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Yep our business uses it extensively.

Probably yes. Perhaps they said 80m? That would be worrying.

Apparently we are going to get 80cm tonight. Nice. Just been down the warehouse getting everything up on racking and piles of pallets.

We don't get many round here. It looks like its been nibbled rather than scratched. The stuff on the floor is the bark peeled off in 6" lengths. The top stuff is at least 8 foot up.

Just seen this little syc which has been skinned by something almost overnight. The delicate work on the thin branches probably rules out tigers which is lucky. Must be squirrels but they've put some effort into it.

That's some ride. Down here in Devon a ride is something you can just about crawl through without taking your ears off.

I had to get mine done in the end, couldn't open a company bank account without it as the directors record at Companies House had my middle name and all my other ID did not. No current passport so it was a right hassle. It didn't cost me anything though as it's free if you are going from paper to plastic (aside from £5000 in £1 coins for the photos at Morrisons of course). Another thing I got caught with recently was that we sold a truck at auction. We handed over all the paperwork and just got the yellow bit back as you do when you sell at auction. 6 months later we get fined because the new owner had left it on the road untaxed! We could prove we sold it at auction but we didn't get the confirmation of new keeper from DVLA and apparently if you don't get that within 3 weeks or so you are obliged to inform DVLA otherwise it is YOU who are in the wrong. I had no idea about this. They wanted us to pay the back tax as well but I told them I just wouldn't and they would have to take me to court as I didn't think they could get me to pay tax on a vehicle I could prove I didn't own. So I 'got away' with the fine. Now the point about this is that it's all in the paperwork but these days we get so many reams and reams of paperwork that it would be impossibe to read and remember it all. It's just another example of too many civil servants finding new and insane ways to prise money out of the private sector to pay their wages and gold plated pensions.

Our Lucida fails every year. Arrange a re-test with the garage and then cane it up and down the motorway for half an hour. Drive it straight in and test it and it will probably be OK. A change of oil, filter and air cleaner might give you an edge as well. Good luck.

Thanks. Rob had a look on your site but couldn't see any husky bars. After an 18 or 20 inch. Saw is 345e. I know the saw is a little underpowered for this but I mainly use a 13 bar which zings through most stuff. The bigger bar is just for the odd big log. Please Pm me if you have anything suitable.

It is a bit loose to be honest, I'll check that out too. Thanks for the replies. Maybe time for new bar and chain anyway.

I haven't yet. How would I check with a square? Put it on the flat and eye along the top? When you say worn, do you mean one of the channel edges has worn down more than the other?

I've got a problem with the 18" bar on my 345e. It's not had a massive amount of use but a while back I think the oiler got blocked and the chain dulled in a big ash. I stripped it all, cleaned it all up and sharpened the chain. First 10 or so cuts lovely then it starts to go sideways again. I sharpen again, same thing. I got my old man to have a go with the file in case it was me with the same result. Is the chain duff or would this be something to do with wear on the bar? I've got a 13" bar for it which I use most of the tiem and that is perfect.

If the cops ask you to use your own there will soon be a market for fakes which may not give the same result as a genuine one.

Have lots of alder but hadn't considered it.

What about rubble bags? Smaller and very cheap but maybe harder to get stuff into as mentioned. We sell the silverline ones and they seem ok for the very cheap price.

Wow, that's stunning! What species are you using in the build? Is it mixed. Is that oak for the main timbers? I'm thinking of something similar and the main woods we have around here are sycamore and hazel. Not sure if they would be up to the job. I guess sycamore would take good load but not sure how durable it is.

It's easy if you use the tapatalk app which I think is for ipad as well. I use my iphone to put photos here. No idea how to do it from pc.

Only if it falls on your head.

I've seen several installations recently with double wall ss right down to the stove. Are there not temp issues with this? I couldn't do it on the esse as you can't sweep from inside the machine but many burners you don't need an access plate. I'm thinking of changing our villager a flat for a smaller, more efficient one and running ss right down to it would allow me to put in a nice big oak lintel I have but which would currently be too close for single skin flue.

I think the idea of the Esse is that it burns so slow that it makes the most out of the fuel and needs little tending during the day. If I have super dry dead elm which has been barn stored and is about 14-15% in the middle, I can chuck a big log in at 7am and won't need to refuel until the afternoon. The issue with that is that if the wood is not perfectly dry it just smoulders endlessly and clags the thing up. On the flue side, the top part (past about a meter high) of single skin on mine gets seriously clagged after a month or so. The 5 meters or so of stainless above that does not, it just gets that fine dust which is a doddle to clean. Last summer I dismantled the lower section myself sue to aforementioned sweeping issues and the SS from the cieling up needed a quick brush and was mirror shiny on the inside. The single skin bend just below and the pipe below that needed attacking with a rotary wire brush and chisel. I think the flue is just wrong and was done on the cheap.

My next plan is to build some kind of solar kiln to get a final dry on all my wood. The problem with going for 15% is not getter there but keeping it that way.

More surprising is a German driving a Landy. There must be a word for that. He must be a Brit ex Pat surely.

Albedo, Esse were saying 25% when I bought my stove which is a bit annoying as if you put this through it, you get a mess requiring a full clearout within a month. OK, I can cope with that. They now say 20% so they got it wrong. If you have a W23 or similar you really need wood in the 15% region to get the best results. It's a very fussy machine. The flue ways are fiddly and difficult to clean. That said, I do still love the damn thing and it does a roast better than anything on earth. I spend my days roaming the farm looking for dead standing elm which is gold dust to this stove. Long live DED.