TalismanRich
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I've got old versions of Suse and Caldera, but there's no reason to go with old versions. If you have more problems with PureOS, try Mint or Ubuntu. Both are good.
R
Retired
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Hi,
Thanks Raymond yes the Argos DVD player was cheap indeed. I'm sure you're right about connecting up to the correct socket and this could be the reason the cheap DVD player wouldn't work so in fairness the player might have worked if I could have connected to the HDMI socket located at the base of the TV which wouldn't accept the converter cable plug which is normal of my bad luck; of the three HDMI sockets why would I be at all surprised to find the inaccessible socket to be the correct one. Thanks also for the suggestion unfortunately with the scart/HDMI cable now broken and useless I gave up on it all-together.
Thanks TalismanRich for your good wishes; I'm grounded now though and have been over the last few days due to neck & shoulder severe pain; three nights ago I went to bed feeling on top of the world having dragged lots of big roots out also in the evening I cut the grass; going to bed though I shortly awoke to this agonizing pain; I had to get out of bed at 4am unable to stand the pain any longer; same pain the next night so I tried sleeping on the sofa but was troubled all night long; last night on the sofa again still lots of pain but I awoke at around 4 o'clock and the pain was now easing; I'd found a position on the sofa which supported my back and I'd tried lots of positions with the pillow; I actually slept; now as I type I can still feel the pain but much reduced. Was it all the stump work or did I simply pull a muscle in bed; I often work myself to a standstill recovering quickly after a meal and I never push myself so far it hurts me; tires me out but never actually hurting.
I've not been able to wander into the studio to play the violins because lifting my left arm gave me terrible pain; I'm having a further two days rest which is something I never do; I'm always busy so this is strange to me.
Thanks for the picture TalismanRich; yes how strange a storm bringing down the trees in opposite directions; I've not seen this before; looking at the remaining trees though I'd say this site is prone to tree damage by storms; I hope it didn't ruin your game.
Good luck Raymond I hope you can sort the problems out; computers can be highly frustrating.
When I resume stump hostilities I'll try a different method of getting them out; I've watched lots of YouTube videos most doing as I do but one guy cuts his stumps using a chainsaw in a cross pattern vertically allowing a quarter of the stump to be removed at a time rather going for the lot at one bite; here's a similar idea;
I just want this meadow job out of the way before another year passes by.
A bit of good news; the new Sony DVD player with correct cable arrived yesterday from Curry's and it's working perfectly; this time the cable was HDMI/HDMI not a converter so it plugged straight into the bottom socket on the TV and fired up almost immediately; it doesn't have a LED to show power is on which is strange but pressing the tray button confirmed it was powered; very easy to set up with brilliant picture quality.
A bit more good news £175 Premium Bonds win bringing the total wins in just two years to over £1,000; I do get rare pieces of good luck.
Kind regards, Colin.
Thanks Raymond yes the Argos DVD player was cheap indeed. I'm sure you're right about connecting up to the correct socket and this could be the reason the cheap DVD player wouldn't work so in fairness the player might have worked if I could have connected to the HDMI socket located at the base of the TV which wouldn't accept the converter cable plug which is normal of my bad luck; of the three HDMI sockets why would I be at all surprised to find the inaccessible socket to be the correct one. Thanks also for the suggestion unfortunately with the scart/HDMI cable now broken and useless I gave up on it all-together.
Thanks TalismanRich for your good wishes; I'm grounded now though and have been over the last few days due to neck & shoulder severe pain; three nights ago I went to bed feeling on top of the world having dragged lots of big roots out also in the evening I cut the grass; going to bed though I shortly awoke to this agonizing pain; I had to get out of bed at 4am unable to stand the pain any longer; same pain the next night so I tried sleeping on the sofa but was troubled all night long; last night on the sofa again still lots of pain but I awoke at around 4 o'clock and the pain was now easing; I'd found a position on the sofa which supported my back and I'd tried lots of positions with the pillow; I actually slept; now as I type I can still feel the pain but much reduced. Was it all the stump work or did I simply pull a muscle in bed; I often work myself to a standstill recovering quickly after a meal and I never push myself so far it hurts me; tires me out but never actually hurting.
I've not been able to wander into the studio to play the violins because lifting my left arm gave me terrible pain; I'm having a further two days rest which is something I never do; I'm always busy so this is strange to me.
Thanks for the picture TalismanRich; yes how strange a storm bringing down the trees in opposite directions; I've not seen this before; looking at the remaining trees though I'd say this site is prone to tree damage by storms; I hope it didn't ruin your game.
Good luck Raymond I hope you can sort the problems out; computers can be highly frustrating.
When I resume stump hostilities I'll try a different method of getting them out; I've watched lots of YouTube videos most doing as I do but one guy cuts his stumps using a chainsaw in a cross pattern vertically allowing a quarter of the stump to be removed at a time rather going for the lot at one bite; here's a similar idea;
I just want this meadow job out of the way before another year passes by.
