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I've always read a lot so love books, not right keen in Kindle as I just don't feel the love for em. Audiobooks however? Yeah, I like them. Good for when I'm driving a lot.

IIRC the highest demand on the grid was several years ago (I have 2014 in my head but not sure) and as people have implememted power saving measures its dropped since, even with a higher population and more electric cars. Some electric cars have a vehicle to grid setup so can be used as short...

IIRC Coastal Redwoods are one of the few coniferous trees that can be coppiced. When you look at just how many invasive species gardeners have plagued this country with I can't see one pretty cool tree being the end of the world, sbeesh to read some of the answers it would seem you've shot their...

Removing that daft pointy bit on the end of the handle scales makes it look a lot better as well.

I need a purse? I thought I wasn't getting the full effect just using pockets and wondered how my wife did better. This stuff's complicated.

If youre gonna use a placebo its more effective if you pay for it using homeopathic cash*. *Its actually metal washers but they've been stored next to real coins for a while to make em more valuable.

I've worked on a few old buildings and most of the wattle slats round cumbria I've seen have been oak, I guess that if you're already cutting the oak trees for the house beams you might as well use it for the slats. As oaks not the most flexible wood I figure they might have soaked em in water...

Less use than a hammer that you get on some of them. Riggers axes are supposed to be absolute beasts for braying nails in and were used by the California timber framers. I have seen old UK firemans axes with a spike on the back (the things with a black handle saying its safe upto something...

In about 2010 or so I helped a mate set up a rally computer (glorified mileometer, or more accuracy kilometer...err...ometer) in her Landrover for a rally in North Africa. As I kept breaking the placky sporks but still liked the shape she bought me one of the Titanium Light My Fire sporks as a...

I'm not after it as I've got twentysomethinglostcount planes already. Iv'e been getting a few Lignum Vitae soled woodies recently and so far been quite impressed with em. However I am a particular fan of the 5 1/2 size of jackplane and Lie Neilson does make some very nice versions in the Bedrock...

That cabin footprint looks to be a fair size, somehow I'm surprised it's got a concrete floor but I like the way it's raised slightly from the outer edge where the frames sit. Something that the designers of some of the lodges at Center Parcs really should know, but obviously dont.

I'm a fan of the very bright colours on knife handles, when its in your hand you can't see it so much anyway and if you drop it in amongst some leaves its dead easy to find. Makes sense in my head anyway.

Our dog has the GPS co-ordinates of every bit of fox turd within the Cumbria area and if he lags behind on a walk then catches me up looking especially chuffed with himself its worth checking him over before letting him back into the van. Sometimes I see him sniff a few times then he just drops...

One thing I've done recently was to buy the coarsest diamond I could find on Ebay (I think its 60 grit) which I use for those times when I accidentally hit something like a nail with a chisel or plane blade edge. Plane blades being the worse cos the ding causes track marks in the wood I plane. I...

Dunno but I'll tag onto this thread cos I have a Diafold that I've had for yonks and although it's not the only diamond hone I own it is very handy for penknives and so on. As there's others for me to use it doesn't get full time usage, but I bought in 1999 and I'm still using it so IIRC it was...

I put one of the blue camping Gaz pierce to use ones on a fire when I was a naughty teenager. Retired to a safe distance... first the dent blew out to a bump on the bottom, launched a bit of charcoal about the area. Then maybe another thirty seconds later it blew the bottom off it with a...

I spotted a load of Yellow Stainers last week while walking the dog near Brampton (Cumbria) last weekend. Initially thought they were horse mushrooms but when I picked one and bruised it yellow I so I left it with its mates.

Oh, bit of a quote fail above, I only meant to quote John Fenna but I nonhandled it.

K Aye, a user here but one aspect of plane blades (or plane irons if we want to be picky and confuse people without need) is that theyre usage is pretty repeatable. Almost scientific, instead of braying a knife through a non homogeneous stick (or the worst I saw in about 1990, an oil drum ***)...