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Regarding price of timber per kilowatt - did a few calculations:

 

Taking the average weights of Birch, Beech, Oak and Ash, a solid cubic meter weighs 700kg. A loose load of a cube is about half that, so you can assume that there is about 350kg of timber there.

 

Again, taking the average of the four timbers listed above, there is an approximate kw value of 9.35kw per kilo, resulting in an average total kilowatt value of 3272 a cubic meter. At £100 a cubic meter, and on a stove with 70% efficiency, the customer is paying 4.36 pence a kilowatt.

 

Natural gas comes in at 3.9 pence, oil at 6.3 pence and electricity at 13 pence.

 

4.36 pence seemed damned cheap. Time to start charging more chaps.

but if you put into your calculations of the efficiency of peoples stoves (or worse, their open fire) then you get a worse figure considering the best stoves usually come in at around 65% whilst modern gas boilers are 95-98% effiecent. (rocket stoves get higher to around 80-90% but they are still a home made niche speciality)

Then consider the time of stacking, filling baskets and moving it around you home.

I love a wood stove. Nothing like it. But with two stoves and two open fires at home and four stoves and four fires at work, boy am i ****** off with splitting and shifting fire wood.

i bought a 353 on the back of a college order a 6 years ago for £290+vat. I run it with a 13" blade. It's out lasted every saw I've had and not cost very much to service along way compared to other saws. It was used intensively in forestry for a while and then got used as my back up saw and the saw i'd lend to folk when they first start working for me. It also sits by the chipper most of the time for cleaning up brash. If you're only buying one saw and aren't going to be a professional cutter then i'd rate it.

you could try andrew levy... he's done some good work for me. his number is 07886938631

...oh

did i spoil the fun?

take my friends dying daughter on a balloon ride

These are the Burners I use in the yurts. Top doors an oven and since we've had a flat surface put on top for kettles or pans. They go like a rocket. Made from old gas bottles.

didn't start climbing till i was just shy of thirty. now half way through. just keep fit and supple. stop doing it if you don't love the job.

what is it that causes the irritation. Is it a lichenous dust on the bark or is it the dust created when cutting/chippingthe wood?

Rec climbed these loads you see and i've never hada problem. awesome moves, the branches and all so long, twisty turny and strong as hell. Used to call them the bungee tree.

i always help them stack it hodge, you mean old bastard.

I'm just too nice (or )

I got called out to rescue a cat a month back. I was there for an hour and a quarter. charged £65 quid. It's what a plumber charges for an emergency call out. i though it was fair but my wife thought i was a thieving git. It was after work. getting on to twilight. fire brigade and RSPCA had both refused to come out. Cat had been up thee for two days and was only a few months old.

As i got close with treats and cage cat got scared and went out on some tips above a road and wouldn't come in. i got the owner and some neighbours to get out my hedge trimming tarp and hold it underneath. shock the cat out the tree onto the tarp. Now that was one pissed pussy. still it probably won't be climbing a tree any time soon.

I think if i was called out in the night I would charge £200 straight up even for a tiny job and then escalate it from there depending on man power, duration, risk etc.

what's regarded as a good winch to go for?

as has been said already PREVENTION is the best way.

Swimming is even better then a massage for getting aches and knotts out of a screwed back or neck. (although massage is often more fun )

If you're a bit too late on the prevention malarky then try a vibrogym / vibration plate. They aren't an exercise fad. I have seen them turn around several backs in a terrible way (primarily my wifes - probably saved my marriage).

What others have said about stretching pre and post work is important as can regular yoga / pilates.

As for pain relief, you can mix paracetamol and ibuprofen or paracetemol and asprin since they are from separate 'families' and don't interact. (my sis is a doctor - it's good advice) and it's a good non prescription approach. On prescription you can get 24hr release one tablet ibuprofen which dose you up well and good for a days work.

Good luck

No, pure nitrogen

 

There has been a study done in which a scientist demonstrated breathing in pure nitrogen, no gagging nothing.

 

A journalist then tried it whilst wired up to monitors and a crash team on hand. They told him they were going to take him to the brink of death then take away the mask and give oxygen, he could hold the mask

 

He was extremely nervous about the whole thing and was very reluctant to hold the mask to his face. Eventually he did and commented he was not gagging for air, then he said it was quite nice actually, then they had to priy the mask off him because he didnt want to give it up, he was on a mega high and enjoying it despite being 5 seconds from death

 

Pure nitrogen

nitrogen narcosis, get it pretty much everytime you dive beneath 40m on compressed air. a great high similar to strong cannabis... aparently

and they flippin bite too,

they've been known to get a bit frisky when on nicotene withdrawl in regents parks and try and steal cigs off folk when they can't find butts

I'm sure the fish really appreciates and takes comfort from that, as it fights for its life and gasps for breath.

excuse the pedantic nature of my unimportant observation but wouldn't it gasp for water???

it's never too wet for a tax return

anyone know if would you be able to put this onto a regular trailer?

Gents... look up. there's a 'Chat' option on the nav bar. It's good to talk real time. you can get it on without us having to watch.

thanks guys. heard lots of mixed about the 576??? any feed back on the auto tune? is it effective?

with the tw125, what was it that blocked them up. is it volume of tight brash or 5" timber? I cut alot of wood out of jobs you see? got 12 6 stoves and 6 fires to feed and lots of friends that have diddy saws and bad backs that apprciates logs he doesn't have to split.

workin smarter not harder, i like the thermal mug idea, and the training of clients as to bring a cup out whenever i'm on the ground

Any owners that can fill in a few of the unknowns?

no vested interests in any of these posts then

haven't had the pleasure of any

that pleasure awaits

a scots for me. lovely condition