A bit of good news; the new Sony DVD player with correct cable arrived yesterday from Curry's and it's working perfectly; this time the cable was HDMI/HDMI not a converter so it plugged straight into the bottom socket on the TV and fired up almost immediately; it doesn't have a LED to show power is on which is strange but pressing the tray button confirmed it was powered; very easy to set up with brilliant picture quality.
A bit more good news £175 Premium Bonds win bringing the total wins in just two years to over £1,000; I do get rare pieces of good luck.
Kind regards, Colin.
TalismanRich
Well-known member
The story keeps going around here. Yesterday we had a EF1 tornado that touched down about a half mile from my house! Today they will assess some other areas that were hard hit. It took the back side of a local business out, there's another house with a massive tree in the middle. An apartment building had the entire roof taken off, about 50 people displaced. It was weird, just some light rain and then WOOOSH! There was a wall of rain and winds blowing it sideways for about a minute or so. Sadly, there is a report of one fatality.
Here are some pics from our local TV station. WDRB TV
Our cable and internet were out from about 3:45 until 8:15 this morning. Luckily I had an antenna set up, so I could catch up on things last night.
I didn't have any damage, thankfully, just some downed limbs in the back yard.
Here are some pics from our local TV station. WDRB TV
Our cable and internet were out from about 3:45 until 8:15 this morning. Luckily I had an antenna set up, so I could catch up on things last night.
I didn't have any damage, thankfully, just some downed limbs in the back yard.
rob aylestone
Moderator
You had limbs in the back yard? I don't think I've had tree limbs. I had to google. Branches, trunk and occasionally bough, but it appears limb is a valid word here - just never heard it used?
TalismanRich
Well-known member
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Ah, the variations in a language. My car doesn't have a bonnet or a boot! But my trees have limbs and branches.
Ah, the variations in a language. My car doesn't have a bonnet or a boot! But my trees have limbs and branches.
R
Retired
Active member
Hi,
You got off very lightly TalismanRich having a tornado touch down on your doorstep: I tried to open the link you kindly supplied;
Sorry but you're an alien.
Here in the UK we can't get out of bed without breaking some law or other and these days we're no longer a democracy being told what we can or cannot say and every day new laws appear especially if you drive a car; cyclists and criminals are better treated.
Yes rob some American language is a lot different to UK language; American spelling too causes me lots of work because the spell checker can't spell English but I keep correcting it; Americans love the word "Awesome" which actually is a good term for the pain in my neck and shoulder. Excellent forum though we all rub along well together wherever we come from.
I'm still hurting too much to try to play my violins and I'm finding it highly frustrating; over 18 months into trying to play my violins I should be doing better than I am but so much gets in the way with no let up; I've aborted the third meadow for this year; I'll back off and take my time getting the middle of the garden ready for broadcasting the wildflower seeds next springtime; there's lots of heavy work still to do and I don't know how long my neck and shoulder are going to take to heal; I've been working flat out trying to get the ground ready in order to broadcast the wildflower seeds; I've had the seeds for quite a while but they can now wait so I won't feel under as much pressure.
I do need to sort out a shoulder rest for my Yamaha YEV-104 violin; it's not the easiest violin due to it's shape; I bought a shoulder rest costing £60 which I'll use on my acoustic violin but at the moment I'm still out of action being grounded. I've struggled all our long months of winter to get into the studio now the weather is slightly improving I'm hurting too much to put a violin on my shoulder; GRRRRR.
Kind regards, Colin.
You got off very lightly TalismanRich having a tornado touch down on your doorstep: I tried to open the link you kindly supplied;
Sorry but you're an alien.
Here in the UK we can't get out of bed without breaking some law or other and these days we're no longer a democracy being told what we can or cannot say and every day new laws appear especially if you drive a car; cyclists and criminals are better treated.Yes rob some American language is a lot different to UK language; American spelling too causes me lots of work because the spell checker can't spell English but I keep correcting it; Americans love the word "Awesome" which actually is a good term for the pain in my neck and shoulder. Excellent forum though we all rub along well together wherever we come from.
I'm still hurting too much to try to play my violins and I'm finding it highly frustrating; over 18 months into trying to play my violins I should be doing better than I am but so much gets in the way with no let up; I've aborted the third meadow for this year; I'll back off and take my time getting the middle of the garden ready for broadcasting the wildflower seeds next springtime; there's lots of heavy work still to do and I don't know how long my neck and shoulder are going to take to heal; I've been working flat out trying to get the ground ready in order to broadcast the wildflower seeds; I've had the seeds for quite a while but they can now wait so I won't feel under as much pressure.
