• 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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    Do we have any civil 'road' engineers on the forum ?

    As Duke says, it's more likely that the sub-grade has failed which has caused the surfacing to break up. HGVs and water are a common cause for this damage in minor roads which have a very light construction and only suitable for local light traffic. There is no point in carrying out resurfacing...
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    Butterflies

    Very few butterflies where I am in North Oxfordshire, also in parts of Bucks. I imagine it's weather related - too wet, too cold, too hot etc.
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    Kitchen Table - Finished!

    Many thanks for this very detailed and interesting post Nick. Excellent work indeed.
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    Reducing road noise in the garden

    I spent much of my life working on highway projects where ecoustic fencing was widely used to protect close-by housing etc from excessive noise and always believed that the fence had a double purpose which was partly to absorb the noise and secondly to deflect it above the houses in fairly equal...
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    Chisel Sharpening - Subtleties in Flattening Backs

    I experienced unpleasant posts on sharpening at the other place but here it's much more friendly and and serious when discussed, so I for one find good posts on the subject very welcome.
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    Hi 2

    Welcome Ian
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    Wellingtonia trees

    Thanks for your post Eric, very interesting. I've seen them in California, absolutely massive. There are some very good specimens at Batsford Arboretum near Moreton-in-Marsh as well as many other interesting tree and shrub species from Europe, the Americas and Asia particularly China. and well...
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    Ultra-processed food ?

    When I was a young boy I can remember my mother cooking nettles as an extra vegetable but can't remember what it tasted like.
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    I hate MIDGES

    I agree about the midgies in West Scotland but to change the species a little I've not recovered yet from a birdwatching trip to the Everglades where the mosquitoes were big enough and numerous enough to carry you off.
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    New to The Wood Haven II

    Welcome Bernadette.
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    When day-to-day life changes in an instant

    So sorry to learn of your wife's terrible accident Al. I send my best wishes for her recovery.
  12. J

    A present for an old friend (finished).....bog oak scraps available.

    Fantastic Mike. Your friend will be delighted.
  13. J

    An oilstone box

    Brilliant Andy, and your selection of hand-tools is a joy to behold.
  14. J

    Cuckoo

    I saw one flying about a week ago. A beautiful bird. It's from the family Cuculus, which has ten members which are spread throughout Europe, Asia and Africa.
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    Hi

    Welcome Rob. Good to hear of your conversion to hand tools. I have just two machines, a planer thicknesser and a bandsaw.
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    Hello to all

    Sorry about that Adrian - it's my muddled mind I'm afraid. Also apologies to you Geoff.
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    Hello to all

    Welcome Adrian. Lovely workshop - bigger than mine.
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    New Member Herein

    Welcome Babangida.
  19. J

    A Ming table

    I had never dreampt that such a complicated joint could ever exist. Many congratulations Gary for this amazing work.
  20. J

    Hello all

    Welcome Tris from West Oxfordshire
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