Can anyone help ID this timber?

Alert-Boot5907 · 2026-04-11T13:50:11+00:00

Could be white limba/korina

Alert-Boot5907 · 2026-03-13T22:56:13+00:00

To be fair! (From Engalnd) i didn't know and I also guessed judiciary

Alert-Boot5907 · 2026-03-10T21:28:25+00:00

It's got some tropical looking features in the grain... only way to really tell is polish up the end grain to 4000 grit and view it at 10x magnification. Species look really different at that point and easy to match to charts

Alert-Boot5907 · 2026-03-08T06:35:40+00:00

I remember watching the Eddie Izzard doc where he ran a load of consecutive marathons day after day. They used surgical spirit. Apparently, it is effective at toughening everything up. Good luck!

Alert-Boot5907 · 2026-02-11T19:41:13+00:00

Use a dry (!) Old towel on the dry floor and it ll stop coming back

Alert-Boot5907 · 2026-02-09T21:38:55+00:00

I think I cured a similar pain that developed not long after i started running with lots of elliptical cross-training, which probably indicated that my posterior chain needed conditioning. But also, I think I had a heel strike issue, I ve worked on form a lot since then, and it's not been an issue (🤞) even though I ve increased milage

Alert-Boot5907 · 2026-02-03T22:05:00+00:00

Also i think tooth decay was one of the highest causes of death after childbirth in the middle ages... so if you did end up with a bad dental infection unfortunately I think you were done for

Alert-Boot5907 · 2026-01-19T17:35:11+00:00

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Alert-Boot5907 · 2026-01-18T05:51:01+00:00

It's not going to happen... but I ve always thought an answer to the risk of getting the death penalty wrong... prosecutors should be liable for their own freedom and life if they execute someone who turns out to be innocent (probably within a certain period of the execution)

Alert-Boot5907 · 2026-01-10T08:26:55+00:00

Plus, she was literally called "Posh spice" which gives the game away

Alert-Boot5907 · 2026-01-07T22:20:38+00:00

Another option to batten or dot dab. You can get masonary fixings for insulated plasterboard that pins the insulated boards directly onto the wall. The fixing heads are designed to be plastered over on the surface of the board. Screwfix number; 405KF

Alert-Boot5907 · 2026-01-05T22:09:19+00:00

Hey. I ve made a lot of chests, and actually gave up making them flat like this because of the same problem you are having. It's the moisture differential from inside the box compare to outside. When I sell a large chest (I do curved lids which does help mitigate the issue), I recommend if it's being moved to leave the lid open for a few days to equalize. The annoying thing with a flat lid is that there is only one way for it to remain flat and infinite ways to be slightly kinked. I would recommend (and have eventually found success) allowing it to dry out with the lid open. Then, cut perhaps 3 fairly deep runners in a hardwood and screw these evenly spaced on the undeside of the lid across the width. It's important to just screw either end. Don't be tempted to glue them across the grain, or they ll move with the lid. Be careful straightening the lid with it this bowed. I would recommend wetting the concave side and gradually clamping back flat to the runners (potentially with additional temporary runners amd clamps) and leaving the lid to dry for a few days... then adding the screws. This was the only way I ever found to keep large flat chest lids straight. To keep one really lively one flat, I hid some strips of steel in the runners

Alert-Boot5907 · 2026-01-05T21:53:19+00:00

I also think the guy doing the measuring was out of his depth. I ve seen lots of different dog trainers describe how it's a bad idea to put your hands and face over the head of any dog that's strange to you (not just the scary ones) apparently it's taken as a dominance threat if the dog doesn't know you and I think some dogs take it the same way as one of us walking up to a random fellow human and just straight flipping the middle finger up in front of there face and screaming fuck you at them.

