Onoff Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Easy fix...ever heard the term "cordwood"? Its a wall made from logs on edge. You could even wedge that cold one in and save a trip to the bottle bank! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Harris Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 9 minutes ago, Onoff said: Easy fix...ever heard the term "cordwood"? Its a wall made from logs on edge. You could even wedge that cold one in and save a trip to the bottle bank! A cord is 128ft³ of wood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cord_(unit) I'm pretty sure it may have originated around the time that wood fired steam transport (railroads and steamers) were cutting down millions of trees for fuel along their routes. There was a US TV programme on back in the 1960s about a river boat (I think it was on the Mississippi) , and they seemed to always be stopping to pick up cords of wood for fuel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonshine Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 13 hours ago, Patrick said: @Russell griffithscame to my rescue with his mate. Chopped up the tree in no time with their magic chainsaw skills : You owe them quite a few cold ones, for quickly getting you out of what could have needed an expensive solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 On 17/07/2019 at 06:45, Russell griffiths said: Would happily have done it for you for a bit of exchange labour. Hand dredging your lake maybe or "man in the water" when you lay the GSHP loop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 All this talk of people being safe makes me sick. At least branch could have caught one of you in the nads, just as a social comment 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 2 minutes ago, SteamyTea said: All this talk of people being safe makes me sick. At least branch could have caught one of you in the nads, just as a social comment Health and Safety - yeah right, Pfffff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Harris Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 37 minutes ago, Patrick said: Health and Safety - yeah right, Pfffff. The H&S fanatics would have had kittens a short time ago, watching me up a ladder, manhandling a 23kg air con outdoor unit on to a set of brackets under the eaves... The bastard is up there now, though, and I'm never getting it down. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 2 minutes ago, JSHarris said: The H&S fanatics would have had kittens a short time ago, watching me up a ladder, manhandling a 23kg air con outdoor unit on to a set of brackets under the eaves... The bastard is up there now, though, and I'm never getting it down. ???? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 3 minutes ago, JSHarris said: The H&S fanatics would have had kittens a short time ago, watching me up a ladder, manhandling a 23kg air con outdoor unit on to a set of brackets under the eaves... The bastard is up there now, though, and I'm never getting it down. I did nearly comment on whether you were safe working on your own, but I would have done just the same ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 (edited) For anybody following this. I uploaded the timelapse to my Blog now . Edited July 18, 2019 by Patrick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 49 minutes ago, Patrick said: For anybody following this. I uploaded the timelapse to my Blog now. The music is a nice touch. I was wondering whether you might go with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrerahill Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 21 hours ago, JSHarris said: A cord is 128ft³ of wood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cord_(unit) I'm pretty sure it may have originated around the time that wood fired steam transport (railroads and steamers) were cutting down millions of trees for fuel along their routes. There was a US TV programme on back in the 1960s about a river boat (I think it was on the Mississippi) , and they seemed to always be stopping to pick up cords of wood for fuel. If I have a cord of wood ready at the end of each summer I have a gas bill of about £6 a month all winter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdinand Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 (edited) Is that wall listed? Sorry .. was that wall listed, before it demolished itself ? ? Edited July 18, 2019 by Ferdinand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 1 hour ago, Ferdinand said: Is that wall listed? Sorry .. was that wall listed, before it demolished itself ? ? Listed? Or listing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 Looks like it might have listed a bit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterW Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 2 hours ago, JSHarris said: The H&S fanatics would have had kittens a short time ago, watching me up a ladder, manhandling a 23kg air con outdoor unit on to a set of brackets under the eaves... The bastard is up there now, though, and I'm never getting it down. Hope you’ve got a nice installation video of that bit .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Harris Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 4 minutes ago, PeterW said: Hope you’ve got a nice installation video of that bit .... Sadly not, and if I had it'd have been a long one, given that it took me several goes to get the thing up there. It's fixed now, just needs plumbing, wiring and testing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 3 hours ago, Ferdinand said: Is that wall listed? Sorry .. was that wall listed, before it demolished itself ? ? The wall fortunatley isn t listed. It belongs to the council and as far as I'm aware, it has been like that since these last terrible storms a few weeks ago . But as a good citizen i am willing to put it back together myself without making a big fuss about it ? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassanclan Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 7 hours ago, Patrick said: For anybody following this. I uploaded the timelapse to my Blog now . Sorry I think I'm a bit slow. Have you got a link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 2 minutes ago, bassanclan said: Sorry I think I'm a bit slow. Have you got a link? http://tintabernacle.blogspot.com Nornally this is my signature, but somehow it's not visible in the mobile version of buildhub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 Just watched the time lapse and vids. With hindsight eh??? That was going the way it went all day long. It was slanted and weighted that way. The wedge the opposite side just helped it. The rope did jack, presume it snapped? Lesson learnt etc. Glad now that Amazon cancelled my order for a bargain chainsaw recently! ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Posted July 19, 2019 Author Share Posted July 19, 2019 7 hours ago, Onoff said: The rope did jack, presume it snapped? Lesson learnt ? Luckily the distance where it fell was about a few meters less than where it was standing, so we didn't have that one whipping through the air. But yes, in the time-lapse it is quite easy to see where it s going fairly early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdinand Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 (edited) 9 hours ago, Onoff said: Just watched the time lapse and vids. With hindsight eh??? That was going the way it went all day long. It was slanted and weighted that way. The wedge the opposite side just helped it. The rope did jack, presume it snapped? Lesson learnt etc. Glad now that Amazon cancelled my order for a bargain chainsaw recently! ? The rope issue is, I think, that it only works in tension, and cannot apply any force once even slightly slack. And a non-elastic rope is unable to apply any force as soon as the tree moves even half an inch in that direction - other than to prevent it falling the other way if it moves back. Think about towing a car with a non-dampened rope downhill. There was a old 'background' joke in the Beano, where a guy is pulling a sausage along the pavement on a lead. "Why is he pulling a sausage on a lead?" "Because he can't push it, silly !" You need a special sort of powered or spring loaded pulley that takes up the slack continuously. Or a suitable dampened elastic rope. F Edited July 19, 2019 by Ferdinand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 I once cut a tree down that fell the wrong way, roped and loads of tension, the tree was on the edge of a wood and I did not realise all the branches and greenery were on the outside, guess which side weighed more? Rope snapped and the tree landed on my car, horsebox, etc. Luckily there was so much soft greenery it did virtually no damage, lucky eh!. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Posted July 19, 2019 Author Share Posted July 19, 2019 @joe90 I'm glad this happened to others.since releasing my story, I had loads of people coming up with their tree cutting mistake stories, so seems to be more widely spread. Which makes me feel a tiny bit less stupid (only tiny) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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