ? ' I'm +1 for good question.

I'm not sure why more aren't up to speed on the stated ambitions of the WEF. and their obvious connections to the current havoc that's being deliberately created in this country and all around the world. Folk need to wake the feck up to what's going on but it may already be very late... the global scale diversionary tactics that are being employed need to be recognised for what they are but I have little hope of that ever happening. The agenda is clearly working towards financial collapse and global famine whilst most folk all read and believe the daily Beano.. while our government is being infiltrated and controlled by a different set of aims that are not any part of that we're persuaded to vote for. Hey, I'm sure I'll get people's backs up, but I don't give 2 fooks if they would just open their eyes, cheers.

You're not wrong there, but where the feck do you get them all from.. you certainly make me giggle👍

Anything that slows down the loss of moisture through the end grain will help prevent this problem Pva isn't the best, a similar product SBR is better as being waterproof but really anything that retards the process does the job. Cherry's notorious for splitting and Blackthorn is also a Prunus but I've not found the rest of what you mentioned too bad, the key is time.. a year per inch plus a year is about the minimum.. slower if you can. cheers.

There is no doubt that antique crank seals are the enemy of 2T engines, I'd say that the main symptom of this is that they get hard to start due to not pumping fuel because of lack of crankcase pressure... you can sort of judge this if starting gets harder in cold weather as the seals get hard with age and low temperature makes it worse... leaking onto the clutch may be a separate issue. The good thing with any engine is that nearly always the seals and bearings are not dependant on the manufacturer and are as cheap as chips, so if you can sort these issues before one of these older saws succumbs to a catastrophic end then you can keep them running indefinitely,, the trick is to recognise what's going on before a failure. There is so much stuff about repairing engines available online that if you were to attempt to do you own repair on your worst old still running saw, you've not got much to loose and may enjoy learning as you go. As this age of 'Stihl' has recently been more difficult to get oem parts for I take the opportunity wherever possible to by a non-runner or two. very often that have had little use, just for spares... very cheap. The only other thing is that in seldom used saws is to use fuel stabiliser or alkylate fuel.. my go to petrol firewood saw is a 1981 012av only 45cc but with a reed valve, it usually barks 3rd pull and it's a little ripper with and 18" bar and full chiz but it doesn't bog.. it just drags itself through with a lot of torque for a wee engine. Just wot I likes👍 cheers

+1 for keeping the older saws running, I have several Stihl's of a similar age to yours and I find them reliable and can usually find parts quite easily, cheers.

Being in a tourist area 3 times in the past week I've been confronted with a car coming towards me on the wrong side of the road, not fast... but it takes a few seconds of flashing.. 'main beam'😁 till the penny drops and they switch lanes. As you say I think that driving standards have never been lower than they are today, I'm not really an Amber gambler and particularly since you never know where there is a red light camera, but often when I go through an amber light it's amazing how many follow you through on red. As for phones, around here the number of vehicles that drive off the black stuff is almost unbelievable.... they drive along a single track road with their phone out the window filming the feckin scenery ffs. On top of all that you have a whole wide range of designer super strong or lab modified drugs that bear no resemblance to anything in the past that could conceivably been described as recreational, or even medicinal. Also going by reported figures from the USA, a 1/3rd of the population, or a 100 million people are medicated with anti-depressants, can anyone guess what the unreported figure in the UK might be.... But I'd guess that many of the obviously compromised drivers are on legal prescribed drugs ... I mean a friend of mine aged 65 has been chemically lobotomised by his doctors. He was a shit hot guitarist who after being fed anti-deps sold al his gear and is totally disinterested in music and all since being medicated. And just to say , that in know way do I defend DUI but I've got to say that I'm totally ignorant of the latest trends in getting high, so I can't comment on how bent the minds of folk taking god knows what are, or just what it does to them and their perception.

That is a very true statement these days regardless of which trade or or job you're doing for the 'general public ' ... most of them are stupid beyond belief.. IMO😆

Well, spit it oot😄

Totally take your point on space garbage.. the real danger is that we may make it impossible to go up through it without collision trapping us here. As far as money is concerned, I can imaging that many think the money is wasted and maybe it is .. but not as many $'s that's wasted threatening, killing each other or stockpiling stupidity, cheers.

Yep, today if all goes well... been interested in this stuff all my life and follow it closely, ish, tbo I'm more than slightly disappointed that it's taken so long. I've got to add that I'd be surprised if the Chinese and particularly Spacex don't beat them to the goal of some kind of moon residency👍

I know that there's a lot of old gits like me that still enjoy the music of Jimi Hendrix and I know, if you've not heard this... you're going to love it👍