• 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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    What Birds Have You Seen Today

    Green woodpeckers are funny birds. Their cry sounds like a hysterical clown laughing. We have quite a few of them in our spruce nursery. Unlike other woodpeckers, green woodpeckers are found on the ground much of the time. You will never see them on a feeding table. Ants are the only thing they...
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    The Benefits Of A Hobby After Retirement

    Just like NickM I have been lucky to be able to retire quite young after I sold my company. People warned me about, what around here is called, "The Black Hole". They mean no longer having any obligation and by extension not doing anything anymore. Well, sometimes I wish. But no, it seems I have...
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    A question for dog owners …

    We used to have one. But later we noticed that our dog prefers a cooling collar (I hope that's what they are called in English). So, now the mat is somewhere where I'll probably can't find it when I meet someone who wants to have it.
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    Bees like the Blue False Indigo.

    Yeah indeed. She was extremely friendly and good-natured. She even had a habit to go and sit on my wife's hand when she came in the coop to feed her some treats. She would pick up the treats from her hand and then flap her wings to land on her hand. You should have seen my wife's eyes the first...
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    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    July the 19th we can get our new rescue from Italy. We have to drive to Germany to get him, but it will be worth it. It will be our 6th rescue. This one is already 10 years old. But that doesn't mean he doesn't deserve a few years living the good live. Enjoy your fluffy new friend. Watch your...
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    Bees like the Blue False Indigo.

    They are popping up everywhere around here. Many people even consider them to be weeds. I don't. Me and my wife love them. But we always have a bit of a sad feeling when we see them. One of our chickens managed to get to one of them through the fence of the coop and ate it. Well, it didn't enjoy...
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    Bees like the Blue False Indigo.

    Beautiful! We have lots of digitalis around here. They seem to be magnets for bumblebees.
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    Mumbles

    Having been on the receiving end of an Eagle-Owl's talons (Oehoe as we call them), there's no way I would dare to call him a wimp. ;) I had come too close to it's nest without realising it. It went into full attack mode to protect its off-spring. Who can blame it. Such impressive animals!
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    Pond revamp

    Instead of testing strips I used to use measuring devices from Milwaukee (*) when I had my Koi pond. They are affordable and much easier to use /accurate to read. It really helped me to keep the water quality up to par. (*) Same name, but not the Red tool maker.
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    The Mighty Sturgeon

    The guy who adopted my Koi when I had to stop my hobby has one in his pond. Just by looking at it I think it must be just a little bit over 2 meters big! I thought my Yamabuki and Kohaku were big at just under 1 meter, but that fish was in another class altogether!
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    What Is Your Self Afflicted Annoyance

    Mine is checking whether I have locked the door, while knowing I did. I can't count the times I walked back to check after having locked a door just seconds before. I must be daft. Or getting Alzheimer's...
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    Osmo UV-Protection oil - still sticky and tacky

    I agree. That doesn't look like rot at all to me. Just very soft wood that has a lot of tear out. Seeing how wide those growth rings are at that spot I am not surprised it happened exactly there. That spot will be softer than normal. But I can't be sure of the grain direction from the screen. On...
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    Mike builds a teardrop (finished........but.......)

    I already admired your skills, but now I also admire you work ethics. Man, it seems you are just unstoppable. One question (you might already have written something about it, but I can't remember): what are you going to do about those wheels? Will the be wheel arches?
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    Osmo UV-Protection oil - still sticky and tacky

    Ignoring the obvious thing about cedar's properties: but Osmo will *always* get sticky if it is applied too thick. They recommend to use a *thin* layer, but in practise I regularly see that people apply it way too thick. In fact I see that more often than not. Especially when it is rolled on...
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    Probably Bye for now...

    Nope, not daft at all. That is exactly how I feel too. (y)
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    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    When my hamstring was fixed a long time ago I resolved to (re)learning German. I lived there as a child, but neglected it so much I was not longer fluent by any measure. But in the end I just learned another programming language (switched from perl to python). At least it gave me something to do...
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    Well that’s another f&£king awful day!

    So sweet!
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    So it is Spring now, for me it's still Winter

    What an absolutely wonderful sight! We have a few of them, but you'd need to find them among all the wood anemone.
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    Festool ts55 blades

    Be careful when you buy your blades. The F version of the TS55 uses the thinner blades, just like Doug 71 wrote. Those thinner blades won't fit on the older TS55 track saws (to thin to get a proper grip on). Also beware that your riving knife has to be a bit thinner than the kerf made by the...
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    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    Bad luck always seems to come in waves. It is hard losing a beloved animal. All the best for both your leg and your loss.
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