skyhuck
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Thats pretty serious, sorry to hear you have that, are you getting treatment? Mine is just poorer up close vision caused by the muscles that adjust the lens for close up work weakening with age.
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Depends how wet they are
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The are different ways of expressing water content Mark, wet or dry. Take a look at the chart in this link, Ash has around half the MC of Pop or Elm. http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/FC-BEC-InfoSheet-Wood-as-Fuel-TechSupp.pdf/$FILE/FC-BEC-InfoSheet-Wood-as-Fuel-TechSupp.pdf
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The Poem goes back to a time where seasoning firewood was not easy, people worked long hours, cutting timber was incredibly labour intensive, getting a couple of years in front and having a dry well ventilated building was not so easy. All the timbers that are considered good by the poem are those with naturally low water content or that will season under a hedge, they lose water easily and don't take it back in quickly. I remember a site clearance 20 plus years ago, we were trying to burn some Pop, 24 tyres from ATS and we were still struggling to get the fire going.
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Tell you guys what, I will happily exchange all my other timber for your Ash, in fact I'll give you an exchange rate of 150% so for ever tonne of Ash you bring I'll give you a tonne an half of other timber:thumbup: Why does Ash cause build up on cutters??? Low water content. Ash is generally below 50% moisture, many timbers such as Horse Chestnut, Elm and Poplar are up to 150% moisture, meaning the water in the wood weighs 3 times more than the wood. Have you ever compared dry Pop with green? Dry Pop feels like polystyrene.
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Its the storing of chip and logs that could be problematic. Farmers are generally OK, if the chip is going to be used in agriculture, for example for cattle bedding.
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Unfortunately they know the majority of us are
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I've just turned 45, I was blessed with perfect vision, but these day closeup stuff is getting tough, muscle memory really helps with sharping, I recon I could get a chain pretty sharp with my eyes closed. Bright light helps, I worry that once I start will reading specks my vision will deteriorate? As for marking chains while sharpening, I simply stop when I get round to the sharp cutters, even if my eyes missed it, the feel of the file will tell me I was there.
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Exactly, I felled and burnt Ash on the same day hundreds of times, burns lovely.
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Why do some of you need to get offensive and throw insults? I did not even know the poem when I first rated Ash. Mark, have you ever tried burning none DED Elm?????? its among the wettest timber you will ever find and makes Poplar look like good fire wood, DED causes the tree to cut off its own water supply and the timber is then seasoned by gravity and the wind. I've often found that those who have a weak augment become offensive to those who disagree. Why ask people for their genuine, honest experience and the slag them off when they take the time to give it?? Shame on you
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Got to say this was the first thing I thought when I saw this threat, THE EA must be rubbing their hands together thinking how great it is that some one is doing their work for them
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If your organised and cut your fire wood well in advance, seasoning it properly, Ash is nothing special. If your disorganised and are always pretty hand to mouth with your fire wood, Ash is prized above most other woods. I've heated our homes with wood for 25 years, I prize Ash.
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Thats more about removing sap than drying. It was often done with summer felled Sycamore, which will stain due to the high sap content, "up ending" the cut boards is another way to get some of the sap out.
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IME, Ash does burn very well, even when green. 25 years ago when I knew very little about trees or timber, I was felling trees to heat my own home, I felled an Ash, still in leaf, it was hollow, the first thing I was struck by was how easily it split. We burned some pretty soon after felling, I can still remember saying to the farmer who land the tree was on, "its incredible, its like there petrol in the wood it burns so well" Anyone who's been in the job long enough to have done "burning up" before chippers where as common, knows that Ash was by far the easiest brash to burn, burning fast and hot.
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11 tonnes over I would imagine, so possibly looking at an £11k fine, so not great
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IMO, there is or was a manufacturing issue Jon, some are perfect, some crack, my mark1 was perfect for best part or 2 years, my mark2 cracked inside of 2 weeks work
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I loved my mark1 Paul, it was great, switched it for a mark2 and the bugger cracked!! Still using it mind
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There is defiantly an echo in here:001_rolleyes:
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Old motors are really cool, but they are labours of love, you need real dedication to keep an old bus in good shape.
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Its real, he tries to grab the trunk.
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I don't think they were lowering, I think they intended to fell the piece towards the camera, its a pull line. Not sure I'd call them "professionals".
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Can't say I find it funny, they clearly are clueless, but I don't like seeing people hospitalised.
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Not really a case of hindsight, when he checked his balance it would also has said next to the amount "Cheque paid in" not "Transfer" sounds like he simply checked for the amount.
