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I've done it once on a SIP bandsaw. Can't remember where I bought the tyres from but I can remember it was a nightmare. I ended up using about a dozen screwdrivers to lever them into position as they were so tight

None of it looks like yew. It looks like cherry to me.

Rats have many natural predators here but, they are rodents and where there is enough food and shelter they multiply quickly. They are prey. That is what prey does. Rats can be released from a trap quite legally. Why you would want to go to the effort of trapping a rat and then letting it go...

There is no such legal classification

I'm sorry but that's total nonsense. Are woodburner salesmen also qualified meteoroligists? How do they know that you'll only need your woodburner at full capacity for a few days a year? Every winter is totally different to the one that preceeded it these days. I'd be pretty annoyed if...

Eh? That's daft. Why wouldn't you just worj out the output needed then get a stove with the output needed? Rather than more or less? If you get one smaller, you needed less surely? That's like knowing you'll need a car with an 80 litre fuel tank to undertake a journey but getting one with a...

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This is what I do. Amazon packaging is pretty good to stuff full of shavings. I had one of the cheao briquette makers when we moved house as we had so much packing paper and cardboard left over. I let it soak in a water butt for a few days until it was really pulpy then pressed it into...

Crimeny! I just read through thisbthread and realised I could have spent the time woodworking.

No. That's definitely not been true for me. I've felled hundreds of lime trees so I've seen a fair few freshly cut stumps. I was just going off the little bits of epicormic growth you can see off the main stem.

Another vote for oak

Looks like lime to me.

This. I pour vinegar into the pan overnight and into the cistern. If it's really stubborn then add citric acid crystals as well.

I don't "still" have one. But I do have one. When my grandfather died and my grandmother was clearing out his garage I took his old sea chest which had a mixture of hand tools in it. Including one of these hacksaws, which I use fairly frequently.

Was her dad a DIY er? Maybe he'd been stashing it.