Squaredy
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I m not sure you can stop them drying, and therefore splitting to be honest. Has anyone succeeded in getting large cookies to dry without splits? I haven't.
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There certainly are sawmills that take Beech, but of course like other species they want it to arrive by the lorry load, and need it to be forest grown. Hence a few decent stems that add up to half a load with poor access are sadly worth nothing.
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Beech is worth maybe the same as Ash - perhaps £25 per cubic foot ( once milled and thoroughly dried) but only for fairly clean boards of course. So in theory there may be a fair value there in timber. But of course what you have to assess is how long it will take to find enough customers to make it worth your while. Unless you have markets for the timber it will take years, and of course that is after the years of drying.
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I would certainly board up the fireplace. It looks like that would be very easy and then the tenant need not even know it is there. Make sure there are some vents in the board to try and keep a bit of ventilation going. I think it is very wise to not allow the tenant access to it - quite a can of worms potentially...
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Again I don't see how briquettes will be an option if they are to be sold to the public. As soon as man made boards are involved burning in a logburner, firepit etc is not an option. Maybe they could be burned in an industrial setting for heat or electricity generation, as long as the plant can cope with the resulting pollutants.
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Maybe others on here will have greater knowledge of disposal than I, but as soon as the sawdust is derived from man made boards it will contain resin dust. MDF sawdust is well known as a carcinogen and I doubt will be ideal for composting responsibly. I would have thought the only real compliant route would be for it to be carted away by a licensed waste carrier for incineration at a local authority site. There must be many other businesses like yours which produce large volumes of mixed sawdust and shavings of course, so it might be worth speaking to some of them. On this site most people (myself included) only deal with pure wood dust and shavings from untreated logs.
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I’m upset already. Unless you mean ditching the app (which I don’t use). Please don’t make us choose a new password every month and never use one we have used before! Or could it be the return of Vespasian….
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I believe Black Poplar is regarded as a superior timber, so may well be worth milling. If it has burr or pippy knots it is worth milling whatever it is I would say!
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I assume you mean a compliant solution for disposal? In which case perhaps you could specify what the sawdust comprises of? For instance is it only pure wood dust or is it also man made boards like MDF, plywood etc?
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You certainly would not use it for fence posts, but I can see that as a trailer floor it would be good for probably at least five or six years even if neglected and probably much longer if looked after. And of course a big advantage is it would be really light, so more scope for greater load.
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Well the short answer is whatever my customers wish to use it for. Often it is shelving, or other indoor items, but I don’t usually get to find out.
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Just thought I would show some of the results of milling a few of these Pop logs that I bought from ArbTalk member GM Valet a few weeks ago. Nice to know they will dry quickly, and then be ready for sale. So far they all have the dark centre.
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Sorry this might be a daft response, but why not use a bag or two of Postcrete?
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Interesting. You have total control over the burn as you can shut it down as much as you like with the three air vents. I just choose not to! I remember a few years ago staying at a holiday home somewhere and taking a bit of wood with me - mainly small stuff - it was hopeless - no way to burn it slowly. Load it up with fuel and it became an unbearable inferno. Ten minutes later it was down to ashes. And apparently that is the trend with modern stoves - no way to slow them down.
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I remember when I bought my woodburner with boiler in 2009 the salesman in the showroom said it would be idling for long periods and I believed him. In reality it is running pretty hot most of the time and if I use chunky logs or wood briquettes I have it on max. Very rare indeed I allow it to idle. Now of course if it was only to heat hot water that would be different but my burner heats eight radiators and is the only heat source during the afternoon and evening heating a poorly insulated house. Overall it works very well, so if I ever have to replace it I will do my best to do so like for like. It is a Morso Dove if anyone is interested - 14kw I believe.
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Personally I think fuel is a very good way of raising tax revenue. My problem is with the way that money is then spent more often than not. Raising tax through taxing income and business is a very bad way of raising money - it effectively punishes hard work. And the most effective way to make a stand against high fuel prices is to buy less. I do realise that sometimes this is difficult, but build it into your decision on what vehicle to run, where to live, where to work. How many people have a fancy gas-guzzler and are now moaning about high fuel costs? Am I the only person to have noticed that cars and vans are generally way bigger than they used to be? I guess these prices will be a huge push towards electric vehicles. Maybe this is the real hidden agenda.
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Bit of artificial grass - if you like that sort of thing
Squaredy replied to forestboy1978's topic in Landscaping
As you say if you don't fit it someone else will. I think it will give you plenty of future work - after a few years it starts to get scruffy, and of course they will need someone to remove moss, repair damage, or when the house is sold the new owners will remodel the garden. -
Bit of artificial grass - if you like that sort of thing
Squaredy replied to forestboy1978's topic in Landscaping
Apparently we all ingest microplastic when we drink tea made using tea bags. I find the headline figure difficult to swallow (sorry couldn't resist that) but I don't buy tea bags any more. We also breathe in plastic in our houses every day which I guess is largely produced from the plastic clothes we wear. Microplastics: Premium teabags leak billions of particles - study WWW.BBC.CO.UK Microplastics in drinking water do not appear to pose a health risk at current levels, research suggests. -
Bit of artificial grass - if you like that sort of thing
Squaredy replied to forestboy1978's topic in Landscaping
Do the customers know it will get too hot to walk on with bare feet on a hot summer day? -
Bit of artificial grass - if you like that sort of thing
Squaredy replied to forestboy1978's topic in Landscaping
It is clearly what the customer wants, but personally I can't stand a garden so sterile and featureless and "new out of a box" looking. A garden is of course a place to relax and for the kids to play, but surely a little understanding that it is a piece of earth and a tiny slice of nature is healthy? To be fair, is is any worse than a garden being paved over? Well at least a paved garden won't ever cause plastic pollution! -
It might be possible, but certainly when steam bending fresh timber is a lot easier. I have tried with pieces that have dried a bit too much and they are likely to snap at any slight point where the grain is not straight. Interestingly (though I have never tried personally) softwoods do not steam so well. I know boatbuilders still do steam softwoods, but they always choose hardwoods for the major bent timbers.
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For steaming you want fresh oak - don't waste your time trying to steam old oak. And a wallpaper stripper is by far the easiest method.
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Looks like a spruce to me. Can't tell whether Norway or Sitka from the pic but def spruce. It could be Christmas every day if you put lights on it.
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Wonderful habitat. Awful crop. Not sure it looks very safe either. Is it your stand of Poplar? If it were mine I would be thinking about felling and finding something that suits the situation better as clearly those trees are not doing well.
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Not bad at all for something you found in the brambles!
