Silverhooker
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Best year so far for sand martins in north Cumbria, hundreds in the nearby sand quarry. 5 years ago we had bee eaters in the sand Martin colony, but they’ve never been back.
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Don’t think Greta would be pleased !☠️
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Yeah that would fit my dad would have got the 80 cc saw in the 80s, second or third hand. Happy memories in these bleak times. Cheers mate those pictures of an old chainsaw have really made my day, funny how little things like that seem more important now.
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Yeah it’s just a barrel of laughs at my work ! Hence keeping a sense of humour is important and why I love working in the woods to relax. The wife is a GP and working more hours than the bothy cat she sews to relax.
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It’s not my scope of expertise, I’m a cancer surgeon, but you are correct in your post. The trick is identifying who needs them and when to give them. Steroids are a balancing act between benefits and side effect.
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There is an international trial on steroid use in Covid about 5000 patients entered but too early for any conclusion. Hope that answers your question. I am a consultant and am allowed a sense of humour too.
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Would that saw date back to around 1985ish as it looks like the one my late father had around that time? Seem to remember that it cut really well, but that might just be my rose tinted glasses, the old man and i did loads of firewood with it.
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just how much muff diving would she need to do to be considered "committed" to being a lesbian ??
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This was always going to be the long game. Boris just didn't want to be the one to tell us ! Some restrictions will be lifted but sadly not many in the near future, we have to accept that this virus will trickle thru the population making us all ill, and costing some their life, at some point and all we can do is try to keep it at a trickle and not a flood which would overwhelm the all our infrastructure not just the NHS. Reliable antibody testing for recovered cases and a vaccine are the main tickets out of this.
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Looks lke they are using a massive wooden ladder some old bits of rope, tweed jackets, boots and flat caps. Them were the days ! Not a clip board or a vizi vest in sight.
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What make and model of saw do you use for brushing up ?
Silverhooker replied to cessna's topic in Chainsaws
I have a 550, new purchase and a great saw, used to use a husky 440 and it did fine too just a wee bit slower. Also 440 was very fuel efficient. -
But wont we run out of guide dogs, if what my mum said about it is true ! ?
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Any new small charcoal retorts out there?
Silverhooker replied to Woodworks's topic in Firewood forum
Very neat and clever set up. I salute your invention and ergonomic design. Read an article that due to lack of overseas imports, due to Covid, there will be a shortage of BBQ charcoal this summer! Could be a good year for you sir . -
Wet syc on the ground rots BDQ, due to the high carb content, I would just leave it for habitat as you would need to log it, move it and dry it before burning, which is quite a bit of work for something that might just turn out to be papery rubbish once dried.
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Saw that happen to an old fella on a shower chair in a care home, got brought to A&E by the fire brigade. Ice pack and KY jelly got it out.
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I use oregon and stihl bars as I cut a lot of wind blown trees and get a few nips so not willing to risk an expensive sugi bar. (Before you ask I'm Scottish). I've tried to square file a full chisel chain, it was great in clean wood out of the box and totally knackered after I had been at it, and i took a fair bit of skin off my fingers too, I'm just going to stick with standard round filing. I watched the videos and still couldn't get the angles right doing it free hand and ended up with a chain that could cut round corners !!
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It’s all horses for courses in terms of what you cut and what you need to do it with. There’s no perfect set up.
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Mmm perhaps they are or is that just the way you speak if you mum and your sister are the same person.?
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I’m an amateur too. Husky 440 with 15” (soon to be replaced with 550 mk2 most likely 15” again). Husky 365 with 20”. Old Stihl 390 with 18” (bit knackered just kept for emergency) I cut quite big windblowns with this crew, sometimes I just have to tackle things from both sides and take my time.
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I agree 1/64th here or there won’t make a discernible difference in the real world. More important to get angles correct, correct height and shaped rakers. As “Bucking Billy-Ray” would say “gotta clean out the gullet”.
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I’ve been sitting out in the evening a lot too, never heard so much bird song as this spring. I’m loving my evenings in the garden, brilliant de-stressing. keep safe everyone.
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Buy new from one of the big 4 and you won’t go wrong. I agree that the 365 is a great saw 550 mk2 good too. I’m a husky person.
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I scarified and over seeded my grass and just watering very lightly on days when there is no overnight frost. Just enough to damp it down to stop the seed blowing away. Local golf course green keepers advice.
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Poll- Are you still working during the Coronavirus outbreak?
Silverhooker replied to doobin's topic in General chat
Me too, and I’m making sure my elderly neighbours are ok too. We all need to look out for each other. -
Crikey, I had a look at this saw ans was seriously thinking about getting one till you posted this, £327 on top of the £150 for the bare saw ( x2 batts), I'll not bother thanks.
