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Post by dorsetmike on Mar 21, 2024 15:47:59 GMT
For showing results of your leisure time ativities, for me that is railway modelling at a scale of 1:148, approximately 2mm : 1' As real railways run through towns and countryside, modelling them involves modelling the buildings and the rest of the environment. The hobby can also involve some historical research if one wants to model an earlier period e.g. Grouping from 1923-1948, or even earlier.
(This can sometimes bring to light some strange things, example, the river Bourne from which Bournemouth gets it's name, is formed from 3 tributaries, until 1926 the most southerly was the river Bourne, that got piped and among other things a recreation ground was formed by filling and levelling an area of the valley to lay out a recreation ground, a local road got renamed from Bourne Vale road to Recreation road and the northernmost tributary became the river Bourne!)
My curent work in progress, buildings made from card, window frames, doors, greenhouses from etched brass, some other parts from plastic. Currently waiting for bits to disguise the filler used on the "cliff face". Size is 5'x2'6".
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Post by JohnY on Mar 21, 2024 21:18:02 GMT
A group of us have just finished laying twelve and a half chains of hedge. Strictly speaking we still have to bind and top the stakes, but the time consuming skill full cutting, bending and staking is done.
Hopefully that will be done next Wednesday.
Our newsletter is taking shape. Hopefully I will very quickly get our new website live. I put up a holding page a few months ago but then got distracted.
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Post by Fenris on Mar 22, 2024 13:47:09 GMT
A group of us have just finished laying twelve and a half chains of hedge. Strictly speaking we still have to bind and top the stakes, but the time consuming skill full cutting, bending and staking is done. I learnt to lay hedges and do dry stone walling when I was a teenager, a couple of weeks out in the countryside working each day of different hedges and walls. Was a great experience. What style of billhook* you using? * For those that don't know, billhooks vary from county to county. |
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Post by spinno on Mar 22, 2024 14:08:23 GMT
A group of us have just finished laying twelve and a half chains of hedge. Strictly speaking we still have to bind and top the stakes, but the time consuming skill full cutting, bending and staking is done. I learnt to lay hedges and do dry stone walling when I was a teenager, a couple of weeks out in the countryside working each day of different hedges and walls. Was a great experience. What style of billhook* you using? * For those that don't know, billhooks vary from county to county.I thought it was only politicians who spoke in different billhooks...total, utter and complete |
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Post by JohnY on Mar 22, 2024 15:00:52 GMT
I use a newton style of billhook for coppicing binders and laying light material. This hook is light, single sided and used single handed so that the other hand is free to apply controlled force to the pleatcher. For heavier material I use a Yorkshire billhook. Both are made by Morris of Dunsford. We unfortunately have quite a lot of field maple in our hedges and that sometimes is very thick. Some of our team get help from a ranger with a chain saw. I like to use a felling axe rather than admit defeat. Our style is more or less Midland Bullock but we usually bind with willow instead of hazel. Also we often do not lay the hedge as high as it should be. The hedges, which surround or are in a country park, are more decorative than functional. Hopefully I will get some pictures available on our website shortly.
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Post by zx9 on Mar 22, 2024 15:18:10 GMT
A group of us have just finished laying twelve and a half chains of hedge. Strictly speaking we still have to bind and top the stakes, but the time consuming skill full cutting, bending and staking is done. I learnt to lay hedges and do dry stone walling when I was a teenager, a couple of weeks out in the countryside working each day of different hedges and walls. Was a great experience. What style of billhook* you using? * For those that don't know, billhooks vary from county to county.I used one as a teenager to clear ditches and tidy up hedges earning money to buy the next 100ft roll of bulk 35mm film. I was never actually taught how to lay properly and always admire a well done hedge in the same way that I can build a passable garden wall and love to see nice brick work.
