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Aunt Maud

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  1. Aunt Maud
    I found green Beech really easy to split if I flake slabs off around the edges and work my way around the ring, instead of trying to split them down the middle. I've got a Hultafors Sly which weighs about 2.5 kg and I'm very happy with how it performs.
  2. Aunt Maud
    I can feel a brick, rocket pizza oven coming on.
  3. Aunt Maud
    You haven't got a beard have you ?
  4. Aunt Maud
    Saw some Poplar stands (I think) that were chock full of the stuff in France. None up this way though.
  5. Aunt Maud
    Make sure your shed is windy inside, otherwise you'll get mould growing on them if you stack them wet.
  6. Aunt Maud
    In my experience of USAnia, the Parks Folk tend to be pretty militant about Parks Stuff, shouldn't it just be left down to them to sort it ?
  7. Aunt Maud
    Who do the trees belong to. Are they in a National Park or something and belong to the state ?
  8. Aunt Maud
    I cut mine whilst green into 2' or 3' lengths (depending on how I'm building the stack) then split and stack them outside in the wind. It means I need to cut them down to length when dry, but it reduces handling considerably. I split mine using an axe and use it with a wooden maul if they're 3' long
  9. Aunt Maud
    Ikeavarna.
  10. Aunt Maud
    Sunny, -2ºC, been outdoor swimming. Doh!
  11. Aunt Maud
    Just marks on the bark.
  12. Aunt Maud
    You need to know what programme you're using. I'm assuming its a PC, so you've probably got Internet Explorer something or other. Google empty cache for internet explorer "whatever" and you will probably find a youtube video for it. The cache gets filled up with rubbish from websites and needs to be emptied now and then. It may speed up your interweb experience greatly.
  13. Aunt Maud
    Empty the cache, then see how it is.
  14. Aunt Maud
    Absolutely. Been standing on a bank in the sun clearing up the hedging brash. Fire outside with an extra cold beer (or five) when it gets dark. Enjoy your sledging.
  15. Aunt Maud
    -11ºC and sunny. That's in town, probably colder out here.
  16. Aunt Maud

    Books

    Aunt Maud replied to Bird's topic in General chat

    More about wood than trees, but a goodly read nevertheless....... Desch and Dinwoodie. Timber. Structure, Properties, Conversion and Use. 7th edition, Macmillan
  17. Aunt Maud
    Looks like we're in for a crispy week of -15ºC.
  18. Aunt Maud
    The rules are made for morons, but we all have to live by them. Unfortunately, Darwinian selection doesn't apply when it comes to humans.
  19. Aunt Maud
    Let me get the roof on the thing and then I'll take a photo, I'll need a bit more wood though. I'm not sure about the size either...It feels like I've split a lot more than 3.6M Ø, but it probably isn't.
  20. Aunt Maud
    Currently -10ºC and falling, metal getting sticky, beer cold, no wind and super sunny. Been out all day stacking the Lars Mytting inspired back garden installation.(currently 3.6r Ø x 3M high and rising.) As they say in Greenland "really lovely and cold".
  21. Aunt Maud
    There are some tricks you can use such as linking videos to youtube and having links to your site on forums like this one. If you have a link on your signature the TXT bots (crawler programs that look at websites each day and record changes) will register each new post you make as a new web link to your site. The more forums you're a member of, the more links you generate when you write posts, the more relevant your site appears to Google etc. Changing your website works too, such as having a blog or posting new photos, Google likes updated websites and they generally rank highly.
  22. Aunt Maud
    Search Engine Optimisation.......the aim is to get you to the top of Google using links, keywords for searching and stuff like that.
  23. Aunt Maud
    Yebbut, you put it in the firewood forum bit.....That's why we're talking about firewood.
  24. Aunt Maud
    All very well and lovely, but that all requires planning and as we all know, most people just don't do planning.
  25. Aunt Maud
    Now I'm going to have to do a ring count now to be sure. We bought the place 8 years ago and that's when I cut them, just after I rebuilt the roof. It was so overgrown, there was nothing growing on the whole plot apart from interlocking Hazel trees. The old man that had it cut a strip 2 metres wide around the back, it was amazing and so dark inside. Everything was leaning over at 70º because of the wind, even the trusses of the roof were leaning over....mad to think he was living in there like that.

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