Mr. Ed
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Yeah it’s really nice under foot. And it is a great bowl. Some fading since but that’s life. even the really wild looking bits of flooring are sound
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Forgive the crudeness of my work here (she’s different and better) but we love rotten alder - used some for a floor and my missus turned a lovely bowl.
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Where are you Peds? I’m down in Kerry and have a big thinning coming up which will produce lots of reasonable spruce that would plank up well. I did a bedroom in our own alder (over OSB) that came out quite well.
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How?
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Great video - I especially enjoyed the insouciance with which he reaches for the next one without looking. I’m not seeing the tapering. Or is that the alternating long and short ratchets, so the top advances over the bottom and then vice versa?
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OK - I give in. What’s a toe pin?
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Why dont you make some yourself and tell us about it. I’ve got a wood shed to make this summer and would love to roof it in something other than zinc …. I’d saw not rive I’m afraid.
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https://www.hortonsgroup.com/log-cabins/cabin-extras-amp-roof-options/roofing-options/cedar-shingles-per-square-metre these chaps in Horsham say they’ll do it for you. A bit of a ghost website but maybe that’s because they’re busy riving.
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From Maple Ridge Canada.
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New oaks & briars- advice needed
Mr. Ed replied to Mr. Ed's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Thanks HillBill. Round our parts Briar means Bramble - I should have made clear. In any case they’re so entrenched that we’re not going to be able to eliminate them but do need to stop them swamping the new little fellas. Great work with the thistles … We’ve got our first volunteer arriving next week for a workaway experience trampling and trimming so we’ll either be on the way to resolving this, or will be dead in our beds. -
New oaks & briars- advice needed
Mr. Ed replied to Mr. Ed's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Thanks HillBill. Round our parts Briar means Bramble - I should have made clear. In any case they’re so entrenched that we’re not going to be able to eliminate them but do need to stop them swamping the new little fellas. Great work with the thistles … -
wonderful. You definitely need to get to sea again! Great models.
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That’s an island called Inishmurray in Donegal Bay. Magic place with an old monastery.
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We don’t over use them and maintenance isn’t a nightmare. The big boat is a different matter and we’ve neglected it while housebuilding. It’s quite a boat and is wooden but glued and screwed rather than fully traditional so not as big a deal as it might be. Still a big thing.
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thanks. I’ve spent four grand to save three. My sort of economics! And I forget what the metrage is - not least because I’ve run out and have to do some more ! This one is on the mill now )from a neighbour). I have to narrow this end off with a chainsaw - it’s too fat for my wee saw
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I think this was the chunkiest. Probably no more than 45 cm diameter?
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Oh and Dad didn’t build me a Mirror but did lovingly build me a pretty nasty little boat called a Puffin. Designed by the “DIY king” Barry Bucknell as I remember. How I envied the boys with a mirror - but it was done with love.
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My parents’ first boat with a lid on was a Silhouette Mark III. The first time I took it out on my own the mast fell off - that was a test of a 12 year old I can tell you. Then we nearly sank it under St John’s Wood (in the Regents Canal Tunnel). Both events would have been in the early 1970s. Here’s a couple of nice wee woodies we have now
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Mostly Leyland from four big trees that had been leaning on each other like drunken sailors - just at the site. They’ve travelled 100 metres down to my shed then 100 metres back again. And some Douglas but not so much of that. Also ours.
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There was a T24 by Guy Thompson as well, but yours is very Tucker.
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Lovely boat Andrew. No boat builder I - I can barely make a sandwich, but I have owned various wooden boats. Yours looks like a big Silhouette - do you remember who designed her?
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Dyou still have the boat Andrew?
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New oaks & briars- advice needed
Mr. Ed replied to Mr. Ed's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
that heliotrope does look very happy there. We have something like a himalayan balsam, but that's not quite it. Not too difficult to deal with - crushing it or digging it up dissuades it no end. And a wee bit of rhododenron. -
Look at me! Look at me! We’re on the last leg of milling and cladding our rebuilt extension (cover boards not installed on the long side yet. I’ve always wanted to live in a packing case. We are putting a post and beam balcony on the gable end. Being a complete newbie I’m as excited as Liz Truss was when she became PM - is that a good sign?
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New oaks & briars- advice needed
Mr. Ed replied to Mr. Ed's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
We’re trying to do it without spraying. We’re not militantly organic but if we’re arranging the woodland for diversity and nature it would be a bit perverse to start it with a load of herbicide. And no, I don’t have the appetite for a fundamental row about it - we get enough of that in the real world. We have a small problem of invasive species in the older part of the woods so there’d be no end of work for Wwoofers.
