nepia
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Will Brexit increase the cost of your wood fuel?
nepia replied to BowlandStoves's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
But would they need to pay more? If a greater acreage of home woodland was put back into management there would surely be economies of scale coming into play (machinery in use 5 days a week instead of 2?). Transport costs could be kept down by using locally sourced firewood so would the retail price need to rise? Debate please! I'm just throwing my own ideas about. -
Will Brexit increase the cost of your wood fuel?
nepia replied to BowlandStoves's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
The naive view of possible benefits from one ignorant in the ways of commercial timber production... Expensive to import = we help save some virgin forest in the Baltic States and Poland currently being mullah'd with no regulation. Increased demand for domestic produce = long overdue management of some of the thousands of acres of abandoned woodland on our doorsteps (much lapsed chestnut coppice a few miles away from here in Kent for example). Naive I'm sure as I say but someone come back at me and start the discussion... -
Know what you mean and it was a bit of a fiddle getting everything to stay in place while loading but with the chocks there was no problem in the end.
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They could be much more a feature of English gardens - in the south anyway - if the poor things weren't usually imprisoned in pots and subsequently all but ignored. I planted out a weedy ~3' potted specimen two years ago and it's doing well in rich light soil in a south-facing bed. I topped it this year ? and it's broken out nicely.
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I have the same as dan494 and loaded/unloaded a zt1844 recently but I chocked the middle of the ramps; that increases their loadbearing capacity x4. The ramps are light and folding so excellent for transporting and handling. You'd need to fashion a means of holding the top in place (drilled hole with a bolt through ramp and trailer floor) and make a pair of chocks. That all sounds a fiddle but I doubt you'll find another way of using such light and portable ramps: 8' rigid ones that take the weight of a zt1844 are going to be much heavier.
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I can support both above replies anecdotally. I know a trio of small veteranised olives (~150yrs old), also in Sussex. They were severely reduced - not quite pollarded - a few years ago and get cut back to those points every 2 or 3 years. Given the amount of crown on yours I'd happily smash it; it'll be fine! As above just be wary of timing; you don't want hard frost on fresh cuts or regrowth so April-June would seem sensible timing for such work.
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It's an extra long running machine for marathon training. ?
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If you feel you're really getting nowhere PM me and I'll ask advice from a family member who happens to be a former chairman of the Dyslexia Institute. ?
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A supervisor not knowing his job? Nah...?
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Well you type good English for a dyslexic; well done. Perseverance will pay. I know a lad in exactly the same situation a few years back; kept failing his theory because of his dyslexia but got there in the end. Mind you he did recently lose the front left wheel off his Defender at 70mph on the M25 so maybe you should take a taxi! ?
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Looks clever stuff - 80% water when mixed for use yet magnetic and mostly biodegradable.
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That's good to hear because one of peoples' reservations about using rape oil is the fear that it doesn't reach the tip of a large bar.
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You still have that thing about flapjacks then... ?
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Bio oil can't be pure rape oil then. I've been using rape oil for years, including in the 064 which probably only comes out to play once a month or so, and never had any caking, blocking, gumming issues.
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If anyone between Surrey and Devon has Holm Oak available to Steve I can pick it up in January (Steve doesn't drive). Yep, sure keeping yourself busy Steve. Top work as ever.
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I buy my Aspen from a Stihl (& Echo) dealer. Rip the labels off, stand them upside down for a day to drain them, jump on them and bury them in the recycling bin. They're very simple plastic (polyethylene?) which under the right conditions (= hot) burns to carbon dioxide and water.
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Surrey Wildlife Trust to fell thousands of Ash trees
nepia replied to claydon's topic in General chat
Probably true but wasn't the ethos behind H&S to be 'reasonable', not to always cater for the unlikeliest eventuality? And this is natural (sort of) woodland for Heaven's sake, not a crop in the middle of a city! Do the FC do anything similar with phytophthora-dead trees when near a track or path?! -
Surrey Wildlife Trust to fell thousands of Ash trees
nepia replied to claydon's topic in General chat
I read the Trust's own magazine write up of it last night and the situation is exactly as described. Ithink where it went wrong was when they decided on the operation 'with the HSE'. Rookie error. More seriously yes, there is obviously a duty for the Trust to make safe ( I was a bit puzzled by their stated intent to do so for the public, horses and dogs) but 30m...? I don't know; maybe they own special woods where all the ash are 100'. It does seem OTT. I wonder if the backlash and the financial savings to be made by reducing the 30m thing might change their attitude. I won't hold my breath but I hope so; I live here. -
Fair enough. Lucky you to have such timber!
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I don't go for the 'really, really, really easy' bit but it's not a bad wood to split. It does take a while to dry though; I've been pulling Robinia logs out of 'dry' cages to recycle them into next year's logs.
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A bit obscure and not likely to happen in our climate but I did see on the telly recently that syc was identified in ancient Egyptian boats.
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Probably a no to this idea but are any of those long plastic pipes - the ones that look like soil stacks - that you see attached to Transit rooves wide enough to accommodate a polesaw?
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I don't have the mechanical expertise to say 'it's better for my tools' but I have virtually no problems with any of my 2-strokes, which are all run on it, half of them now from new. But I really don't miss facefuls of foul exhaust gases; Rough, you're so right. My take on pump fuel mix is like that of an ex-smoker (me) on the fags - they're both disgusting ?
