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I'm building a short fence soon and rather than buy treated posts I was thinking of sourcing posts and rails from the wood. I've got tons of over stood hazel coppice, loads of sycamore, some young elm which I want to coppice anyway and lesser amounts of ash which I will also coppice. Will hazel rot if used for posts?

100m3 about?

Been scanning around a few stove makers and the like and all seem to have a page on the varying qualities of firewood. What I am shocked about is the amount of stove sites which imply that some woods can be burnt green and that others (pop, willow etc.) will never be any good even when bone dry. It seems most of them either copy and paste those stupid poems or write their own rubbish. There is a lot of copying going on and some funny ones too. If you google the following, you might find some of the worst offenders. One of them very near me who I bought my Esse from. Apple: A very good wood that bums slow and steady when dry Pine: Bums with a splendid flame It's just appalling that these stove 'experts' repeat this rubbish day in and day out.

Thanks, will check it out.

Anyone use 2 wood stoves into one tank? ie T the pipes into the flow and return. Is this possible? Do you need one way valves etc? My accumulator (Gledhill Torrent) is right above the Esse but at the other end of the room (10m or so away) we have a wood burner which can have a boiler fitted or I could replace it for a better one. I'm thinking this would add heat to the accumulator as the Esse doesn't do the full job. The problems I see are that getting 2 sources into one tank and also a long horizontal run of pipe from the wood burner along the wall. Would I need a pump or something?

Sorry you are having a bad time mate. I guess many of us here have gone through or will go through something similar. When we lost our first baby, it was a long, long dark time for us. We've got through and have 3 boys etc. etc. but it's affected me materially. At some points I was staring into the abyss and I'm still not the same bloke I was before that happened. I'll start sobbing at Cbeebies nowadays, a wreck of a man! Never mind the episode of Fools and Horses where Rodders and Cassie lose the baby, that will do me in for a week. But, you will get through this. Issues in your mind can really have an affect on your body, as you have mentioned with the weight on your chest etc. I know exactly what you mean. Just push on. Summer is on the way and things will seem better. You just have to let all this work through. Talking to someone is a great idea. Just get it all out. After I had my kerfuffle, I took a Mcjob delivering flowers and it's a good job my bosses didn't see me on the odd day sobbing in a layby because something came on the radio which kicked it all off again. I even had to deliver flowers to a couple who had just lost a baby. What a mess that was. As a poet once said (a geordie one at that): There will be laughter after pain, there will be sunshine after rain, these things have always been the same. So why worry now?

Lovely stack of fuel though. Well impressed. I have toyed with the idea of planting some of these bad boys a few times. I figure if you run a gasifying boiler, it would be a very good fuel as most of them take up to 1m lengths. How old do you reckon the main tree is in the first pic?

I do that with the hotplate as well and the baffle thingy. Take it outside and give it a good hose down. As long as you are lighting the stove again shortly afterwards, it just dries out in seconds.

Can you choose which one?

Any views? We've got it growing everywhere and have cleared a load of it last week. SMuch it good firewood size. It's obviously very wet at the mo but it looks like proper wood! Aside from the fact it's haunted and witches come out of your stove, has anyone used it as firewood before?

Wasn't that Rayburn on ebay a few months back? Sure I recognise that photo! The problem with the early ones is that they were really just for hot water, not radiators as such. I think the Supreme was the earliest central heating one.

The matrix in our Esse is knackered. Need to get a new one. Easy to clean though, you just take it out and jetwash it. You are right though, you need really well seasoned wood with an Esse or it's pointless.

What effect would having too small a tank hooked up? We have a 23kw boiler and a 200 litre tank. It was all put in by an 'expert' but it looks like the tank is too small. It never boils but doesn't seem to have much longevity once the heating kicks in.

Ours won't heat the house but it does hot water very well and it adds to the heating quite a bit through the accumulator. During the summer we fire it every other night or so to reheat the tank so we have DHW for a coule days. Light it when it gets a bit chilly at 10ish with a quick burn of softwood and then stoke it with super dry hardwood and let it do it's thing. If we are cooking we will light it earlier but then you have all the doors and windows open and it gets pretty warm! Planning on hooking the tank up to a solar thermal panel soon so we don't have to fire it in the summer and can still get free hot water.

Is the owner desperate to fell them? Dead oaks are a very valuable natural resource for many things I believe. We leave all our dead oak standing where it is.

It sounds like you want to store heat during the day to run rads at night. I would suggest going for a big tank if you want to do that as our underfloor heating will drain the tank of heat in no time. One thing I would suggest looking at which we haven't got is a laddomat. The problem you get is that you are starting the fire each morning with a cold tank of water and it kills the performance of the stove for hours until it all warms up. I'm hopefully putting one of these in this year. We have an Esse W23 which is similar to a Rayburn and it's brilliant when the water is hot but let the tank go cold and it's a pig and worse than useless. Lots of smoke, lots of soot because you have a constant flow of cold water coming into the boiler and it takes all the heat from the fire.

The dangerous stuff is the blue insulation type stuff inside walls and the like. Also used on subs which is why so many submariners got it. Concrete fibre roofs do often have asbestos but as I understand it, it is the white variety and a million times less harmfully as its harder to release strands into the air and even if you do breathe it the strands are far less likely to catch in your lungs due to their shape and length. I'm no expert but that's what I read.

Our esse w23 does about a wheelbarrow a day if we keep it blazing but will run on much less than that. We cook on it, it adds heat to the accumulator and provides loads of ambient heat.

Is it sycamore? If so its very prone to bluish kind of mould. Very hard to avoid if storing large quantities.

Then the council would have for change of use.

Farmer Rod. I detect hint of sarcasm in your post. I have no idea what a yurt is although incomers keep telling me about them. Some kind of tent?

A bottle a day I guess. At least.

Be that as it may, It's not going to be quarried on my watch. The type of rock is actually documented from the 19th century as being 'remarkable trapstone' with unique qualities but to give it's name would give away the location. They'll dig this up over my dead body. I'm not interested in the money side of it at all. It will go to one of my boys hopefully one day. The one I can trust with it. I hope I never have to sell it. I just want more people to stand on the top and look out over and maybe paint some pictures or write some songs or some hippy rubbish. It's got a power to it that I can't explain.

Hamlet has a cat. Village has a WI. Town has an off licence. City has a Starbucks.

Shorts and t shirts down here on the riviera. Not a snowflake in sight.