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Mr. Ed

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  1. 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.
  2. From Maple Ridge Canada.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 …
  5. wonderful. You definitely need to get to sea again! Great models.
  6. That’s an island called Inishmurray in Donegal Bay. Magic place with an old monastery.
  7. 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.
  8. 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
  9. I think this was the chunkiest. Probably no more than 45 cm diameter?
  10. 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.
  11. 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
  12. 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.
  13. There was a T24 by Guy Thompson as well, but yours is very Tucker.
  14. 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?
  15. Dyou still have the boat Andrew?
  16. 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.
  17. 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?
  18. 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.
  19. Yes I have a mulching head for the brush cutter - a great thing indeed. I need to make a big inspection next week and work out how much we have to do it’s gonna be to make it work. Probably a combination of brush cutting and hand and foot care. As to manpower we were thinking of a Workaway sort of thing. We’re in a popular holiday area and are hospitable people.
  20. No guards - we're behind deer fences and there's no bunnies to speak of. It's hard to imagine even a wee tractor running a flail being happy in there to be honest - the rows (which do look a bit irregular) are basically in between the old having-been-knocked ash planting, so we have lots of stumpy bits as well as drainage ditches everywhere. Coppice Cutter - that's the sort of advice we were looking for - thanks. We have no illusions of getting rid of it all (time will do that as they grown. It's just the first few years we're concerned with, to let these poor runtish fellows have a chance of growing.
  21. I’m not sure if I’d trust myself with a brush cutter in there - the rows are a bit irregular and the wee fellows are really hard to identify. they did a bit of glyphosate last year and they got several trees as well - amazingly effective at killing stuff isn’t it?
  22. Hi all We had a few acres of 12 year old ash which was very sick and we’ve knocked and replanted with a mixture of Oak, Birch, Syc, Scots Pine (using government money to do). The planting was not a happy story - a cluster**************** if truth be told - but most of them survived the first summer. The brambles/briars/blackberries are about to go gangbusters and we’re nervous about the fate of the trees (especially the very weedy looking oak whips (is that the right word?) that went in). Our “expert” wants to go in with a load of glyphosate to do the briars. We don’t fancy that at all (in as much as we’re managing it at all, we’re doing so for “The Nature” rather than the timber) and are thinking about trying to organise the manpower to do a couple of trampling, hand-cutting exercises this spring and summer. Does anyone here have much experience of such a situation? We’re going to be cursed as idealistic townies in any case! cheers ed
  23. And how odd that Glasgow (or nearby) seems to be a nexus of the Greenheart trade: Constructional Timbers | Gilmour & Aitken GILMOURAITKEN.COM We are one the UK's leading supplier of high-quality hardwoods. Find here our range of constructional timbers and...
  24. From the wise old interweb: << Greenheart logs are reported to occasionally violently split apart upon sawing—sending pieces of the wood flying. As a result of this unusual characteristic, sawyers wrap chain around the sections of the log that have already been sawn. >>
  25. And as I’m sure you all know lots of tempting eBay ads for wee tractors like Alpines and are also scams - borrowed photos and locations in places like Derry or Aberdeen.

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