Brash is the stuff too small to burn – hence why it gets chipped down. I only mention it as my brother is a tree surgeon on Tyneside and I’ve done ground work with him a few times. When you cut all the branches off a tree and put them on the ground they are an awful lot of bits that are only useful for chipping.
They are pretty big trees with a lot of brash.
Don’t forget, with a proper tree surgeon you are paying for insurance in case anything goes wrong. Just get a couple of quotes – they don’t charge for them.

Happy to tidy up brash and stuff myself.

What would you do with it? That’s the reason tree surgeons have chippers and high sided tipper transits.

Avoid the painting. Lime and stone make perfectly good walls and have stood for a very long time all over the world. The painting sounds like someone who doesn’t understand lime very well. I’m lucky enough to have met and been lectured by Stafford Holmes, a world authority on lime in building. His book is a good reference point, as are a few of these:
http://www.buildinglimesforum.org.uk/lime-publications

There are a lot of good people working with lime – you just need to dig around in the restoration and green building worlds to find them.

We did it with a move to the US. No furniture, no electrical other than laptops and mp3 players, big clear out. We have a lot less than we did and there are only a couple of things we’ve missed.

I’d not recommend anything burning and consuming oxygen in the bedroom. With the replacement double glazing and draughtproofing that will have happened over the years you might have issues with oxygen. It is also believed that you sleep better with the bedroom cooler than the rest of the house and that won’t happen with a fire in there!

You’re doomed.

Tech support = buy newer model.

Is this the start of ‘what bodge repair for a wood burner….’ threads?

Is growing now an achievement that can be measured in some sort of test?

Just in case you didn’t know it, taller people are more successful. Proven. So think of it as a test in life :wink:

No, Matt. You want to build one because you want to build one, and that’s OK to admit. It would be a terrible BBQ.

The more I look at them the less I see a real use for them. Their heat is fierce but not very easy to control. They seem to be best for water heating or heating a thermal mass like an earth bench or something else that radiates. The few people I know who have used them for any length of time find they use the fuel quickly.

Now an outdoor cob pizza oven that the kids help build…..

Are you a girl? That needed a tarp on the ground and some special mad time with a lump hammer and a few cold chisels and bolsters! Far too tide for a part-finished job!

Do some basic maths on the average rainfall in your area and the rough size of your roof. You probably have a lot of potential if you can intercept more than one down pipe with simple water butts.

Can you change the plants or the design of the garden to reduce the need for watering as well? Or change the ground around trees so the water goes to where it is needed. Reducing the need will make what you capture go that much further.

big n daft – do you think that we, as humans, should clean up our act a bit and stop making such a mess of the place?

Regardless of whether you agree with the science or not, the proposed path it highlights is ‘humans making less of an impact upon the planet’, with a possible leap towards ‘humans making a positive impact upon the planet’.

So you crack on with your myopic and very ill-informed war with science. Your alternative of ‘keep doing what we’re doing until you prove it, then we’ll change’ is short-sighted, very silly and utterly indefensible when compared to ‘not taking every natural resource for ourselves and leaving something nice for the kids’.

This is like those who smoked in the 50s, only far worse. The science said smoking killed you, yet that was shouted down by those funded by smoking. By the time it was accepted, it was far too late for a lot of people. yet ‘not smoking’ wasn’t a detrimental path to follow before the non-believers were forced to accept the evidence.

Get over your petty fight and see that the actions it recommends are good no matter what happens. Not doing anything is not a valid option.

Where do you get hominy in the UK?

A good ethnic minority food store that serves a few nationalities should do the trick. I’ve found it in places like Peterborough Market and the Bristol Sweet Mart.

You went to see 100 doctors about a very nasty cough you had. 98 of them said ‘lung cancer – we need to treat you’ and 2 of them said ‘nasty cough – just chew this gum and ignore it because it might not be cancer’, what would you do?

I don’t see how anyone can object to reducing pollution and trying not to burn up everything we can in our own lifetimes. I don’t see how ‘reducing the damage humans do’ would be a bad thing no matter what the motivation.

Is hora’s dream menu

prawn cocktail
half fried chicken and chips
ice cream and a wafer

or is he more traditional?

In the USA the frozen fruit juice concentrate is still the default.

I did cheese and pineapple on cocktail sticks shoved in a half potato covered in foil for my 4 year old’s party the other week. The kids LOVED them.

hora – best you stick to whatever local dish you grew up with. All this fancy talk and different ways of doing things isn’t for you.

Turn your back on this dark chili and try white chili. Chicken, turkey, white beans and, if you can find it, hominy.

You will thank me for this wise advice.

It’s an album. I know that albums are not fashionable now and the likes of itunes have killed them with people downloading single tracks.
If you want ‘all killer’, buy the greatest hits albums. If you want to listen to something that stands alone with a bit of a story running through it, listen to 3 feet high and rising.
I like albums.

Twin Six has the best designs and sizes too! They update every year as well.

http://www.david-rose-lighting.co.uk/festoon1.htm

Known as ‘prick through’ lighting. It was used by the military for years until they, amazingly, found something that was safer!