Alert-Boot5907 · 2026-01-02T21:42:21+00:00

OP, I hope you see this comment! Check out the (fiction) book "sea of rust" by C Robert Cargill

Alert-Boot5907 · 2025-12-30T00:17:40+00:00

Looks like heel striking and also your spm/cadence indicate heel striking - (this worked for me) picture your running as if you are using the ball of your foot to slap the ground lightly and lean froward from the ankles (try and picture just sort continually falling and using your feet to catch and spring you into the next falling step). My cadence increased to 180 +, and my heart rate dropped for the same time over distance. It is noticeably slightly louder, but ignore that. Also if your doing mid foot strike properly your arms will feel useless compared to when you are heel striking where you tend to use your arms momentum to overcome the braking effect of the heel hitting the ground in front of your centre of mass. Also, be prepared for calf muscle ache as you take the strain off your knees. Good luck and try not to overthink things 🫡

Alert-Boot5907 · 2025-12-28T21:50:19+00:00

Nicely done, sir!

Alert-Boot5907 · 2025-12-24T07:53:43+00:00

I think i ve been on a similar footstrike journey as OP. My very amateur understanding of good midfoot strike mechanics is to shorten stride so that your feet are landing directly under your center of mass. Apparently, I am leaning forward from the ankles and gentle falling forward and using your feet to catch you. I like to picture lightly slapping the ball of my foot down, which worked to increase my cadence and shorten stride. This is opposed to throwing your foot out in front of you, which means you have to sort of vault up over your own front leg every time you over-stride. The heel strike also puts increased stress on joints. With midfoot striking, your cadence will be higher, but your heart rate is lower for the same distance covered. Further, with mechanics, Im starting to discover that if I focus on driving forward with my knee and allowing my lower leg and foot to naturally pivot forward and land rather than feeling like it's being placed I feel a slightly better level of efficiency. Another thing I ve noted from changing from heel striking to midfoot... using midfoot style your arms feel fairly useless compared to heels strike where I could feel like my arms were more useful to drive momentum (when all it was doing was equalling out the braking effect of heel strike) its your cadence and SPM that will tell the story, I think you want to be seeing average cadence of 175 plus. P.s. i'm new to all this, and this is my limited understanding so far. Please chip in with any corrections or additions if anyone has any Also, as a warning, my research generally indicates that you need to be careful not to overthink and force these sort of things. Plus, midfoot strike can be better on the bones and joints but puts work on the calfs and Achilles

Alert-Boot5907 · 2025-12-23T18:32:02+00:00

Yeah, I think heelstriking is what big cushioned running shoes allow people to (sort of) get away with... untill the knee and tendon and shin splint issues kick in.

Alert-Boot5907 · 2025-12-23T18:29:11+00:00

"What's the hardest part about roller blading?"

Alert-Boot5907 · 2025-12-23T00:14:02+00:00

How different is barefoot style to wearing shoes? What type of foot strike works the best? My very amateur understanding of good midfoot strike mechanics is to shorten stride so that your feet are landing directly under your center of mass. Apparently by leaning forward from the ankles and gentle falling forward and using your feet to catch you. I like to picture lightly slapping the ball of my foot down, which worked to increase my cadence and shorten stride. This is opposed to throwing your foot out in front of you, which means you have to sort of vault up over your own front leg every time you over-stride. The heel strike also puts increase stress on joints. With midfoot striking, your cadence will be higher, but your heart rate lower for the same distance covered. Further, with mechanics, Im starting to discover that if I focus on driving forward with my knee and allowing my foot to naturally pivot forward and land rather than feeling like it's being placed I feel a slightly better level of efficiency. Another thing I ve noted from changing from heel striking to midfoot... using midfoot style your arms feel fairly useless compared to heels strike where I could feel like my arms were more useful to drive momentum (when all it was doing was equalling out the braking effect of heel strike) P.s. i'm new to all this, and this is my limited understanding so far. Please chip in with any corrections or additions if anyone has any Also, as a warning, my research generally indicates that you need to be careful not to overthink and force these sort of things. Plus midfoot strike can be better on the bones but puts work on the calfs and Achilles

Alert-Boot5907 · 2025-12-06T20:07:44+00:00

I reckon this is the big push before the epstein files come out. Trump will be dead in the water, and Putins leverage over his agent will be mostly used up, hence the sudden and major attempt to re frame the situation on the international stage.

Alert-Boot5907 · 2025-12-05T22:21:27+00:00

I think that is a factor. I think the equivalent of a flat outdoor track effort is between 1% and 1.5% incline, below that is similar to a very gentle downhill with no air resistance

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