nepia
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I've only found three butterflies in the logs this winter; normally I find at least a dozen. But many wasps, mostly not large enough to be queens and without wings so what are they - workers that have tried to make it through the winter? Hedgehogs; haven't seen one here for years but I was logsplitting near Gatwick in November and found a hibernating one at the bottom of the cord 'stack' (jumble). So I rapidly built a deep bed of dry leaves, put him/her in them and covered/surrounded it with a barricade of rotting wooden panels, small logs etc. Happy hedgehog sleeps hopefully.
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If you're looking to do tree work in gardens learn Lawson's Cypress, Leyland Cypress and Western Red Cedar. They look different and smell different but you should know one from the other. Pyracantha... almost every job has at least a token stem or two, often 10ft up the middle of a conifer tree. The same goes for Clematis armandii!
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Morning Rob and welcome to the forum. I know your place well being from Caterham. Your frontage belies the scope of your business though; I thought you were simply a smallish firewood supplier 🥴 My apologies! Good stuff. Jon
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Is biomass usage sustainable and as green as it is made out to be?
nepia replied to Pete Mctree's topic in General chat
...which is why I enjoy the dam destruction YouTube vids, mostly in the States but some in Spain too. There it's law that any municipal structure no longer of use must be destroyed. A heck of a science to it too it seems; you'd think that a few well placed sticks of dynamite would do the job but not by a long chalk. -
A bit pie in the sky probably but could it work for you if you shredded - shredded, not chipped - the finer green stuff but still burnt the bigger stuff? If so you need a shredder, not a chipper. Fewer cleaner bonfires too.
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Don't worry about it; I've said the same thing several times on here and it hasn't affected my softwood sales!
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I have a 2 series Husky with one Husky nut and one local hardware store wing nut so probably standard threads
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Well I have a Stihl E140 that I was given 7 or 8 years ago when it was at least 20 years old and it's been brilliant. I've invoked the thermal cutout a few times without apparent harm but then that's what it's for - to prevent harm. I can't say how much use it's had; mine's irregular in both frequency and intensity.
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But we do have memories; cling to them!
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We burn no hardwood at all - I sell it - and are in our 14th season of doing so. No problems whatsoever. As said many times - dry, dry, dry is the key.
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I laughed more at that then anything in the Jokes thread recently and there have been some crackers there God knows!
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I was going to tell you how wrong you were with the first line of that post, then I saw the last line. Not sure there's any helping you so why are you asking?!
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@Stephen BlairGood pics of that scene would be a fantastic ad on the miller's website; it looks thoroughly professional as well as eyecatching. Was it you?
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Why so anti Stihl? Open your mind 😊 and research the 241. Good autotune, easy to start, lightweight, 14" bar running .325 tooth as standard. Darned good saw; I'm on my second and have never had a problem.
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Wrong thread mate - this one's for jokes 😁
