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Fair enough, good luck and hope you get in soon. Sounds like you are at that stage where its not as much fun as it was at the start, but hang in there, focus on the end result and it will all be worth it. Any pictures to share?

As mentioned on other posts of this sort I would recommend you pop over to a forum that covers this sort of thing as their main course. This forum is excellent when it comes to tree related stuff, but house building is a mid morning snack on here. Two we found very useful were the Green Building forum and the Navitron forum - there are loads of people there doing what you are doing to a greater or lesser extent as well as professionals who regularly offer free advice.

"Dont get high on your own supply" said by Al Pacino me thinks in some movie. The more you use, the less you have to sell !! The more you use, the more you have to cart in doors, unless you have someone trained up to do it for you of course The more you use, the more you have to get up and feed the fire - see last point. The more you use the less cloths you have to wear - can be a benefit, but of course depends on who you live with

I have been away for a few weeks so guessing up to 2 m3 max since October in a 8kw stove that does all heating (via thermal store & underfloor heating) & HW in a well insulated house with a missus who feels cold regardless of the temperature Only need to burn an hour or two a day to get the thermal store up to temp. Solar does all HW through the summer and probably contributes a bit on sunny days in the winter, but not a lot as the panels are optimised for summer collection. Started using the stove earlier this year than normal due to grey conditions.

A few people seem to be implying that the DJ's should have thought that this outcome was a possibility??? If they had, they would not have made the call however immature they are. I very much doubt they got out of bed thinking they were going to harm anyone that day. Just a tragic coincidence as far as I am concerned. On another note Brick100 your comment "yet two convict related wasters" shows plain ignorance and completely undermines your credibility. I suggest you read up a bit on British history before throwing such comments about!!

correct me if I'm wrong, but the newer 550 has electronics involved which needs to be plugged in to a computor for certain things like your car, so complete DIY maintenance means go for the 346 if you can find one

Too modest Steve - theres already been and no doubt still going to be a good many hours spent at the computor keeping the raffle on course - well done.

Excellent part of the whole Arbtalk operation and like the fact that everything goes to one charity. This way a concerted effort can be made by concentrating the resources, rather than spreading little bits around a number of charities. Missed last years raffle due to unforeseen circumstances so will put in last years as well as this years Well done to Steve and any helpers for the effort. Edit - thanks to all the sponsors as well for putting up some very attractive shiny bits

well there you go Jon, what was a cider man like you touching that stuff for. Now let that be a lesson :lol:

agree with Dean - you will strip the heat out quite quickly if heating a workshop or house. Would need to be done on an industrial scale to make it viable for a single house I would think. On the other hand, it would do no harm if you put your chip pile over a buried pipe array for a geothermal heating system. It would surely improve the COP of the system and have the benefit of not having the pipes in the pile making it much easier to turn over periodically etc.

Very personal decision, but everywhere has its pro's and cons and it is best if possible to go for an extended visit to get a good feel of the place, having removed any rose tinted glasses before you go. It is too easy to focus on what you dont like about where you are living and think instead about what you have heard is good about another place. On the subject of renovations, I believe German building regs are very different to the UK with much more stringent criteria and you might find you have to get people in to do certain things that most capable UK DIY's will do themselves. (on the assumption that the place you linked to at 50 000 will have a few issues to be sorted out) I agree that people in Germany train for longer before they are let loose any any particular job, definitely in the building trades, but would this also not apply to sawmilling?? Would you have all relevant tickets etc that might be required, regardless of experience or ability. My 2 pence worth, but let us know how much greener the grass is over there

Looking good, but agree with the comment re not concreting the uprights in next time. Am looking into this at the moment for our wood store - seem to be various options such as bolt on or concrete-in stand-off post bases or precast concrete post bases to keep the post out of the wet.

played both rugby and football and generally enjoy watching both, but dont bother much with top flight football as its spoiled mainly by the prima donna attitude of a lot of the players and I think a bit by the excessive money.

know nothing technical about trees, but would it not be the same as human bodies where for instance blood cells start clotting automatically when expose to air. ie pre-programed automatic responses that require no thought processes? I'll step aside and let the experts tell us .....

nice one slack - mind telling us what you paid for her??

Turbocad is significantly cheaper than Autocad, but there are quite a lot of free offerings out there if you google. Sketchup also already been mentioned

got 3 - x27, hatchet and an inbetween size, cant remember which, for around £100 + postage. Arrived just over a week later. Only problem is I am away for another couple of weeks before I can play with them, but then again the pile of rings aint going anywhere :-)

and all brought here by mans hamfisted fiddling with nature without considering the consequences. Out of those I would have said the Sycamore seems to have had the least net negative effects - possibly ??? As for rap - as the newest on the list is it worth trying to nip it in the bud sharpish before it really gets out of hand?

Just curious as saw one listed at an auction recently - quoted as a 2007 model 530T which was not listed on the Avant web site. Is this a genuine model or not? Dont have the money or a use for one at the moment, but they do look decent bits of kit.

Ted, just wondering what future uses you envisage for the easy lift - could kick of a whole new marketing strategy here, although bearing in mind my post above, best to keep it practical :lol:

Dont know about all that. Saw a trailer for a program the other day where a bloke reaconed that if the electricity system in the UK shut down, half the population would be dead within a week. Again dont know about all that - seems a bit extreme to me, but it was interesting a few years ago to see the effects of the blockade of the fuel refineries. Some people were clearly struggling with the concept of not having petrol and you would have thought that a lot of people would have factored it into their lives with regard to where they live versus where they work etc etc, but of course it has been business as usual since and in fact in our area, commuting has sky rocketed. I think the saying oop north is 'nowt as strange as folk' Its a funny old world and I think we are in for interesting times within my lifetime anyway. Theres going to be a lot of adjusting to be done life style wise in the not too distant future. The sooner people get sensible the less dramatic the changes will need to be. Its not rocket science and there are those on here whose grandparents or even parents in some cases, were coping quite happily without all the mod cons. Personaly lived in places during my youth with no electricity and a water supply from a mountain stream. Its surprising how little we really need to survive - most of the 'stuff' we regard as essential these days is just the result of marketing. We just need a change of mindset and a chat with the old folks while they are still around to teach us a few of their tricks. edit - ie if people just come to their senses the S won't HTF

agreed with all that - I enjoy a few treats food and drink wise, the rest is just too much and detracts from what should be an enjoyable day. Just need to persuade a few others in the household now

We have a number of large sycamores in our patch of woodland and they do seem to limit the growth of anything else in their immediate vicinity. Also seem to be popping up all over the place as well, but currently putting a lot of the smaller ones into the firewood pile - as Hodges says, seems to burn well. On previous threads here and elsewhere opinion seems to be polarised along the same lines as marmite - they either love or hate em and not much in between Cant give you anything more technical I'm afraid, but hope that helps

ditto Rich

you mean it was a road. It certainly looks like a river now