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Some years back an oak tree near my chicken coop was hit, about 100 feet from the travel trailer that we were living in at the time, it sure wasn't a "crack" It was like a bomb going off...BOOM!! Must have scared the chickens half to death, when I went up to feed them in the morning, there were huge splinters surrounding the tree and one huge branch on the floor. That must have been about 15 years ago now, the tree is just about on it's last legs now, or should that be roots?? I'd hazard a guess the tree is well over 200 years old by the size of it's trunk.

Most of our weather, more so in spring summer and autumn comes from the south west, so it's not unusual to hear thunderstorms passing way to the west of us and not hit us. During the winter months with the Jet stream to the south of us our weather can come from the west, north west, then it's single digit temps (F), or from the north east, snow and cold weather, then sometimes from the south west, and that's when the super cells form when cold winds blow eastwards from the Rockies!! I've seen January days in the mid 70'sF when the weather is from the south west, warm moist winds off

Lightning is of many different frequencies, not just DC, I think my theory fits better than all the old ones, if clouds have a charge, then how come every rain storm isn't also a lightning storm??? Cumulonimbus clouds reach to very high altitudes up to 52,000ft, and have a distinct anvil shape to their "heads". No, I think the clouds form a direct conducting path from the upper charged atmosphere to ground. When you see lightning from satellite or the space station cameras, they seem to emanate from a single spot high in the atmosphere then light the cloud up as the charge disch

My theory is the earth is one huge generator, well that part isn't theory, upper atmosphere is one "plate of a capacitor" the other "plate" is the earth itself, the earth charges this huge capacitor up to X million volts. The clouds responsible for a storm are many miles high, loaded with water vapour which reduces the path for electricity to flow and "WHAM" the capacitor discharges through the easy water laden cloud to earth.

Do you ever see the old mash cans these days?? And what about the old gas mask type snap bags??

The jelly was the give away BJ.

Beef dripping was my favourite sandwich, still like dripping, my American wife turns her nose up when she see's me making a dripping sandwich. I used to like Bovril flavoured crisp sandwiches too.

BK, sounds more like pork dripping than lard.

We had a Blue Heeler in Australia, after the wife had given her a bath, she'd dig a hole uner the fence into a field with cows in it, find a nice wet cow pat and roll in it. We had a dog here who hated skunks, he try and chase them, but skunks stand their ground, turn their backs on their quarry and squirt them....Boy did that dog stink, he never learned. He also hated racoons, now they are real nasty critters, bark and growl like a dog and have the temperament of a mountain lion!! He often had them run up a tree, the coon would just get comfortable, fall to sleep with the dog at the

I lived opposite Farnborough School from around 73 up to 75 when I moved to North Yorks, and it was mixed all that time.

Sounds like you have picked up some "adware" and the site topics trigger it.

Shoulder full of cameras???? I doubt many Americans own a camera as such these days, just the smart phone. I haven't seen anyone, except the "news" media carrying any camera for years. I must be the exception to the rule, and my wife too, who needs one for her business. Even the big DSLR camera manufacturers are admitting that the end of the camera is pretty close with very low sales figures. So you'll just have to listen for the accents now.....LOL

I might add, 30Mhz at 5W RMS is pretty safe, but at 100W RMS upwards, I wouldn't recommend standing in front of the antenna.

Of course wattage favours into the equation, although all RF is detrimental to health, the higher the wattage (power) the more damage and more danger there is. The higher the frequency, the higher the danger, but higher frequency with higher power is going to cook you. During maintenance of all antennas by personnel on commercial arrays, they are required to isolate the transmitter/s feeding those antennas. All right there are high voltages involved, even with low voltage transmitters of thousands of volts, as any ham who has been silly enough to run his fingers across a dipole ante

There was a lot of concern by folks having an amateur radio tower next door with triband Yagi antenna sitting on the top, radiating 100 watts to 1.5Kw on frequencies up to 30Mhz. So the FCC brought in new regulations that required us hams to do an RF survey to make sure we didn't nuke our neighbours. Irony is cell phones are in the Giga Hz ranges. With just 5watts output on a handi talky (HT) on 70 Cm band, (440Mhz), we are advised to hold the radio so the antenna is at 180 degrees to our body, and 70cm is far lower than Cell phone frequencies. The feller who stumbled on m

There is not a lot of difference between 4G and 5G signal, it's a little higher in frequency, but WTH, all micro wave frequencies are dangerous to living tissue, don't believe me, defeat the interlocks on your microwave oven, switch it on and put your hand inside. OK, cell phones use much lower power, but long time use will lead to tumors, and I wouldn't recommend getting to close to cell phone tower antennas, but then the climb up there would be taxing anyway..LOL Radar frequencies are lower than cell phone frequencies, and the rules with those are keep away unless you want cooking

I just looked it up, yes prickly pear do flower, pretty yellow flowers.

Some "clever clogs" thought they could use wild roses, "floribunda" for hedging around here, southern Missouri. Ever tried to clear wild rose bushes??? It's hell on earth, they grow into small shrubs in less than a season. I attack them with the front end loader on my tractor and rip them out by the roots. There's a small plot of prickly pear on my land, the hard winters seem to keep them in check. the plots about the same size it was 20 year ago when we moved onto this land. I've yet to see them flower, maybe the deer eat them before they get to flower stage??

I suppose it depends on the size of the horse Dave, is a little horse a fractional horsepower horse..?

There are no laws forbidding ANYONE to take a photo and reposting it anywhere, including HSR, if he's on the streets walking around minding his own business If there were, there would be no photos of anything around.

I'm pretty sure I worked with a Brian Mee when I first started at Wilson Ford Rewinds at their Parkside Works in the early 70's. Not sure where he lived.

There's a funny video on Youtube with a feller pouring gas down a yellow jacket hole. He did stand back when he tossed the match, but blew his lawn up....

ALL hornets are aggressive, we have a couple of species here, I learned a trick two old farmers told me to do if I get too close to a hornets nest and they start getting dangerously close, FREEZE, stand absolutely still...Does it work?? So far it has for me. We also have a very aggressive ground nesting wasp, called a Yellow Jacket, not sure which is more aggressive, hornets or yellow jackets, but both have stings that are like a red hot needle on the skin.

@ Oz, I used to work for the Electricity Commission of NSW for seven years at one of their NSW Collieries. We supplied Wallerawang Power Staion just west of Lithgow. When I started there in early 80's, our coal prices were the cheapest in the world!! $13 a metric Tonne delivered to the station!! Colliery in the world at that time could produce coal at that price, let alone delivered and make a profit. We managed both, the mine was an efficient profit making set up.

Prices vary heavily this side of the pond, I know PG&E customers in California pay twice as much as we pay, our utility is a CoOp, all the customers are shareholders and it's run none profit, so we have some of the cheapest charges in the US per KW/Hr.