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Just back to the blood-clotting-product research and I found this on the Celox website Celox™ blood clotting agents are made with chitosan, a natural polysaccharide. Chitosan has a known metabolic pathway. That means any residues left in the body is broken down by the body’s normal enzymes and converted into materials normally present in the body. This is unlike other haemostats that can leave mineral residuals in the body6,7. Chitosan is digested by lysozyme, a human enzyme which is present is tears, saliva and mucus. When digested by lysozyme Chitosan is broken down into glucosamine a sugar already present in the body. Glucosamine can help lubricate joints8. I don't know why I didn't check their website in the first place! So it appears that the mineral based coagulants can ingress into the circulatory system, causing long term problems, but not Celox, which is an organic, shrimp-based product. It also turns the blood into a gel, not a solid, so its easier for the surgeon to clean out. I'll be buying a gauze roll or pad of the stuff for the bum bag.

The ladies were mortified. Now there's talk about putting a shroud around the tree.

I know an auld feller who likes to stagger between pubs - and can usually be found leaning sideways against the wall of the last establishment he patronised , while he awaits his chauffeur (any random person with a car and an hour to kill, who wants to earn a tenner the hard way). Anyway, to come to the point - if you ask the chap how's it going he will invariably reply: "Whooo! The drink is a bad dose!"

Settlements? Intriguing.

The German sense of humour - holy marckeral!

Awesome vid! Gonna learn that song by heart, brilliant. They say that on certain foggy nights, when the moon is full, you can still see the ghost of Joe faceplant off that excavator boom.

The Florabest Lidl one comes with an Orgeon 16" AO95 'Doubleguard' bar - would the mounting end of that type of orgeon bar be the same a dime tip? I haven't a clue but sure someone here does.

pick up a cheap mains electric chainsaw in Lidl, Aldi or Argos or similar and buy a proper narrow tip carving bar and chain for it. That will be doable for under 100.

Well, I got my consaw = TS400, from 2005, the remains of the Made In Germany sticker still there. €400, rebuild with TecoMec top end, new main bearings and filters. The filter housing that contains the foam pre filter slots into a groove on the concertina main filter housing and seals with a squishy rubber gasket looked like it was not sealing well due the the groove being damaged, so I re-engineerd the mating surfaces with epoxy putty and ran a finger of grease around the new groove as well, just to be sure. Water hose connector part was missing but not a problem as I rigged up a section of air hose which works perfectly. Cuts like a dream with the water, starts on the third pull. Lovely machine.

I vote scots pine, loads of it on the coasts here, branches often fall into the sae.

(In speaking about an overly sensitive person) "Shure, yer man's alright but he's a bit of a clitoris at times..." (pint of stout) a shcoop. "Come-here-I-want-you-go-away-from-me!" (Delivered machinegunissimo with jocularity and meaning "Listen closely, you're not fooling me!"

Ireland is packed with them. Just of the top of my head: Shkin (skin) "What kind o' shkin is he?" (what kind of person is he? Blackguarding (malicious mischief) "Looks like some blackguarding's been going on here" Shower (of c*nts) "The government? - That shower?"

The certainly are a comprise. I find the diameter of the timber has a big affect on the usefulness of the hook. I'm going to reprofile mine as well and see if it works better.

Might be as well to hang tough untill the new generation of li-ion battery's appear - the cycle to failure ceiling has been totally shattered, it's just a year or two untill the tech arrives in the shops.

Not arb related but I simply have to share this - I thought it was so well done. [ame] [/ame]

What's the best two-stoke oil and mix ratio? Pass the popcorn.

beat me to it.

For me, the key was about getting real about my own nature and capabilities. It's more about the how than the what. As someone with mild but constitutional ADD, I can't stick to one thing for more than a month. I find the first couple of days of a project is tough going, getting into the swing of things, then once the ball's rolling its great, then by week three I'm bored and want to do something else. Its a compound of job/client/site - too long of either or all gets me down. So I've gradually steered my lifestyle and cultivated my client base so that I only take on small jobs and keep mixing it up. Trees, then concrete, then strimming, then a small welding job, then some painting, that kind of thing. It stops me from becoming jaded, but being a jack of all trades means you can never command master's level wages as you just never get that good at anything! (I know guys who are masters at several trades, but they don't have lives outside of work). The other issue is having to gear up for everything means you spend a lot of money and have to continually reconfigure your load-out for each job, mentally and tool-wise A lot of unseen and unpaid hours just faffing around but that's part of the lifestyle. Im happy where Im at now, and still learning about what makes me happy work-wise. I don't want to work as a subbie anymore. Don't want to work on projects that are not under my control, and don't care about how much money I don't earn...but then, I don't have to support a family. Swings and roundabouts.

Dead right, only the mill was built for the bar if you know what I mean, never planned to be milling smaller wood. I could probably reconfigure it to fit a shorter bar but it would be a head wrecker.

Yeah the nearest circular saw mill is miles away, but next time I will. I thought PVA was pretty benign? Isn't that was they use to sick plywood laminates together - been burring plywood offcuts in the stove for years. Maybe I'll try wallpaper glue instead.

I wrapped my long reach hedger shaft with high quality pipe lagging and gorilla tape. Lets me hand position wherever I want and majorly cuts down the vibes.

Mate doesn't know but the guy he bought it from said it's ipe. Can't put nails into it - they just bend (maybe masonry nails). It was part of a once-in a lifetime bulk buy opportunity, I gather. First guy was going to deck his boat with it - he has an alaskan too - but can't get the finish good enough and the local sawmill can't process it with their a band saw because it's too hard. Hiorribly wasteful way to go though, inch thick planks losing a quarter inch each time.

- For a friend, patio table project. God its hard wood! By the time I got to within two feet of the end of the cut the chain had lost its bite. Filed to 5 degrees, finish was ok. I have buckets of very fine walnut power now, thinking about mixing it with very diluted PVA glue and making mud-pies, then burning them when they're dry. Will report on that in due course. Videoed this on by dash-camera, stuck on the inside of the passenger window. [ame] [/ame]

Cheers Mick. Am I allowed to vote for my own thread? I quite enjoyed Europe In Or Out? Too but it's starting to pall for me now.