I do need to sort out a shoulder rest for my Yamaha YEV-104 violin; it's not the easiest violin due to it's shape; I bought a shoulder rest costing £60 which I'll use on my acoustic violin but at the moment I'm still out of action being grounded. I've struggled all our long months of winter to get into the studio now the weather is slightly improving I'm hurting too much to put a violin on my shoulder; GRRRRR.
Kind regards, Colin.
TalismanRich
Well-known member
It's a shame that they restrict things like this. I can understand video, but pictures and news stories? Are they afraid that we Americans are going to corrupt the EU? 
It would be such a nice practical thing for someone traveling abroad to be able to log in and check things out at home, especially if they heard that there was some severe issues going on.
When I was in Chester for 2 weeks back in 2000, the best I had was to buy a couple of hours at an internet cafe a few blocks from the hotel. At least I could log in (text based at the time, and quite slow!) and get email from home. Overseas phone calls were absurdly expensive. Now if you have an internet connection, you can make VoIP phone calls to home from around the world for free.
This house, suprisingly, was being sold, and the new owners were going to finalize the deal within 2 weeks. I would guess that the house is pretty well destroyed. This was really big tree, and without having leaves on it yet! Probably an oak or maple. I wonder how the magnolias tree remained standing. The second picture was a warehousing business nearby. It's just on the other side of an interstate highway from my house.
Right now they have confirmed 4 EF1 tornadoes in the metro area.
It would be such a nice practical thing for someone traveling abroad to be able to log in and check things out at home, especially if they heard that there was some severe issues going on.When I was in Chester for 2 weeks back in 2000, the best I had was to buy a couple of hours at an internet cafe a few blocks from the hotel. At least I could log in (text based at the time, and quite slow!) and get email from home. Overseas phone calls were absurdly expensive. Now if you have an internet connection, you can make VoIP phone calls to home from around the world for free.
This house, suprisingly, was being sold, and the new owners were going to finalize the deal within 2 weeks. I would guess that the house is pretty well destroyed. This was really big tree, and without having leaves on it yet! Probably an oak or maple. I wonder how the magnolias tree remained standing. The second picture was a warehousing business nearby. It's just on the other side of an interstate highway from my house.
Right now they have confirmed 4 EF1 tornadoes in the metro area.
Slouching Raymond
Well-known member
PureOs linux is not happy, but Suse Leap linux is looking good, And I also downloaded Mint linux, as Rich suggested.
One of the guys on the defunct Studiotrax forum used gelignite to get a huge tree stump out of the ground, but he lived on a remote farm.
They're already corrupt.Are they afraid that we Americans are going to corrupt the EU?
We saw the pictures of devastation in Mississippi on TV. It always puzzles me why they don't build houses out of steel reinforced concrete in tornado alley.
TalismanRich
Well-known member
These days, tornado alley goes from Chicago IL to Mobile AL, and from Kansas to the Carolina, roughly 1/3 of the US.
There's no way they'll switch to building concrete homes for that much of the country. Beside there are already millions of exiting homes and businesses. Some of the recent twisters in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee were EF3 and EF4, which will completely level a town. Those are winds of around 150 to 200 MPH and the suction is incredibly strong. EF5 is over 200MPH, but very rare. It will lift at 10 ton vehicle into the air! A couple was recently killed when the cab of a semi landed on their house. That's power.
About the only way to avoid the devastation is to be underground.
This has just be a really weird spring. We have had 3 times more wind alerts than Chicago, which has always been called the Windy City. A lot of these storms are the same ones dumping rain and snow on California and Nevada. The conditions are ripe for generating the storms and they just keep rolling off the Pacific Ocean. And this is after the western US has been having drought for several years. The reservoirs that were drying up are now overflowing.
As the saying goes, "when it rains, it pours".
There's no way they'll switch to building concrete homes for that much of the country. Beside there are already millions of exiting homes and businesses. Some of the recent twisters in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee were EF3 and EF4, which will completely level a town. Those are winds of around 150 to 200 MPH and the suction is incredibly strong. EF5 is over 200MPH, but very rare. It will lift at 10 ton vehicle into the air! A couple was recently killed when the cab of a semi landed on their house. That's power.
About the only way to avoid the devastation is to be underground.
This has just be a really weird spring. We have had 3 times more wind alerts than Chicago, which has always been called the Windy City. A lot of these storms are the same ones dumping rain and snow on California and Nevada. The conditions are ripe for generating the storms and they just keep rolling off the Pacific Ocean. And this is after the western US has been having drought for several years. The reservoirs that were drying up are now overflowing.
As the saying goes, "when it rains, it pours".
R
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Hi,
Plenty of restrictions here in the UK TalismanRich more added every day; our local town Huddersfield is in free-fall thanks to the council doing their best to restrict cars by installing "Bus Gates" and cycle only areas then they can't understand why so many stores are boarded up; the nearest I ever go to town is the ring road; my wife and I haven't been into Huddersfield Town for over twenty years and have no intention of visiting the town in future. When I bought my first computer about 23 years ago it cost £1,000 and had a huge memory of 8.6Gig ? in its day it was really something but now this amount of memory easily fits onto a tiny memory stick; do you remember "Dial Up" for Internet connection it costing us here in the UK 1p per minute and connection was incredibly slow.
