wood4life

My spelling is alright, but my fingers seem to have little devious lives all of their own and just do random stuff like that to embarrass me.

And I apologise for my clumsy fingers and bad eyes when creating this post. Wonder how many people have looked at it and wondered WTF is a siscount ! My only excuse is D is next to S on the keyboard......

fair enough, good for us private buyers though. Forgot to mention though the prices include VAT

Hi all New store opened on Deeside a few weeks ago in an old B&Q store - so its big ! Anyway they have a lot of Stihl stuff, inclding chainsaws etc. Its all assmbled, fueled, lubed and run before sale. Example prices: MS441 with 25 inch bar £649 HT101 pruner £499 MS660 with 30 inch bar £838 The staff seem to know their stuff as well. One guy told me that if they haven't got it in stock, they can get it - even items they don't usually stock. Place is called Charlies, they have about 6 stores, some big and some small, in Mid to North Wales and Shropshire. They don't sell saws on their website, its strictly buy in store. Google "Charles Direct" for more info. I aplogise if everyone in the area knows about this place already.

I have noticed some postings on here regarding using cubic metre as a measure of wood for firewood. The French have a word, stère, which is a cubic metre of cut wood, i.e. with air gaps in between the pieces, whereas a cubic metre of wood is solid wood, with no gaps. There does seem to be a lot of confusion on forums for Brits living in France about firewood, with the common complaint that the cubic metre that they saw unloaded off a truck looks smaller when its neatly stacked. Some folks call it a corde, which I don't think is a real French word for a quantity of wood, but I might be wrong as my command of the French language is tenuous to say the least. Others call it a cord and I think most realise it is a neat stack of wood 1 x 1 x3 metres. But it isn't three cubic metres as far as the French are concerned, as that would be one solid block of wood 1 x 1 x 3 metres, but 3 stères of wood. And most of them use this confusion to moan about the price of firewood, as if it grows on trees - sorry just had to do that !