Big J
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I had the worksite pack on mine, which included grip control (clever traction control modes for offroad), 30mm raised ride height, bigger (mud and snow) tyres and underbody guarding. That made a big difference.
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Fair point. I obviously got started on the sauce a little too early! 🤪
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I have no idea what you are saying! 😆
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I only got rid of the Berlingo for financial reasons - in prepping to emigrate, I needed to capitalise on the fact that nearly new prices are very high. So 2.5 years and 42,000 miles only cost me £3.5k in depreciation. The Octavia is an ex-police vehicle with high mileage, but drives really well. I can't believe how little fuel it uses considering the all terrain tyres and 4x4 system.
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I'd put a vote in for a Berlingo on M and S tyres. Had a 19 plate one for 2.5 years and it was great. I'm in a 63 plate Octavia Scout 4x4 and I'm very impressed with it. The 4x4 system is good (I go a lot further on forestry tracks now than in the Berlingo) and the fuel economy is actually better. It's averaging pretty much exactly 50mpg, but will better that on a long run.
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It's all a bit daft. Perhaps what we need (and bear with me, because this is a bit 'out there') is some sort of training, and possibly a test so that we can determine who is safe to tow a heavy trailer on the road....
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I don't know mate - did you see what he said at the start of the month?! 😄 V V V V V V
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Ulefone Armor X3. It is a smart phone (and as a long time avoider of smart phones - honestly, they are so useful once you have one) but with epic battery life. 3-4 days of heavy use is standard on one charge. I would strongly recommend one.
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A few other images to illustrate. It's an absolute swine to mill as it's brick hard, very dry and the dust irritates my throat, but the end result is extraordinarily durable. Come to think of it, I clad my office in it at the same time and brought it with me to Devon. It's untreated and hasn't greyed.
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Electric Bandsawmill and Electric Processor Generator feasibility
Big J replied to arboriculturist's topic in Milling Forum
I wouldn't worry about the fuel cost. At todays timber prices, a modest hydraulic mill will cut 3 cubic metres of dimensioned timber. If that's cladding, you're looking at £1500 plus, if not a bit more. That'd be about £10 in diesel. -
This was the last cladding I cut whilst I had the sawmill in Scotland. It was a friends house up in Kincraig, near Aviemore. All lawsons cypress. It's much harder and denser than WRC and it's barely greyed. It's very attractive up close too, and draws a lot of comment.
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Electric Bandsawmill and Electric Processor Generator feasibility
Big J replied to arboriculturist's topic in Milling Forum
We ran our quite large Trakmet TTS800 off a 50kva generator. If memory serves, the main motor was 30kw. The sawmill had a star/delta start on it, and would very occasionally stall the generator on start up when cold, but it'd only ever do it once in a day. I highly recommend it. It makes for quieter and more efficient operation. Maintenance of the generator is easier than a motor on the sawmill as it won't be subject to the same volume of dust. Our 50kva generator used 3 litres of fuel per machine hour. -
This is like a convention of flat earthers. Constantly trying to find legitimacy in a laughable concept. Justify the open fire which ever way you like - it smells nice, I like the crackles, the missus won't take her clothes off infront of a stove.... Just please don't try to make any claims about efficiency being even remotely comparable.
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The Rumford fire may be better, but it's still functionally pointless when stoves exist. I know that a stove obviously creates pollution, but it's not on the same scale as an open fire. An 80% efficiency rating versus 20% is hard to argue with.
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You're overthinking it. There was absolutely no incentive to be environmentally friendly or efficient. Stoves are principally stemming from Scandinavian designs, which we have no history with as there isn't a tradition of burning wood in this country. If you want to burn wood, buy a stove. There is no debate. There is no alternative (other than burning nothing). An open fire won't heat your house to 21st century standards, it will pollute the air and use a lot of fuel. Simples.
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It is not possible to have a controlled (ie, efficient) burn without air control. You cannot achieve this in any kind of open fire. It only occurs in a stove. The least efficient stove is still twice as efficient as the most efficient open fire. Why are you so resistant to installing a stove? There is no evidence whatsoever that any form of open fire is even remotely comparable.
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We had a house for a few years near Aviemore whilst I was working up there. Traditional croft house, terribly insulated. We put a much bigger wood burner in to replace a dinky one at one end of the house and there was an open fire at the other end. We'd have the stove running continuously, and it warmed the place as well as it could (zero insulation is a challenge when it's minus 5 or 10 outside) but we gave up on the open fire. The whole house would actually cool if we put it on and in the end we just blocked off the chimney.
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The primary reason that an open fire is so inefficient is that it doesn't allow for complete combustion. The primary combustion of timber simply releases the flammable gasses through pyrolysis to allow for oxidative combustion. The uncontrolled air flow that an open fire cannot avoid means that the flue gasses are simply ejected up the chimney. The upshot of this means that very little heat is given out to the room, and as Woodworks said, the net effect is often negative due to the removal of warmer air from inside the house. A decent stove allows you to modulate the air intake, meaning the stove can quickly be taken up to the correct operating temperature for pyrolysis and then the air flow carefully reduced to allow an efficient and slow burn. If the flue is smoking, you've throttled the air flow too much. It's really simple.
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Low impact forestry services in Devon and the South West
Big J replied to Big J's topic in General chat
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Low impact forestry services in Devon and the South West
Big J replied to Big J's topic in General chat
I've been over in Sweden this week building contacts, testing a Malwa forwarder and finalising stuff on our house (pictured). We're still not moving until August but we could move sooner (technically). It's nice not to have to rush.
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I think it's the aspiring Scandinavian in me. Enjoy the outdoors, love the cold, but come back to a toasty house
