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Sitting in the van after a few hours strimming, I go guardless for the efficiency so I have to ware goggles under the face shield. My Oregon goggles fog up badly in this heat, from sweat and it's a real pain, so today I poured a teaspoon of sillica gel dessicant granuled into the gogs, theres a lip all around that holds them so they not touching the face. I was curious to see if they would absorb the moisture building up, and it worked!!! Not once did they get in my eyes, even if I look up - the lip of the face seal keeps them away. There was some fogging at times, simply removed by looking down and swishing the granules around the lens, mopping up the condensation. Before this invention, I would have been removing the goggles every few minutes to whipe out.... Might be of interest to some. Use the white food grade granules, not the coloured ones as they contain cadmium apparently.

Pass the popcorn please.

I'm so glad I live in rural Ireland... Everyone helps everyone, very few deaths. Kids learn how to stay alive around tractors, cattle and tradesmen. Hope it never changes. Different culture though.........

If I was a proper young arborist, a climber and all that, I'd go to London for work and beat the system by living in a tree. In summer time it would be quite nice I think. Pick a huge fluffy tree in a park, out of the way of the main routs, and do the rope magic, set up a wee platform up there, bit of camoflage netting, tarp cover etc etc. I could leave a rope hanging down, painted so as to disguise it as a vine or creeper, and come and go with my ascenders. Buy a gym membership for the use of the showers, and rake in the shekels...... And, it would be the safest place to sleep in London.

I'd check out the army surplus and see have they any old "Jungle Boots" or Desert Boots". Canvas sided, light, breathable and rugged.

The barbarians are at the gates, and Nero is rosening his fiddle-bow...and we have socialism to thank for it.

Or they live in sheds in somebody's back yard...or living room This Irish lad used to live in the ?shed in a living room? flat in London

Even a smile and a wink while talking on the phone wouldn't be unwelcome.

Second the low ceiling benefit. And add velux windows for light if you gonna overhang the roof, makes it much nicer inside. If you want to keep the "vibe" but within the hight limit, consider angling the walls out by 20 degrees or so, so that they are perpendicular to the rafters. It would make a visual difference. Bit harder to fit shelving and so on, but also means you can have more space near the top of the wall that would be wasted otherwise, nice deep shelves.

Plenty of healthy fats, the diesel to white starch's petrol. Lard, fatty cuts, olive oil, loads of butter. Most dense energy source of all foods - look at the Eskimos....

They sure are, never met Charlie, but Mayrick and me go back a long way. I remember him telling me about that project - big slab walls? - he's a talented guy thats for sure. I always wanted to have a go at building a proper log cabin. Would be hard to get the interior suitably finished for paying guests though, without tons of work, or using machined logs, or boarding out the inside - and that defeats the purpose

If only internet rows could be settled with fists....wait...idea! Its genius really - dig this - everyone has an android connected to an online account, and a motion tracking suit. You don the motion suit, your opponent dons his, and you both lot into your accounts on "Keyboard Warriors" - your movements are replicated in real time by your opponent's android, in his own home, and vice versa. Make sense? You could involve VR headsets as well.

Bleach? Vinegar? Super strong solution of backing soda in boiling water, and pour into the seat? At the end of the day, the proteins in the milk are now in the foam of the car seat, and bacteria are breaking them down and releasing some kind of gas. Killing there bacteria will stop the gas, but the dried milk pro tine will remain, and will most probably be colonised by bacteria again. Maybe pure bleach will break down the protein into something the bacteria can't eat? Of coating the milk solids with backing soda in solution, after the water has evaporated, leaving baking soad dispersed throughout the foam, will preserve the protein?

The second pic is the log cabin right? I've built a couple to timber frames. Way easy to finish the interior the way you want, cavity walls mean you can hide wires, pipes, easy to install switches. Insulation wise I would say there's be no difference. Logs showing would look nicer, but more work to finish. Could pick nice looking logs and put one in ever corner, floor to ceiling, (square off two faces) for the rustic feel. Leave a few branches sticking out for hangers. I know a guy in Pembrokshire who does that kind of work, M.C Rustics.