I did find the billhook when clearing one of Dad's sheds, predictably it is a Yorkshire billhook or it will be again when I buy it a new shaft as the woodworm had done their best to consume the old one. They are not expensive www.oldtoolstore.co.uk/14-yorkshire-pattern-billhook-handle-476-p.asp I just don't have a need for a billhook in South London. |
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Post by zou on Mar 22, 2024 15:27:25 GMT
I'm quite fond of photography as a hobby, but I hear it's a niche interest these days what with mobile phones and all that.
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Post by petrochemist on Mar 22, 2024 16:55:19 GMT
I learnt to lay hedges and do dry stone walling when I was a teenager, a couple of weeks out in the countryside working each day of different hedges and walls. Was a great experience. What style of billhook* you using? * For those that don't know, billhooks vary from county to county.I used one as a teenager to clear ditches and tidy up hedges earning money to buy the next 100ft roll of bulk 35mm film. I was never actually taught how to lay properly and always admire a well done hedge in the same way that I can build a passable garden wall and love to see nice brick work.
I did find the billhook when clearing one of Dad's sheds, predictably it is a Yorkshire billhook or it will be again when I buy it a new shaft as the woodworm had done their best to consume the old one. They are not expensive www.oldtoolstore.co.uk/14-yorkshire-pattern-billhook-handle-476-p.asp I just don't have a need for a billhook in South London. I used a Norfolk Patten one in 2020 for trimming side branches from bushes prior to shredding them. One the third day of use the hook caught the back of my hand & gave me a surgical cut about 60mm long (judging by the scar). It turned out I went to A&E within half an hour of being officially furloughed - it makes working at a top tier COMAH site seem very safe (personally over 35 years without a significant incident) FWIW my billhook was much cheaper than those in your link only £5 at a car boot sale & already sharp! |
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Post by zx9 on Mar 22, 2024 18:21:56 GMT
I used one as a teenager to clear ditches and tidy up hedges earning money to buy the next 100ft roll of bulk 35mm film. I was never actually taught how to lay properly and always admire a well done hedge in the same way that I can build a passable garden wall and love to see nice brick work.
I did find the billhook when clearing one of Dad's sheds, predictably it is a Yorkshire billhook or it will be again when I buy it a new shaft as the woodworm had done their best to consume the old one. They are not expensive www.oldtoolstore.co.uk/14-yorkshire-pattern-billhook-handle-476-p.asp I just don't have a need for a billhook in South London. I used a Norfolk Patten one in 2020 for trimming side branches from bushes prior to shredding them. One the third day of use the hook caught the back of my hand & gave me a surgical cut about 60mm long (judging by the scar). It turned out I went to A&E within half an hour of being officially furloughed - it makes working at a top tier COMAH site seem very safe (personally over 35 years without a significant incident) FWIW my billhook was much cheaper than those in your link only £5 at a car boot sale & already sharp!Granted I could get another one for less money than a replacement handle but it would not be my billhook it would be another billhook which is not the point. |
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Post by geoffr on Mar 22, 2024 18:40:32 GMT
I used a Norfolk Patten one in 2020 for trimming side branches from bushes prior to shredding them. One the third day of use the hook caught the back of my hand & gave me a surgical cut about 60mm long (judging by the scar). It turned out I went to A&E within half an hour of being officially furloughed - it makes working at a top tier COMAH site seem very safe (personally over 35 years without a significant incident) FWIW my billhook was much cheaper than those in your link only £5 at a car boot sale & already sharp!Granted I could get another one for less money than a replacement handle but it would not be my billhook it would be another billhook which is not the point. I have my grandfather’s axe, my father replaced the head and I’ve replaced the handle. |
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Post by JohnY on Mar 22, 2024 19:10:52 GMT
That is a useful link. I bought tools from www.woodsmith.co.uk/ . It is always good to have options.
As for a need for a billhook in South London, yes no need. More worryingly in these troubled times, ownership of a billhook in South London might be viewed with suspicion by our constabulary.
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