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Post by Jim on Mar 6, 2023 18:09:25 GMT
I know you were in Baghdad when I was in my dad's bag but other than that I like real coal. Gor some columbian doubles on at the moment actually. They get the heat out nicely. Sadly availability is going to get awkward soon. Do like the black stuff. If you lived up north you could harvest it yourself, this is about a mile from the canal in Todmorden, an old coal adit in Gorpley Clough.
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Post by Aloysius on Mar 6, 2023 18:12:57 GMT
I can picture Andrew right now, trudging up the road at 5 in the morning with a pick and a lamp.
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Post by Jim on Mar 6, 2023 18:30:57 GMT
Yes! Well toughen him up yet. Adit is at the top of the bank on the right, the path in the 2nd pic leads to it, about 200yds behind me.
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Post by on Mar 6, 2023 18:45:24 GMT
I thought house coal came from houses.
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Post by Jim on Mar 6, 2023 19:01:02 GMT
I thought house coal came from houses. Of course. Then there's dried fish poo, Char coal. There another being collected prior to general release in volume Kriscoal. Delivered to your door in a cardboard box.
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Post by Aloysius on Mar 6, 2023 19:39:49 GMT
The trad way of making charcoal is quite fascinating. An entire way of life for some at one time. However actually doing it may have been a bit boring; the pile needed watching constantly over several days to prevent it from bursting into flames and the chaps on fire watch used a one-legged stool so that if they fell asleep they would also fall over.
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Post by Jim on Mar 7, 2023 11:05:37 GMT
The trad way of making charcoal is quite fascinating. An entire way of life for some at one time. However actually doing it may have been a bit boring; the pile needed watching constantly over several days to prevent it from bursting into flames and the chaps on fire watch used a one-legged stool so that if they fell asleep they would also fall over. I knew a charcoal burner, he had a plot of land between Windermere and Coniston Water. As for the one legged stool business, once did a stone wall building course at a permaculture centre in Burnley, they had built a mud bench by the steel tank, with a flue pipe from the fire running through it, a roof over the top, to keep warm and dry tending the fire. We're not daft up north.
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Post by on Mar 8, 2023 20:54:38 GMT
A number of yars ago we used to call one legged stools shooting sticks.
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Post by thebfg on Mar 17, 2023 18:40:07 GMT
Sometimes it's just the journey that people enjoy bringing thinks back to life so they can be loved again.
I'd rather have a house that I've restored with my own blood and tears then buy a modern build that is already finished.
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Post by metanoia on Mar 17, 2023 19:18:40 GMT
Sometimes it's just the journey that people enjoy bringing thinks back to life so they can be loved again. I'd rather have a house that I've restored with my own blood and tears then buy a modern build that is already finished. Sounds a bit too much like my boat ! I've spent a lifetime "re-using, recycling, re-purposing" - long before it became ultra trendy and very expensive. So glad to see it might finally be catching on....
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Post by on Mar 17, 2023 19:51:37 GMT
I still think that big old boat is scrap. Interesting it has been hidden from view at Sutton's boatyard. I guess the strategy now is to let people forget it then quietly cut it up. Not worth restoring as it is too far gone and would be horrifically expensive. It won't happen.
I reckon the bloke was fucked from when he first bought it because this obliged him to remove it. If the council who presumably owned the berth where it was located were not willing to allow it to be cut up on site then it would have to go somewhere who would allow this. You can't just dump it.
Expensive thing to do after too many sherries but worse things happen at sea.
I expect it will be bean tins by 2025.
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Post by thebfg on Mar 23, 2023 7:27:37 GMT
Latest update.
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Post by on Mar 23, 2023 10:26:18 GMT
Definitely one to watch. Someone must have some good equipment and expertise if they can replate that in 10mm. Presumably by 10mm they mean 3/8 inch which is 9.5mm. Original spec seems more likely to have been imperial than metric.
Massive job.
If the hull gets done its great but the interior and machinery are going to be huge jobs to deal with as well.
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Post by Aloysius on Mar 23, 2023 12:19:10 GMT
Definitely one to watch. Someone must have some good equipment and expertise if they can replate that in 10mm. Presumably by 10mm they mean 3/8 inch which is 9.5mm. Original spec seems more likely to have been imperial than metric. Massive job. If the hull gets done its great but the interior and machinery are going to be huge jobs to deal with as well. You are a terrible pedant.
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Post by Jim on Mar 23, 2023 12:58:04 GMT
Definitely one to watch. Someone must have some good equipment and expertise if they can replate that in 10mm. Presumably by 10mm they mean 3/8 inch which is 9.5mm. Original spec seems more likely to have been imperial than metric. Massive job. If the hull gets done its great but the interior and machinery are going to be huge jobs to deal with as well. You are a terrible pedant. Nah, he's an expert pedant. Yours pedantically...
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