thursday toujours jeudi

sungod

'ning

comfy chair in eurostar lounge for pre-train espresso away from the hubbub, off for chinwag with gmc punter of gmc, tartare et bier, return

tlw1

Great night watching Ranulph Fiennes last night, don’t think he means to be so funny, but no empathy at all.

Today is meeting fun followed by getting stuff together for Saturdays race

thistle_

Morning
Took a fun bike to work today and not the usual one. Hopefully giving it to a colleague to do park and pedal.
Holiday packing later aka running round in a panic.

surfercyclist

Morning. Dry, breezy but sunny although cool. Ride on cards after I've cleaned the mess up I just made. Dropped whole bowl of porridge on kitchen floor. Plastic bowl so didn't break but splattered everywhere inc over wife. She wasn't overly impressed it has to be said...

haydenm

Morning, feckin cold this morning. Got home quite late from riding last night to the OH complaining the house was cold. We have 3 log burners and central heating, it's not my fault she's totally useless. On the riding note, I think I have arthritis in my fingers :?

step83

Who turned of the heating?!? very cold this morning attempting to walk the hound (she was having none of it).
It'll be winter in no time now!

Surfers accidental brekkie bukkake likely livened up the morning. very little occurring today on account of my sudden rush of s*** to the brain declining Italy. Reminds me I do need to invest in a bike box for these sorts of things!

Anyway coffee, muffin and snooze.

surfercyclist

Brekkie bukkake - yes it was rather like that!

homers_double

sungod wrote:

lounge

All T1's lounges are booked for weekend so I'll have to sit with the great unwashed on their way to the Costas.

Pretty bored today, truck needs filling up with wood as I suspect the wood burner will be going on soon, may try and bunk off early as it's sunny and go for a ride.

step83

Oooh wood burner, reminds me I have some seasoned fruit wood to burn #nicesmells

haydenm

Step83 wrote:

Oooh wood burner, reminds me I have some seasoned fruit wood to burn #nicesmells

Nice! I'm currently clearing up the 30/40 trees which blew over at the end of the winter after the recent harvesting behind the house. Mostly sycamore and beech. They were left in 1m or 2m lengths mostly so even if I'm only processing it all now it should be relatively dry soon

homers_double

That's probably a lifetimes worth of wood!

step83

The beech may take a bit longer to dry out properly but both good wood none the less. Need to see whats lurking in my wood pile I did sort through it at one point soon don't want any hogs trying to hibernate in there again.

Stevo_666

homers double wrote:

That's probably a lifetimes worth of wood!

Does viagra grow on those trees? :P

Afternoon folks, I'm turning int a right Southerner as I put a long sleeved top on to pedal into work this morning. I'll be drinking shandy and eating falafels next. Got a meeting with CEO and CFO this afternoon so I'd better do my homework beforehand.

Wheelspinner

Finished the fettling jobs on friends' bikes today, cleaned up the bench and put all the tools away. Also fitted different stem and seat post to the RS, just some tweaking needed on saddle angle, and rear shifter noise to fix.

Got out the borrowed table saw and trialled a couple cuts with the timber I'm going to clean up, looks like it should do a pretty good job. That'll give me something to do for the next week or so.

Split some firewood here for the next few days supply, supposed to be a bit wet out there so did some extra.

haydenm

homers double wrote:

That's probably a lifetimes worth of wood!

Splitting it with my neighbour, the average dbh isn't huge but they have a decent top height due to being in a small N/E facing gully/bowl and being drawn up for light. It needed a thin years ago really. There should be a good few years' worth in there, saves me stealing softwood and having to split more for the same heat.

When my wood store is full there is about 4m3 (though we get through over that if its softwood before we had the heating). At a very rough estimate each tree will be 0.5 to 0.8m3, at my share of the 40 trees that would make it 16m3 top end. The conversion factor of the softwood to tonnes (and therefore heat generation) could be about 1.5ish, meaning I burn about 2.66t a year, if I had the same 4m3 but of hardwood it might weigh 3.5t so it's ~31% more efficient. So many assumptions in there it's totally useless but it's more interesting than work.

I need to either know the planting year and density of stems at planting, or take some top heights, dbhs and stems/ha measurements to start rather than just guessing

Edit: now we have the heating we could not burn any if we wanted so it's a totally useless exercise

sungod

'noon

good chinwag, punter est un vieil ami à moi, always helps, in lounge for return, replete with raw beef, frites and beer, also got some fresh madeleines, there's always room for a fresh madeleine, scoff

hayden, mathematical modelling seems a sound basis for decision, perhaps you could go into politics and educate them on this?

homers_double

My fire is pretty.

thistle_

sungod wrote:

hayden, mathematical modelling seems a sound basis for decision, perhaps you could go into politics and educate them on this?

Government < everyone else = awkward?

keef66

Disappointed to get back from a week in Italy to find that Autumn appears to have arrived. The drive is covered in fallen leaves and it felt distinctly parky this morning when I let the dog out.

All of which reminds me I must get the flue swept and clear out the garage to accommodate a load of kiln dried hardwood. Mmm, log-burner.

haydenm

sungod wrote:

hayden, mathematical modelling seems a sound basis for decision, perhaps you could go into politics and educate them on this?

I could but the pay is better here*

I've got just under £8m of timber income budgeted for the next period based on about a million more assumptions than that, the models are slightly more sophisticated but its the same principles (plus estimated haulage rates, harvesting costs, competition between mills, product percentages based on timber quality and the like). The timber models use measured variables then apply it to standard growth models which can come in wrong due to improved tree genetics skewing the relationship between height and diameter. It's not really forestry anymore...

*it isn't

veronese68

Evening folks,
Another busy day bookended by fairly pleasant wobbles to and from. Been thinking of the old man today as it’s a year since he shuffled off.
I’ve not got wood, not at the moment anyhow.

orraloon

Training it home after an afternoon and evening with old friends, several beers, cracking meal, several wines, happy day.

hopkinb

orraloon wrote:

Training it home after an afternoon and evening with old friends, several beers, cracking meal, several wines, happy day.

Nothing beats a good long lunch.
I've made an executive decision. No more reading about Brexit. It does my fcuking head in.

Stevo_666

hopkinb wrote:

orraloon wrote:

Training it home after an afternoon and evening with old friends, several beers, cracking meal, several wines, happy day.

Nothing beats a good long lunch.
I've made an executive decision. No more reading about Brexit. It does my fcuking head in.

I have to read about it as part of my job. Maybe I should have another drink.

tlw1

Veronese68 wrote:

Evening folks,
Another busy day bookended by fairly pleasant wobbles to and from. Been thinking of the old man today as it’s a year since he shuffled off.
I’ve not got wood, not at the moment anyhow.

Feck that’s been a quick year

veronese68

TLW1 wrote:

Feck that’s been a quick year

Indeed