David Jenkins
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| posted on 9/1/10 at 03:25 PM |
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Don't know what to do with the old Christmas tree?
Linky
The first bit is boring - the action starts around 1 minute in...
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02GF74
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| posted on 10/1/10 at 10:14 AM |
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hmmm, I wonder if it would have gone further i.e. more aerodynamic, if fired upside down?
FYI - the tradition of being in fir trees into the house started in Germany and they were hung upside down - if memory serves me well, now google it
y'all! 
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 10/1/10 at 11:17 AM |
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I used to work with an Irish girl - her family used to sweep the chimney with their old Christmas tree! Drop a rope down the flue, tie it onto the
root-end of the tree and haul it up...
...if they didn't have a tree they'd fire a shotgun up the flue... 
[Edited on 10/1/10 by David Jenkins]
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iank
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| posted on 10/1/10 at 11:27 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
hmmm, I wonder if it would have gone further i.e. more aerodynamic, if fired upside down?
FYI - the tradition of being in fir trees into the house started in Germany and they were hung upside down - if memory serves me well, now google it
y'all!
Thought the upside down thing was a recent thing, but tree's were certainly popularised in the UK by people copying Queen Victoria and Prince
Albert in the 1840's, who were of course following a German tradition.
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