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I grew Queens last year and they're back in this year , very nice tatties but I do most of mine in black bags as it's so much faster up here👍

To be honest I just enjoy learning how a successful process that goes back through the ages was exactly achieved, makes me want to buy an original blacksmithed froe and give it a go.. I've got access to plenty Cedar... ..But as someone once said, 'Time leaves on fruit on the tree' ,cheers.

Just a thought, but if you were to cut shingles that way on a bandsaw could you not simply raise the log for the tapered cut with a simple shim under the thing of of say a 1/4" slip the length of your log taken from your table saw or just a couple of wedges. That said, I'm sure you may enjoy this video, and what they strive to achieve using the correct method all 1/4 split.... which sure needs to be practiced and remembered 👍 njoy this if you've not watched it before

After cutting it all day I'd say Alder as well👍

I don't do as much milling as many on here but as you mentioned your chain I thought I'd say that I mostly use Carlton Granberg which is ground in a different way altogether and I don't remember anyone ever commenting on any kind of comparison to conventionally ground chain.. I'm certainly happy with it but it doesn't seem to get a mention, my new 42" Oregon bar came with a 3/8 FC chain so I guess be doing my own comparison soon, cheers.

To the OP, ideally if using an old tyre on your block get as wide a car tyre as you can and use it to mark and trim a shoulder onto the top of your block with your saw at near to the size of the bead on the car wheel it will mount on like on a wheel and won't want to come off... also drill some decent sized holes in the bottom sidewall with a hole saw to let the water out or your block will rot quicker.. bike tyre will be no use unless it's off a top fuel dragster, cheers.

How disappointing for you😄 One of my aging very straight neighbours has similar growing from her birdseed, she feels like a rebel and refuses to get rid of it even although her friends have told her she's risking arrest👍

Great story, and ok I take back my comment ' that how could it sound right with the strings on upside down ' ... I've obviously heard Gregg Wright many times but never heard his name before. I guess you can learn any way you want if you start at aged 4, and he's got it nailed.👍 I'm glad you like Randy Hansen, welcome to a new rabbit hole...and no, it can't be reincarnation as they were both alive at the same time. but I wouldn't rule out possession, cheers.

Aye, it would never sound right [ correct 🙄 ] if it wasn't, he seems a really straight up guy also from Seattle and he's been playing Hendrix stuff since the man was alive. He has an American band and a German band.. both good but the latter being imo the closest with Ufowalter on bass and Manni Von Bohr on drums, both excellent in their own right and they've been together for years and are probably tighter and definitely more practiced than Jimi's set ups. There's also good poor footage of Randy and Ufo with Buddy Miles drumming. I remember getting off the school bus and hearing of Jimi's death, so I've a lifelong connection to his music... but you can go and see Randy and not for silly money either, he was recently touring parts of the EU and the ticket price was a mere £25 and in small intimate venues with probably only a few hundred folk attending. Ufo on bass is amazing himself, apparently when they first met he had a band where he performed Jimi's songs on bass with no guitar present, very interesting to watch. And I'll put this up as well as an intro to Ufo who seems post all their stuff and anytime I've left a comment he replies quickly and a short conversation can be had. I find it very hard not to watch them and just tonight looking for these links I've watched a full gig and a lot of other stuff👍hope you enjoy.

No I think it's 8 since I've been on here..

Also, and still confused about what a ' one year badge ' is.. or any badges for that matter ?

So do I.. strangely enough, anytime I had to bumpstart a bike, which was many, I always did it from the right side whereas I did notice that most folk were the opposite👍

I also find the which handed argument intriguing as essentially when you start you can't use either hand... so as a righty I've spent 52 years trying to get my left hand into line while my dominant right was lazily very much taken for granted, and totally wrongly as I've recently found. In reflection if I was to start again knowing what I know now... would I choose to use my dominant hand for picking or working the neck.. I'm actually not sure, and although all this time that has passed in which as a practical engineering repair guy and would be musician I find myself increasingly more and more ambidextrous, which may be a more balanced natural state if we weren't pigeon holed L or H at an early age. To test this I'm fairly interested in getting hold of a decent LH acoustic of the same ilk of my RH usual's just to see if learning to play the other way is in any way terribly hard.. bearing in mind that now I know what I want the fingers to do To me, regardless of what your led to believe at the early learning stage in life it can all be corrected with intelligent practice of anything. Seems we are similar opposites in that I have a full size Korg electric piano which I would love a solid left hand for but I feel liked a complete novice with... although my right is boogie central with no probs, but I suppose that that's one of the challenges of everyday life when trying to get a grip with music, cheers.

