Graham

It's quite a soft wood but it's not a softwood. Burns well; ask all those who burn nothing but in northern climes.

Stove at my old house still good. I installed it in '92.

The whole family has a passion for racing. Sad day for road racing and NI. RIP William Dunlop.

I have gas where I live at the moment but have rarely used it so a significant saving. I'm moving soon to a cottage with no gas supply or oil tank. I shall rely on a stove for heat and hot water with an immersion heater as back up.

So that's where the old threshing boxes ended up!

If you can attract swans they may help. I used to have the devil's own job trying to establish ordinary lilies in a lake I managed. Every introduction was ravaged by them.

Just harvested mine. Scythed it off a few days ago but was a couple of days late as it was dropping seed like mad. Managed to salvage enough for future project and some for a couple of mates.

A mate of mine started suffering bad and prolonged headaches. Diagnosed as not enough salt in diet.

Oh dear....I remember those!

b) MS 661 C-M

Looks well stacked in the trailer so a lot less than 50% air space I reckon. Anyway....half of 3.4 is 1.7 :-) See what you did though.

How high is it stacked? If it's 3' then that's 120 cubic feet =3.4 cubic metres. About 2 tonne?

Matches.

No. My favourite would be the one that does the best job at a reasonable price.

I prefer the cleaner lines of more contemporary stoves; not too modern though. The older cast stoves can be too ornate and 'fiddly'.