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Disagree totally. Your asking your peers. That does not mean you are incapable, It means you are giving full and careful consideration to a complicated scenario. Most of us have dealt with complicated scenarios and ones that would never come up on a climbing course. You are doing the right thing by asking. Go into it sure but always with the edge of caution and willing to change your mind if the situation merits a change. Be confident and sure. Best of luck. You will feel on top of the world when you nail it.

It is true that round wood lasts and burns longer than shown grain. What you look at as a 2 inch round wood log last for as long as a piece showing a 2 inch split faces at right angles. The grain shown is greater but the heat output will always be with the larger piece (mass). The heat is in the wood, the amount of time of the output differs. The 2 split sides will burn quicker throwing heat into the room quicker even though the round wood may still be burning.

I have a load of Elm 8x4" various lengths for sale ASAP At least 5 cubic metres, maybe more. Originally cut for Fire Surrounds. Best offers would get it. They were cut 2 years ago and have been dry stored with good air flow. I have moved to France but the timber is located near Forres, Moray. My father is in Scotland (doesn't know info about the timber) and can arrange viewing/collection His number is 07544666201. Happy Crimbo

Just did a search for that clark one. Got this link RAM Wedge Hydraulic Felling Wedges | Logging | Clark Forest A big outlay for a non permanent piece of kit. I am impressed with it though. Would be keen on a second hand one, the only way I could justify it.

I saw this scrawling through some french felling clips. You need to wait till he's finished his back cuts. Liked the way he put in his gob cuts. slightly different to how i was taught. takes experience to know that you've got it spot on from one side. Think it is time to try that method. Practice makes perfect. anyways enjoy the vid. PS shout out to Euan Doig, Melvin, John the Chipper King, Kevin Holt, John Mckail Steven Mcfarlane and Jeremy Thornhill, Nick

I got really bogged down into what the "person" means and laws surrounding the "person" and how relevant it was to the human being. Blacks law dictionary 1st Edition PERSON. A man according to the rank he holds in society, with all the rights to which he holds the place entitles him, and the duties which it imposes. A human being considered being capable of having rights and being charged with duties, while a "thing" is the object over which rights may be exercised. Persons are divided by law into natural and artificial. Natural persons are such as the God of nature formed us; artificial are such as are created by human laws, for the purpose of society and government, which are called "corporations" or "bodies politic". Deep but once you get involved it gets really interesting.

Beautiful wood. I love Elm.

Doh was never very good with numbers.

I can keep it in mind as we sometimes travel down to England and in some circumstances we travel back up light so there could be possibilities for a meet up. At least it's not south as that would totally kill off the idea.

Thats qute an interesting idea. I had never thought of that one.

Wedidn't get taught the recovery position on our training course and when it came to the test i had to rescue the assesor as an unconcious casualty. I climbed up and brought him down safely and shouted to the groundsman to support his back when he came down with me. Not knowing i assumed that was it over but the assesor remained "unconcious" (fortunately having done my lifeguard certificate i had done the recvovery position) i proceeded to put him in the recovery position thinking that would be what i would logically do in the circumstances. He opened his eyes and climbed to his feet scraping all the leaves and twigs off his back and said "the jacket, you forgot the jacket", i was however happy that i did at least get him in the recovery position he then turned to talk to the then groundie who was doing a rescue next and he had a big turd on the side of his helmet, i didn't have the guts to tell him but fortunately the groundie did. Both myself and the other candidate struggled not to piss ourselves laughing but did so because we didn't want to put the assesors back up. My advice is remember the jacket just in case of turds.

Well, I have been fortunate with the first Garage that was needing firewood because they are more like a family run business than an oversized shell garage or the like. They seem to understand that it is a time consuming operation. I have done my maths and I don't want to sell them for less than £3.00/bag to the garages - does that seem unreasonable, I know they are sold on for £5.00/bag. I have profited from the lack of competitors being able to get there supplies out over the cold spell. I want to keep up momentum and also make my deals attractive.

Likewise as David Oakman has asked. How does he work it on a logsplitter?

Do you have min buy quantity for that price and any ideas on postage to Morayshire north of Scotland? That seems like a decent buy if the courier costs don't max it up too much.

Hey Folks, I've expanded over to supplying garages and one of the ones I sell to has requested I supply Kindling. The concept is simple ans straight forward enough and I have a couple of lads who work for me that have been attacking the softwood stack but I am wondering if you guys have learnt any good tips that you're willing to share? What prices do you sell bags to garages/public for? With out the use of a machine how many approx bags do you manage in an hour? All info greatly appreciated.

Yeah i have noticed that they are also trying to sell chippers. I put a post up on here which was removed by the mods. I highlighted two different chippers in different areas but that had the same prices and 0 feedback. I contacted the sellers and their email replies were exactly the same. They tend to put please send correspondance to address (at) yahoo.com. or likewise. Needless to say the items were removed and the accounts were cancelled. I know of one other chipper that has just been removed which is the same scenario. Beware of chippers too.

i'd have done it too. Even though they're cops they're still only human.

I'd charge AT LEAST £50.00 per ton for this even if he is a repeat customer. If i could get a hold of Blocked harwood ready for splitting for £30.00 per ton i would jump at the chance. Don't sell yourself short.

Also the ad down in Devon says they "recently spent £360 on oil, filter, plugs, carburator diafram, fuel pump, custom made exhaust, blades sharpened, tyres replaced, throttle cable, on/off switch" Carburetor diaphragm on a honda gx??? Fuel pump??? on a gravity fed fuel line.

Sorry, I may have not explained very well. The title and starting prices are exactly the same and the postage prices are exactly the same. Each member as 0 feedback and there responses to messages through ebay are exactly the same. How can that be coincidence alone? Hamadryad I accept you may not think it is right to bring up these things on site but if it is not brought up when something seems a bit wierd then we are all fools for not keeping an eye on what's going on. If you do a normal search then these chippers show up in a different light, you could be fooled into dealing with this person/persons. This could be complete chance and if so i accept the mistake. Send them each an email through ebay and find out yourself.

I was looking up the newly listed Chippers on Ebay and I came across two identical titles, start prices and postage prices. When I looked at the listing they were located in completely different places and they were 0 feedback members. I mailed through ebay and they give identical responses Have a check yourselves: The prices start at £435.00 and postage is set @ £40.00 wood chipper, Home Garden, Business, Office Industrial, Collectables items at low prices on eBay.co.uk Here are the individual listings: Wood chipper on eBay (end time 28-Dec-09 22:51:37 GMT) Wood Chipper on eBay (end time 28-Dec-09 23:30:22 GMT) Do any of you guys recognise the chippers? Should it be reported?

Yes it is normal until the paint on the stove has cured. Ideally start with small fires only to take stresses out of the cast iron or plate steel.

I watched the programme too. It didn't reveal too much about merchants which i would have thought given they chatted to a gas merchant would have been fair game. Talking to the estate manager didn't give a great understanding to the bigger picture of how many people already use firewood but did give us an idea of how cost effective (if properly managed) it can be to large houses/estates, this is based on woodchip at that large a scale. The plans are in the pipeline for new homes to be built with wood as a heating source in mind and it will only be good in the long term, with everything proper managment is essential. How is the planting down in England? I know that in the north of Scotland around the Cairngorms we have rich woodlands and some lovely Softwood crops. As far as hardwood goes for us we are limited, thats not to say there isn't any but that access to it for us just now is only Dead Elm or dead/dangerous trees. I think our national outlook to woodfuel will change and we will start to take heed to the advanced Scandinavian countries. Over all i think this is great news for us and we should benefit greatly.