Big J
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I made the rule with my wife that if it's tax deductable it doesn't count!
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If it has been correctly dried (as in stickered and stacked with reasonable airflow) it should be fine. Easiest way to tell is get yourself a cheapo moisture meter and check - 15 to 19% moisture content is what you are aiming for (according to my architect wife). Jonathan
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Thanks for the information Winterbourne. As it happens, we have been given a Rayburn which we are in the process of figuring out the best way to install. Our days of a cold house are numbered!
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What are you burning in your stove this winter 2010
Big J replied to firewoodman's topic in Firewood forum
Currently on dead larch, scots pine and elm, with some 1 yr seasoned beech and 4 month seasoned cherry and willow. All burn very well and always have a bed of embers to relight from in the morning. -
You lucky swine, you! My '89 Shogun 2.6 Petrol gets 24mpg on a steady moterway run and what seems like about 10mpg doing forestry access stuff on the estate. I dream of 30mpg!
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We weren't climbing, but were thinning today right on the shore of the estate. The squalls of snow coming in from the North East were quite entertaining, plastering everything in ice!
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It is a lot of money for a saw that is going to be hard to get spares for! I'll just wait until the week before Christmas when he's selling it for £20 and a case of Tennants!
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One for Flaming-ace to drool over: STIHL CHAINSAW 090av 30" BAR on eBay (end time 28-Nov-10 20:55:21 GMT) Seems a bit pricey I suppose, but am I right in thinking it's considered the Holy Grail for chainsaw milling? It's blinking local too!
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Snowy snow snow!
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Bide your time mate. Once all the numpties have given away their stock and put themselves out of business, you will still be there with your logs.
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My colleague has the combi can with auto fills on both oil and fuel - they are superb. If we refuel at the same time, he is usually completely done before I've filled one tank. You can guess what my stocking fillers are going to be this year!
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I've got a nice stack of timber at home for my own fire - perhaps 15 tonnes. It's got a lovely dusting of snow on it presently (though will probably be buried come morning!). I'll get a photo tomorrow
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They can go for daft money on Ebay. That said, I was lucky when I got my 088 -£410 and it's done literally hundreds of hours of milling since then with one carb cleanout.
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Groundsaw and 2 hedgetrimmers stolen at work today...
Big J replied to Dionysus's topic in General chat
I hate that we have to do this. I hate that people of so self destructive as to constantly reinforce how far we have to go to actually become civilised. Burn them all, I say! -
I'm very tall (6ft 8) but have a very high block to work with. Quite like that I should be able to wield it one handed.
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Just got the large splitting axe (3 1/2lb head, with 27 inch handle) for £70 including delivery.
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Right, Gransfors Brux it will be! Thanks folks!
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Thanks Rob - very pleased with the outcome of this kiln. Still changes that I will make for the next one, but it's always a learning process! Sold 1/10 of the kiln today to a young furniture maker fresh from college. And she is going to send her friends along too! Jonathan
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Welcome to the forum David - nice quartering there. Do you have any pictures of the finished products?
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Just got a Delmhorst J2000 for the sawn timber. Has the hammer probe and settings for species and temperature. About £370, but maybe a bit OTT for firewood!
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Around £25,000 all in I think. Wife's endless years as a student, plus years of poorly paying jobs, plus starting a business. Not excessive given the circumstances I think!
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Charging for planning permission for tree work...
Big J replied to Simon Rotheram's topic in Trees and the Law
I'm sorry, but with Nigella on one side and an M&S lingerie model on the other, the chances of me managing to read that article were slim to none! -
Everything unloaded today with mostly excellent results. Only glitch is that the 2 inch and up Oak isn't dry, and the thickest ash and Yew needs a little longer too. To be expected though - will teach me to stop milling thick boards! Yew - 7% MC Elm - 8% MC Ash (1.5 and 2 inches) - 9-12% MC Oak (1.5) - 9-12% MC Very little distortion in any boards - extremely clean and little fungal growth owing to the borasic acid. Little bit of surface checking in some of the pippy oak and some heart shake opening up with the ash, but all as expected. Here are a few pictures: Quite a lot of the Oak, Elm and Ash is due to go out this week and next. Once the space is cleared in the kiln again, the thicker Oak, Ash and Yew will go back on along with about 25 CF of Ash I'm contract drying for a customer. Very chuffed! Jonathan
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Right! 53 days have passed and the kiln is being emptied tomorrow! Courtesy of Rob D, the swanky new moisture meter he sent confirmed that the timber is just about perfect (8-11% MC throughout) and ready for sale. With having used the Borasic Acid, there is no mould anywhere on the timber and very little end checking too. I'll get pictures tomorrow! Jonathan
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I think the very fact that that sentence was posted on the internet, which Stephen Fry also uses, caused him to die a little inside.