Like the kid who swallowed three packets of pop-rocks and drank a litter of coke..... I was watching a thing, the US army has invented a type of expanding foam that can be injected into the abdominal cavity of shot-up troops and it expands and solidifies to stabilise traumatised organs and stop internal bleeding on the way to surgery. Pretty wild stuff for bullet and shrapnel wounds, not so much for chainsaw injuries though. But - just googled it - there exists an aerosol spray version too! Coincidentally, the arm injury in the pic looks like what happened to a friend who got bitten by his top handle, a skidding series of shallow cuts all up the arm. http://science.dodlive.mil/2015/09/06/hemorrhage-wounds-helped-by-sprayable-foam/

Wow, wild west is cheaper than my supplier then. I get a discount when I buy ten bags, still more expensive. Had a taste of venison jerky from a friend who dried it in a low oven, was fantastic. Occasionally happen on roadkill deer, consumed three in the past seven years of so, next one will get turning into jerky. I don't like the oven idea though, says it takes six hours, even on low flame thats a lot of gas, and multiple goes. Been checking out the dehydrators, they about 150 quid. Will have to see how much power they draw.

Just a random thing - who loves Beef Jerky? Its not a big thing in the UK, I know, nor in Eire. There's a guy near me who's business is making protein rich snacks for the gym crowd - he has a small industrial kitchen in his home, I believe - and by golly he makes the best jerky I have ever eaten. Not that Im a connoisseur by any means, my jerky experience being limited to occational biltong shlepped from SA by family and a one-time deal in the local shop of small expensive packets of "real American teriaki beef jerky" which was ok but too salty. But this stuff, which is €6 for a 60 grams, comes in an anonymous ziplock baggie, is fairly rugged and chunky, slightly peppered, with just a hint of sweetness and salt. Absolutely smashing stuff. I buy a ten bag deal at a time, for a small discount. Take a bag to work and thats lunch. Literally, I'll chew a whole 60 gram bag, thats like an amount that would fill your cupped hands, and it'll keep me going. Like the equivalent of eating a steak, I would say. No saltpetre used in the prep, no artificial anything. Would like to have a crack at making it myself, may even invest in a dehydrator. Interested to hear your thoughts.....

Blame it on the trend in our culture toward socialism. Erosion of values, passivity and a victim mentality. Not to mention entitlement. Testosterone levels are down too, down a lot compared to our grandfathers. Wussification of boys in school. I could go on....

Little known fact, even modern roofing slates contain some asbestos, around 3% I think. The old corrugated sheeting is not going to cause harm every if broken. I was worried about this issue too at one time, phoned an asbestos removal crowd, they said just just rip the old slates off and bury them (Eire, like) told me they they set up air samplers on a factory roof removal job for a demolition crowd, the guys were literally ripping and smashing the corrugated asbestos sheets off, obviously with hasmat suits and masks. Air samplers came back negative. In brief, only really an issue if you are cutting them with a grinder. That and asbestos insulation, that's the real bad one. Friend of mine's dad died of asbestos triggered lung cancer at 65-odd, from three weeks exposure thirty years before while he was working in an office and the load were redoing the insulation in the building.

Brilliant, very glad to hear that! Are we going to get the full story sometime, or is it somewhat sensitive?

Its the full moon coming up. Lunar cycles affect cats and tree arborists in the same way, you see, they go bananas with excess energy, stay out all night working (or mousing) for a couple of days either side of the full moon....just wait till the next new moon - you'll only want to lie on the sofa and sleep! Haha...

Sounds like someone's guardian angels deserve a pay rise...

Could also whack a load of money down and buy a tracked cherry-picker/MEWP/"Spiderlift" (whatever). Would obviate a lot of the need for technical climbing at the start, make most jobs more efficient, and could be used for other chores as well. Not a lot of guys would have a load of money lying around to spend on such gadgets, but if you are retiring from the services, I'm guessing theres a good chance you have saved a fair sum of ver the years.

Tried watching it once. Just couldn't. Bullshitometer was fair set to blow a gasket....

And if you never find work, you can always buy a leather jacket, find a small manky dog on a string, pick up some cheap beers and head on down to the Alexanderplatz...nobody will judge you in Berlin. Awsome city.