Silverhooker
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Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
Silverhooker replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
Found these near some new planted birch and rowan. -
£13 and a guarantee, what is not to love !!
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Not sure about the first2 but the last 2 look like Alfred's cakes
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Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
Silverhooker replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
Thanks I had a short internet look and came up with the same. Thats a great link too. -
Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
Silverhooker replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
Took this the other day leaning over a wall no idea what they are but there’s loads of them . -
Yesterday 4 degrees @ 7.30 today 14 degrees !
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Bright and sunny today but the place is soaking, and its only 4 degrees.
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Heavy squally showers all day and it’s freezing, summer has turned very abruptly in to winter with no obvious autumn.
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Hammered down last night here too, dry this morning but everywhere is soaking. Puddles in the fields.
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Customers ringing at ridiculous times - RANT.
Silverhooker replied to jfc's topic in Business Management
Was once, back in the day, paged at 4am by someone on night shift how was showing a student how the pager system worked ! Managed to keep my temper ! -
I'd be scared to use them as they are art. You're a very skilled craftsman sir !
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Lovely looking set of tools you've got there .
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Mega wet last 2 days but today lovely sunshine and blue sky. Forecast for weekend in Cumbria is grim tho.
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Still not burning very little and it’s the end of September, long may it last. Been a bit lazy this year but have enough to do the winter, unless we get a spring like this year.
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Best of luck with things in the future, I always rate your help and advice highly. John
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Squre filing is tricky as you can easily beak the cutters which isn't good, this system looks like it generates a constant cutter angle, with no need for operator skill. I also like the little marks on the rakers so that once you have reduced them you can reshape them correctly too. The more you make stuff idiot proof the better in my opinion. The files will have to be an exeact size to get the right shape, I guess Sthil will just make them in a wierd non-standard size to get the consumer stuck with buying them. Then give it a wee bit and they will get copied in China and cheapo ones will be available, low quality made of Chinesium !
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Looks like a system to produce square ground with pre-set files. Good idea if it works, will give it a try, I recently learnt to square file and it makes soft wood cutting a joy but isn't easy and you can ruin a chain if you get it wrong. So good to see a manufacturer coming up with a user friendly option.
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another vote for the 550, brilliant saw.
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I started using Aldi rape seed oil in my little 120 battery saw, which Rough Hewn recommended and he was spot on its a great little "garden" saw, the rape seed oil works just fine in it and is cheap as can be. The neighbour often borrows this wee saw and I told him just put rape seed oil in and don't buy in bar oil for the tiny little jobs he does. I stick to conventional bio bar oil for the bigger saws, as I found the rape oil smoked a fair bit on them.
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Never used a Dolmar chain, where do you get them as I've never seen them for sale online. Although to be fair have never really known about them to look. Are they a quality chain or a cheap cut any dirty old crap then bin chain?
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I thought that getting people chipped was a scene from Fargo ! Good movie.
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looks more like Joe Exotic !! (the tiger king).
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Yeah we lit the wee stove in the lounge last night as it got quite cold around early evening. I heave never burnt so much as I have this winter & spring. Usually 15 cube a year, over 20 this last year. Thankfully I had the wood to burn, will really need to start laying in extra each year so there is no risk of running out.
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I agree damage to a full chisel hurts the chain more than to a semi and takes a good bit longer to fix, horses for courses. Semi when its dirty and full on clean wood for me. Although that doesn't mean that you don't sometimes find junk inside what you thought was a clean trunk and have agood chain wrecked by a bit of buried wire .
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I agree i was taught to do it out-side to in and with the double bevel file. It gives you a razor sharp chain for cross cutting in decent wood. Hard to learn and get right at first but once you can do it you won't look back.
