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What about ****************ushima, pouring 100 tons of plutonium contaminated cooling water into the Pacific every day for the last 12 years.. the half life of which is 24.1 thousand years. And it seems now they are just going to dump millions of tons of similar debris into the Pacific .. do we have a feckin say ?? The dots said ****************ushima before it was censored It's a fecking joke when you can't say the truth..

Well you've hit the nail right on the head.. Answer... thick as f%ck tw$ts running everything for decades👎

Aye, I totally agree with you on that.. it's just that I realised that I hadn't answered your question..

I wouldn't be surprised if these piles were put in by the afore mentioned Glasgow company' Murray's ' in the 70's or 80's. I'll also be interested to hear how @nooie gets on milling this stuff.. I'm very jealous😁

Just out of curiosity.. what are you replacing them with, new greenheart piles?

Aye, apologies for not addressing the question. It would seem from a quick search that most of the shingles available are a bi-product of the Canadian BC lumber industry, although I did find this company advertising 'home grown' in the UK shingles. Home-Grown Cedar Shingles Roofing WWW.RUBY-GROUP.CO.UK Length 300mm Width 175mm Thickness 12mm Coverage 1.2sqm (per pack of 50) Installation & Calculator Guide Click here Timber Home-grown cedar Delivery 3-5 Working...

Hi, my village on the West coast of the Highlands was originally a forestry village with typical forestry type houses which are / were roofed with Cedar shingles. As a friend and neighbour of mine has such a roof { maybe 60 ish years old } I can say that the shingles available today and back then are sawn as opposed to traditionally cleft.. the basic forestry house back in the day was , believe it or not, a 2x2" kit clad with Larch so I'd expect that the very light roof would have been a necessity of this skimpy design. With a quick search you'll find that shingles are readily available.. but regardless of that perhaps you might enjoy watching this video of the traditional craft, cheers.

Aye, it's a very interesting alternative to alloy welding, but just bear in mind that it's essentially a type of high melting point solder, and although it creates a very strong repair it will just run away in a flash if overheated. Imo the best way to repair any bust Alloy is a TIG weld with the correct rod, and on very small items this is a [ very worthwhile ] skill that's only learned through much practice. What HTS 2000 is to me, is a practical method of repairing things that I would previously considered to be scrap... for instance small broken off lugs on carbs that can be recast in situe and seamlessly repaired, or just the ability to ' solder ' pot metal things that really can't be welded... It's Achilles heal is the simple fact that if the repair ever gets heated up beyond a certain temp.. it will just melt away. Loads of vids on YouTube showing off the impressive possible uses of this now ' not so new ' techniche for repairing / joining non ferrous things. cheers.

Aye, me too.. I've just got this vision of some guy up a tree with a near bare arse, the crotch of his type c's at his knees [ to be fashionable] 'jail style' and only his cock holding up his pants🤣

Plus 1 for braces, they're heavier than normal trousers and tend to pull themselves down if only held up by a belt [ particularly if you have a fat gut ] or tools hanging on a belt, at which point when you spread your legs the crotch is put under a stress it's not designed for, simples😄

Aye, from my useage of the stuff the most important thing to take onboard while getting it to bond is just how quickly many alloys form an oxidised surface layer and the utmost importance of using a stainless wire brush to avoid ferrous particles depositing in the repair and cleaning the area of all oils including finger prints.. Isopropyl alc or Acetone do that. And if you get a bit 'tacked' and go to set about the next bit... just give it another brush to keep the surface exposed and fresh while remembering all the time that all you've already done will run away like watery solder if you over heat it. You'll be surprised just how hard any excess material that you have to dress afterwards is compared to an Alloy casting and I'm also sure that if you manage to get the hang of it you'll find many instances in life where this is the best repair option... Cheers. BTW. you will likely use more rods than you would think to do a small repair but any spillage can be saved for the next time and reused.

Imo, you are absolutely correct, and as I see it.. every single piece of shite that's been happening over recent times is deliberate and is designed to be the massive distraction that's needed for evil people to encourage division in every little place that they can in order to pull the wool over folk's eyes while they unpick every part of civilised, decent society for their own filthy ambitions. Anyway, ordinary hard working people are being backed into a corner, and eventually something in society will give way and the sooner folk realise that they're being played for fools ..the better. cheers.

