Baldbloke

So very true. My wife works as a community midwife which nowadays includes writing reports on parental suitability and recommendations. She’s often writing up notes well into the evening and appearing at SW meetings on her days off. I’m more than a little aggrieved at her having to be involved in social work matters which I consider is not really a midwife’s job. However, good social workers are so thin on the ground, and drink, drug and abuse is so widespread that it appears that midwives are having to be multidisciplinary these days.

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Thank you for those pointers. I suspect that because they’re merely a woodland strip two deep that there’s too much in the way of knots for milling so will be best used for the biomass.

I suspected as much[emoji1303]

I wonder what weight is on some of these prospective drops? A small one that blew into the cemetery

Never realised you were local to me. There’s certainly enough clearing up work around here to keep you going for weeks.My wife is a community midwife and mentioned on her return home that there was a lot of hardwood trees down at Lintmill.

Good point. Yes, and they generally do a great job, but as it’s an ongoing job it’s normally limited to trimming rather than tree removal. Maybe I can suggest that the trees of most concern are those within striking distance of their spur line serving the neighbours house (as well as being the ones of most concern to me because they could also hit the neighbours house. Further along from that particular line of very mature spruces (perhaps 100+ years) one of the smaller trees did fall southwards in the direction of the house, but further up the road, and into the cemetery. Luckily a quick re-erection of a stone and tidy up sorted that out. I’d have liked to have posted pictures, but our internet is pathetic and times out before a download is possible.

True, but since you posted, I edited and added additional issues[emoji1] Plus the trees I mentioned border fields we own rather than within the gardens.

edited: Wonder if our Scottish property by being jointly owned by my wife and myself automatically means an allowance of dropping or cutting up 10 cubes a quarter (rather than my personal 5) before having to ask the authority?[emoji848] Following the recent storm and mature trees within striking distance of a neighbours house; I’m seriously considering having to drop the trees for my, their, and my unknowing insurers peace of mind. However, it’ll involve overhead power lines and a professional insured to do the job, - rather than me who’d be happy to tackle it but for the potential mentioned issues.

Having worked in quarries in the past I don’t think people realise how much diesel is used to power all the site traffic and plant. Come April when that requires white diesel to be used is going to heavily impact on construction costs.

I ran a bog standard 300TDI Defender 90 for work and then bought it from my work when they opted to renew it. For about 20 years It was forever doing towing jobs. The longest tow I did with it was about 1200 miles from the North of Scotland to Weymouth and back. I trailered down a light car down to my brother in Somerset before collecting an E class estate from Weymouth to return home. Used a twin axle Ifor Williams without the sides to scrape through the gross limit. It was possibly right on the limit for gross weight and to save the weave well over the tow bar weight limit. It sat comfortably at 60, but long motorway hills would see it down to 50. The tow bar weight limit is ridiculously low, although off hand I cannot remember exactly what it is.

Personally would be happier knowing that my short reach plug hole had a strong Helicoil in it to an original but limited depth of aluminium threads

I’ve never hunted foxes by being on a hay burner but have participated on dozens of days where a huntsman on foot tries to follow his pack of hounds pursuing foxes, while we try to figure out which cover the fox was heading for, so we can quietly line up and shoot him in passing. My speciality was at the end of a line with a rifle rather than with a shotgun within the line.What people don’t realise is that hounds mainly work through their noses rather than through sight. You often couldn’t risk a shot at a fox because in cover (not open ground) it was literally tiptoeing between the dogs. The dogs could be within a metre of the fox, be beside itself with the scent , and absolutely clueless how close it was. The fox meanwhile was totally aware of its surroundings, of every dog around it, and anyone with a gun that wasn’t well concealed. While my vote for efficiency goes to merely using dogs for driving foxes to guns, Commando is spot on in that the traditional hunt is the way to clean up all the old and infirm foxes in the area. While a traditional hunt might occasionally have killed the occasional infirm or unlucky fox, we’d be surprised at not getting half a dozen in a day. I can remember once after covering a lot of ground getting 15. Maybe townie foxes generally look so shit because they’re relying on those middle class anti blood sport vegan bin offerings[emoji848]

Guess I’ll be clearing this section this evening to allow an easier exit for tomorrow’s early start[emoji849]

We too lost a few trees on our ground, up in Moray.

After a bit of hibernation It got fired up recently to do some cross cutting I didn’t want the MS 260 to be burdened with. I’ll give it an ease off before using it again.[emoji1303]

Glad you got to the bottom of the issue. My 365 special has a reluctant decompression button that is reluctant to fully pop out after firing. I was initially wondering if your apparent loss of compression was due to something similar.

Very smart! I’ve only ever made raw Oak into 4 to 5” slabs for large durable outside benches and tables on riverbanks. Where I used nails to secure the pieces it stained the immediate surrounding area as if with iodine. Presumably this was because of the moisture content reacting with the iron/steel nails, and not something likely to happen with seasoned floor boards?

Totally agree. I’ve a friend that does flooring as well as giving trusted advice. We’ve recently had engineered oak put down over a 37 square metre floor and having a smaller room done in a couple of weeks. I could’ve bought oak planks without the seemingly tacky ply attached but was warned by him that it would likely warp slightly and require resanding on occasion. He also suggested that sanding doesn’t stop gaps appearing, I went with his advice and took the engineered oak,- inspite of it actually being dearer. In my previous house I bought maple planks from the demolished Cadbury Edinburgh factory to put into a sitting room floor. No issues there except for a weekends work with sander hire.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/225857120878492/permalink/2436895153108000/?sale_post_id=2436895153108000 The last artic load I bought about 3 years ago was around £420.00 plus delivery. Think I need to get cutting.

She’d amended her policy prior to her dad arriving in the U.K. but the paperwork hadn’t been updated. That’s precisely why the Police put her on caution. The transcripts weren’t released until her solicitor got involved. Once those copies of her phone conversation were available all charges were dropped and the insurers paid up. She had over a month of worry until the truth came out. Her Dad had T boned an elderly uninsured driver who pulled out of a minor road. He died, her mother got broken ribs and her Dad was also in a very bad way. Luckily my friend had built in airbags and just suffered bruising. The dead bloke’s doctor had previously informed DVLA that the elderly gents sight was compromised and that he shouldn’t be driving.

Transcripts are supposed to be kept by the insurer, available for both parties in case of a dispute. Insurance companies are known to try to hold on to them until the last possible moment if it looks like a case is going against them. An Arbitrator would insist on the earliest availability, but raising a court action could mean it’s kept back for their advantage until it’s requested by the impartial court. A friend in a no fault, but fatal, road accident who allowed her Australian Dad to drive her car in the U.K. discovered this. She almost lost her professional livelihood until a manslaughter court action released the transcripts showing she had mentioned to her insurers that she required her Dad to be able to drive her car. Such detail had been omitted from the paperwork…..

Got 3.5k for a 300tdi 90 1997 last year. Been off the road for 6 years and needed a full chassis, brakes, springs and bushes. The engine was sound as was the rest of the running gear. Bulkhead was good but commercial body was full of dents. I kept it to let my friends kids learn to drive in my top paddock. Now they’ll have to use an equally wanked Range Rover.

I’ve been well pleased with Srewfix’s offerings. Strangely it’s the cheaper ones that are still operating 8 years after purchase and the dearest one at £60 or so that died after 2 years. They don’t offer endless light as their battery capacity is limited, but as a quick and easy off grid solution I’m a fan and have about 10 around our small holding.

That really doesn’t look too complicated at all.