Doug Tait
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Neat bench seen at Brookwood Cemetery Surrey
Doug Tait replied to chopperpete's topic in Woodcraft Forum
Very interesting. I can remember them talking about the hearse carriage that carried the deceased being attached to the engine, they'd then add enough carriages for the expected mourners. Often there was only the hearse carriage, sad. -
Trig and ometry, it's a love triangle
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Sounds like there's a lot more to it. Boss knew the guy well and didn't like or trust him, but still offered him work. Wonder why the landlady has such influence on who his business employs.
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Neat bench seen at Brookwood Cemetery Surrey
Doug Tait replied to chopperpete's topic in Woodcraft Forum
I'm sure I've seen a programme that talked about Brookwood Cemetery. In its day, did it have a rail service from its own dedicated station in London? -
Maybe @trigger_andy could help too
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I don't see why not. You can cut it easily with knife or scissor to allow for planting but it won't tear, and it's water permeable. The places we've used it as a permanent thing under gravel paths or hardcore haven't had weed growth or any issue with water lying on top.
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It's strong stuff, recently used it to put down a temporary hardcore surface over mud and grass for concrete mixer access, lifted hardcore after and the membrane had no damage to it. Water doesn't pool on top either. I've got the remainder of a 4m wide roll but I don't think there's enough left for your needs
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Is the Terram fabric that doobin suggested suitable for you Steve? I have some of it around somewhere. What area do you need to cover?
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Great photo's. There's been some fantastic pics on this thread. How did you take those Gav?
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Reckon Khriss more likely to take them a bucket of juicy worms!
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Was just thinking about you and your Dad as I tapped the window, again! The 'bloody little ens' have all but given up competing with pigeons, doves and countless corvids here. Not to mention all the times I look at the feeders and there's a neighbour cat sitting underneath, tail flicking with anticipation. I think all the cats around have a rota so there's always one on duty!
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Often see trees damaged by machinery but not noticed any that have died outright so quickly. Would be interesting to know what temperature the cold air pocket is, compared to the other tree
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Wasn't acting like an old un yesterday Gary, was great. Rampoozling (thanks roboted!) around the wind farm after hares, helped put some escaped lambs back and a big walk with his pack mate in the evening. Think she keeps him feeling young, you know the saying 'as young as the woman you're with', well she's only 9. That's Cassie, but we call her Poppes which is German for wee arse.
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14 today. Had a paddle while the sun was out, then home for liver
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She does use fingers and elbows, progressing to stones. One is positioned on the knot then struck with another stone. You're right it's a sweet relief, but leaves me quite spaced out for the day afterwards
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Thanks nepia, understood. The better half sees a Chiropractor regularly so I will mention it to him. Fortunately the massage costs me nothing, she's a good friend and I often help with her dog so mutually beneficial. I don't fully understand what she does, but she finds 'knots' in the muscle and uses stones to break them up somehow, she calls it treatment but it feels like assault!
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Thanks for the advice. It's something I've had for over 30yrs and have seen many professional people about it, Doctors, Chiro, Physio. They all found no reason. Then a Beautician friend said she thought it was muscle tension and offered a treatment, which was a brutal 90 minute massage involving being hit with stones. Can go for months without any problems after it though. Stretching helps, yoga ball helps, but it gets worse over time when using saws and strimmers or driving a lot.
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Google thinks that Moss requires specialist bacteria to break it down due to the high Lignin content, which may not be found in the average compost bin but more common in soil.
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Moss might take longer to rot down as it has antibacterial properties. It was used as a wound dressing back in the day because of this.
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They are good. Discovered them in the gym at the climbing wall and think they're much more beneficial than hanging from something by my arms etc. Though I don't have back pain as such, I get numb arms and headaches from tension in the back muscles
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You tease!
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Found the same thing as headgroundsman. Was given an ash hoover as part of the maintenance kit for a biomass boiler I was looking after, unbranded but it looked like R2D2. Think I got 1 minute of use for every 20 minutes of cleaning the thing. It burned out and wasn't replaced.
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Hear a lot of people that like Makita saws but I've no experience of them. My mate has a husky 435 for doing his firewood and general tidying up, used at most 4 or 5 hrs a week and very happy with it. Decent, reliable little saw for what he needs. If you can find the money to get training it's worth having. You can learn a lot yourself, I think husqvarna did a 'forest working guide' which covered basic felling cuts, tension and compression, kickback etc, all important to understand. Get the appropriate PPE as well.
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Khriss I don't doubt the police and courts can be unpleasant , and I can understand why many people have no trust in them. But how does non compliance improve the situation they're in at that moment. As it happens I always get out the car as well, and go to them. I think it says you should in the highway code (if it's still called the highway code)
