Chris Gagen
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I'm selling willow by the cube for £70 delivered. first year of selling bulk, and have moved 20 bags thus far:thumbup: I just tell them that it wont last a long while on the fire but is a hot burn. If you've got the willow down now don't cut it up until september time, unless you can store it completely dry, doesn't have a good shelf life if it gets and stays wet.
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hahaha. how about a stolen beer mug, (from a haul of goods dumped in a field gateway), from my parents in law! how low can you get!!??
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and, being in america, it will have cost him very much more to have the surgery on his leg then it would have done to have the tree removed professionally in the first place.
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bearing in mind the thread title i was half expecting to see a turkey!
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also a LOT more work involved, and arb waste is horrendous to bag unless you've got big bags loosely filled, all them step cuts and coat pegs! then you've the cost of the nets you'll see the light...
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step ahead of you there.. i made 2 about four years ago:001_tt2: they're hangers, made with hooks and handles from an old potato riddle. done maybe 4000 nets with them. would be pleased to go away from bag logs altogether, but i'd never have enough wood for continuous bulk!
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just had a look at fuelwood's "machine". a rip off at £225 for me:thumbdown:
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haha, honesty always the best policy, even when you could SOOO have got away with that.
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awww, i'm gonna spoil it now and go for a bath! great site though steve:thumbup1:
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hahaha, let your fingers do the talking!
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would be better for you to build with a longer stroke, my splitter has a 24" stroke, but most of the the time it's set at about 11" to do 9" logs. it's foot pedal operated (owner operator all you HSE bods) and i've set up a linkage to allow for indefinite adjustment.
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:lol:that'l be fret work then, and i got your pun bolt
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iv got a neighbour nearby who runs his household heating off red diesel as and when it's cheaper than kerosene. not sure if he's had to modify his boiler at all
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mmm, thinking what we could all do with our firewood prices... then again, would it be better to keep to our current prices thus encouraging even more people to start lighting their disused fires, so many folks seem to think that a fire is dirty and hard work!
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Anyone selling Firewood on ebay...??
Chris Gagen replied to farmer_ben_take2's topic in Firewood forum
ha, funny thing, i was about to do a listing for closed fire logs on there... -
Any tips on the propagation of mistletoe...? I've many species available to try it on including the poplar, willow, lime, alder and of course the favourite, apple. I understand it's best to squish the berries into the crotch of a branch. Is height any advantage? Often see clumps very high up. Perhaps the age of the host tree? Maybe a younger more virile host is preferred?Maybe even the younger/older growth has a bearing with rough bark or the thinner, slender current year's growth? Thoughts and suggestions appreciated.
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definitely short as poss, i would avoid a tophandle, too much nose end work, and a little more difficult to hold against kick back when you inevitably catch a neighbouring stem, speaking from a self taught point of view...
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wierd, i had the very same thing on my chain today, had had a couple of sharpenings mind, maybe 25% down. suddenly noticed a "tick tick tick" and a very slack chain. went to tension and found broken link! (and here was me scalding myself for being to greedy on the rakers...)
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Spruce Springersteen?
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if the fire is that big then it will be worth your while to have several starting points, one every couple of yards to ensure an equal rate of burning and avoid collapse in the wrong direction. worth using paper and kindling and lay as well as you would your own fire at home, when all laid go around with your matches/lighter. start on the leeward side to avoid being smoked out! ask Frosty if I'm any good at bonfires...
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no offence meant at all on my part, but a metre of wood is open to interpretation really...
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cherry:001_smile:
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gotta be silver birch, got the colours! (and you've got the added bonus of yelling "Hi Ho Silver, Away!!" every time you leave the work site!)
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and don't you just hate it when you buy 25 tonnes of firewood in the spring only for there to be just 20 tonnes left in the same mass come the autumn? that's just the way it is, some things will never change, doo-be-doo-be-doo:flute:
