coppice cutter
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What make/type of gloves do you wear ,working in your wood yard?
coppice cutter replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Never been a glove wearer for the simple reason that I never tried any that I was happy wearing. Then a friend gave me a pair of these PowerGrab® Thermo (Orange) 335 | TOWA CORPORATION TOWAGLOVES.COM which being a hard as nails farmer I totally ignored until one day I was knocking down concrete mangers and my hands were struggling with both the cold and abrasion and I decided to put them on out of desperation. I was mighty impressed with them as they are warm, light, comfortable and useable for all but the most precise of tasks. I now find myself using them much more often than I ever thought I would. Highly recommended. -
Just to clarify, it was the last line that made me laugh, the first paragraph deserved a trophy.
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Where Do You Chuck Your Stove Ash?
coppice cutter replied to Witterings's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
I put it on the dung heap after trawling a magnet through it to get any nails out. If your local council have a composting bin scheme on the go, I think it should be perfectly appropriate for that. I'd be wary about using it around fruit trees/bushes, etc as it's not a balanced feed like manure and may cause a localised mineral imbalance in the soil, which is not a good thing. Scattering it lightly over grass occasionally would probably be ok though. -
Our eldests mother-in-law was born and raised in California, then moved to Texas, and now lives just on the Florida side of the state boundary with Alabama. She says her path of movement is becoming increasingly common, the difference is that she is very conservative and would like all the liberal/'progressives' to stay there.
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The problem with this is that the Californians are bailing out of the shit hole that they've created in their own state, but haven't learned anything from the consequences of their own stupidity so are actually just spreading the ruination by voting in the same type of people in the neighbouring states. Watch and listen.
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Hand tools are the future!
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Hope any Scottish readers take this in the spirit intended.
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Hatred of the English seems to make up for a lot (a helluva lot!) of real world short-comings regarding the SNP in the Peoples Republic of Jockistan, as Al Murray named it.
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I suppose the big question is, at what stage of the analogy are we currently at?
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I see the latest being wheeled out is that having covid actually suppresses the immune system and makes you more vulnerable to subsequent covid infections plus cold or any other viruses doing the rounds. Errr, wasn't that exactly what Professor Cahill and her colleagues flagged up as a major concern with the mRNA vaccines when they were being proposed, and they were thoroughly cancelled for doing so? Namely, that they may give a short term boost in immunity against the specific variant of virus they were designed for, but at the expense of greater vulnerability to any further strains of it and/or any other virus.
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Is the issue with ethanol in the petrol not that previously at least the water stayed separate from the petrol and was visible to the naked eye? Now, it mixes with the ethanol in the fuel and is carried through the entire system unknowingly. And with double the amount of ethanol, there is now the potential to carry double the amount of water in the fuel. Of-course this all depends on there being an opportunity for there to be water present near the fuel in the first place. If cans and tanks are kept well sealed and used promptly it's possible there'll be no bother at all.
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Processing in a neighbour friendly way
coppice cutter replied to IanCwmbran's topic in Firewood forum
That's a darned good haul. As said above, Leylandii well dried burns grand. The only thing I don't like about it is the smell, it's a very sort of stale unwoody kind of smell, and not at all piney. Although everybody else in the house said it was just me! -
Would that be the same polls who consistently told us beforehand that we would comfortably vote to remain?
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I think that's bollocks frankly. You will also be aware that it's a statement that you can't realistically support in any way, so I'll be kind and not capitalise on the situation by asking you to do so. For my part, yes it's anecdotal, but my work brings me in contact with members of the public right across the spectrum, and while I've yet to meet one single person who regrets voting leave, I've met a significant number who've said the behaviour of the EU since the vote has demonstrated that we'd be better away, and if they had to do again they'd vote leave rather than remain. Therefore, in my considered opinion, the leave vote in another referendum would be considerably stronger.
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Processing in a neighbour friendly way
coppice cutter replied to IanCwmbran's topic in Firewood forum
Worth pointing out that you can go corded electric for a fraction of the price of cordless electric. Indeed you can go corded electric for a fraction of the price of just about anything else. So if you're always working within a practical distance of a socket it's a bit of a no-brainer. -
Precisely what the EU wants it's citizens to do!
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Are you sure you're not like Bruce Willis in that film where he was actually dead but hadn't realised it. Have you checked yourself for a pulse recently?
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No I don't believe we have. Still a lot of outstanding issues and progress dealing with them is worryingly slow. Not surprising though.
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We'd need to actually leave to find out!
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Firstly the UK voted as a whole to leave the EU, which it is fully entitled to do, sometimes people act as if staying in the EU was some sort of obligation. It wasn't! Secondly, if you must take the northern Irish vote in isolation, apparently it was about 55/45 so not a landslide as some would have you believe. Furthermore, nationalists largely voted to stay in the EU and made up the vast portion of that 55%, yet they also mainly vote Sinn Fein who have been traditionally anti-EU and only changed their stance when they seen a chance to capitalise on the referendum mayhem. So there were other agendas going on even before the referendum, and that's all been ramped up since. I don't understand the most of what happens over there, sometimes it seems a different world, but I know it's nowhere near the picture painted by the EU friendly media.
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Yes, it's an issue for both sides to sort out. But the EU have been exploiting it, and the RoI have been exploiting it, there is no doubt about that. The Irish have been using it to stir the unification pot, and the EU are just using it to stir shit of any kind. I've farming connections in the North and been following it a bit more closely than most because of that. It's actually pretty shameful how the north is being abused by non-UK interests and how the UK itself is letting it happen. Biased media coverage not helpful either as usual.
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You are completely ass about face on that one. The UK government has always said there'd be no hard border going back up in Ireland, yet the EU are the ones insisting that there needs to be stringent arrangements in place regarding trade over there. The only ones who ever threatened to put checks in place between north and south were the EU!
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Looked at one or two youtube videos just to try and get a practical idea of the size difference between them and had to turn away. "Cack handed" wouldn't even come close!
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They'll be handy enough with it that way. More concerned about the blade on the longer one as it's a fair bit thinner than the ones I use, but nobody seems to have had an issue.
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Another vote for the Home Bargains ones, they changed the packet recently but they're the same lighters. The packet is supposed to break down in to 24 individual lighters but in reality you can go smaller again with them if you've good dry kindling as well. They're so teeny I really can't imagine them doing any harm no matter what the composition. The cooker with multi-fuel grate lights with a few bits of cardboard, one advantage of having a grate I suppose.
