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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2020 23:23:21 GMT
They've been going on about Weil's disease since the 80s but I reckon it's a bit old fashioned now. Yes. Weil's disease used to matter but not now. Now covid matters, along with black lives. Large flanges matter as well, let's not forget. [mutters] .... dark matter / black holes /
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2020 23:31:47 GMT
I am not exactly 'computer literate' I do admit ... but even I've never quite grasped why people ask for general information, when the same question tapped into google will be answered in seconds. Of course asking for opinions or recommendations is a different matter. Yes, well what I really wanted was a handyman with chainsaw, just saw [!] a boat bedecked with big logs from the forest ... aparently he did not realise it was my birthday. I have a saw, tried it at Thorne, wrong kind of saw ... Yes recommendations are best.... tried someone else but he had no excel....
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Post by patty on Aug 30, 2020 6:26:10 GMT
I am not exactly 'computer literate' I do admit ... but even I've never quite grasped why people ask for general information, when the same question tapped into google will be answered in seconds. Of course asking for opinions or recommendations is a different matter. Yes, well what I really wanted was a handyman with chainsaw, just saw [!] a boat bedecked with big logs from the forest ... aparently he did not realise it was my birthday. I have a saw, tried it at Thorne, wrong kind of saw ... Yes recommendations are best.... tried someone else but he had no excel.... Sawing logs with whatever saw u hard is very hard work and only to be recommended for macho men who wanna build up muscles I sawed up so many logs at Horror House and its now a never again thank goodness as Ive been left with dodgy shoulder and neck Though I did cut wood for daughter as it was the only way of getting rid of stuff left here
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2020 6:54:14 GMT
I like buying logs tbh, keep them in saloon to keep them dry, main benefit is soft ash, best baked potatoes, bad thing is they won't keep going without frequent attention, oops, got my CWDF hat on now, 'old git' status.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2020 8:17:52 GMT
I like buying logs tbh, keep them in saloon to keep them dry, main benefit is soft ash, best baked potatoes, bad thing is they won't keep going without frequent attention, oops, got my CWDF hat on now, 'old git' status. Yes, your apparent confusion of where you are posting is documented. π
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2020 9:17:16 GMT
Sawing logs with whatever saw u hard is very hard work and only to be recommended for macho men who wanna build up musclesΒ A quality bow saw with a sharp quality blade is not very arduous. I'm about the least muscular person I know but can easily do wood cutting. My mum was always sawing up her own firewood with bowsaws when she lived on her boat. People let the blades go rusty then the thing doesn't work. Hang saw by fire to keep dry. Goes through wood like a knife through hot butter.
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Post by patty on Aug 30, 2020 13:03:18 GMT
Sawing logs with whatever saw u hard is very hard work and only to be recommended for macho men who wanna build up muscles A quality bow saw with a sharp quality blade is not very arduous. I'm about the least muscular person I know but can easily do wood cutting. My mum was always sawing up her own firewood with bowsaws when she lived on her boat. People let the blades go rusty then the thing doesn't work. Hang saw by fire to keep dry. Goes through wood like a knife through hot butter. must admit did not ry a bowsaw and bit late now
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Post by Jim on Aug 30, 2020 14:54:35 GMT
All very well saying there's free wood from recently fallen trees. It's nonsense unless it's Ash, owt else needs a year or more to dry out. No wonder naughtyfox has a damp cratch.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2020 15:31:01 GMT
Nah I picked up a shed load of apple tree logs a few years ago, railway had cut them down and left for the farmer, I diverted some to my roof, burnt them all within a few weeks, no problems.
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 30, 2020 15:46:55 GMT
All very well saying there's free wood from recently fallen trees. It's nonsense unless it's Ash, owt else needs a year or more to dry out. No wonder naughtyfox has a damp cratch. Rubbish. And we are people who deal with firewood all the time. Birch cut down in March already bone dry. The willow we cut in July last year was already going up the chimney in October. Talking of firewood, have finished the second cage, been working on it all weekend: Next task is to move all the logs from the old cage (now dismantled) to this new one.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2020 16:11:37 GMT
You can burn more or less anything in a fire if it's hot enough.
I don't mean stones and metal objects but for example if you had an endless supply of dead rodents and got the fire hot enough they would give up their ultimate calorific value quite readily.
Not ideal for slumbering the stove but if it's going well then not a real issue.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 10, 2020 19:24:09 GMT
All very well saying there's free wood from recently fallen trees. It's nonsense unless it's Ash, owt else needs a year or more to dry out. No wonder naughtyfox has a damp cratch. Half a dozen scraps of cut-up deckboard and three blocks from a broken pallet I liberated from work this week and which had been sitting outdoors since God knows when have made my boat toasty warm this evening.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2020 19:44:52 GMT
Any update on the new bike garage Mr Stabby ? Rog
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2020 19:48:47 GMT
It's going to be useful to get before- and after- winter pictures of this shed.
I suspect pallet wood with its rodenticides may hold up better than MDF.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 10, 2020 20:04:37 GMT
Any update on the new bike garage Mr Stabby ? Rog No, I've been juggernauting all week and doing sufficiently long hours that I have no enthusiasm for the task when I get back to the boat, although I have been liberating 1-2 pallets a day from work and bringing them home in the boot of my car. Only about one third of a scrap pallet is suitable for this project although the remainder will get used on other projects or burnt on the stove. I may just about have enough now. My boy Charlie is planning to visit this weekend so we should get the bulk of the framework finished then, depending on what he wants to do. Then it will be time for the only real expense, the roofing shingles, although they should only be Β£25 or so.
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