That tree sure made a mess of the house TalismanRich; both premises shown in the pictures I think will be total write offs; fortunately we suffer very few tornadoes but not of the magnitude of the US fearsome tornadoes the same with earthquakes; I've never been abroad or even on a plane; Yorkshire here in the UK I was born and here I'll remain I love our county even if the weather is mostly poor; the UK is a wonderful place to call home.
200mph wind is hugely dangerous and will flatten most things; we see pictures of devastation left behind of US tornadoes on our news channels and I'm just glad I live in the UK; can home owners obtain home insurance is such places frequently visited by tornadoes. Yes when it rains it pours the problem in Yorkshire is when it rains it doesn't know when to stop; we don't have massive reservoirs because we don't need them.
I'd love to gelignite the tree stumps Raymond but I think the bomb squad would be bending my ear. It also surprises me Raymond why new homes are built in tornado areas that are sure to be flattened if hit by a tornado; old homes I somewhat understand but new homes I don't understand; I've often said to my wife why not build underground or if built as you suggest using heavy steel frame and thick reinforced concrete design the homes in a wind tunnel. We have a different problem here and it's amount of rainfall causing so much serious flooding but yet local councils like the council in nearby Mirfield grant planning permission for new homes only yards away from the ever flooding River Calder;
It's very scary indeed when only the fence on the right of the picture separates the lane from the river; and the water is a foot deep over the lane but yet planning permission has been granted for new homes which is lunacy but they do say those who wear a tie have restricted blood to their brain.
Light years off topic but I'm always happy to generate discussion as long as the moderators allow it; I'm a member of quite a few forums and one in particular the first forum I ever joined is so strict the moderators behave like traffic wardens on "speed" to the point of clamping down on poor spelling or grammar which is a shame; I seldom post on it these days because my current interests and projects are definitely not allowed although I'll always be in the background as a member.
I'm still in pain with my shoulder and neck but slowly improving; years ago I suffered similar pain making me scared of going to bed at night; browsing YouTube I came across two doctors discussing such pain and to cut a long story short I bought a second pillow which very quickly cured it; I'm wondering if this pain I now suffer isn't related to my stump pulling activity but once again related to pillows; I've now bought a pair of memory foam pillows awaiting arrival hoping these sort the problem out because it's so unlike me to cause myself so much injury; I'm an old fashioned mining mechanical engineer fully aware of safety issues but somethings caught me out and it's very painful indeed; I'll not attempt to play my violins until I'm sure the pain is gone because the pain is right where the violin sits on m my shoulder against my neck.
I'm finding it frustrating being grounded; I'm used to being ultra active and busy; I dislike feeling lazy and am restless; sorry if I'm rambling on but there's so much I want to do which is prevented by my shoulder and neck problem; I'm only 75 years old so it can't be an age thing.
Kind regards, Colin.
Plenty of restrictions here in the UK TalismanRich more added every day; our local town Huddersfield is in free-fall thanks to the council doing their best to restrict cars by installing "Bus Gates" and cycle only areas then they can't understand why so many stores are boarded up; the nearest I ever go to town is the ring road; my wife and I haven't been into Huddersfield Town for over twenty years and have no intention of visiting the town in future. When I bought my first computer about 23 years ago it cost £1,000 and had a huge memory of 8.6Gig ? in its day it was really something but now this amount of memory easily fits onto a tiny memory stick; do you remember "Dial Up" for Internet connection it costing us here in the UK 1p per minute and connection was incredibly slow.
That tree sure made a mess of the house TalismanRich; both premises shown in the pictures I think will be total write offs; fortunately we suffer very few tornadoes but not of the magnitude of the US fearsome tornadoes the same with earthquakes; I've never been abroad or even on a plane; Yorkshire here in the UK I was born and here I'll remain I love our county even if the weather is mostly poor; the UK is a wonderful place to call home.
200mph wind is hugely dangerous and will flatten most things; we see pictures of devastation left behind of US tornadoes on our news channels and I'm just glad I live in the UK; can home owners obtain home insurance is such places frequently visited by tornadoes. Yes when it rains it pours the problem in Yorkshire is when it rains it doesn't know when to stop; we don't have massive reservoirs because we don't need them.
I'd love to gelignite the tree stumps Raymond but I think the bomb squad would be bending my ear.
