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You must be landed gentry to own 50 hornbeam pollards that big or have a very long driveway? 😐 Can you re-pollard them to reduce the chance of them falling over?

As you wish. Yes oil does get hot and may require oil coolers but the way it gets hot is as I explained. My tractor based grapple loader ran from 1983 to present with no oil cooler because the duty cycle coupled with a well sized reservoir meant the oil never got above blood temperature.

There is something political going on as technically all this "ban wood burners" doesn't make sense. Why would you not control open fires but you would ban older but cleaner wood burners? Why rather than trying to ban anything would you not look at reducing the particulate emissions? It is not like there are no products out there that do that. A very brief google get you: The ePURO, filter for wood burning stoves - Schiedel Chimney Systems Ltd. SHOP.SCHIEDEL.COM The ePURO, filter for wood burning stoves - The fine dust filter for wood-burning appliances. Electrostatic fine dust separator for effectively reducing flue gas particles in wood-burning... If you applied the same logic the diesel and petrol engine would have been banned may years ago rather than improving their design to reduce emissions!

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That's a bit of a different argument, personally I would agree as my boiler is 3 times more expensive. But with a world of fwits, DEFRA regulations are realistically the only way you'll stop idiots or at the very least financially forcing them to fit a certified fire as a starting point, firewood education has achieved nothing other than a busted flush. Maybe change the regs to say, if the nearest two neighbour is more than 50m of you it's fine to use whatever you want.

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??????? let's leave it here fella, you totally misunderstand me, I would rip up the all stove regs if I had my way.

Mostly disagreeing with you. Because you want everyone else to be mandated to be efficient, clean burning and ecological by wasting money on more pointless R&D to achieve something that's not possible, yet your happy to not be efficient, pollute and stay warm. The fire is about as efficient as it'll ever be, there will never be much more to gain and you have to design for the absolute dumbest person running a glorified pressure cooker. Backboilers aren't going to meet DEFRA regs

I can never work out if you are agreeing or disagreeing or talking about something entirely different? As I said 5 hours ago I would be very happy with existing back boiler stove system that was properly setup with many of the safety features above. My understanding is there are two criticisms against back boiler stoves: - efficiency and clean smoke. current regs are pushing higher efficiency wood stoves that burn fast and hard. Introducing cold(er) water into a stove potentially cools it down which makes this hard to achieve. Personally I'm less concerned about efficiency and cleanliness because I have masses of dry wood and live in the sticks. If there isn't the right mixer value, more thinking is required. - safety. there is a risk that a system will either pressurize, boil if vented or run dry and pipes crack. Again I think all of this is possible to overcome with the right design and safety features. The bigger log central heating systems can dump water, pressure, shut the air right down and some can even extinguish the fire totally. I think the current industry, building regs, stove installers and plumbers etc, are being overly safety conscious and just taking the path of least resistance to push everyone onto leccy.

We had two crapuchi diggers that cooked rams, two log splitter that weeped oil-using it to much . The only think thats ever survived continually being used is machines fitted with a hydraulic oil cooler , stops rams, valve blocks and o rings from weeping

A loading valve won't realistically cope with such a small volume of a stove, I've got something like 100l of water in a 1/2ton boiler and 1500l tank fail-safe as a loading valve has a safety thermostat that just allows it to circulate without power. You're average house with maybe 150l central heating system just isn't going to handle it. The simplest solution is the one that's used by banning them, r&d isn't going to make any difference.

Thanks, that's very helpful and gives me a rough idea of logistics.

Fascinating, but I still behind my original assertion. I wish there was more R&D into modern stoves that can also heat water safely without the water cooling the stove down. As you know eco angus do this by controlling the burn with a fan, mix valves to control the return temperature and various safety features to stop overheating or excess pressure. Its not rocket science. I don't think pushing everyone onto electric is a good idea.

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I'm waterproof, I dont wear jackets. They tend to make you sweat and then your soaked through anyway.

That is true of a compressible fluid like a gas but oil is not very compressible which is why it is good for transmitting power in a hydraulic circuit. It's the friction in the pipes and squeezing through all the gaps in pumps and motors that make it hot.

burned a few oak since about a week ago. so far behaves like hornbeam ,burns slow lasts longer the bark crackles if added to an allready hot fire. but the shocking thing I found in the garden today, 3 december... The 25-26 years old strawberries (wich by the way are green even in winter/freezing conditions) have flowers and I'm not sure if there were any polinators around ,even fruits... The world and climate is going to hell 🤔😱 I don't ever remember strawberries having flowers in December... If it doesn't freezes in december and somehow they get polinated I might eat strawberries from my garden... By Christmas 🤔 ... VID_20251203_141428695.mp4

For groups of 3, a medium sized kit with good dressings and a few extras usually works well.. I have been using this one recently and it covers most things https://firstaidkitsuk.co.uk/products/premium-first-aid-kit-240-pcs

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You don't need forced air fans on modern DEFRA approved stoves, that's why they're made with refractory stuff to burn hotter and vaporise the smoke, effectively a low rent pyrolysis as most are 5kw or less. It's also why they're not designed to slumber because it just falls too low temperature wise.

Well a good pyrolysis boiler goes to 1200 Celsius, so vaporisers absolutely anything flammable, leaving pretty much next to nothing.

Agreed - definitely a lapsed Hornbeam pollard. I'm lucky enough to have lots (50+) of them (pictures if anyone wants some ?). Occasionally they fall over, at which point they do indeed make excellent firewood (more calorific than Oak, I think) and it dries relatively quickly but .... it is notoriously hard especially when dried. I always make sure it's ringed up asap.

Not everyone has room for a boiler room or can afford to install an eco angus. I would just like there to be a middle ground between a £500 stove and a £5k eco angus. Modern stoves burn hotter and harder than older ones, but don't yet incorporate fans. Maybe stoves could include fans that are located outside which then pipe the air inside. Current policy seems to push everyone to electric heating/hot water/cooking, which puts pressure on the grid and generation and is not great in rural areas that suffer from power cuts.