If you follow TFT "the woodexperts" on Twitter, you'll see that we're now being followed by - and in turn we are following - UK Windmills. This organisation has some very interesting stuff about some of the older and some of the more recently-restored mills: including watermills as well as windmills. I'm still trying to find out how (if) I can post photo's on this Blog: and when I do, I'll show you some of me halfway up a windmill in Humberside. (I didn't do that just for fun: I carry out an annual condition survey on the sail beams - after one snapped off during milling, some years ago!)
I'm also interested in the restored watermill at Gayle, near Hawes - after all, it's not very far from us: we're based in Ripon - and Hawes is just a few miles upstream, on the River Ure.
I have so many interesting things to show you - and also to say - about the uses of timber in all manner of constructions, both old and new. As time goes by, and I get more familiar with this "blogging" lark, I hope to share many of them with you all out there in the (what a daft name!) "blogosphere".
Did I tell you that I set crosswords? One day I will have to see if I can do one about tweeting....
Cheers for now.
Jim Coulson
(Director, Technology For Timber Limited)
Sunday, 20 March 2011
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Blogomania about Wood!
I've just learned how to post Blogs and now that TFT (woodexperts) have a Blog site established, I'll stick some stuff into it now and then, as long as I have the time to do so.
We're a small but dedicated team here in Ripon; and we undertake Consultancy work all over the UK and Europe - so there's not always the time to sit and write a Blog or two about wood every day. But we'll all try to do it as and when we can - and if any of you out there in the "Blogosphere" want to interact, and ask us anything about timber - especially on its uses in construction - then please make contact via this Blog site and we'll start a chat...
As a start: did you know that there are over 60,000 different species of wood in the world? How many do we use in the UK? (The honest answer is that nobody knows exactly - although it's unlikely to be more than a few dozen in any year - but why not write and tell us of the timber species that you use every so often: and what you do with them?
Jan Antonovics - Business Development Associate
We're a small but dedicated team here in Ripon; and we undertake Consultancy work all over the UK and Europe - so there's not always the time to sit and write a Blog or two about wood every day. But we'll all try to do it as and when we can - and if any of you out there in the "Blogosphere" want to interact, and ask us anything about timber - especially on its uses in construction - then please make contact via this Blog site and we'll start a chat...
As a start: did you know that there are over 60,000 different species of wood in the world? How many do we use in the UK? (The honest answer is that nobody knows exactly - although it's unlikely to be more than a few dozen in any year - but why not write and tell us of the timber species that you use every so often: and what you do with them?
Jan Antonovics - Business Development Associate
The Aftermath of Ecobuild
We came back last week from Ecobuild feeling knackered but exhilarated: it was a very busy Show and we were in a prime thoroughfare in the Timber Works area - so we had an almost non-stop stream of visitors to our Stand.
The things that our visitors were interested in covered all 3 of our main areas of work: Site Investigations and Expert Witness Reports; Training on all things timber (such as Scaffold Board Grading to BS2482); and Consultancy on Certification Schemes (Chain of Custody, Factory Process Control, etc). The fact that we were offering glasses of wine and other refreshments may have made a slight difference to how long they stayed!
If I hadn't forgotten to bring my Camera into the office, I could have downloaded the photos of TFT's Stand to show you - I'll try to do that tomorrow, if I can remember!
Jim Coulson
The things that our visitors were interested in covered all 3 of our main areas of work: Site Investigations and Expert Witness Reports; Training on all things timber (such as Scaffold Board Grading to BS2482); and Consultancy on Certification Schemes (Chain of Custody, Factory Process Control, etc). The fact that we were offering glasses of wine and other refreshments may have made a slight difference to how long they stayed!
If I hadn't forgotten to bring my Camera into the office, I could have downloaded the photos of TFT's Stand to show you - I'll try to do that tomorrow, if I can remember!
Jim Coulson
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