It also surprises me Raymond why new homes are built in tornado areas that are sure to be flattened if hit by a tornado; old homes I somewhat understand but new homes I don't understand; I've often said to my wife why not build underground or if built as you suggest using heavy steel frame and thick reinforced concrete design the homes in a wind tunnel. We have a different problem here and it's amount of rainfall causing so much serious flooding but yet local councils like the council in nearby Mirfield grant planning permission for new homes only yards away from the ever flooding River Calder; It's very scary indeed when only the fence on the right of the picture separates the lane from the river; and the water is a foot deep over the lane but yet planning permission has been granted for new homes which is lunacy but they do say those who wear a tie have restricted blood to their brain.
Light years off topic but I'm always happy to generate discussion as long as the moderators allow it; I'm a member of quite a few forums and one in particular the first forum I ever joined is so strict the moderators behave like traffic wardens on "speed" to the point of clamping down on poor spelling or grammar which is a shame; I seldom post on it these days because my current interests and projects are definitely not allowed although I'll always be in the background as a member.
I'm still in pain with my shoulder and neck but slowly improving; years ago I suffered similar pain making me scared of going to bed at night; browsing YouTube I came across two doctors discussing such pain and to cut a long story short I bought a second pillow which very quickly cured it; I'm wondering if this pain I now suffer isn't related to my stump pulling activity but once again related to pillows; I've now bought a pair of memory foam pillows awaiting arrival hoping these sort the problem out because it's so unlike me to cause myself so much injury; I'm an old fashioned mining mechanical engineer fully aware of safety issues but somethings caught me out and it's very painful indeed; I'll not attempt to play my violins until I'm sure the pain is gone because the pain is right where the violin sits on m my shoulder against my neck.
I'm finding it frustrating being grounded; I'm used to being ultra active and busy; I dislike feeling lazy and am restless; sorry if I'm rambling on but there's so much I want to do which is prevented by my shoulder and neck problem; I'm only 75 years old so it can't be an age thing.
Kind regards, Colin.
Slouching Raymond
Well-known member
I joined a Drone forum, made one post, and the moderators edited my post. The result was nonsensical gibberish. I never returned.
The trouble with memory foam is that it also insulates. I found that after a while on it, I was too hot, and ditched it.
A good assortment of pillow types is a better bet.
The trouble with memory foam is that it also insulates. I found that after a while on it, I was too hot, and ditched it.
A good assortment of pillow types is a better bet.
R
Retired
Active member
Hi,
Thanks Raymond; yes forums vary greatly; I joined the largest practical machinist shop in the world it being American wanting advice about why the Hydrovane compressor I'd just bought wouldn't stop going into the red danger zone; one member actually replied I shouldn't be on the forum only having a home workshop; if all members of that forum where experts then why did the forum exist other than to show off all their huge workshops bristling with endless CNC machinery.
I did it my usual way; the hard way and now on that forum is a thread showing not only how to replace an Hydrovane unloader valve but how to make the parts to repair it;
What the elitist members of the machinist forum tend to forget is there are dinosaurs out there like me who were taught real engineering not relying on electronics but hands on skills. Here's the new unloader valve I made only the white disc being original.
Here's the original complete with housing unloader valve; easy enough to repair having old fashioned metal lathe skills.
Here's the compressor showing the original unloader valve still in position.
If I want to know I ask however silly the question might appear to be because no one starts with full working knowledge planted in their head; I ask the questions others fear to ask in case they might be regarded as thick; well I'm thick and proud of it; I'll keep asking the questions and won't let go until I find the answers. With the exceptions of the machinist and an electrical forum I'm usually made very welcome indeed and like to join in rather than being a tire kicker. A shame though Raymond treating you the way the drone forum did.
Thanks also for your information about pillows in particular the memory foam being warm; I'll see how I go when the new memory foam pillows arrive.
Excellent news though after many days of excruciating pain at night from my neck and shoulder last night I slept in bed not on the sofa; at first I didn't feel too bad but at around 1 o'clock I awoke once again with this terrible pain; I dropped one of the two pillows from the bed and as I lay with my head on the single pillow it now felt too low and I was hurting very badly but next when I awoke around 4 o'clock what a transformation; a lot of the pain had subsided and I had been sleeping soundly; by the time we got up for breakfast I felt fine and am about to resume stump busting. Just one pillow causing nights of agonizing pain but I didn't know because I'd been working myself to a standstill stump busting wondering if I'd pulled a muscle.
Hopefully I'll return to trying to learn to play my violins but with my luck I'm not holding my breath; it's now over 18 months since I handled my first violin and during the full 18 months all I've mostly suffered is hassle each time I've tried to get into the studio with problem after problem preventing me from making any real violin progress. Now I feel well again I'll concentrate on the stump job because it's hanging over me perhaps then I can fully relax in the studio during our short summer.
I feel a stump coming on so time to get off my backside and stop being lazy.
Kind regards, Colin.
Thanks Raymond; yes forums vary greatly; I joined the largest practical machinist shop in the world it being American wanting advice about why the Hydrovane compressor I'd just bought wouldn't stop going into the red danger zone; one member actually replied I shouldn't be on the forum only having a home workshop; if all members of that forum where experts then why did the forum exist other than to show off all their huge workshops bristling with endless CNC machinery.
