The avantgardener
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Did you notice a milky sap like PVA?
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I think I would be kipping in the lock up tonight.
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There is a guy in Hasting who has a monster Mulberry in his garden. Several limbs have collapsed under their own weight and suckered new stems. Really, really heavy on the fruit. This one has special lineage as it is a cutting from William Shakespeare’s Mulberry in Warwickshire.
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Some of the guides on the chart correspond Husqvarna's new generation of chains, made by themselves, Oregon used to make all their chains up to this point, your still using Oregon so the first two in the chart are the older ones that fit your chains.
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If the OP is confused about which guide to use for his chain, freehand is not going to end well.
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The chains you are using require the first two roller guides supplied in the list by ADW. The guide must match the gauge of the bar to sit correctly and the file size will need to match the cutter, so with your chains, 4.8mm and 5.5mm. The Top plate filing angle is not set by any of these guides but by the user. So if you have a chisel or semi chisel, you are using the same guide, you adjust the angle to suit the cutter profile, get one of those magnetic file guides that sit in the bar to get the angles spot on, they are about £5.
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It depends on the finish you want. I prefer a simple, rather than crazy/busy look to a floor. Monkey puzzle would fit into the latter but could look ace, or make you dizzy with a hangover. Carpet slippers at the door as high heels will ruin it. The best floor that I laid was in a two up two down terraced house in Manchester, knocked through downstairs into open plan, still not a huge area, so we used the timber that we had reclaimed from a cycling velodrome. They usually used Maple or Beeech but this one was Ash, 1.5” boards, pure white and straight grained. We managed to get enough lengths to lay it with no joints, screwed down through the tongues, seemless end to end, finished with beeswax.
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I don’t rate anything that Draper make. Ace do a decent winch for the money, you can usually get a second hand Tirfor on eBay for the same money as either though.
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I had to retrieve and replace Peregrine Falcon eggs from a nest on a outbuilding at Ratcliffe Power Station whilst they blew up the Cooling Towers. Both my grandads worked down the pit so didn't fight in WW2. One sneaked off to fight Franco as part of the International Brigade. He shot himself in the foot whilst being trained by the Spanish partisans, there he met my grandmother who was a nurse with the Red Cross. Back home and married within a month, I attended their Diamond Wedding Anniversary.
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I get your situation and I am glad your wife is on the mend. I am pretty sure this brother in question had no intention of harming his immediate family either, the Police response to the virus in the U.K has ranged from county to county, it has been barely involved to heavy handed bordering on the fanatic.
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But your previous posts about French builders blocking your drive and generally shrugging the social distancing situation off makes me think that France hasn’t got things locked down or are in any more control than here? My friend in Nontron had a visit last night from the Gendarmes for having a fire in his garden after the end of March, so the French must still be upholding the law despite this?
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I walked down the Beachfront this morning to collect a loaf from the Bakers, I bumped into a mate doing his 1 hour exercise, we kept our distance, chatted and moved on, no danger. The brother in question here might have been self isolating and live round the corner, kept himself distanced, again no problem then. There was a report in the press here about a family in Yorkshire being told by the Police that they couldn’t sit together in their front garden! But what do I know, I know your in France and I am here volunteering here for Hastings Heart/NHS.
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But surely the neighbours call to the cops came in as ”The neighbours have the brother round and that’s not allowed under government advice ” not “Isis have just rolled up in a Hilux with some RPG’s” Sounds like a lot of cops for a small domestic situation, maybe they had time on their hands?
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I recently did my Defender with waxoyle. The next day I meet a HGV fitter who tells me about a spray on polymer that they use instead, wipes the arse off waxoyle and doesn’t need replenishing. I can’t remember the product name, google it, worth a punt.
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Shop bought Yorkies!!!!!!
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I have never been able to find a UK supplier for these wedges. I’ve also been looking for one of those fancy black adjustable bench vices that they have in Sweden, never seen one for sale here either.
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Someone should bid £100,000 for it and see how the scammer replies. ?
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It’s a strange Oak really. It grows fantastically well in the U.K. climate, becoming monstrous in size. It has a large sapwood to heartwood ratio that makes it a poor choice as firewood compared with other Oaks, doesn’t resist rot outside like other Oaks. It is however a very pretty Oak when slabbed or quarter sawn, it quite often has great figure and makes good table tops, unfortunately it splits and warps like hell whilst drying. Definitely worth milling and drying some if you get access to some straight/clean stems, even if you only salvage some of it for further use.
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And for those who like spice from a different continent, the ‘Holy Grail’ of Mexican.
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It’s all in the ‘Holy Grail’ of India Cookbook.
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I have used most wedges available over the years. Only use steel ones for cleaving now, far too heavy to be lugging about. I have settled on a combination of K&H triple taper to start it moving, then finish it off over the pivot point with the hi lifts, I have these Bolle ones, they are the Rolls Royce and worth every penny.
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Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version
The avantgardener replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Picture Forum
Great Oak tree but 40m+??? Think you need to check your measuring stick, that’s more than 10ft of growth per year. -
Yew.
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I moved around a lot and was in and out of the country from the mid nineties through to mid two thousand. The only thing I needed to do when I set up on my own was pay my NIC’s to make up the shortfall in my pension. No questions asked whatsoever. You could tell them you have been living on the streets begging, or you are a travelling bloody minstrel playing for your supper, how and who is going to prove otherwise?
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The Husqvarna SP33G is the narrow kerf equivalent to the Oregon one that fits your machine, I rate the Husqvarna chain better anyway.