How fat? and where's the whistle? 😁

Yep, I watched a documentary on this area of tectonic activity some years ago where much like the Hawaiian islands are being produced by the mantle slowly moving over a weak spot in the crust, or something like that?... this area is similar in that there has been a series of well documented seismic events heading along a major fault East to West and the next big one [ which this probably isn't ] is predicted to devastate Istanbul... we really have evolved on and do live on the skin of the rice pudding.. ... back to jokes, pls.

You can effect a proper repair with it at a low temp Alloy or Mag.. in fact any metal as long as it's non ferrous, if going to attempt this it's worth having a look at various YouTube vids first, cheers.

Aye, intricate / tricky for sure but not impossible, a dremel would probably be needed to prepare the mount before and dress the weld after, anyway could have 3 goes at it. Would need a pic to judge properly whether I thought it repairable or which 1 of the 3 would be easiest.. if an Alloy weld I'd probably do it with the steel tube inserted in the casing to prevent it blowing through. It might be a good candidate for trying this HTS 2000 which I've successfully used in many delicate repairs.. just a blowtorch needed so little risk of damaging the casting so you can have as many goes as it takes till you get it to your satisfaction. ALUMINIUM REPAIR (low temp, NO FLUX) HTS-2000 braze,welding,solder FULL 18" rods WWW.EBAY.CO.UK HTS 2000 will successfully join all aluminium alloys, it is the easiest, fastest and strongest brazing rod ever developed! Requires No Flux. Low Temperature. Between 380°C - 408°C...

Could it not be welded... and strengthened at the same time ?

Well you mentioned scrambling....👍 How the worlds changed.. motorcycle+scrambling+legends+of+the+60's+/+70's+uk - Recherche Google WWW.GOOGLE.COM

Feck me, it was only gettin started... I'll need to find the rest of it 😊👍

Don't really have rats, except for 1 particular neighbour [ cokehead ]😁... But the whole of natures little companions seem to be vanishing at an exponential rate, birds at the table, small and larger mammals { numbers and species ] not to mention next to no fish in the loch, that have been declining fast for a number of years... What's going on ?.. it doesn't bode well for the coming generations who are likely to have not a single clue as to how nature operates or what used to be normal, cheers.

All I can say on the subject is that up here in the North West I've been noticing a vast reduction in insect / moth populations over the last decade or so kind of culminating last summer with next to no midges.. while most will delight in this it is still potentially very ominous for most other species and indicative of a massive change in what used to be normal. Not that long ago when I was young it was impossible to drive / ride anywhere fast without accumulating thousands of insects on your windscreen / visor... but not anymore, still almost no one notices... ..How much longer can natural life on the planet continue whilst we as a species ignore the poisoners ? Not to mention many different species of trees looking very poorly if not dying ? .. other than of course Ash, which may be soon a thing of the past👎

Aye, I find just about 1kg into 5 gallons hot makes a saturated solution that prevents just about all fungal staining [particularly blue staining ] and insect attacks in milled lumber while it's stacked outside seasoning with only a top cover.. I've stuck with this formula since I first became aware that it was the solution [ pun intended ] to the problem and I've never noticed any crystals growing on anything.. but I'll be looking more closely now, I'm not milling commercially but I'm always keen to learn from others as the more info you glean.. the less the frustration with nature, cheers.

I wasn't being critical in any way and the colours are great.. but as you no doubt know there is a very fine line between usable and completely gone with Birch, and I kinda forgot that you're milling for a client, Cheers.

I milled some reasonably big Birch recently with the Alaskan, but not quite wide as big as your log... It was the but of a multi stemmed tree, about 2 feet wide in total and it had been left standing for only around 6 months in the summer [ wet west coast ] since I took the rest for firewood, it was nicely coloured and very woolly to cut and tended to clog in the kerf due to the fast rate of rot in Birch. Most of my firewood is birch and I've long since learnt the hard way just how quickly it rots.. but just how nice it is if cut and stacked really fresh and is one of the woods that benefits most by being painted with a Borax solution in order to prevent fungal degradation while seasoning.. I can see from your pics that the colours in your milled birch indicate you just saved it from mush 👍👍 My next one is about the size of yours, and I'll mill it before I chog up the rest for firewood and it should be creamy white, Cheers.

Aye, I was kinda wondering what vehicle it was... all it's electrics must have been underwater and it wasn't just a quick dip.