I would have guessed that dad got kid’s homework wrong.

It is a method of teaching. It is not ‘maths’ the way a fully grown man would possibly understand it. Most people probably learned about numbers this way but have forgotten that this was a formative step en route to doing maths – it isn’t maths, but it helps to teach it.

Hmm. So any mileage in flying somewhere else and getting an internal flight or a full tank of gas, half packet of cigarettes, waiting for dark and putting on the sunglasses? (i.e. Hertz).

No and no. Stick to the same company / alliance from origin to destination to avoid getting stuck when flights don’t connect. Also, car hire away from airports is cheaper so look for downtown branches for better deals.

Sanitised? You make it sound like there was something interesting there first!

12v LED for the win. Just find the right sort of light for what you are doing out there.
You do want to work backwards from that. Knowing the load is the first thing to do when designing off grid power. It helps get the battery and charging sized properly.

So what does a soldier do on a base when not marching, shooting guns, and polishing painting stuff anfd how come theyre not called out straight away in a civil emergency.

The likes of the teeth arms (infantry etc) will train. They spend a lot of time training for their role. There will also be a readiness cycle for a lot of the units who will have to rotate a duty of being on standby as the lead unit to be deployed anywhere as reqired by the govt. As said, a load are still in Afghanistan, so there are those preparing to go, those there and those just back.
The Corps (Royal Engineers, REME, Sigs etc) and most of the RAF do their job on a daily basis. All that equipment gets used in support of those training tasks and other ‘real’ jobs so it neds maintaining and looking after just the same as it does when being used in anger. Plus bomb disposal, search and rescue (for now), aircraft crash recovery, training for prison officer strikes etc etc.

As for being called out earlier – the civil authorities must exhaust mutual aid, the private sector and other agencies before calling for the forces. The military and the civil agencies are totally distinct for lots of reasons. There is work under way to improve the links, but the military are not trained too much in natural disaster recovery or any of the other 1000 tasks people think you can put untrained people in to when it is an emergency.
It is, of course, more complex than this, but you get the idea.

Just a point for a few of the more ignorant posters – it is often better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.

Little Life second hand. Can’t go wrong.

I can’t say enough good about Justified. Utterly under rated and with the best characters of any series. It just keeps on giving.

I’d probably go for a company that still exists!

A decent Mondeo diesel will give you some room and comfort at a decent price, although a Volvo V50 diesel was my car of choice for a long time.

Well I designed and supervised the construction of such things for a couple of years on behalf of Northumbrian Water and they were the guidelines and reasoning for clay stanks every 100m or so.

It also can add to flooding elsewhere as the water is being forced into a more direct route to another point, like straightening water courses.

What temperature is her room and what temperature is the rest of the house? I very much doubt that with PJs, blanket and duvet that temperature (other than too high) is the issue. Even your bedroom should be a few degrees cooler than the rest of the house.

They will just end up flapping around your thin legs and be really annoying. Stick with tights for riding. I tried both and sold the trousers pretty quickly.

Do as I advised. Perfectly acceptable. The water will make its way down the existing trench and basically soak away with the rest of the water that is making its way either in there or via other underground means.

Perfectly acceptable, unless you are responsible for the pipe and the additional water ends up washing the gravel away and fracturing the pipe. Given that installing clay stanks down a pipe run is designed to stop water running down the length of a gravel pipe bed, intentionally putting extra water there is not a great idea in the long term.

How many AA batteries would you need to supply the OP with the correct amount of Electroconvulsive therapy ?

Half a dozen in a football sock and I can provide him with contact counselling.

Don’t touch anything made in Italy – they size up for malnourished dwarf road rats. Endura the best I’ve had, or layer up with some leg warmers under something else.

My point is that if you’re careful and lucky you can avoid limb chopage, but sawdust and the noise will eventually damage your eyes and ears no matter how careful you are.

Not very much of a point and very badly made.

If you rely upon luck to stop a chainsaw when it catches your leg, but you are wearing a helmet and ear defs, you are not really doing a good job of looking after yourself.

which means that we are forced to wear stuff we don’t like.

As I said – do your own thing then. Go skyclad if it feels good. You either conform a lot, a little or not at all. Pick the one that you can cope with.

can I please be a prole too

If you have to ask permission, you are.

How come I’m arbiter? I’m suggesting that those who feel uncomfortable in certain clothes just wear something different. Seems reasonable enough.

Goggles / visor and ear defenders are cheap and can prevent life changing damage.

Not from the chin down they can’t.

Just stop and think for a minute where that saw is when it is running and in your hands.

Yes, that’s right. Your legs and feet.

my mother hasn’t bought any of my clothes since I was about 8.

Having seen the pictures, could we ask that she starts again. Please?

Oh look – a thread on stw where middle-aged pseudo-rebellious men have a chunter about clothes they don’t like. Why not just go your own way and hell- wear what you want? It might save you banging on about how impractical / uncomfortable / stupid it all is.
Other than molgrips, who is evidently a downtrodden prole.