Pretty good, didn't read vid title and was momentarily unaware that this was a cover... but I still think that Randy Hansen is the worlds closest to Jimi. It's interesting that apparently JH was a righty who played left and Randy is a lefty who plays right.. so both used there dominant hand on the neck where the norm would usually be the opposite .. including me. As a righty, trying to play the music of J, Mayer has taught me the importance of the picking hand and I'm very grateful. Sorry to be long winded but if you liked Jimi you really will probably enjoy Randy's take on the songs of the long gone brilliant composer and they're playing now to go to a gig is only around $25

Feckin brilliant, I don't know where you get them all from but most of what you post is 5star👍

Used to be when you bought a motorcycle chain you got a removable spring link and a riveted permanent link the latter being the stronger and more reliable, although it was also known as a soft link in order that it could be home rivetted without special tools which to me made it super prone to be wrongly fitted very often causing this link to be tight and fail prematurely. So from an accuracy of assembly point of view spinning the rivet on a saw chain would seem a much better way of doing it... but as I said before I wonder if the joining link for saw chain could be either after market and a weak point or just assembled by someone who was heavy handed.... or maybe both. I'd imagine that if you take care with your new joining link [ as I'm sure you will ] all will be fine, cheers.

All I can say is that as the joining link was [ and usually always is ] the weakest link in any chain, that would fit exactly with motorcycle chains where this has long since been the story, so if that is all that's happened just re-join the chain with a new link and use it for the rest of it's life, I'd bet the joining link was aftermarket or badly fitted👍

Yeah, watched a bit of it and switched it off.. never rated him anyway but I can't deny the impact the Beatles had at the time but dated now.... controversial I know, but although they as a band had some great songs most of it was middle of the road to me, the guys on stage with him tonight are no doubt world class but just there to play lame music, never the less PM deserves some dues to be still doing it at 80.. which he doesn't look, cheers.

I hope you know that you're probably pronouncing that wrongly, the ' k ' is silent👍

Looks mega. I spent my earlier life rebuilding the originals and I gotta say I think they have done a very good job of continuing the brand into the 21st century .... although I've never ridden one👍

There is a company, Klinger that make all types gasket material that could probably supply something thick enough to suit your requirements.

Hi, I think the previous posts regarding grading of softwood timber are correct for structural construction although I seem to remember that with the likes of Oak framing for instance tradesman is allowed to self assess each piece for defects prior to assembly. If you have your own wood it would probably be worth having a conversation with building control to find exactly what they would accept, in the past I discovered that the phase ' Deemed to satisfy ' is also an accepted method of visual grading when a piece of construction is substantially over size and obviously to the eye more than strong enough... ' Clyde built ' as they say rather than the modern method of getting away with the smallest possible timbers. I suppose the middle ground would be to buy graded timber for the structural stuff and build your own kit and perhaps mill your own cladding which Larch or Douglas would be fine for. For any wood that you want to protect from blue stain or insects whether bought or fresh milled you might like to consider treating it with Borax which is cheap and effective, anything I mill gets this treatment, good luck with your project👍 https://www.hunker.com/13425952/how-to-treat-wood-with-borax

My 1 apple is Discovery.. it's about the size of a grape, so exceptionally small so far😅

I'm with you there, it throws me out of kilter for weeks if not longer.

Well you'll not starve then.. luckily the Bullfinches missed 1 bud on my apple trees but it'll need to grow a feckin big apple if I'm going get a pie😁