I did it my usual way; the hard way and now on that forum is a thread showing not only how to replace an Hydrovane unloader valve but how to make the parts to repair it;
What the elitist members of the machinist forum tend to forget is there are dinosaurs out there like me who were taught real engineering not relying on electronics but hands on skills. Here's the new unloader valve I made only the white disc being original.
Here's the original complete with housing unloader valve; easy enough to repair having old fashioned metal lathe skills.
Here's the compressor showing the original unloader valve still in position.
If I want to know I ask however silly the question might appear to be because no one starts with full working knowledge planted in their head; I ask the questions others fear to ask in case they might be regarded as thick; well I'm thick and proud of it; I'll keep asking the questions and won't let go until I find the answers. With the exceptions of the machinist and an electrical forum I'm usually made very welcome indeed and like to join in rather than being a tire kicker. A shame though Raymond treating you the way the drone forum did.
Thanks also for your information about pillows in particular the memory foam being warm; I'll see how I go when the new memory foam pillows arrive.
Excellent news though after many days of excruciating pain at night from my neck and shoulder last night I slept in bed not on the sofa; at first I didn't feel too bad but at around 1 o'clock I awoke once again with this terrible pain; I dropped one of the two pillows from the bed and as I lay with my head on the single pillow it now felt too low and I was hurting very badly but next when I awoke around 4 o'clock what a transformation; a lot of the pain had subsided and I had been sleeping soundly; by the time we got up for breakfast I felt fine and am about to resume stump busting. Just one pillow causing nights of agonizing pain but I didn't know because I'd been working myself to a standstill stump busting wondering if I'd pulled a muscle.
Hopefully I'll return to trying to learn to play my violins but with my luck I'm not holding my breath; it's now over 18 months since I handled my first violin and during the full 18 months all I've mostly suffered is hassle each time I've tried to get into the studio with problem after problem preventing me from making any real violin progress. Now I feel well again I'll concentrate on the stump job because it's hanging over me perhaps then I can fully relax in the studio during our short summer.
I feel a stump coming on so time to get off my backside and stop being lazy.
Kind regards, Colin.
rob aylestone
Moderator
I got the legal warning so clicked on Nord VPN and had a look. I understand how many individuals misunderstand GDPR regulations, but a news organisation? They nick stories off the web all the time - and the ONLY GDPR regulation would be on identifying data - so that's the usual world wide cookies. There are rights on images, video, sound and all sorts of graphics, but the GDPR regs do not relate to this. Personal data - who they are and where does not mean that somebody in a particular region or country is giving anything away - they are totally wrong in this aspect.
TAE
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TAE
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Colin an idea....I realize you want to do this on your own but perhaps you could hire a young buck to do the heavy lifting and save your joints and muscles.
Here in the States we have two major big Box stores Home Depot and Lowes...many other smaller ones. At these stores at least out here in Cali there are always laborers hanging around that we can hire and pay them cash to come give a hand. I ended up finding a great guy to do flooring and trim work for me even though I can do it. Damn at 69 I'm feeling it. I am mechanically inclined and can fix about anything I wish to try and fix. I replumbed my whole house this year.....crawling under that house soldier crawl style whooped my ass. Digging trenches a few feet sure....but when I had to run a 40' line of 1" from the street to the house I went to home depot and hired a guy and his two workers...$300 and the trench was dug, pipe laid, trench filled back in and grass patted back down in 4 hours and all I had to do was point and watch.
In the UK you have B&Q and Homebase maybe they have the same kind of thing going on? Basically you might consider trying to find a "helper" in this daunting and arduous task.
R
Retired
Active member
Hi,
Thanks rob; such people have to justify their existence; those without brains but in powerful jobs telling those with brains what they should do. These days if the many ever increasing rules don't cover it there are always the experts telling us what or what not to do including what we should eat; I keep my head down as much as possible and ignore most of the British Brainwashing Corporation aka BBC1 News.
Many thanks TAE for your concern and useful suggestion. I think here in the UK things are somewhat different to things in the US; we have a generous benefits system whereby many able bodied guys would prefer to remain home on benefits where it pays better than actually having to earn an honest living; last year when I intended to fell the 15 tall trees I actually offered a guy we know £100 just to give me an hand with only one of the trees it overhanging into our neighbours garden. This guy is a self employed gardener and we've known him for about ten years; I've helped him many times sorting his petrol gardening kit out and even showed him how to do basic services on his six mowers costing only around £5 each where he was was being charged £60 each before I got involved; we've given him all kinds of things over the years and he's always thanked me saying if ever I need his help just ask he'll come straight away.
