5thelement
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You might be right, they look like they can hold their own. I am pretty sure you can hunt Badgers here also, with right paperwork.
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It could be. I have seen a few types of wire haired Dachshund here, none quite like this one as it was particularly small. My French neighbour has 3 wire haired Dachshunds, but these are massive in comparison, big heads/thick necks like a Fox/Scottish Terrier, absolutely fantastic dogs that he uses to deal with problem Foxes. He is a member of the Chasse so can put his dogs to ground here with no issues.
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2 rope climbing are we sticking to the rules
5thelement replied to Thesnarlingbadger's topic in Climbers talk
When I passed my driving test at 17, I did everything text book for the duration of the examination. 6 hours later I had a car full of mates, radio on full blast, beeping at totty, bombing down the A580 at break neck speed to The Hacienda. Tell me, who is at fault here, the guy who trained me or the examiner? -
That’s why I started with Border Terriers, the Kennel Club have had very little involvement in the ‘standard’ look of the breed, so more diversity in genes, and different size/colour/leg/head shapes depending on what you are working them on. I think a lot of the modern crossbreeding is ‘fad’ but some have specific reasons such as lack of moulting/allergy etc
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I met a French hunter on one of the estates I was working on in East Sussex a few years back. The owner had invited him to come over to stalk Fallow Deer. He had with him one of the smallest dogs I have ever seen, a French breed for tracking injured quarry, can’t remember the breed name but it was more ferret than dog.
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Curious as to what this tree is...
5thelement replied to GT1's topic in Tree Identification pictures
Tulip tree -
It’s been dry here for about a month and hitting 30 degrees. Yesterday I went past a clients house that had tried to get me to prune his well established Apricot in February. I informed him at the time that I only prune stone fruits in the Summer., he was rather pushy that I did it earlier, I declined. I glad I did because it is now completely stone dead with the bark pealing off, I think he would be putting the blame on me and stating my earlier advice as the reason for its decline. Back next week to fell it.
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Novice: top or rear handle 18v Makita for occasional use?
5thelement replied to EdGreen's topic in Chainsaws
Just crack on as you are. Leave pegs on all the trees as high as you can go, then stop. They will look so bad that the neighbours will be desperate to pay for their removal, result. -
Without getting embroiled in an SNP/ FC whine ‘o’ thon, the answer to your question is ‘Yes’ it is possible to be self sufficient with meat depending on your location and who you know. I have several friends who hunt regularly and have a constant supply of venison, rabbit, pheasant and duck. They also swap venison with one of the local farms who produce rare breed pork products.
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I have been gradually changing my 346’s and 550’s over to 1.3mm/.050 bar and chain combo as the standard bars need replacing, 7 out of the 8 run narrow kerf now. I find them much faster/smoother in the cut, especially on bore cuts in hardwood. I haven’t been that enamoured with either of the newer Oregon speed cut chains in .325 or 3/8. The X -cut chains have been excellent but always found Stihl chains to hold an edge better. I run a mix of SP33 x-cut and Stihl Micro chisel on all my 50cc saws, X-Cut and Stihl RS on 70cc plus.
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Looks like it will hold up the the job. If you tweaked it a bit a made a second frame/cutting bed in the opposite side, you could load up both sides and have two chainsaws operators going.
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That looks like an old Ash stem that is still a bit ‘green’ in the heartwood, be interesting to see wether the pink colour fades now it’s been opened up. You would expect to recognise the smell from Ash though, especially if you are familiar with cutting it.
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I cut some framing Oak on an estate at Tenterden in Kent a couple of years back. The guys who where doing the Oak construction where the guys who work at Canterbury Cathedral, safe to say the workmanship was extraordinary. All the off cuts and chip was left smouldering overnight on the rubble floor and the barn sealed shut. The smoke coloured the new Oak beams over the period of the installation to blend with the existing timber.
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I used to cut loads of reclaimed Douglas fir and Pitch pine beams from demolition jobs around Bolton, 250+ year old with a dozen coats of paint over nails with no real issues. Get a decent metal detector and slide hammer and prep the beams thoroughly first.
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The mixed profile cutter is a new universal design for cutting hard and soft wood.
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Does anyone know what this tree is please?
5thelement replied to Jogey's topic in Tree Identification pictures
It looks like a form of Willow which is doing a great job of screening the view of those ugly new build houses. As it is very small, and if kept in check, It won’t be doing any damage to your garage, drains, house or green carpet for a good few years yet. -
There you go. The other thing that I picked up on was that some loops had very low depth gauge settings from the start, making them aggressive in the cut and some had one or two spectacularly hard cutters which where a bugger to sharpen.
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If your buying them pre made just check them before use. I have had two people turn up for training with them on their saws. One had a mix of chisel and semi chisel cutters on the same chain, they other had some cutters on backwards. They do the job, don’t use them myself personally.
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Pollards, the forgotten art-discussion
5thelement replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
A nice Lime I did at a Chateau in the Dordogne last year, the customer even had their own cherry picker.
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I have friends who are polar opposites to me in regard to Covid as well as many other things. Some of these friends I have known for over 40 years so it is easy to discuss more than just Covid. I have certainly been through far worse than this charade with them and come out the other side unscathed.
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All I can say is you would have to be a really sad f***er to drop long term friendships over Covid disagreements.
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I have two 346xp’s that had run on pump fuel throughout their lives, switched to Aspen about 7-8 years ago, never had any problems whatsoever.
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A guy I used to work with did a lot of wood turning and bowl making. He would always do the spalting afterwards. He reckoned unspalted wood turned better, he would then put the bowls in bags containing all kinds of stinking concoctions usually involving seaweed.
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In America they have big trees and big saws, they also fell at waist height. They are pretty useless in the UK for forestry felling as you can’t get the stump low enough. I know a few people who use them in the tree for chogging back and all of them find it handy for work positioning.
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Maybe he is cutting bushfires?
