• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Recent content by CHJ

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    The Bas…..s got me 11 times

    Sympathies, the smaller ground nesting species of Wasps in the UK are the most aggressive, go immediately into swarm attack mode when nest is disturbed.
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    Miserden Sculpture Trail

    Some well Engineered Art there.
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    Charging Modern Batteries in High Ambient Temperatures.

    During the UK's short excursing into High Air Temps and relatively high humidity recently, I had occasion to place several small gardening appliance batteries on charge. Now even at 'normal' UK temps, these batteries often have to spend some time cooling down before the chargers will deem it...
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    The Benefits Of A Hobby After Retirement

    Based on my experiences I would say personal wellbeing after retirement is dependant upon having an existing sound hobby or significant project to aid the transition and fill the void left when retiring from the enforce routine of full time employment. Very early voluntary/self induced...
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    Blood pressure

    Thanks for the thought, just another little niggle to add to the collection of age related manifestations that make determining if more pressing alarm bells are starting to ring in earnest. One thing that the last 2 years or so have taught me is that YOU SHOULD READ all those long missives...
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    Blood pressure

    I was left on too high a dose of Omeprazole for too long due to lack of proper meds review and ended up with peripheral nerve problems (constant severe pins and needles in feet and hands) due it would seem to lack of B12 etc. absorption. Taking B12 supplement rapidly corrected deficiency but...
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    Blood pressure

    AS an A-fib sufferer, which in hindsight must have been progressively getting worse for several years before a definitive full bells and whistles diagnosis was triggered. Only medical concession to the problem so far is to take blood thinner to reduce stroke risk from cavitation clots. Main...
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    Mystery SMS messages...

    Had similar TXT last week in middle of max heat from DPD telling me My Fresh Dog Meat order was being delivered lunch time. Quite a surprise,. *** As it arrived within a few seconds and sandwiched between TXT messages from hospital Haematology/Oncology department, was wondering what to expect...
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    Makerfield

    Serves them right, for being thin skinned, should have put up a solid defence.
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    Makerfield

    I suppose some will say that it was a pivotable event, all being firmly Pinned down and Knuckles wrapped.
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    Osmo UV-Protection oil - still sticky and tacky

    Applying any Polymerising oil too generously always risks curing problems because once surface skin forms it seals off oxygen access to the underlying oils thus increasing 'cure' time. This becomes very annoyingly obvious if you attempt to burnish an oiled surface too soon before 'curing' is...
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    Osmo UV-Protection oil - still sticky and tacky

    Any milage, as it is one of the ingredients, in wiping down areas subject to personal contact with White spirit to thin down and remove excess unabsorbed coating?
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    Unusual scrapers, or are they?

    According to Google:- "This is a traditional woodworking tool known as a "centipede plane" or U-shaped planer, featuring a rosewood handle and multiple manganese steel blades for leveling straight circular parts of hardwood. [1, 2]" Link to Alibarba.com Looks like my original link is a...
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    Unusual scrapers, or are they?

    Never seen this format before. YouTube short video link.
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    Battery chain saws

    Due to enforced serious rethink about plot maintenance we have indulged in a selection of Stihl battery items, we have both the secateurs** , which have made the manual loppers more or less redundant, and they do indeed cut 25mm mature wood with ease; and the small grass/shrub trimmer which is...
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