• 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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  1. CHJ

    Good luck, DaveL

    A few years since I first met that pair of Clogs in a queue on the way into an Axminster Show, sorry to hear that Anno Domini has taken its toll, hope all goes well for him and he recovers as quickly as the Carpenter Guy opposite me who went through the same experience.
  2. CHJ

    It’s bite the bullet time on a replacement cordless drill.

    If we are mentioning old but usable kit, how about this B&D with Slow Speed Gearbox, must have acquired this in the early 1960's. Its Full Speed mate which I know I bought in 1963 died a few years ago. But its DIY companion bought at the same time still lives on.
  3. CHJ

    It’s bite the bullet time on a replacement cordless drill.

    Definitely in the (smallish) general purpose role, the one to pick up for the odd DIY type task around the home, piloting, countersinking and driving the odd cross or nut headed screw. ("Work" has been a swear word around here for 30+ yrs) I have a heavy duty 13mm chuck mains Bosh that's...
  4. CHJ

    It’s bite the bullet time on a replacement cordless drill.

    Reason, faithful small 12volt Makita started smoking whilst in use today * And the convenience of more than one hand drill and not having to keep changing drill bits or drivers is hard to ignore. Now any hand drill I purchase is only going to get occasional use these days but I’m used to the...
  5. CHJ

    I O Yew Bowl

    It will darken even more over time as it gets exposed to daylight, one of natures frustrations I'm afraid, still an attractive wood to be enjoyed if given due respect whilst machining. Nice to see your base treatment showing the extra effort in finishing the design rather than shortcutting to...
  6. CHJ

    Mobile thicknesser

    Mobile thicknesser, Snipe not relevant.
  7. CHJ

    How would you knock these out?

    My answer to that is to laminate long planks of long grain strips of two different heights (contrast wood?) which can then just be parted off.
  8. CHJ

    Can't get at woodhaven from PC

    This is my current link to new posts in Edge:- https://www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk/whats-new/posts/167273/ Never had a problem.
  9. CHJ

    Strawberry picked this morning, just needed to pick them up. $40 per flat.

    Ours are all but finished, cropped over last two weeks of June. 1-2 kilos a day. Two servings most days with cream,. Surplus gifted to neighbours, and several kilos of jam produced. Been a good crop of large berries this year, down to warm days and cool nights I believe which also increases...
  10. CHJ

    Hard working wasps

    Thanks Sam, thought they may be, they are certainly significant smaller in body size than those seen in the roof nests. Someone told me all I needed to do was look at the difference of the face markings, I'll not bother getting that close.
  11. CHJ

    Hard working wasps

    My tolerance over the years has been very limited ever since having a severe attack some 65+ years ago, out walking near farm dew ponds with current partner to be, we saw a cow in panic mode under a bank too high for it to climb. Jumping down and attempting to drive the animal back through the...
  12. CHJ

    Hard working wasps

    Sorry haven't a clue as to the relationship between the ground nesting colonies and the shed/roof clans. We get nests all over the place as well as roof, and sheds,, we come across them inside our Cotswold Stone garden walls, Beech hedges etc, the latter being extremely interesting if late...
  13. CHJ

    Hard working wasps

    Or you happen to disturb their routine by weeding the flower bed adjacent to their ground nest, as my better half can currently vociferously attest to. Don't think her initial request for me to not destroy the nest would now still hold good after a couple of days with a severely swollen hand...
  14. CHJ

    Is there a problem with images displaying

    Test with some high flyers Forum upload behaved as expected.
  15. CHJ

    Surprised it took so long....

    Likewise, in the upper reaches the system does show considerable bias to "It's who you know" but lower down the ladders, (birthday , calendar, etc. honours lists) there are a lot of worthy individuals that get awards, citations and various acknowledgements of their contribution to society...
  16. CHJ

    Farm Boy Hit and Miss engine

    Sympathies, life is frustrating enough with the lack of spare hours in the day without enforced inactivity. Hope you get your strength back up soon.
  17. CHJ

    Electric Motor Problem, 2nd new motor rec’d, and resistance tests

    Will be interesting to see if Replacement Motor Fan is free to rotate and not connected directly to Rotor shaft. Has by any chance the free spinning fan come loose due to a fixing bolt unscrewing? If a single phase motor is designed to have a capacitor fed winding to assist starting/running...
  18. CHJ

    Electric Motor Problem, 2nd new motor rec’d, and resistance tests

    I think it most unlikely that the new motor has a bent shaft, there is no sign of such when running free of the cutting disc. Motors designed for shredders are usually very robust with heavy rotors to provide maximum mechanical inertia when presented with the shock loading of brash input. I'm...
  19. CHJ

    Electric Motor Problem, 2nd new motor rec’d, and resistance tests

    The new motor may well have a Brake fitted to reduce the rundown time to meet current regulations, hence the stiffness when you attempt to turn the shaft by hand, the old motor built to meet earlier regulations may not have had a brake fitted. As you have said that you have run and used the...
  20. CHJ

    Electric Motor Problem, 2nd new motor rec’d, and resistance tests

    Have you tried running the motor from a different power source? The reluctance to spin up to running speed with the small increase of mechanical load of the cutting disc is somewhat indicative of low voltage, if the motor does not rapidly attain running speed then the consumed current will be...
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