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Yip like that
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Oops, missed the bit that he didn’t mention permission, good spot @rapalaman -
Trunk certainly looks like goat willow to me, I burn loads of the stuff, if the price is right (free) then it is great fire wood. i like to mix my firewood in totes so I try to have some rhoddy, willow and typically sycamore in the same batch.
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Serious question Paul, have you tried eating the squirrels?
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Or you could cut the sycamore down and replace it with a nice apple or cherry tree, just a thought 😀
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Yip had mine on for 2 or three hours every evening for the last week just to take take the slight chill and dampness out of the house.
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I once bought a new Chinese log splitter from eBay, I did you use it with a big boy extension(2.5mm) but I noticed it would pop the fuse only on the extension. I opened up the plug that was supplied with splitter and the Chinese had solved the problem of pesky 13A fuses blowing by wrapping a bit of wire round the fuse several times. i ended up putting a 16A plug on it and running it from its own circuit.
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Another vote for whippets for your situation, great wee dogs, love a bit of exercise and they also love chilling in the house, my brickie mate has two of them and I am impressed. i have a Vizsa, that’s not the dog for you, absolutely mental until the age of two then they become a lot more laid back as long as they get their daily walk and run about, mine gets at least a couple of hours every day and she is 15 now. Good luck in getting your new mans best friend.
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You have been a busy boy, I have found that if birch gets wet at all it degrades fairly quickly, not noticed it as much with the other firewood I have, which is mainly sycamore, beech, willow and rhododendrons.
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I know my dad got his from the Gurkha’s has he was part of a hand over group that were handing over their duties to the Gurkas.
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Beer bottle opening is certainly a good use of the notch, believe it had several uses including what you mentioned plus a drip point and a marker for the end point of the sharpening edge. i also inherited my dads kukri from his military days in the 60’s it is still in very good condition even with my brother and I playing with it during the 70’s, it was the 70’s after all😀
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Think that was a bit of an urban myth 😀
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Usually the two smaller knifes served different functions, one was blunt (chakmak) and used for removing burrs from the main blade and the other was a small utility knife (Karda).
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My kukri which has spent a few shifts in the woods.
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Found the bill hook in a field by a stone dyke wall, well rusted and no sign or remnants of any handle, the tang is 6” long with no signs of it being peened over in its past life, although I do see the logic in that and I do have two kukri’s with the tang peened over.
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Good info and picture, what do you mean by “caulked handle” I am guessing it is the flatter profile rather than round but as I say only a guess?
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Cheers, but I’m not sure what you mean, it is a 6” tang and other than friction from hammering the handle onto the tang nowt to stop it coming off, but how else would / could you do to it to make it more secure? I know with kukri’s they allow the end of the tang to poke out the end of the handle where it is then (peaned) mushroomed over but I haven’t seen that done on a billhook, of course willing to be corrected on that.
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Thank you, just noticed a marking above the “Made in England” mark, I think it says “Brades”
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As an update, my mate has turned a bit of hickory to make a new handle.
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Wasp as in a helicopter?
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We had to get our jet turbine generators (Rolls Royce RB211) water washed after so many hours of use, however if this was required when ambient was below 5 deg C they would wash it using walnut shells to mitigate against the damage caused by freezing.
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I’m impressed Mike
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You also do a mighty fine job of pulling out rhododendron😀
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I am not an arborist but outside and working and playing in the woods a lot, the knots I use the most are: Munter hitch Clove hitch, Siberian hitch, Fig 8, bowline, ( one handed and the 2nd knot I learned) reef knot ( the first knot I ever learned) I do like knots.
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Ahhh the old chuck key in the chuck trick😀
