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My drive is rubbish and it annoys my wife when it rains and puddles form which do disappear but it takes best part of a day to soak through the broken concrete. The drive is about 15m x 3m and as I just mentioned the concrete slab is all cracked and uneven. i was thinking about the plastic grids and filling with a gravel from the local quarry or road scalping and wack it down, I don’t know. What do you think?
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Was it used for boat launching? used to be the thing that annoyed when I ran Old Ford’s in the 80s I could keep up with the mechanical repair side of them but the rotting body work always beat me. well done on repairing it looks like you have your work cut out.
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What is the surface of that yard @peds, it looks smart.
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Hope things pick up for you gobby, couldn’t imagine having to give up my tooling.
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That looks a top quality refurb.
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Control of rhododendron in woodland
roys replied to peds's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I got @AHPP on here with his machine to pull out the rhododendron by the roots, he achieved more in a couple of days than I can do n a couple of years. I must get him back for round two now that my ground has finally started to dry out. My usual method is to chain saw the main stems and hand pull the smaller stuff out. Stack in massive piles for 6 months or so and then burn them, They burn great, I was always dubious about chipping it in case it encouraged regrowth. i would drill 10mm ish holes in the main stumps and pour GP into the holes from a fairy liquid bottle, that was the best way I could think of to be super accurate with it. i did a thread on here called Rhody bash and burn detailing it all. -
Yip like that
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Oops, missed the bit that he didn’t mention permission, good spot @rapalaman
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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.
