pwa wrote:My Felco secateurs, a simple and perfectly formed bit of engineering that I have been using since about 1990. Apart from a bit of worn plastic coating on the grips they are in great condition and still cut perfectly. Very occasionally I dismantle them (it?) and clean everything, sharpen the edge with emery paper, and reassemble with olive oil as lube to avoid contaminating plants.
Now I am temptaterated to post pics of beautiful woodworking tools I have, along with verbose and flowing praise for their many fine attributes and capabilities.
But you'd all get bored. Still .............
Part of the plane fleet
Mammy plane with her snappers
Cugel
PS The ladywife has a pair o' them Felcos and does wax-lyrical about them from time to time.
“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence are usually the slaves of some defunct economist”.
John Maynard Keynes
Tangled Metal wrote:If you're ever near me I'll let my border terrier meet you. She's often friendly, and walks off with the wrong humans occasionally. Not that I'm trying to palm her off on you!
PS you don't mind dogs that jump up at you and try to lick you around your muzzle do you? It's just a dog thing but some don't like it.
I dont as they also lick their arses
I've not seen a collie do so. But they are fastidious beasts. For example, they will not tolerate a fly landing upon their sensitive personages and see them orf with extreme prejudice.
But reading your post, I have been thinking I might do more stretching.......
Cugel
Get your lower ribs taken out surgically. It'll possibly help. So I've heard... Ahem.
pwa wrote:My Felco secateurs, a simple and perfectly formed bit of engineering that I have been using since about 1990. Apart from a bit of worn plastic coating on the grips they are in great condition and still cut perfectly. Very occasionally I dismantle them (it?) and clean everything, sharpen the edge with emery paper, and reassemble with olive oil as lube to avoid contaminating plants.
Now I am temptaterated to post pics of beautiful woodworking tools I have, along with verbose and flowing praise for their many fine attributes and capabilities.
But you'd all get bored. Still .............
Planes-1.jpg
Planes-1-2.jpg
Cugel
PS The ladywife has a pair o' them Felcos and does wax-lyrical about them from time to time.
That's a messy workshop. Clean up after every session in there. A clean workshop is a good thing. A messy one leads to poor work I was once told
pwa wrote:My Felco secateurs, a simple and perfectly formed bit of engineering that I have been using since about 1990. Apart from a bit of worn plastic coating on the grips they are in great condition and still cut perfectly. Very occasionally I dismantle them (it?) and clean everything, sharpen the edge with emery paper, and reassemble with olive oil as lube to avoid contaminating plants.
Now I am temptaterated to post pics of beautiful woodworking tools I have, along with verbose and flowing praise for their many fine attributes and capabilities.
But you'd all get bored. Still .............
Planes-1.jpg
Planes-1-2.jpg
Cugel
PS The ladywife has a pair o' them Felcos and does wax-lyrical about them from time to time.
That's a messy workshop. Clean up after every session in there. A clean workshop is a good thing. A messy one leads to poor work I was once told
The shavings were so nice, fine, translucent, gossamer and otherwise purfek that I couldn't bear to throw them out into the woodburner ignition-fodder sack. The ladywife had to do it.
Cugel, a plane fetisher and fondler.
“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence are usually the slaves of some defunct economist”.
John Maynard Keynes
“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence are usually the slaves of some defunct economist”.
John Maynard Keynes
More pictures of woodworking tools please Still planning to visit the wood (forest) museum and report back, but there is only a train connection every two hours .. Had a good Woodwork Master at school, he negotiated the purchase of a Hafod not so far from Brechfa for a few hundred pounds (c1970), turned it into a sort of hostel for schoolkids
Entertainer, juvenile, curmudgeon, PoB, 30120 Cycling-of course, but it is far better on a Gillott We love safety cameras, we hate bullies
Boring I know but a tail wind an a downhill. One happiest day We had a gale force tail wind all along the Black Isle to the Cromarty ferry, averaging near 30mph fully loaded. Would have been perfect but for the ferry not operating.
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Entertainer, juvenile, curmudgeon, PoB, 30120 Cycling-of course, but it is far better on a Gillott We love safety cameras, we hate bullies
I'm loving all the replies Think I'll put this thread in my little bag of things that make me happy
Supporter of the A10 corridor cycling campaign serving Royston to Cambridge http://a10corridorcycle.com. Never knew gardening secateurs were an essential part of the on bike tool kit until I took up campaigning.....
Cugel wrote: Now I am temptaterated to post pics of beautiful woodworking tools I have, along with verbose and flowing praise for their many fine attributes and capabilities.
But you'd all get bored. Still .............
Planes-1.jpg
Planes-1-2.jpg
Cugel
PS The ladywife has a pair o' them Felcos and does wax-lyrical about them from time to time.
That's a messy workshop. Clean up after every session in there. A clean workshop is a good thing. A messy one leads to poor work I was once told
The shavings were so nice, fine, translucent, gossamer and otherwise purfek that I couldn't bear to throw them out into the woodburner ignition-fodder sack. The ladywife had to do it.
Cugel, a plane fetisher and fondler.
I can understand that. Both good photos. Made me feel happy looking at the planes but I'm not a woodworker so can't understand why.
Tangled Metal wrote:I can understand that. Both good photos. Made me feel happy looking at the planes but I'm not a woodworker so can't understand why.
To add to the excellent suggestion of a tail wind, I once did a 200k Audax ride from Bishop's Cleeve, Cheltenham on a very windy day. It was a big mistake. The weather person on the telly had forecast gale force winds and advised against unnecessary journeys, but Audax folk are tough and don't listen to such warnings. For the first 140k or so I had a stiff headwind where I was struggling to pedal the bike even going downhill, or a very dodgy sidewind that had me leaning the bike over and struggling to keep a line. And at each control (check point) I was just on time, with no time to spare.
Then there came that magic moment, where I came to the last section and the route turned a corner and the wind became a pure tail wind. I was cycling on the flat without pedalling. It was as if I had a motor on the bike. Maybe 60k of the easiest cycling followed and I felt very happy. Even so, I resolved not do any more Audax rides on stupidly windy days.
pwa wrote:To add to the excellent suggestion of a tail wind, I once did a 200k Audax ride from Bishop's Cleeve, Cheltenham on a very windy day. It was a big mistake. The weather person on the telly had forecast gale force winds and advised against unnecessary journeys, but Audax folk are tough and don't listen to such warnings. For the first 140k or so I had a stiff headwind where I was struggling to pedal the bike even going downhill, or a very dodgy sidewind that had me leaning the bike over and struggling to keep a line. And at each control (check point) I was just on time, with no time to spare.
Then there came that magic moment, where I came to the last section and the route turned a corner and the wind became a pure tail wind. I was cycling on the flat without pedalling. It was as if I had a motor on the bike. Maybe 60k of the easiest cycling followed and I felt very happy. Even so, I resolved not do any more Audax rides on stupidly windy days.
Once had a similar expeience a long time ago cycling from Kings Lynn to Lowestoft Tail wind all the way across East Anglia , got home in record time. I didnt want to stop, but the North Sea stood in the way....
A rather wet and windy ride home years ago (during my old cycle commute days that lasted one spring into summer but ended with summer rains) I got my best time home. It worked out as a 24mph average speed without accounting for stops at lights so included time stopped. That was why miles so nothing spectacular but a long way my best.
However I'm claiming that it wasn't wind assisted because most of the way had a side wind (actually all but the sheltered sections had side winds).
However my best modern commute home was wind assisted and average speed 16. something mph over 7 miles not including stops only moving time. That's 10 years difference in time for you.
Sorry, first was a happy thing, second less so. I'll go before positivity gets reduced!