• 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!

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    hacked debit card

    I help my sister manage her pennys, make sure DD's are setup that kind of thing. Every so often I check her online statements. I got a shock yesterday because there were loads of payments for small amounts £15 and £18. All to a company called Beyond who are a mobile phone company in australia...
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    Pond revamp

    That was harder than I thought it would be. Note the catwalk ladder for safe ingress into the pond. I found to my horror that normal ladders dont like fibreglassed areas. Just managed to save myself. swmbo had a cunning idea, wouldnt it be nice to see the fishys from the house. Theres a...
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    Pricing your work to sell

    I tried selling turned items at fairs a couple of times, ranging from big fruit bowls to little oak door wedges. Far too disheartening to keep trying. I still have a couple of crates of stuff in the loft. The only time I made money was selling magic wands with quarts ends to a hippy shop.
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    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    the curse of the bog oak strikith.
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    Pond revamp

    My sister lives a few doors down and I noticed that boggy smell, she had raw sewage coming up where the kitchen drain goes into. Covered a decent area. Council maintenance man came with his rods and said nope. The local water authority were called. Stuck his camera in. Apparently he thinks the...
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    Pond revamp

    I built this pond maybe 17years ago, it is block work fibreglassed. About four years ago a fish died without me noticing and made the water go bad which killed all of my koi. My own fault and totally preventable. We'd had some of the fish for over 20years. It has sat since then just stagnating...
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    How much???

    I keep telling the mrs that she lives in 'an owld council hoose' and buying bags of that nature is not befitting of her station. Now if someone very rich bought the seaton chest to use that would be impressive.
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    How much???

    I think ill go for the lorenzi milano set, a snip at 7k. Those cheap and nasty ferrules on the screwdrivers look especially nice. I cant imagine even stupidly rich people could be that naive. It is more like an april fools
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    Resawing thick timbers...

    Ive been keeping an eye out for some sleepers going cheap all winter, these turned up on facebook for £20 each so bought 25. I was half expecting bananas after ripping but I was pleased to see they stayed straight. I have a couple of garden gates to make and am rejuvinating my old koi pond so...
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    Resawing thick timbers...

    I've just resawn some oak sleepers, even with an 18" blade I get less than 4" depth of cut. Instead of doing as much as possible in one cut I halved it. They werent this years fresh crop of french oak and were quite dry but not properly square. Hardest part was carrying them.
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    Dogs’ understanding of time

    We have jack russels who wake up at 6:30 pretty much on the dot. Even when the clocks went wonky they still woke up at the new time. They can also tell the difference between me going in the shed or out. If I go in the shed they will lie down if I go out they will pine on the back of the couch...
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    Like the ocean under the moon

    Cracking work Sir. I like the use of the digital angle finder, much easier than sine bars.
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    Click-to-fit floor tiles

    I used something similar about 6years ago in our kitchen over the top of 1950's council dark brown tiles. (probably asbestos based). The floor seemed very flat and I cleaned it thoroughly before laying the new stuff. A couple areas needed some filling to repair damaged tiles. After 6years quite...
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    Bog oak and ash

    It always amazes me that they used to blow this stuff up to get rid of it.
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    Robert Thompson/Mouseman

    At 54 years I'd want a gallantry medal. ;)
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