Recent content by Clatters

Thanks for your comments. They have been cut and the ends sealed with Zinsser stain block before being stacked in the wood shed, ready to emerge in 5 years time.

I have a mate who is a tree surgeon and he frequently drops branches and tree rings onto my drive for me to cut up and use as firewood. Yesterday he delivered some hazel, ash and quite a lot of maple, some of which has burrs. Most of the branches are fairly straight and around 2m long but vary...

If something was lost, but later found, my mum would say, “It’s always in the last place you look.” If I pointed out that once you’d found it you wouldn’t carry on looking, she pointed out that I was “…just being silly.”

You might need to take the startup spike into account (that probably has a better name for it). If I try to run my 1.8kW log splitter on my 3kW generator then the startup spike exceeds the rating of the genny and it cuts out. I’m given to understand, and I’m most certainly not an expert, that...

Thank you for your answers and your tips, which I will heed. I am new to all this but am very pleased to find a place where I can get help when needed. As for the skip, I was very fortunate. I work in a school and happened to be walking past a skip outside the Technology Department when I saw...

Hi. I have rescued three vices from going into a skip; two Record 52 E's and a Record 55. Thanks to a 2015 post from AndyT, I was able to source the correct size of screw and am now ready to clean them up, make up some wooden linings for the jaws and install them for use. I am unsure which wood...

I am currently splitting up some bits and pieces of a London plane for firewood. It is a very unusual colour, almost salmon pink.