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by ForgeCorvus
Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:16 pm
Forum: DIY and Handicrafts
Topic: Pallet Wood quality Question
Replies: 9
Views: 128

Re: Pallet Wood quality Question

I spent some of my furlow rebuilding one of my sheds (and moving the other two to more efficient positions in the workyard), so heres what I did. From your pallet supplier(s), see if you can blag some plastic pallets. They come in standard sizes, normally Euro (800 mm × 1,200 mm × 144 mm/31.5 in × 4...
by ForgeCorvus
Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:34 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Advice for a hopeless gardener
Replies: 662
Views: 38995

Re: Advice for a hopeless gardener

I think Onions, like carrots, have a two year lifecycle.
Year one, lay in food store.
Year two, flower and seed.

We want to harvest them and eat the food store.
by ForgeCorvus
Mon Feb 12, 2024 6:48 pm
Forum: Medical and Healthcare
Topic: Sheathes packing bursting for long term storage
Replies: 2
Views: 171

Re: Sheathes packing bursting for long term storage

Are you carrying them for other uses, or just the obvious?

Because there are better items for everything else (and you did say grab-bag not baccy-tin mini kit).

As for their intended function, I couldn't possibly comment.
by ForgeCorvus
Tue Feb 06, 2024 7:08 pm
Forum: Logistics and Transport
Topic: Buying a new(to me) car
Replies: 2
Views: 153

Buying a new(to me) car

Well the title says it all really. After many years service for both me and my late Father, my beloved 2001 Volvo S40 has suffered a serious mechanical failure which is beyond my (limited) skills and funds to fix (I'm told by a non-Volvo specialist that I'm looking at £1500ish..... And there might b...
by ForgeCorvus
Mon Jan 29, 2024 6:18 pm
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Ffp3 masks cheap
Replies: 23
Views: 1135

Re: Ffp3 masks cheap

Thanks Jenny...... I nearly washed my keyboard with tea
by ForgeCorvus
Thu Jan 25, 2024 6:26 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Value Range foods compared
Replies: 291
Views: 13662

Re: Value Range foods compared

Old Oake tinned ham (in a round tin)........ Just don't.
Its NHS 'flesh-tone', smells like raw cheap sausages and has a texture similar to cold school semolina.... Wheres the 'puking' smily when you need it?
by ForgeCorvus
Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:27 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Replies: 157
Views: 12807

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

That was a direct reply to Deckard guessing he understands it fine..as he understands he's on a TN+CS supply (Tera Neutral Combined Seperate) ;) biggest issue Is people who don't understand domestic electric supply dabbling to get things working but potentially frying a poor linesman trying to fix ...
by ForgeCorvus
Thu Jan 18, 2024 6:50 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Replies: 157
Views: 12807

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

In Liverpool, a job for the guys with the tools used to be known as a foreigner :) Yeah we called them that at work. They don't have a name for it down south here :lol: "Government Work" :D A lot also forget the cross bonding of the water pipes / Ch pipes and gases pipes all run back to t...
by ForgeCorvus
Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:20 pm
Forum: Homes and Retreats
Topic: Priority service register
Replies: 9
Views: 979

Re: Priory service register

Saw the title was "Priory Service Register" and assumed that Yorkshire A. was booking in to deal with his little torch 'problem' :D
by ForgeCorvus
Tue Jan 09, 2024 7:50 pm
Forum: Water
Topic: is the water at my bugout safe?
Replies: 6
Views: 804

Re: is the water at my bugout safe?

Boiling won't remove agri-chemicals, heavy metals, microplastics or any other contaminant. Your water won't have anything living in it though..... I live in Norfolk and nearly all 'found' water around here contains one or more of the above. You'd need a filter with the correct grade of bio-char (act...