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Our Debt to the Forest

Many thanks for all your replies. I will persevere with the file and file holder and get a depth gauge ordered.

That said are "full  chisel teeth" slightly more difficult to sharpen correctly compared to "semi chisel" teeth?

I ask as you can tell I am not a professional forester /arborist !!!!  

10 hours ago, Stere said:

Use a depth gauge plate instead & ditch the 2 in 1 as that sounds like the issue not the chain brand...

 

 

 

 

I think with the 2 in 1 others have had same issue

 

 

Many thanks for posting the video, very much appreciated as that explains all👍  

I have recently used an Oregon 73 EXL chain with a Sugihara bar on my processor (JAPA 2100).I have sharpened it with my Stihl 2-in-1 easy file but for some reason the depth gauge file has filed too much of the depth gauge teeth making the chains natch into logs so much so its not safe to use.I made sure I tilted the easy file away from the depth gauge but still seems to have filed too much off. I am pretty sure the problem did not happen with the OREGON  73 DPX chain. Suggestion  please as to what I am doing wrong.

What type of Oregon Chain (1.5mm groove,3/8", 56 links) do you use on your firewood processor especially if you are processing wood every day. Thankyou. 

If any of you have had  a new   Charnwood stove , that was  painted by Charnwood , before delivery to the Charnwood dealer , in one of the colours available, I would very much like to know if the paint has lasted, without flaking off or discolouring. 

I ask as we are about to order a Charnwood Island 2 stove , painted bronze, so just a bit concerned if the paint is very durable.

Thanks in advance for any replies.  

I am now finding that although I have the top of my wood stack covered with ,ex bulker lorry tarpaulins ,that the weather has been so wet and damp that the wood is getting damper even in the middle of the stack.What I am meaning is that the stack is approx 2.4mtr wide, and the damp seems to have crept right across the width of the 2.4mtr wide stack!!!!!!! Most years the ends of the logs get wet but one normally gets a few dry days with a wind to dry the ends of the logs off but this year with such continuous rain ,that the wind has driven  the damp  right across the width of the stack, has one else noticed the above happening to their wood stack.

As above.  I only ask as I was wondering if some tree harvesting contractors, are now cutting trees/branches 3mtr long to save on time? Or is most of the firewood you have delivered by artic timber  truck  still between 2.3 and 2.5 mtrs long. I only ask as 3mtr lengths are not so easy to handle especially  if over 12"/300mm diameter or larger.   Also the ex bulker truck  sheets I use for covering wood stack are less than 3mtrs wide😟  

Today we went to R W Knight  at Marshfield Nr Chippenham to look at wood burners and they have a very good display.  As I sell air seasoned logs in a small way (one man band), I was pleasantly surprised to see that there was steady flow of  customers besides ourselves looking at wood burners.    

I expect some of  you ,who have been selling  air seasoned firewood for 20 yrs +, will have experienced  a wet summer and now autumn like this before, but in the 19yrs I have been selling  firewood I think this is the worst summer and autumn for air drying 2.5 mtr lengths of cord wood that I can remember. The high humidity is working against one all the time. 

Interested if any other Arbtalk members  may think the same, "A problem talked about is a problem shared". 

Note.  My cordwood is stored outside but I am fortunate to rent an enclosed shed  where I can store  approximately  25tonnnes  before processing .

Many thanks for all your replies  much  appreciated.

2 hours ago, david lawrence said:

Jotul approaching 50 years old ??

highly inefficient no doubt  but Keeping us 👍cosy

As long as it works for you, thats all that matters👍

This day and age too many folk seem to be wanting to run how other people should run there lives rather than just minding their own damn  business.

I am about to buy a set of chimney sweeping rods and brush so I can sweep our 8 inch diameter chimney flue . I assume rods and brushes vary quite a bit in quality /durability. Which type of rods are up to the job of chimney flue cleaning and  rodding underground  pipes feeding septic tank. Thanks for any info,  

If any of you have used soot/tar remover compounds that you put on the fire in the woodburner / fireplace , do you think they do any good at removing tar/soot.?

