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[05omegav6]

... your diesel car is only managing 28mpg at 65mph in top gear on a level motorway...

Who would have thought an 80mph headwind would make such a difference 

[chrisgixer]

....when the oak tree at the bottom of next doors garden has blown down.

[Mr.OmegaMan]

.... When it snaps your Alloy/Steel CCTV camera off like a twig.  ...

[05omegav6]

....when the oak tree at the bottom of next doors garden has blown down.

Not surprised tbh, but not good much damage done?

[05omegav6]

.... When it snaps your Alloy/Steel CCTV camera off like a twig.  ...

Hollow tubes are best filled with expanding foam makes them almost bombproof...

[cd 2.2]

your bin is halfway down the street and it's magically emptied itself with the contents nowhere to be found 

[omega3000]

When the wheelie bin bends the wing mirror 

[chrisgixer]

....when the oak tree at the bottom of next doors garden has blown down.

Not surprised tbh, but not good much damage done?

Nope, got off lightly tbh. It's fallen away from the fence/garden so no other damage. It was an oak tree so it will save the acorns landing in their plastic shed roof in autumn, used to make a right racket.

[Stemo]

your bin is halfway down the street and it's magically emptied itself with the contents nowhere to be found 

Get in touch with the local council, that's recycling at its finest.

[tigers_gonads]

.... When it snaps your Alloy/Steel CCTV camera off like a twig.  ...

Hollow tubes are best filled with expanding foam makes them almost bombproof...

Now THAT is a good idea 

[Olympia5776]

I spent all day Thursday and then Friday morning clearing 21 , circa 100 year old Pine trees of between 20 to 24 inch diameter trunks from a 2 mile private road into a Castle here .
There is a second access road and after walking 75 yards down it I came across a fall of 20 trees lying on and against each other making it totally impossible even to try and crawl through them . God knows how many are down beyond that mass.
I can only describe it as if a large plane cut a swathe through the forest as it crash landed .
The ferocity of the storm winds on Wednesday was unprecedented down here and believe me they have experienced some storms from the South Atlantic approaches in the past. 
To cap it all there is a deep covering of snow on the mountains this morning .

[Lizzie_Zoom]

... your diesel car is only managing 28mpg at 65mph in top gear on a level motorway...

Who would have thought an 80mph headwind would make such a difference 

That reminds me of my first car with a slipping clutch! The A40 almost used to go backwards!

[05omegav6]

....when the oak tree at the bottom of next doors garden has blown down.

Not surprised tbh, but not good much damage done?

Nope, got off lightly tbh. It's fallen away from the fence/garden so no other damage. It was an oak tree so it will save the acorns landing in their plastic shed roof in autumn, used to make a right racket.

Every cloud...

[Rods2]

Just lost a tile off the side of the upstairs bay windows. But I also noticed some damp patches on the exposed side of the garage roof. That is two flat roofs that are going to need doing in the summer and being realistic where the back bay felt is the same age as the garage, it means all 3 roofs need doing. Time to invest in a 2nd hand tar heater me thinks, so me and the son in law can do them between us.

[TheBoy]

I had to recover one of my wheelie bins. Fortunately, it blew it away from the car

[Mr.OmegaMan]

.... When it snaps your Alloy/Steel CCTV camera off like a twig.  ...

Hollow tubes are best filled with expanding foam makes them almost bombproof...

It was this camera Link, Where it broke there wouldn't have been a way to do this.

On the hunt for a new camera now, Thanks windy wooo

[Kevin Wood]

Came back from the record shop to find my neighbour just finishing off repairs to my fence.

Can see a few new fence panels being required soon. Hopefully I can bodge these until the hysteria (and inflated prices) has passed.

Passed an 11kv cable dangling in the road on my travels. Hope that didn't surprise anyone when it went.

[chrisgixer]

A concrete stud(?) dug down the side of the original post, and a bag of postcrete is the cheapest way I've found to fix the snapped off fence post issue.


...but it helps if you have a compressor and an air hammer attachment.

