philthecat

yep I got one - the 3 blade version. Makes a difference for me, we have the stove at one end of lounge and digital thermostat at the other and since the ecofan went in it has upped the temp by 1-2 degrees at the thermostat. Before, the heat was all down one end as we have quite a deep fireplace and it was all stuck in there..

My favourite wood is free wood:001_smile:

at the moment I'm burning some apple, conifer and hawthorn, and the conifer seems to be best so far, followed by hawthorn, and the apple is a bit of a dud!

Just for the sake of clarity, it's biomass (from trees) they are burning. Biofuel is made from plants and is usually a liquid fuel used in vehicles, and the like.

slip of the fat fingers on the keyboard - quite right. I heard that Biomass has to be top grade to be accepted - right moisture content etc or they will bounce it at the gate

We sell it to heat hotels.........

 

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Interesting! does it have to be dry or of any special grade for that? Sounds like a good way of using it up to me..

just interested. we use some for cattle/pig bedding or in muddy gateways but any other interesting outlets or uses?

Phil

with the announcement of a new bio fuel power station and drax already using bio fuel and several large companies using bio boilers i can see there could be a shortage of timber for firewood in the near future so the prices will rocket ?

dave

Drax just announced it's not going to burn biofuel after all...

Drax power plant suspends plan to replace coal with greener fuel - Times Online

however I think you are right in that supply will become tight as more folk burn all types of biofuel. Some cowboys are and will continue to fleece cutomers but I think if you have a good product at a fair price and a good delivery service you will do OK

Phil

hi all,

been processing mostly arbwaste on a small scale as sideline to farming but demand makes me think I should get a load or two of logs in to process for next season - anyone know any good wholesale suppliers who can drop me a load in North Lancs or even from Cumbria?

cheers, Phil

get a personnal alarm the sort girls are told to carry, select a lovely cut peice of wood put 2 bent nails or metal eye's in it 2 lenths of string tie 1 to something solid the other shorter lenth of string to the pull ring on the alarm and fix the alarm out of site and when the chap with the sticky fingers picks up the lovely peice of wood 'OH' what a shock. Just make sure the exit route hasn,t got any carelessly dropped bits of wood which he might trip and hurt himself.

 

Some alarms have flashing lights for greater effect.

These work very well - poacher alarm which fires a blank 12 bore round, use a bit of fishing line for tripwire. Just don't forget it's there....

William Powell

just noticed this Hakki Pilke 1x37 on e-bay

HAKKI PILK 1X37 FIREWOOD PROCESSOR 2008 on eBay (end time 26-Jan-10 10:52:19 GMT)