I'd ordered heavy duty ropes through eBay and let him know in a few days I'd like his help offering the £100; he immediately said he would help no doubt because of a very easy £100; all I needed was a rope man just to give the tree a pull; the ropes arrived so I emailed him; then I emailed him again then I felled all 15 trees and disposed of them on my own taking two weeks; then I emailed him again saying job now done and this time received a reply saying he'd been off work ill for a week but he's let all his customers know but not us; scum bag he's history and this was one of very few times I've ever requested help; for what I did for him and my wife giving him lots of presents one would have thought he'd have declined the offer of £100 immediately it was offered; we have neighbours who are more than happy to collect neatly cut logs for their wood-burners these always free but do they even offer to lift a finger to help.
I'm much better on my own because I was taught to handle and move heavy loads safely so I've no one to keep an eye on being totally in control of anything I do; I've reached the point if things become too hard for me then yes I'll bring in hired help. I do truly appreciate your kind suggestion.
Here's where I started this morning.
Here's where I knocked off at 5:30 this afternoon; the bottom stumps is almost out still supported by the farm jack; tomorrow I'll put the trolley jack under it to get it clear of the hole then the remaining two stumps will be attacked; I'm back on full form and bursting with energy after a rather nasty week with shoulder and neck pain due to a pillow in bed being too high; I was struggling as the weight came on the jack but found using my boot on the jack handle gave a great deal more force than pulling by hand; it worked a treat. having worked hard for the last 60 years I'm used to it and hope to continue for years yet to come.
Kind regards, Colin.
Thanks rob; such people have to justify their existence; those without brains but in powerful jobs telling those with brains what they should do. These days if the many ever increasing rules don't cover it there are always the experts telling us what or what not to do including what we should eat; I keep my head down as much as possible and ignore most of the British Brainwashing Corporation aka BBC1 News.
Many thanks TAE for your concern and useful suggestion. I think here in the UK things are somewhat different to things in the US; we have a generous benefits system whereby many able bodied guys would prefer to remain home on benefits where it pays better than actually having to earn an honest living; last year when I intended to fell the 15 tall trees I actually offered a guy we know £100 just to give me an hand with only one of the trees it overhanging into our neighbours garden. This guy is a self employed gardener and we've known him for about ten years; I've helped him many times sorting his petrol gardening kit out and even showed him how to do basic services on his six mowers costing only around £5 each where he was was being charged £60 each before I got involved; we've given him all kinds of things over the years and he's always thanked me saying if ever I need his help just ask he'll come straight away.
I'd ordered heavy duty ropes through eBay and let him know in a few days I'd like his help offering the £100; he immediately said he would help no doubt because of a very easy £100; all I needed was a rope man just to give the tree a pull; the ropes arrived so I emailed him; then I emailed him again then I felled all 15 trees and disposed of them on my own taking two weeks; then I emailed him again saying job now done and this time received a reply saying he'd been off work ill for a week but he's let all his customers know but not us; scum bag he's history and this was one of very few times I've ever requested help; for what I did for him and my wife giving him lots of presents one would have thought he'd have declined the offer of £100 immediately it was offered; we have neighbours who are more than happy to collect neatly cut logs for their wood-burners these always free but do they even offer to lift a finger to help.
I'm much better on my own because I was taught to handle and move heavy loads safely so I've no one to keep an eye on being totally in control of anything I do; I've reached the point if things become too hard for me then yes I'll bring in hired help. I do truly appreciate your kind suggestion.
Here's where I started this morning.
Here's where I knocked off at 5:30 this afternoon; the bottom stumps is almost out still supported by the farm jack; tomorrow I'll put the trolley jack under it to get it clear of the hole then the remaining two stumps will be attacked; I'm back on full form and bursting with energy after a rather nasty week with shoulder and neck pain due to a pillow in bed being too high; I was struggling as the weight came on the jack but found using my boot on the jack handle gave a great deal more force than pulling by hand; it worked a treat. having worked hard for the last 60 years I'm used to it and hope to continue for years yet to come.
Kind regards, Colin.
R
Retired
Active member
Hi,
Another very hard morning out early stump busting.
Last night I thought I'd get this stump out more easily having done all the hard work; wrong again it's tired me out.
Another stump now fully out but hard won and still needs moving across the steep slope then down to behind the garden hut.
It sure left a big hole leaving roots still to remove but I'm winning.
I'm looking forward now to studio time playing my violins; I'm over half way with the stump job but still three more to get out; the one top left of picture is 19" across and one of the biggest; just a bit of gentle exercise for me.
Kind regards, Colin.
Another very hard morning out early stump busting.
Last night I thought I'd get this stump out more easily having done all the hard work; wrong again it's tired me out.
Another stump now fully out but hard won and still needs moving across the steep slope then down to behind the garden hut.
It sure left a big hole leaving roots still to remove but I'm winning.
I'm looking forward now to studio time playing my violins; I'm over half way with the stump job but still three more to get out; the one top left of picture is 19" across and one of the biggest; just a bit of gentle exercise for me.
