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And tasty they are too, ate a few of them when I worked abroad in the dim and distant past.

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.

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😀

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.

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.

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.

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😀

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.

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.

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😀

I always pour whisky on my lawn as it comes up half cut.

I think they will use a Privet investigator to check it out.

Wonder if they used a fence to move the hedge on.

To add to your list: A map to get to Biffins Bridge

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 .

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.

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.

Fecking rhododendrons flowering again, I hate them.

Not a cryer, but this is bringing a tear to my eye.

Yip tis on my mind to go and introduce myself to the “people in the big house” once the Covid restrictions are slackened a little.

This big F off tree overhangs my garage and house, now I don’t mind it as I do like trees. The tree is in a very large garden that belongs to a very large house that you can’t see to the left of the picture. The house has had new owners for the last year. The previous owners used to get an Arborist to check the trees including this one every 3 or 4 years, in fact about 10 years ago they got a big overhanging Chestnut tree taken down. The flat roofed building with the yellow fold up scaffold leaning against it has branches rubbing on the top of the roof, I know legally I can remove the branches to my boundary but is the best for the tree? Is the best for the tree health to get the offending branches cut back to the trunk. I would obviously not be doing this and would go and suggest to the tree owner that this is the appropriate action if that is the case? Nobody has met the new owners yet. Just out of interest if the tree was to fall in a storm one night in the wrong direction it could take out 3 houses including mine and I may wake up dead, so just out of interest is this considered an Act of God or would it be the tree owners responsibility, not that it would matter to me cos I would be having the long sleep. This is in Scotland and I think the tree is a Maple. pics to follow.

‘Tis certainaly a lot less likely to kickback, they are a dream to use, just place the black rubber edge of the track on the line you want to cut, zip the saw along and it’s done, quick and accurate.

I know a finishing joiner who uses one, he thinks it great. I use the Makita and my mate use the Dewalt both are very good. My Makita you can only use the track in one direction, now might be talking out of my arse but something tells me that either the Mafell or Dewalt you can use the track in either direction, mmm not sure.

Yip I like chick footage as well ? what we talking about again.