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NFU for all my kit especially as its kept on a farm that they also insure. A

That is lovely. A

Oak joinery offcuts in the showroom, vast heat and massive flame displays in the 7940. At home a mixture, mainly pine at present. Just loaded it up with a mix of Ash and pine, that will do it tonight. A

Not much point posting that here, most of the people here offering us imported kiln dried are also trying to sell direct to our customers. Your volume helps them buy better so be better able to undercut you at a future date. At least one company I investigated is no more than an office above a shop. I suspect product is shipped direct to the end customer from the country of supply. A

I bought some stacked crates of kiln dried in last winter. I use 1 cu m bags for my own produced stock, when the bags are filled the sides stretch, I therefore think the volume contained when level full is about 1.2 cu m. When I emptied a crate containing a stated 1.17 cu meters of stacked logs the volume loose was 1.6 cu m. I expanded cube bag and 2 barrow bags of .2 cube each. A

Always take up references on any potential new supplier. Go and see the product, measure its MC carefully. No UK reference then no deal in my book. Lead time from the Baltic is about 2 weeks. Yes their is a bit of condensation in containers but the wood should be so intrinsically dry that this should be of no concern. A bit like a foggy couple of days. A

Morso are technically 5 years plus ahead of anyone in the world. Jotul and Morso are at similar prices levels but I would put Morso ahead. Thats not to say Jotul are bad, far from it, but its the little things that make a difference. I have been trying to get a curved glass for a Jotul Scan for 3 months, they cant ID it and say there are three types, you would never get that issue with Morso, designs are never changed so a stove built 50 years ago will have the same exact parts on it as the same stove built today. In short yes you can overheat a stove. Its not that common as a lot of folk burn wood which is wetter than ideal but it does happen. I have a lot of joinery offcuts in Oak, these can easily overheat the stove getting 600F on the outside on one occasion when I forgot about it. A

Super prog, missed the earlier episodes but caught tonights. Anyone remember Mungo Jerry !!,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM Looks similar. A

I dont sell Jotul but the models I have looked at and serviced have been well made. Not seen any of the newer ones though. The problems you have scream over firing. No stove manufacturer covers any parts in direct contact with the fire such as fire bricks, grate, baffle plate, you were lucky to get a replacement FOC from JOTUL. The usual cause is smokeless fuel brands which are petroleum based. Burning small pieces of very dry hardwood such as joinery offcuts can also lead to the same issue but generally over a longer period of time. Stove thermometers are pretty inaccurate guides, I had a couple on a stove on Saturday, side by side they read 100 degrees F different. Some manufacturers are moving from cast baffle plates to vermiculite which does crack in service, i suspect cost is driving that one. Esse use what appears to be a pretty thin stainless steel baffle plate in their top selling 100 range, never had one fail yet. Cast iron baffle plates do warp and burn through, last one I changed I had to angle grind it out. Vermiculite has its shortcomings yes but its generally better. The new high end Morso's and Nordpies have man made baffle plates that look in the Morso like dark vermiculite and the Nordpies like concrete, these are impervious to cracking. A

Have you seen the numbers !!, 65 in total last year of which 50 were Reds. Looks like they hammered them a few years ago and don't now have much stock left. Hell of a long way to maybe drop the hammer and then spend 2 hours dragging it out if you did tip one over. 235 miles north of Edinburgh. with those roads it likely to be 2 days drive from down here. OK if you have a helicopter I suppose. A

Fawsley Hall Hotel< Fawsley Hall (Northamptonshire) - Hotel Reviews - TripAdvisor In the dining room there is a disused chimney, the fireplace I would estimate at a good 10 feet wide and about 6 or 8 feet deep. Overhead ( about 8 or 9 feet up) is a brick arch installed at a later date with a big hole in it. Viewing through the hole the chimney above it starts at the full size of the fireplace and slowly tapers up over 4 floors and an attic. Vast is not the word, the inside of the chimney would need scaffolding to safely sweep. They were look at putting a wood fired Esse Ironheart in there but the cost put them off the idea. A

Alter you mode of delivery, use an IFW GD85 and roll the pallets off the back with a pump truck. You will need a teleporter to load them though. A

Chimney problems are usually caused by A, Burning wood which is to wet, the temperatures do not get high enough to combust the creosote gases given off, that then condenses in the chimney and lines it with tar which is the main cause of chimney fires. B, Running the stove shut down for long periods when burning wood, again the temperateure does not get hot enough to combust the creosote gases. If you want to slumber a stove then use smokeless coal ( anthracite). I am burning Pine at home at present, it does burn hot and fiercely, as such you can get deposits on the glass if the logs are close to it. These just wipe off next morning when the stove is cool. A

SG Baker and Bag Supplies both do suitable firewood bags, both Cu Meter and barrow bags. Be aware though that the dimensions are slightly different, the Baker ones are taller, so stacking them in a barn needs a bit of forethought if you have different brands. A

Soft with one exception burns hotter than hard given the same MC, its not as dense so burns faster. A

I wonder if they would accept applications from a group of firewood merchants, in these days of needing huge throughputs to justify a machine a group of 3 or 4 local firewood boys could form a co operative. That would also have the effect of stabilising prices. A

It did occur to me that two minutes work with one of them would take all day to clear the debris up. Waste of good timber agreed. A

This Crazy Machine is an Excavator Mulcher Just need a thundering great excavator to attach it to. A

Cant say I am to bothered about big volumes, I am just not tooled up for it. There will always be people giving it away, either through ignorance or able to do so by getting their timber at low costs, maybe growing it or arb arisings. £90 for 1.3 cube = about £75 a cube, buying in cord at £55 a ton then there is just no money at all in that. I would rather just sell a lower volume of a premium product at a price that generates a decent return. I am to old to be charging round the countryside half the night for no money having already done an 8 hour day in the showroom. It does occur to me that perhaps a lower price combined with a realistic delivery charge may encourage local buyers. I sell quite a bit at 10 miles + away. Crated kiln dried for me will while the pound is strong form a part of my stocks for mid/late winter at least this time. Have had 2 new customers order recently purely from how the crates look in another customers garage. I am surprised Nick at the prices in your area, its one of the richer areas of the country. I know of at least one stove dealer down you way who sells at full retail, take it or leave it. He says people in the area are time poor, they are so busy making money in London they don't have time to go fishing round for better prices. Suspect your customers may be retired so have all the time in the world. A

Thats correct, no VAT number on the invoice supplied to you and you cant claim either. A

Nick will probably be busy with autumn cultivations now that we have had a bit of wet, been to dry to drill cereals until a few days ago. A

Support leg on that tractor is off the ground !!. A

I have used British Hardwood Trees, good stock Bareroot Trees, Hedging Plants, Shrubs | British Hardwood Tree Nursery A

[ Y Thats basically it, get plenty of oxygen into it. Jotul are tough stoves. A

As an accidental aside the colour in the latest pic perfectly matches most new fences etc that get erected. I sold an additional one a few weeks ago as the bloke wanted it to hold his poorly erected new fence up !!. A