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Stere

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  1. Expect it would be very good for kindling as its like balsa. Noticed tiny blocks are selling online for silly money 😄 10Pcs Basswood Whittlers Carving Blocks, Wood Carving Kit, Unfinished Wood Blocks for Wood Carving, Hobby Kit for Adults : Amazon.co.uk: Home & Kitchen WWW.AMAZON.CO.UK Free delivery and returns on eligible orders. Buy 10Pcs Basswood Whittlers Carving Blocks, Wood Carving Kit...
  2. I just use a non chainsaw spec gloves think its what most wear, kind of personal preference... Find that riggers are too clumsy fat fingers esp for chainsaw Im using mostly theese cheapo ones for chainsaw bought in bulk. Don't mind thin backs. https://www.safetygloves.co.uk/tornado-contour-avenger-light-work-gloves-con1av.html Then I have various nicer gloves I try and keep for jobs like strimming as doing to much "manual handling" (moving wet logs etc) ruins them. Then also some leather other ones just for blackthorn/ brambles...
  3. https://www.safetygloves.co.uk/waterproof-work-gloves-2201/page/2/?scroll=306 Anyone tried any of theese Ejendals ones?
  4. Know some one who had a farmer threaten to shoot her 3 chickens as they were crossing the boundary into a field from a garden. Apprently they were grazing/stealing the grass Bull in china stop 😑
  5. I think thats spot on Had a job with acess by a walk through a field with water buffalo they looked and were abit frisky really gave you the evil eye, and liked to charge up behind if you turn your back on them 😬.
  6. The Royal Dystopia of Poundbury ❧ Current Affairs WWW.CURRENTAFFAIRS.ORG <p>A town with no people is not a town, but a deathly museum.</p>
  7. Think a new well insulated house can be in any style modernist or vernacular or look like a hobbit house from LOTR That model village poundsbury prince charles built looks odd Its like the uncanny valley version of architecture? Uncanny valley - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG
  8. A clogger knife is similar but there abit pricey you could make one though:
  9. Functional stihl ones not the same material so not sure if they will be any better than oregon V bramble
  10. Got stihl dynamic BEAVER EXTREME 😏 ones and they are good v brambles DYNAMIC trousers - With Design A / Class 1 protection and improved sizing WWW.STIHL.CO.UK Work trousers with certified cut resistance to BS EN 381-5, Design A. Preformed, double reinforced knee areas. Trouser...
  11. Not true for most expensive boots nowadays. 😏 Have a pair of theese Gronell D-678 steel toe work boots that have lasted ages though:
  12. I noticed I got more juice from the press when the apples were put through an electric scratter rather than a manual one as it seemed to pulp them finer.
  13. My personal opinions/local observations (non scientific): Ivy has increased abit overall. I think a mild winters have favoured ivy and also proabaly are less people removing it from trees. Also think some host ivy colonized trees might be weakened due to combination erratic climate, summer droughts etc and new tree diseases. You see ivy higher up on crown/trunk unions on, healthy ash, larch birch, any tree sp the cast less dense shade than say others like sycamore beech etc, theese don't favour ivy as much. Taken to the extreme, rarely seen it flowering in a holly or yew crown. Also more ivy on on single isolated trees, or trees with narrower crowns that cover less area. So its all due to light lvls... Ivy can cover the crowns of any tree if they are in poor health/decline...(as the light lvls increase due to a thinning crown) An increase of the amount of ivy in the unmanaged hedgerow tree crowns(more light than in woodlands), esp on ash (adb) & hawthorn/blackthorn trees. . Alot of hawthorn tree crowns, do seem to get covered with ivy then the trees fall/blow over. Some trees are still alive and some are dead when they blow/fall over... Unsure if death of theese hawthorn is due to the ivy or other reasons as if trees were 100% healthy doubt would ivy manage to cover and shade out the crowns? Also has noticed an increase of ivy in flailed hedges. Flailing annually to the same "knuckle" seems to weakens the hedges vigour and thus favours ivy. Cutting on say a 3 yr cycle instead would allow the hedge to shade out the ivy more imo. Ivy doesn't as often claimed doesn't throttle/girdle a tree like honeysuckle can, or tree guards left on do, though maybe in rare circumstances this could happen? Negative impacts on the "host" tree are only due to either: Competition for light. The increased wind sail effect.
  14. Previous one was sacked by boris for supposedly not tackling racists.
  15. Tree isn't too close to the house surely 😐 Its a tiny tree and 7 metres isn't wht I'd call close.
  16. Anyone watch the Ed stafford prog 60 days witht gypsys... They all had seemed to have chippers, at each camp he visited, was one in the back ground...
  17. But christian centric.... Nice to have a day that quiet though
  18. You could just get an EA4300FRDB makita as basically a very similar spec saw? Or that new echo CS-4310SX, chain saws | ECHO | ECHO WWW.ECHOTOOLS.COM The ECHO CS-4310SX is a mid sized, professional chain saw with the best power to weight ration in its class.
  19. Stere

    Arthritis

    Remember Alice Roberts on telly is always looking at skeletons and saying can tell they did certain manual jobs from the distinctive way it f**ked up bones. 😐
  20. Stere

    Pricing

    Read through the the old threads: pricing+arbtalk+site:arbtalk.co.uk - Recherche Google WWW.GOOGLE.COM Might be useful....
  21. I tried a combi no spill spout on the green can same as the one above as an upgrade. It didn't fit has a different thread.
  22. K-Pegs - My WordPress EXQUISITESCOTLAND.COM Stainless steel clothes pegs with a lifetime guarantee Avoid the frustrations of plastic and wooden clothes pegs that... Here.
  23. Another useful thing modern houses don't have is a cool larder/pantry to keep food veg/fruit fresh longer. Know someone who build one into there house a walk in cuboard ventilated to the outside well insulated walls, & an insulated door from it to the rest of the house. Thought it was a great version of an old idea.

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