• 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

    Food from your early years as an adult or child?

    Mid 1940's onward remember Rabbit or Pheasant (or partridge/pigeon) stew with whatever root veg were available, with Suet Dumplings. Chitlins, (fresh washed at the well pump) when we killed a pig, or from Checketts the butchers in Ombersley. And Tripe from same source all served up with a good...
  2. CHJ

    Bob '9fingers' Minchin

    The workshop community has lost one of its most helpful treasures, his input to the forums and willingness to offer help to those with a machinery drive problem will be sorely missed.
  3. CHJ

    Fixing a stripped thread

    A pic. of the offending cheese metal banjo might help offering a sound mechanical answer. For instance:- could you recess and epoxy a suitable nut in the rear of the stripped hole?
  4. CHJ

    Best way to get this tree down ?

    Similar to a problem I had in the last year where I had a leaning tree over hanging neighbours property. Tackled it by roping off the the upper smaller branches so that they could not fall too far and then be lowered to the ground, and slowly reduce branch lengths back to the main trunk with...
  5. CHJ

    Bread machine missing flour

    Have called in at Shipton Mill a couple of times to pick up samples of several of their flours to compare. Unfortunately we don't use sufficient quantities to justify bulk buys these days but do find the 5 Seed Mix very good for adding interest to various Loaves and Rolls texture and dressing.
  6. CHJ

    Bread machine missing flour

    The Boss always mixes the dough in the Kenwood with the dough hook. For yeast we use Fermipan dried yeast. (We decant into smaller 50-100grm. batches in airtight containers and freeze to extent life) Yeast Ratio:- aprox. 9Grm to 800Grm Flour. Dry mix Yeast with Dough. We find this yeast is...
  7. CHJ

    Salt and pepper mills - yew?

    They can be quite a pain to fit, I'm sure the last lot I had (a well intentioned gift) were designed to force you to consider purchasing the special tool from the same source.
  8. CHJ

    Salt and pepper mills - yew?

    There's a Listing of links Regarding Dust Hazards and Toxicity of woods (rather crude layout I'm afraid) on my site that still appear to be valid. a great deal is duplicate info. but there are variations dependant on source.
  9. CHJ

    Salt and pepper mills - yew?

    Solvents
  10. CHJ

    Salt and pepper mills - yew?

    I personally would not use Yew wood for something that is likely to be in long term contact with anything to be eaten, even if it is ostensibly 'dry foodstuffs' You could of course seal the inside bore with a couple of coats of Melamine reinforced Lacquer which is very resistant to leaking...
  11. CHJ

    Do you ever get sidetracked when starting a project.

    As an aside, (given that the original image was just for illustration purposes for the sake of the thread title), if that 'Green' blank had been left on a lathe, or on a shelf for that matter for twelve months, then I would have fully expected it to be beyond being salvageable. There is no...
  12. CHJ

    Do you ever get sidetracked when starting a project.

    There's no such thing as a proper level for 'Green' turning, but as others have remarked, expect to get very wet in the process. There are good rules regarding the intermediate dimensioning of a conventionally orientated 'Rough green turned blank' though as it will go oval during drying. 1...
  13. CHJ

    Random age related thought's

    How come for every year after you're 80, your feet get further from your hands?
  14. CHJ

    Doggone it!

    A couple diverted to the production of Marrow Rum springs to mind for some reason.
  15. CHJ

    Video buffering.

    Also are there any clues in "Internet Options" under the various tabs.
  16. CHJ

    Video buffering.

    What do you get if you check out Windows Defender settings? Is it running or is another application taking over its duties? Typical display:-
  17. CHJ

    Video buffering.

    Totally an aside to the buffering problem, This little program is pretty good at indicating if processor cooling needs attention, amongst other things. Core Temp.exe, (Google it for your preferred download site). As far as Download speeds are concerned yours are way higher than minimum...
  18. CHJ

    Blood (without the gore!)

    My Father was "O" neg. and it was his stories of being called in to give Live Transfusions (Arm to Arm) at short notice in the 1930's and during WW2 that convinced me to start donating.
  19. CHJ

    Blood (without the gore!)

    My contributions stopped I'm ashamed to say shortly after achieving a Gold Badge because of move of location and not bothering to sort a new routine out.
  20. CHJ

    Two of my favorite knives, excellent at keeping an edge and very inexpensive.

    Leatherman Wave In the past my working 'go to' workhorse when out and about needing something more robust than a 'Penknife' was a Jack Knife complete with Marlin spike, (cleaning out of hooves and general probing needs like fencing staples) currently have a Leatherman Klick as a pick up when...
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