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Saw my first red squirrel in 56 years in Central Scotland just before Christmas, had to rub my eyes couldn’t believe it. We have a nice wee group of reds at our feeder in Stranraer, but my neighbour told me last week that they saw a grey so today I was zeroing in my air rifle for it in preparation.
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Buying a house with a large tree in front
roys replied to Olpod's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Why do you want to jet wash the tree? 😀😀 -
Just a thought, spud can say if I’m talking nonsense, could the HT lead be breaking down onto the case and to earth via you. Is it worth changing the HT lead?
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Bench top planner thicknesser or surface planner
roys replied to gobbypunk's topic in Woodcraft Forum
I like tools and tend to keep a wee eye on what is for sale and prices. In general prices are high as demand is high just now across the whole range of tools. Guess there is a lot of people with time on their hands doing a lot of web searching and spending what would be unspent holiday money. -
I store and season in pallet forms as well, one on the floor then 3 sides and a wee bracer across the front. Use about 6 cubes a year and leave them to season for about a year. So got 6 of these forms on the go.
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And tasty they are too, ate a few of them when I worked abroad in the dim and distant past.
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Sorry just catching up on the thread from last weekend end, looks like ideas are coming on a treat. On the subject of doors, I had to put some very simple slatted partial height doors on the opening of my wood store as the neighbours goats and sometimes their sheep would escape from their field and shelter in the wood store when it was raining, of course not being house trained the place would be a mess. Pesky goats make me smile but they all go on Escape and evasion courses when they are born.
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You know normally I would be down all the way from sunny Scotland in a shot but alas due to travel restrictions I’m not allowed to, sorry😀
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I think my black slate hearth sits below room temperature as it draws the cold air across it and into the fire. In my non professional opinion you would have to go some to get your hearth up to 100 deg C plus it would also need a guard round it to stop it being accidentally touched, mmmm unlikely.
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I got a Wadkin planer thicknesser a couple of years ago, I had problems with my in feed as well, stripped it down which wasn’t too technical and found that the fingers that stop the wood getting pulled backwards were gummed up and seized solid. I gave them a good soak and wash in a diesel petrol mix and it appeared to work a treat. Heavy lumps of kit, sure we reckoned it was about 400kg, I put mine on a dolly so I could move it about.
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I have posted this picture of mine on this forum before. It is made out of an old sleeper and some old fence posts. It doesn’t look this good now as it now carries a few battle scars, but still works well.
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I can supply you a few acres of rhododendrons, free of charge, mature, just come and pick your own and bring a couple of artics, evergreen, great firewood, come on you know you want to, I will even through in lunch for you😀
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When you say only 2 phases are reaching your site, is this a remote site with a transformer on a pole. If so it is probably an 11kV 2 phase to 240V transformer, so at your service head ( the bit where the cable terminates in your property there will be just one service fuse and one meter, giving you only one usable phase. Of course having not seen your place you maybe do have two phases and two meters.
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We found a dead fox lying on our grass through the week, frozen solid, on closer examination it had a broken back leg, probably hit by a car, looked in good condition apart from that.
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Fantastic, I hate hearing about poorly dogs, they are so much part of the family yet even more worrying because they can’t tell you what is wrong. Just so pleased to hear yours is on the mend. Over the past week I have started limping due to an old knee injury, my dog has also started limping, don’t know if she is just taking the piss or what😀
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I always pour whisky on my lawn as it comes up half cut.
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I think they will use a Privet investigator to check it out.
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Wonder if they used a fence to move the hedge on.
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To add to your list: A map to get to Biffins Bridge
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Multi-Fuel burner recommendation
roys replied to DerekSharpting1's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
I run two multifuel stoves but 99% of the time they burn wood because I get it and process it myself so it is free. The main one is a Charwood 16kW, fantastic stove, good quality, good design been running it for about 15years now, very pleased with it. The other one is a Flavel Rochester 7kW, it’s only ok there is a couple of very daft design flaws in it, for example where the glass sits there is a stupid ledge and the ash piles up on it so as soon as you open the door you get a fair amount of ash and embers landing on the hearth. The other thing about it is the grate stays open if it is on coal or wood, there is no way to close it, I was always thought wood on a closed grate so that it burnt on a bed of ash and coal on an open grate. Both the supplier and Flavel were not remotely interested when I complained about the ledge. In summary Charnwood fab but expensive, Flavel flawed. -
Not posted a pic of the ginger one for a while now. She is almost 12 now but still in fine fettle. This pic is from this morning's walk, a fine crisp morning, she flushed a woodcock out on the way to the loch 5 mins previously .
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We had a cherry picker at a big industrial site, if we were on a job and needed the cherry picker we would send the apprentice for it, but he was told you had to pay Harry 50p (it was the 80’s) every time he borrowed it, as he was in charge of it and that is what he charged if you wanted it. For 3 or 4 years the lad paid Harry for a loan of cherry picker usually once or twice a week. At the end of his time when we all went to the club to celebrate he was given a big pot of money that he had “donated” to Harry.
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Big cable ties are quick to use and cheaper to use, would probably cost the same as your SS screws and just as quick, in fact quicker on the day but overall after the ply prep probably the same. The more friendly way is the ratchet straps as they are reusable but if this is a one off event then cable ties. If it is a one off event then they have already spent a few quid on the speakers mmmm.
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Fecking rhododendrons flowering again, I hate them.
