• 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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    The Mighty Sturgeon

    Sturgeon: an anadromous* bottom-feeder with poor eyesight which, when threatened, stirs up mud to cover its escape. * I must confess, I misread that word as a Greek compound with similar sound but very different meaning…
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    Scam alert

    Oh, grow up Temple… [snigger].
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    Coronated

    I’ve had the ‘language evolves’ argument thrown at me many a time, and I agree, basically. But, as @SamQ aka Ah! Q! will tell you, it implies that many words that come into existence are pruned away by ‘selection pressures’ - pedants. So, think of us as a vital cog in the machine…
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    Coronated

    That’s what my old Dad used to call it! He got gentle mockery, asking why he didn’t call the car a ‘horseless’ :giggle:
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    Coronated

    I’ll take you deep into the weeds of pedantry… https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/143/1/374/5679563 In short, the original Greek is ‘νεῦρον’ which transliterates as ‘neuron’, because the penultimate letter is an omicron, a short ‘o’, not an omega, a long ‘o’. It originally meant ‘sinew’...
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    Coronated

    Well, I’ve certainly done my share of scoffing at US English, but thinking of our American friends on here, such as @BentonTool *, I’ll offer a couple of little counterpoints. They’re better at using the subjunctive: US papers will state, ‘they asked that he ensure the safety of…’. You hardly...
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    Scam alert

    New scammer: user byranian7. No posts, but a PM offering something I had in the Wanted section. Same format as above.
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    AI for Technophobes

    I hope you gave it a byte to eat before the flight. Maybe a nybble of a Kernal?
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    AI for Technophobes

    A pretty good AI image; I can’t see any extra fingers or other oddities. AI seems to have got better even just in the last year. Probably learning at an exponential rate (like Skynet did!). But, the C64 box doesn’t look big enough for all the peripherals (datasette, power supply brick). Seems...
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    AI for Technophobes

    I have to put this in. This prescient story did highlight the need for ‘kill switches’ in AI. Did you know, in the film, the head-up display of the T-800 shows 6502 processor assembly language scrolling up? This processor was used in the Apple II and a similar one in my beloved Commodore 64...
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    AI for Technophobes

    I find it quite useful, getting a lot of fixit jobs from neighbours, etc. Recently, I asked it to find me a flywheel key and blade bolt for some old rusty mower, and it found them for me! Talk about doom-scrolling Facebook, I used to have to doom-scroll for spare parts. Example 2: “spec me SWA...
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    Alaskan milling, ‘carport’, roof trusses

    I went for double curves in the end. Using the same jig with the outside curve drawn on the other side. Then the router to round over the long sides: Looking at that pile under the planer, and the time taken, you’d think I’d have made a hundred of these, but no, only eight. I have a renewed...
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    Alaskan milling, ‘carport’, roof trusses

    Between you, me and the gate post, it’ll be around 36”. The span is only 9ft or so, and the main building trusses are actually more like 48” apart.
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    Alaskan milling, ‘carport’, roof trusses

    I thought I had the pics ready when I started the post. You might not approve of the trusses… Having ripped up the boards, I kept the faces rough-sawn, but just ran one edge across the planer, so I had something to measure angles from. Ugly (but sitting there free of charge in the shop) OSB...
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    Alaskan milling, ‘carport’, roof trusses

    Ouch. The biggest slabs I’m dealing with might be 50kg, and the sharp corners are nippy enough when moving them on the trestles. Wouldn’t want one dragged down my legs, that’s for sure. Ian, I’d say logging felled trees would be a lower risk level than climbing or felling, but if you want to go...
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    Alaskan milling, ‘carport’, roof trusses

    I’d say, for snedding and logging up a felled tree, I could show you the ropes quite quickly, maybe working with you for the first bit. I’m not sure a formal course is needed. For biggish trees on the ground, I’d go partially through all the way along, not letting the bar go in the dirt, then...
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    Alaskan milling, ‘carport’, roof trusses

    Please tell - it might be a valuable lesson. I don’t festoon myself with chainsaw safety gear when doing it, as I should. Just some earplugs on a string and my undivided attention. Of all the chainsaw tasks I do, this seems fairly low-risk, to me. The saw is pretty well restricted, except for...
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    Alaskan milling, ‘carport’, roof trusses

    Yes, and it’s hard to justify that for some home milling. I can’t remember exactly, but the mill frame, a 30” bar and rip chain wasn’t much more than £250 all in. Disadvantages: slow, large kerf, surface finish and precision not great, and setting up the first two orthogonal cuts is a bit of a...
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    Alaskan milling, ‘carport’, roof trusses

    Just to show I don’t spend all my time on here yakking about sausages and fish recipes, here’s the start of filling in the gap in my U-shaped workshop, ex-stables. It’ll have a clear roof and be more of a covered yard: The post supports can only keep the uprights in place on the ground; they...
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    White “Faskut” saw

    Yes, I’m not getting my hopes up too much. For example - the bandsaw’s been sitting there unused for probably ten years, but the minute someone wants to buy it, it’ll be a case of “oh no, I’ve got plans for that…”. Fair enough - I’d likely be the same.
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