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  1. log_hauler
    We have a 5Kw Charnwood stove in the lounge- this winter I dedcided to measure how much wood we were using. So I filled a builders bag with logs from the pile & when empty re-filled it. Since September we have used 6 builders bags of logs- so just about a builders bag a month. The fire runs 24/7 at this time of year.
  2. log_hauler
    Glad to hear you are (mainly) okay. Never forget your PPE peeps....don't become another statistic.
  3. log_hauler
    Grrrr wasps.....reminds of the time when I stepped on a rotten log and crashed through into a large wasp nest. A cloud of angry wasps flew up and began to attack me. I legged off across the field and the swarm followed me! The only way I got rid of them was by hanging my coat on a fence post- they carried on attacking that while I kept on running. Still got stung about in 10 places though!
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    Pitty I'm 200 miles away- I would have bought some off you. I'm guessing you'll have no trouble shifting it!!
  5. log_hauler
    Find a woodworking / turners forum and try to get rid of it on there?
  6. log_hauler
    I don't think it's a great idea. Fungus and wood boring insects will grow on those dead logs and will probably spead to the growing timber too. Bad managment if you ask me-keep the forest floor tidy.
  7. log_hauler
    Been very mild here in Powys-first frosts in what seems like months. I reckon we are due for some cold in Febuary....
  8. log_hauler
    Signed up and added my 2 penceworth- line will pass 1 mile from my old house- near the champion pear tree.
  9. log_hauler
    There's a serious point about improving how we manage our woodlands in there. How many unmanaged stands of badly neglected woodland do w all know?
  10. log_hauler
    Really just goes to show people prefer to burn different types of wood. Since we can't always all be burning seasoned oak/ash it's good to know what the good second choices are. I'll burn anything on my fires (haven't found anything that burn eventually!). The worst day we had though was when the missus fetched in a load of fresh cut Cedar from 'the wrong pile'. When I came home the fire was a pile of barely smouldering wet wood. I got a little pile of coal burning real hot underneath it though and the green wood burned eventually. I certainly wouldn't sell such green wood to anyone though- they would never come back.
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    Intresting thing is how much easier it is to drag those logs over snow. A technique I have used occasionally in snow is dump large logs on a sledge-a much easier way to shift them over a distance!
  12. log_hauler
    Never a truer word said. Got to be ripe for abuse by greedy developers this one.
  13. log_hauler
    Best (worst?) snow I've seen, the result of one nights snowfall in the Rockies. That's a Toyota Landcruiser under there!
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    Never sold any logs on E-bay, but I do admit to looking from time to time as occasionally you'll find punters selling entire trees and stuff they just want removed. Once got a nice couple of trailer loads of oak from a chap in Birmingham for not very much money.
  15. log_hauler
    How much is a box of 1000 suitable for a 4x4 MT tyre? I have a set General Grabber MT 33" tryes on my truck which are 'pre-drilled' so studs can be easily fitted.
  16. log_hauler
    These any good (can get 10MP originals)?
  17. log_hauler
    As above poster said - be wary of 'hung' trees which have not fully fallen. Best practice is to get them on the ground before cutting up. Other than that you ash ought to be burnable.
  18. log_hauler
    I'm burning off all the crap wood at the moment - saving the good stuff in case it gets really cold. Got plenty of good hardwood (mainly ash & blackthorn) put by in my personal log stores- including a stack of 10 year old oak logs which I never seem to have the heart to burn.
  19. log_hauler
    It sits on the hearth about 6" to one side (5KW stove)- blowing air around the side and back. It doesn't even get that warm because of the cooling airflow going through it.
  20. log_hauler
    Diamond blade might make short work of steel too? I'm surprised these things aren't used for break-ins. Just think how easy (if not very quiet) to cut your own doorway!!
  21. log_hauler
    The cheapest way is to subscribe to e-mail alerts from Space Weather.Com SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids Ocasionally Northern Lights are bright enough to see from the UK especially if you have a good, dark Northern horizon. The e-mail give you a few hours or days notice to be alert for possible display. I have seen them twice from the UK in Cumbria and Warwickshire. Photo I took in 1992!
  22. log_hauler
    Okay bit of cheat -these are from last January in Powys.
  23. log_hauler
    Been thinking about this job- what you need is a diamond bladed concrete chainsaw [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_CBpJNxdag]YouTube - Concrete Diamond Chainsaw Chain Saws[/ame] Great bits of kit by the look it! You can hire them, so cost the hire of said tool into the job.
  24. log_hauler
    For that kind of money I could get my entire central heating system replaced....
  25. log_hauler
    Quite right! We've got an old 120mm PC fan 120mm Internal Desktop PC Fan For Computer Case Cooling on eBay (end time 14-Dec-10 09:08:42 GMT) run it from an old mobile phone charger (couple of Watts). Will run for 100 years and still cost less in electric than an 'Ecofan'!

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