Cae Ffynnon

A lot of people will go out to catch Elvers on the Severn, makes a bit of beer money. Season is about 10 days if I remember correctly. There is one guy who still makes a living using fixed nets to catch fish on the incoming tide on the Severn between Newnham and Westbury. Not many Bodgers or Charcoal makers or coal miners.

Politicians with honest intent. Foundry trades are next to nothing now compared with what they used to be. There used to be 25+ foundries with in a 20 radius of here, not one remains. Caernarfon.

The 1201 looks like a its a bit of a beast. Now if was CE compliant, I'd be interested.

I can understand your thinking, but the same would work with buying a 1m3 bag of cobbles and then crushing them down to sand size particles, it would now fill much less of the bag.

Just a thought. How about a piece of slate, colours range from blue to purple to green to black. Depending on which quarry from across the country it comes from. Some of it has interesting pattern with different mineral deposits. With the bonus that its heat proof.

Ehhhh! You are selling a stated volume of material. If Joe Public doesn't understand that, then how is that your fault?

A few questions, What is the SWL for the crane? Does is have stabiliser legs? Cheers, Chris

I was 9 at the time and living in Gloucester, don't recall much damage there, remember it on the news. I now live above Caernarfon on top of a mountain and have expericenced several powerful storms, Christmas 97, Christmas 2010, May 2012, Novemeber 2012, and Valentines day last year. 118mph winds worst storm I have experienced, sat with the wife and kids waithing for the roof to blow off, and last weekend. Rainfall last weekend was immense but Novemeber 2012 was something else, mountain roads like rivers, trees going over. May 2012 I was called in to work and was in the forestry above Plas Tan y Bwlch in the Vale of FFestiniog when trees just started falling down, must have been 50 in five minutes, something like a 1000 in the whole day. What sticks in my mind were people out walking dogs, who stopped let a tree come down and climbed over it and kept going, like this was normal. The weather is becoming more extreme, high winds are becoming more regular. We don't have hurricanes here, our sea tempreatures are to low, but we do have tornadoes. Infact we have gusting winds 60+mph here tonight with driving rain, and more forecast...

Weld a cover over where the good quality padlock goes, and CCTV. Big dog and a 12bore filled with rock salt.

I have "stupidly" big and thick slates on the front side of our long cottage facing the road and 24" x 12" on the back. The stupidly big ones are called randoms and are very old each layer gets smaller as you go up from the eaves to the apex. They start off at about 36" x 24". and 1" thick and reduce to about 16" x 8" at the top but still quite thick. The roofer hated them, but our cottage is listed and we had to tick boxes. None of the slates are tapered, as they are split by hand along the natural cleavage planes in the rock. As they still are as a machine can't split the slate as accurately as a human.

Check these guys out they support Lucas cranes. Penny Hydraulics Group

My wife has created her own blog Confessions from the Cottage | Living more with less It got me thinking that blogs could be a good way to engage with potential customers, tell a bit of story, generate interest in new products and services even just a stream of pictures or video. Cae Ffynnon

Most likely! The only Ginko trees I had seen until recently are the ones outside my parents house in Gloucester. Which every couple of years get a abused by the City Council. I wouldn't call it tree work, more like smash and dash. Tried to get some of the wood, to do something creative with, but they weren't interested and fed it all through the chipper. I'm going down there for the weekend but I should think all the leaves will have gone.....

A job for a turbosawmill....? Aren't they supposed to be able to mill in this sort of situation?

Steve, My copy arrived safely today. What a brilliant book. Very well put together and thought out, I shall spend this weekend reading it. Cheers, Chris

Do you have to walk on newspaper around the house....

I've done it with a railway locomotive, and a burning rag to the air intake... Mind you it did have a Gardner 6LW. and it was -10c

I liked her sentiments, but the thought the couple last wek were more realistic about off grid life in the 21st century.

For me it has to be Jaffa Cakes or my 5 year old sons homemade ginger biscuits. He makes better cakes than his Nain as well...

Wait for the domestic manager to go out and put the blade through the dishwasher...... Or soak it in a bath of Cillit Bang Power Cleaner Floor and Grease. Cillit Bang ? a powerful range of products! Brilliant stuff.

Until the end of steam on 1965-8 depending on location in the country, the lineside was well managed by the sheer expedient that steam engines started fires and burnt everything off. Other countries have the same problems, they just choose to spend their money differently. The leaf build up on the railhead problem has also become worse since trains have gone over to disc brakes from clasp brakes working against the tread of the wheel.

Let your pet Gorilla sleep in it...

Wrong end of Wales. I'm surrounded by the stuff up here in Gwynedd. Try reclamation yards, they often have what your after..

Not tonight but the wall of cloud is obscuring Caernarfon and Angelsey about 7miles and 1000' below us here.. The wind is keeping the hill fog away... Sorry the storm is.....

A probable contender for a Darwin Award! My five year old considers it to perilous.