[omega3000]

Dig down next to the snapped post , put in another post as near to the snapped post and pack out to upright then fill hole with postcrete  Worked on 2 of mine and been up 12 months with no problemo 

[Stemo]

I'm going to put a small fence in soon, but I'm going to use fence spikes.

[Gaffers]

Came back from the record shop to find my neighbour just finishing off repairs to my fence.

Can see a few new fence panels being required soon. Hopefully I can bodge these until the hysteria (and inflated prices) has passed.

Passed an 11kv cable dangling in the road on my travels. Hope that didn't surprise anyone when it went.

Spare on ehere if you need, not sure if it's the colour you want though.

[chrisgixer]

I'm going to put a small fence in soon, but I'm going to use fence spikes.

They rust and snap off the same as wood ones. But they are more if a bugger to dig out.

...or the wood post rots and snaps off just the same.

[Stemo]

I'm going to put a small fence in soon, but I'm going to use fence spikes.

They rust and snap off the same as wood ones. But they are more if a bugger to dig out.

...or the wood post rots and snaps off just the same.

That's right, just the same 

Saves digging holes though.

[Taxi_Driver]

I'm going to put a small fence in soon, but I'm going to use fence spikes.

They rust and snap off the same as wood ones. But they are more if a bugger to dig out.

...or the wood post rots and snaps off just the same.

Not if they are set in concrete.....my fence has spikes into concrete.....been there 20+ years, still good, tho i have replaced some of the posts, easy to remove if in spikes 

[pscocoa]

I'm going to put a small fence in soon, but I'm going to use fence spikes.

They rust and snap off the same as wood ones. But they are more if a bugger to dig out.

...or the wood post rots and snaps off just the same.

That's right, just the same 

Saves digging holes though.

As said these are not a long term option and depends on how solid your ground is. Better off biting the bullet with concrete panels and bases.

[Stemo]

I'm going to put a small fence in soon, but I'm going to use fence spikes.

They rust and snap off the same as wood ones. But they are more if a bugger to dig out.

...or the wood post rots and snaps off just the same.

That's right, just the same 

Saves digging holes though.

As said these are not a long term option and depends on how solid your ground is. Better off biting the bullet with concrete panels and bases.

It's gonna be 2' 6" to 3' high, to keep my little fickin nuisance westie from getting where she shouldn't oughta.
It will be fine but, of course, there's nowt like a ten page thread dedicated to the minutiae of fence erection.

[pscocoa]

Came back from the record shop to find my neighbour just finishing off repairs to my fence.

Can see a few new fence panels being required soon. Hopefully I can bodge these until the hysteria (and inflated prices) has passed.

Passed an 11kv cable dangling in the road on my travels. Hope that didn't surprise anyone when it went.

Record shop - do they exist or have you been to Somerset House?

[Stemo]

Came back from the record shop to find my neighbour just finishing off repairs to my fence.

Can see a few new fence panels being required soon. Hopefully I can bodge these until the hysteria (and inflated prices) has passed.

Passed an 11kv cable dangling in the road on my travels. Hope that didn't surprise anyone when it went.

Record shop - do they exist or have you been to Somerset House?

Yes. A term I haven't heard for years. Quite refreshing really.

[pscocoa]

How many pages would the thread be if we narrowed it down to "erection" only. Or would it all go quiet?

[Stemo]

How many pages would the thread be if we narrowed it down to "erection" only. Or would it all go quiet?

It might this end. 

[chrisgixer]

I'm going to put a small fence in soon, but I'm going to use fence spikes.

They rust and snap off the same as wood ones. But they are more if a bugger to dig out.

...or the wood post rots and snaps off just the same.

That's right, just the same 

Saves digging holes though.

Well, no, because they snap off just the same. And belting one of those in the ground is just as hard work. But they also vear off straight when they hit a stone or hard ground, the tools for knocking them in disintegrate after the first post.

Concrete posts, hole dug with a spade not a post digger. Job done. They won't ever failure to weather. If a panel collapses lift it out, drop a new one in.

Oh but I was forgetting, long term ownership isn't top of the list.

[chrisgixer]

How many pages would the thread be if we narrowed it down to "erection" only. Or would it all go quiet?

It might this end. 

Yeah something you want to talk about pscocoa ?