Kind regards, Colin.
R
Retired
Active member
Hi,
I must be mad; this afternoon the sun came out so I wandered up the mountain in my jumper and made a start on the stumps; a few minutes later my back felt frozen in the prevailing chilly breeze so back down and put my heavy "site" coat on; I've just knocked off wet through with sweat and my clothes clinging to me but what a successful day I've enjoyed.
Having got the big stump out this morning I decided to remove the smaller stump which had been in the middle but it proved a real pain so enough of this; time to get on top of this job once and for all; back down to the bottom garden hut and collect one of my ten ton bottle hydraulic jacks; now I had this ten ton jack; four ton hi-lift jack a two ton trolley jack; I was also using my reciprocating mains powered saw to attack the roots; the smaller stump is still in but the biggest stump of all at 19" across is now almost out as seen supported by the jack; next session should see both the big and small stumps out then leaving a single stump lower down plus lots of roots to remove but I'm now on top of the job at last.
Brute force sorted it out; a few roots still holding but not for much longer.
This is a big stump and made a lot more difficult working on our steep valley side. Smaller stump to right is in trouble next.
Learning to play a violin has turned out a great deal harder than I ever imagined.
Kind regards, Colin.
I must be mad; this afternoon the sun came out so I wandered up the mountain in my jumper and made a start on the stumps; a few minutes later my back felt frozen in the prevailing chilly breeze so back down and put my heavy "site" coat on; I've just knocked off wet through with sweat and my clothes clinging to me but what a successful day I've enjoyed.
Having got the big stump out this morning I decided to remove the smaller stump which had been in the middle but it proved a real pain so enough of this; time to get on top of this job once and for all; back down to the bottom garden hut and collect one of my ten ton bottle hydraulic jacks; now I had this ten ton jack; four ton hi-lift jack a two ton trolley jack; I was also using my reciprocating mains powered saw to attack the roots; the smaller stump is still in but the biggest stump of all at 19" across is now almost out as seen supported by the jack; next session should see both the big and small stumps out then leaving a single stump lower down plus lots of roots to remove but I'm now on top of the job at last.
Brute force sorted it out; a few roots still holding but not for much longer.
This is a big stump and made a lot more difficult working on our steep valley side. Smaller stump to right is in trouble next.
Learning to play a violin has turned out a great deal harder than I ever imagined.
Kind regards, Colin.
R
Retired
Active member
Hi,
I'm going to celebrate today by playing my violins. With rain shortly forecast I had to get a move on this morning so had done the supermarket shopping and home before 7:30; after a quick mug of tea and lump of cake I was fully charged so headed up the mountain armed with the 4 ton hi-lift jack and absolutely nothing was going to prevent me getting the stumps out.
The smallest of the three stumps was first target and is now fully out.
Here's the largest stump I'd already done some work on yesterday being lifted out using the hi-lift jack; what a wonderful sound listening to roots breaking; incredibly hard work working the jack handle at first until some of the roots broke then it became a bit easier.
This big stump was going to come out and out it came; I jacked and levered it clear of the hole then tired once again I've called it a do for today; I was back indoors by 8:45 thinking I'd done well this morning.
Three stumps out now a big hole with roots to attack; I'm winning though. All it took was stuborness and determination. I'm not at all surprised our UK government are trying to get over 50's back into work.
One more but smaller stump yet to dig around and get out then I can tackle the roots; I think an enforced rest due to rain won't harm me and give me a chance to play my violins; I ache my fingers are stiff but it's honest work and I'll quickly recover once the job is completed.
Kind regards, Colin.
I'm going to celebrate today by playing my violins. With rain shortly forecast I had to get a move on this morning so had done the supermarket shopping and home before 7:30; after a quick mug of tea and lump of cake I was fully charged so headed up the mountain armed with the 4 ton hi-lift jack and absolutely nothing was going to prevent me getting the stumps out.
The smallest of the three stumps was first target and is now fully out.
Here's the largest stump I'd already done some work on yesterday being lifted out using the hi-lift jack; what a wonderful sound listening to roots breaking; incredibly hard work working the jack handle at first until some of the roots broke then it became a bit easier.
This big stump was going to come out and out it came; I jacked and levered it clear of the hole then tired once again I've called it a do for today; I was back indoors by 8:45 thinking I'd done well this morning.
Three stumps out now a big hole with roots to attack; I'm winning though. All it took was stuborness and determination. I'm not at all surprised our UK government are trying to get over 50's back into work.
One more but smaller stump yet to dig around and get out then I can tackle the roots; I think an enforced rest due to rain won't harm me and give me a chance to play my violins; I ache my fingers are stiff but it's honest work and I'll quickly recover once the job is completed.
Kind regards, Colin.
rob aylestone
Moderator
Not sure if this will appeal to the US folk - but if you want to learn about blowing things up try this.