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    It depends on what kind of look you want. The cedar shingles i have used on sheds and outbuildings in the UK where always imported and always Thuja, very uniform, thin, and in my opinion, pretty dull. You see fantastic shingled buildings around me, more so in the Dordogne, usually Sweet chestnut and all cleft/hand finished with tapers and drip line. There is a local artisan that restores the roofs of historic buildings offering 50 years on Sweet chestnut shingles, that’s double the life of the clay Roman tiles more commonly used here.
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    My first sighting this year of the Cranes (Grues) migrating North, a recognised sign of the imminent arrival of Spring, early this year as they have been flying over for ten days now. IMG_3272.MOV
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    Have you not added 2 items to your basket, doubling the figure to £140?
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    It’s not bad near me. ⛷
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    SIP do them singular or in pairs.
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    Tony Lucas at Kingswood Training could do it, the yard is just down the road from you in Weald Village.
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    Yet you posted your usual Covid claptrap anyway. Remind me again, did you or did you not meekly roll up your sleeve and receive your covid jabs? If the cap fits…
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    Does everything with you really have to come back to Covid, on every comment, on every thread? get a grip man. There was a whole village wiped out by the Nazis in one day, just down the road from me, a local Hotel that is credited with taking in and repatriating RAF pilots that had been shot down, so it would seem likely that the resistance was pretty active in my location.
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    Turns out to be Czech, can’t quite make out the coding on the side.
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    Not in the rifle owning club, but found these when I was clearing out the cellar, amazing what you find in French houses. A little unbranded French bolt action four ten with cartridges and what I believe is a Mauser K98k or one of its derivatives. The area I live was heavily into the resistance so I assume it was taken from a German, stock completely rotted away. I will give it to a mate in the UK next time I am over, he will restore it for show.
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    The Arbortec Scafell Light have mixed reviews, but I took a punt on a pair I saw on eBay, £130 delivered. They are on eBay regularly at this price so you could have two pairs for the price of some of the other brands. I am pretty surprised how well they fit after some of the horror stories I have read, drove in them on day one.
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    I find Haix too wide fitting for me so I had to drop down half a size/one size. The Treemme Aquastop are an excellent boot for the money, quite narrow fitting, high topped, a great warm Winter boot, and they last. I have had several different types of Treemme boots, had nothing else over the last 12 years.
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    And those X-Ray specs you got from chewing enough ubba-bubba.
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    I was asked by a local Forestry firm to come and fell the last 26 Oak trees on a job they needed completing, apparently the cheap Bulgarian labour had shit themselves on a very near miss a few days earlier. Had a walk over to take a look at their stumps, I don’t know where to start really.
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    I purchased my first rope, a 50m New England Hi -Vi with a spliced eye, from Charterhouse Richmond back in 94. Called them to set up the order and get a price, sent them a cheque, waited a month for it to arrive with them before it was forwarded on to me, times certainly have changed. I certainly appreciate it when suppliers are on the level in regards to stock supplies, can’t stand maybe, could be, should be.
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    Corrected that for you Mark.
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    Came home with nearly 2kgs of Oyster mushrooms today. Two Hybrid Black Poplars in a row totalling 60, absolutely covered top to bottom with Oysters and Hoof brackets.
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    I don’t know anyone in the Domestic Arb business that charges hourly or day rate for the bulk of their work. Price the job, win or sometimes loose.
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    If he quotes £1200 plus vat for a job, and the customer accepts it, it doesn’t really matter if they crack on and finish by 2pm does it? Same goes If the job runs over into two days, it’s not like he is going to expect the customer to pay more.
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    Just opened my Christmas presents that I collected in the UK this week. A pair of Husqvarna Technical Arbor trousers, my first pair of these, great length to the leg for a lanky like me. Various sizes of Stubai felling wedges, not used these yet but have had a couple of K&H wedges snap on me in the minus temperatures lately and have heard good things about them. Ordered the wedges from Chris Forestry who delivered a fantastic service. And a larger 1.9 litre Stanley flask after leaving my 1 litre in Manchester last week.
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    I remember Johnny Vegas agreeing to appear as a guest on the TV program “Who do you think you are?” The researchers came back to him a little while later. They had concluded that no one in his entire family tree had achieved anything of note or interest, ever, and the show wouldn’t be happening.
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    The main issue I can see here is teaching him all your bad habits, it’s not like your going to send him up a half dead tree with some dodgy climbing kit is it? It’s easier to train a novice than to un-train someone with bad technique. I have trained loads of guys in the woods over the years, medium/large/wind blown trees, who says you have to be taught by a certificated Instructor? Just download the assessment schedules and go through them with him, go through a few anchor/knot/ascender/changeover options and get him in the saddle, even better if you are with him in the tee. The more practice he gets the easier his assessments will be. If your not sure what your teaching him then don’t and book a course, he would still find the course easier after some climbing practice.
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    I watched the Stone Roses and Arthur Brown there back in the day, is it still open? What was your band called?
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    He is heavily invested in land for rewilding/tree planting schemes, locking up carbon so that his factories can pollute the f**k out of wherever they are located, another one of the fabled carbon neutral companies.
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    Robin at Haynes always dropped me a line when any new saws came in. I had one of the first eight 572xpg’s and they have supplied most of my saws for a good few years until I moved away. They had five 592xps last month when he rang. Fantastic aftercare and service from them also.

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