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  1. trigger_andy
    Been as low as -12 here the last week. Anecdotal I know but I’ve seen one accident and that was a van on its side.
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    As I mentioned, I really liked having genuine Winter Tyres in Norway. Studs even more so. It converted my Beemer 3 Series from something that could not climb a simple hill to an ice drifting machine. It seems you’re more concerned about getting up a slope than down it. Yet the accidents seem to happen when gravity plays its part. On a sheet of ice or polished/compacted snow and a driver who see’s these conditions a couple of days a year if they’re not on holiday will still slide down the hill and bash the car/cars in front regardless of it’s summer, mixed or Winter tyres. Lifting the ban on studs would see an end to it of course. 4x4 obviously makes a huge difference. I was pulling vans up hills in my 265/50/20 summer tyres all day for the only dump of snow we had last Winter. In Scotland. Gotta love a Jeep. 😁
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    I see loads of accidents in Stavanger year in year out in the winter. That’s with enforced Winter Tyres. There’s idiot drivers all over the world. I don’t think all season tyres would make a blind bit of difference to folk sliding down hills, dedicated Winter Tyres maybe, Studs yes.
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    Winter tyres are great for when you actually need them. I loved my Studded Tyres in Norway but for the 5 years I was there I needed them for less than 10 days a season and that was because I was going out to a Cabin. Sometimes only one day. Was a fair hassle to change wheels over for a few days a season. Of course many locations in Norway need them for the whole Winter Season. There’s not been a year since I’ve been back in Scotland where I’ve needed Winter Tyres for more than a few days. Last year it was a single day. You really can’t enforce separate tyres on people living on an island that rarely sees snow anymore. Most folk can hardly keep a car on the road as it is without the added expense of adding another set of wheels and tyres into the equation. The U.K. is not Scandinavia.
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    Yeh, certainly met a few snivelling cowards on and off-line.
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    Woopsie MEP denies Qatar bribery after €1.5m seized - BBC News WWW.BBC.CO.UK Eva Kaili, one of four suspects, is stripped of her role as vice-president of the European Parliament.
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    Got hit over the back of the neck in Brazil a few weeks ago. Nearly collapsed but when I kept upright they ran off. 🤷‍♂️ Was a busy beach so I assume they wanted an easy target,
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    It’s a good idea if you don’t mind your paths ending up a grey sludgy mess that gets dragged into at least the Boot Room.
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    When did you turn into a Dog?
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    I’m certainly not blind to how many will view the situation here.
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    Good to know Dave. I’ll get back to you on that if my mate does not pull his finger out. 🤣
  12. trigger_andy
    I need the father-in-law to rebuild the scaffold and repoint the next chimney breast. I’d best forget the automation. 😁
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    It’s more for aesthetics to be honest. Plus it will keep the wee ones from wandering down to the road when they’re playing in the garden. Will keep the dogs contained as well.
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    There is braces on the bottom half of the gates in the picture. It rains so much round here they’ll never dry. 🤣🤣🤣
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    I’ve thankfully resolved most of the issues with my neighbours. We resolved the shared driveway issue by installing a 2m high fence right across the drive. 🤣 He insisted on it thinking we wanted to retain access to his drive. 🤷‍♂️ Now he’s decided he does not like the fence I put in on our boundary. The fence he asked me to build which would (I’m my mind) be the same style as all the other fencing I’ve put around the property. So when I was getting logs in after working away for two weeks I see he’s started to clad his side of my fence with feather edge. 🙄
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    That’s the plan. A mate is an Oak Framer so most likely get him to do it and swap for firewood. I’ve already sunk in 6” Oak Posts either side of the Drive. Will need to look into them. I was gonna use field gate hinges so glad you mentioned that. Good info there. Can’t see me going for Motors. But you never know in the future I might get sick of opening and closing them.
  17. trigger_andy
    Good points there. Not the road I want to go down though. Im thinking more rustic. 😁
  18. trigger_andy
    Times are a changing Mull. I watched the game last night and was rooting for England. Very few in either my social or work circle wanted England to lose, most have little interest in Football of course but they would still be happy to see them win. But then very few in either are SNP supporters so don’t have this pathological anti-English drive that is so prevalent with the SNP and those that support the Party.
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    Another good point! Cheers.
  20. trigger_andy
    Good point! Closest I can find after a quick google search is this.
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    So they’ll move regardless if it’s green oak or seasoned? To me there’s little point in wasting seasoned timber on a project that will move as much (or little) as green.
  22. trigger_andy
    Very nice!
  23. trigger_andy
    Says -12. Guys always add a few digits to make it seem more impressive.
  24. trigger_andy
    Im planning on making, or having a set of gates made with my own Oak. Its to cover the span of my drive which is about 3m wide. Im thinking two gates mating upo instead of one gate to save on warping and twisting. So around 1.5m wide gates. My question is can I use green oak for this project? Im thinking as they'll be untreated and out in the elements it should be fine. And as they are so short the issues of using green timber should be minimised. Any thoughts?
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    Love that! Very clever.

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