Many thanks for all your much appreciated, informative replies which have been very helpful. Next thing will be to visit  wood stove supplier R W Knight and Son, premises at Marshfield,Nr Chippenham .

Off topic I am just going to start a thread "Do soot/tar removers really work on flues." 

Perhaps some of have experience of using them

We are considering installing a wood burning stove to replace  our open fire.  So if you have used a wood burning stove on a daily basis  (not just weekends)  for your main source of heat for heating your cottage/house over many years , I would be interested to know what make of stoves have stood the test of time.What metal are they made out of, I ask as I have heard that some makes of wood burning stoves "buckle over time" as they are made of poor quality materials. Not fussed what country the stove is  made in , I just want a really well made durable stove,which I know will come at a high price !!!

Thanks in advance for any,to the point info /advice.  

23 hours ago, rapalaman said:

How long has it been down? What species? Where in the country are you? Can it be stacked with maximum airflow and possibly catching the last of the warm days sun?

Some since March this year some been down a year.

Mainly Ash.

Gloucestershire.

Stacks get  Autumn/Winter  sun from about 10.00 am till about 15.00hrs.  

As above.I ask as due to my own mismanagement I didnt get round to covering my cordwood up in September !!!! 

I have been hauling  some cordwood  recently with forwarding trailer  and weighing each load over  an estates  weighbridge. I have been a bit surprised as to how much the loads have been weighing ,  on the light side compared to what expected . I assume it is because the cordwood is quite small diameter and some quite bent which means there is a lot of  air in a load.   If by any chance any one who reads this hauls a lot of timber do you find that the weight you get on your timber truck varies quite dramatically on the diameter of  the timber you have on your timber truck. Many thanks for any info.    

I ask the above as a lot of wood is being extracted from a wood not far from our house. When walking by the stacks of different grades of cordwood and trunks on the ground which I think may be good enough to be containerised and sent to the far east (Vietnam??),I said to my wife there has to be a lot of trust  between the landowner and the tree extraction company, as regards keeping track of how  many artic loads/tonnages of wood that leave the estate,as open to a few loads going missing !!!!!    

I ask  on behalf of someone who has a stack of large diameter 600mm +   by   2.50mtr  long  lengths  of Ash  that need splitting ,so that there  chipper can cope with them. Thanks for any info please feel free to send me a message

1 minute ago, Sviatoslav Tulin said:

From my experience I recommend you do not give anything to anybody,personal experience, or open I hire centre and run it as a business,in Lithuania same equipment cost 650 EURO per week plus VAT. 

I was told "There are NO friends in business ,but conduct ones business in a friendly manner" 

1 hour ago, gdh said:

I would probably want £150 for our similar Ryetec one. As long as the user is someone you know will be careful with it.

Thank you gdh, I was thinking £220/250 per day .  

As above, someone I know wishes to use it ( Binderberger 40tonne Gigant)for splitting  multiple rigs using the six blade splitting  knife, on their tractor. Thanks for any suggestions. 

Would some one be able to tell me if their is a very detailed video on You Tube , on how to replace the solenoid on a Stihl MS261. I have the new solenoid/filter kit part no:1140-007-1802 to replace the old one.Any advice from any of you that have actually changed the solenoid would be much appreciated.  

Our garden is very exposed at about 700ft above sea level on the Cotswolds.  So as above I would like suggestions for species of tree to use as a windbreak, I stress "Windbreak" as we have very nice distant views from our house which I don't wish to completely obscure so a compromise has to be made. Part of the garden(north side) does have some very old Leylanndii (or similar) which act as a good windbreak,but we now want some trees on the West side. The ultimate aim is to try and slow the wind right down and not to try and stop it all together. Any suggestions of species welcome ,would a single row of alternate hardwood and softwood trees planted quite a distant apart  work?. Its going to be expensive as we will need to buy some trees that are a few years old as we are in our 60's so left it a bit late!!!!!