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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😁

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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👍

Thanks, and yes I know a few folk who use a device like this but luckily most of the time I have access to natural spring water of a high quality. It's really only after drinking the real stuff for years that you notice how bad tap water can be and also how much it varies. I don't know about other areas, but it would appear that Scottish water is more interested in protecting it's pipes than supplying untainted water, cheers.

As far as the drinking water discussion goes I've got to say that I've not used tap water for drinking or cooking for many years and I feel much more clear minded for doing so. I've several times posted the list of noxious chemicals that are added to Scottish drinking water in order that it's 'safe' to drink.. and I don't believe any of it. Most of the time I collect my untreated water from one of several natural springs locally and when in town I buy spring water at around £1 a gallon.. collecting either is a pita compared to turning on a tap but the difference is very noticeable especially when you accidentally taste tap water. In Glasgow at the moment there is a push on to Fluoridate the drinking water, something that was thrown out after a vote many years ago but I'd suspect that the dolts in power now are far more susceptible to being led by the nose and steered in any direction... no matter how stupid or corrupt. I mean it's more than 100 years since it's been known that the Halogens interfere with brain function causing a dumbing down of intellect and emotions and in general a more pliable populous yet most folk willingly accept 2 doses of Fluoride every day in their toothpaste.. as regularly and heavily advertised by GSK on tv every night. ffs

Aye, I totally agree with you, I'd really like to see people of his calibre running Scottish politics rather than the corrupt numpties that we're stuck with... but I don't ever see A dumb cluck populous voting for anyone with an intellect. Aside from that I wouldn't wish a fate like that on Neil Oliver who's commentary and common sense have been one of the things that have buoyed me up during the madness of the plandemic, cheers.

Well, chaos by design .. the system that they've long since taken for granted and are experts in the growing of food economically going back generations or in the case of the Netherlands centuries is being pulled to pieces. This info isn't hard to find when you look beyond the MSM and the countries mentioned are just two examples of the agenda that's being pushed globally and that can really only result in famine, cheers.

I totally respect your position and in no way am accusing you of any head in sand stuff, as I see it you are in the majority at the moment.. just trying to get on with your life just the same nearly everyone else after the last two and a half years of chaos. But you are right in that as I don't have many others to look out for I've plenty of time to look into things in depth. cheers.

And in my case add the Midges😁