spandit
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Funnily enough the tree isn't actually leaning on the fence - it's made a dent in the trunk where it touches as the stem flexes but otherwise it's clear
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Have I? News to me...
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Despite taking a thrashing last night, tree is still standing. No wonder it's so tough to split... tough tree! Need to get a shave horse made so I can make some tool handles from it as it's quite straight 20200209_160835.mp4
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Kind offers from all but in no rush to take it down - ground is so wet that retrieving the bits would make a mess in my tractor. It's neither my tree nor my fence and with the high winds expected this weekend it might come down, although it's been leaning for a long time. It's doing no harm where it is at the moment and I'm not short of firewood for the foreseeable future!
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Yes. Think it's leaning on a post - I'll try to get some pictures soon
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Not sure if the other comments were p*sstaking or not. It's a big tree and under a lot of tension - I know what you professionals think of keen amateurs. I'll take a picture closer up to show how big it is
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Good idea. I'll hold the saw in one hand and the camera in the other ?
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He's said I can fell it. I don't think I'm suitably qualified enough to handle something like that. Lot of tension in it and even to cut a gob in it would be higher than I'd be comfortable with
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This is a eucalyptus tree that is growing in my neighbour's garden and overhanging our fence. If/when it falls, it will fall into our field and as long as the dogs/tractor aren't underneath it at the time, it won't cause much damage so not too bothered. This is supposed to be an animated GIF - not sure if it works. If not, the lower stem was about the same angle as the higher stem when we moved in 6 years ago. Amazed it is still standing at that angle. Going to be some nice firewood when it eventually goes (neighbour has said I can have it)
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Got that too... doesn't blow them up like a CF though
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.308 a bit expensive to feed...
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Next question... 22LR (quiet, leaves body intact to eat), or .223 (effective, albeit in a slightly more gruesome way)?
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What do you use to store logs by the fire?
spandit replied to Rob_the_Sparky's topic in Firewood forum
Wicker cradle type thing - I've threaded a steel cable through the handle and around the bottom as it wasn't really strong enough to carry a full load. Kindling etc. is in a wicker picnic basket -
I have some 1/2" sockets with a reverse thread designed for taking nuts and studs out. I imagine with a decent cordless impact gun you could grip the nuts although I seem to recall the bolts will just turn if you try Irwin Bolt Grip Nut Remover Set Expansion Set WWW.TOOLSTATION.COM Unique design that securely grips and removes stubborn nuts and bolts. Reverse spiral flutes bite down for maximum...
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Went to see if any of my newly planted almond trees had started budding (as the established one is getting there and it always blossoms early). Found this: Hoping it's not bad enough to kill the tree (rabbit spiral now added - it was unprotected before) but with my luck it'll be yet another fatality. Already lost several hundred pounds of trees in that patch alone (due to weather, mainly)
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First looks more like cedar to me. Not sure of second - could be cherry. Third/fourth might be laurel
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Splitting it now means you can stack it and leave it to dry rather than having to worry about it later on.
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Morso stoves - hit or a miss?
spandit replied to BowlandStoves's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
My Ø2 baffle plate melted (at least, it had a bulge in it the size of a tennis ball) and a new one was a lot of money so I just cut out some sheet steel boiler plate that was lying around (it's rusty as anything but doesn't matter). Otherwise quite happy with it. Seal recently came off when we burned a load of toffee that was past its best - it ran down and stuck the door closed! -
I'd bet polystyrene cups are easier to recycle and use less energy to manufacture in the first place.
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Good idea
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More than happy to be corrected if you have a link
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Can buy bog standard hazel for that but cobnut seems to be more expensive
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I have a very productive Kentish cobnut tree (that was "power coppiced" a few years ago but which has recovered). Being greedy, I'd like more trees but I'm a tight git so thought propagation would be the way forward. I've pegged 3 stems down onto pots of soil - haven't split them or used any rooting compound (as per this link: Laying Hazel to grow new hazel coppice stools – Woodlands.co.uk WWW.WOODLANDS.CO.UK Woodland for sale throughout the UK, including woods for sale in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. ... ) - what do you reckon my chances are of having 3 new trees in the spring? I've fenced it off to stop the dogs wrecking the pots (which were quite expensive)
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I save all my cherry for cooking on. Don't have any beech but I get by with a mixture of other stuff. Have a lot of ash and oak to supplement the almost unlimited leylandii I have. At the moment, anything that isn't wet from the rain will do!
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Mine filled up in a few months but then went right down again (and it's about 15 foot deep!), being almost completely dry the following Summer. I predicted that with all the fissures that had opened in the clay, there would be a massive amount of sediment washed in once the rains started again. It was full to overflowing by last December and despite dropping by a maximum of 6 inches this Summer, it's remained full so has obviously self sealed. May take a few years but it there's clay in the soil, I reckon it will stay full
