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i recon 25£ a cube so slightly more...

regularly cut 30' longest to date was tapering a 54' lunp of glue lam for a windmill sail

lol thats a good tip i'll tell the old man, he spends hours with a vacum and brush

parents ran an esse worked well in their 3 bed cottage as did the Mrs in her 2 bed house before we were married, they don't like damp wood, if its really well seasoned and dry, 5+ years goes well but the after burn matrix is a pig to clean and the hot plate isn't so handy. the rayburn is more bomb proof but eats wtice the fuel easily, not so fussy and has a larger boiler out put. 60000 btus approx, think the esse is around 40000 but don't quote me, the wood esse is slightly cheaper and you could at one point get carbon credits and grants towards it, not the rayburn sadly. we usually use decent hard coal to keep it over night, chimneys on house are approx 35 foot (3 story) so draws hard, have to open flue dilution and shut damper but keeps in from 10-7.30 easily the early rayburns aren't much cop, smaller boiler and by the sounds of it yours has rotted through the oven, maybe better off finding a 2nd hand royal or supreme on fleabay. theyre not hard to rebuild 4 silver things on the top uncrew and the lid comes off but probably not worth bothering.

the td5 did have some teething problems but i know the technical editor at LRO asked him... an to quote him, "look how many low milage 2.4s there are about... then think why..." enough said, so what do you recomend, get a late td5 he said.... so thats what we did... sound. i don't think the 2.2 is much better, the td5 could have done with more, better re mapped but making a smaller engine is rediculous... the new one is certainly not different enough in a test drive to make me go oooh i want one, landrover told us with the 2.4 there were no problems, funny why did they change the engine then... i've got a priceless letter from the dealer saying how sorry they are but they don;t know why its doing it or what to do about it.... in teh end they offered us 4k of a new one... no thanks i'd just like the 21k one i bought off you to work and not break up at 30,000miles... the reason its unstable is that to save money they mounted it higher to save making a different sump to the transit.... they reconed at over 85 it can get unstable hence the limiter, certainly in comparison to a tdi / td5 it wasn't so good, and in my opinion handled the worst out the lot even an old series 2a i had, just quicker...

we run our 355sfw into a 350ltr thermal store, then there are two coils one for the hot water approx 1km long to give mains pressure hot water, works a treat and one for the rads which runs 12, you can kill it eventually but it works ok we have trvs on all the rads and turn down the ones where the rooms are not being used. we've ran the bath 3 times and its still hot also have 3 wood burners as back up. the rayburn is much superior to the esse, but more hungry. we get black diamonds from here 280/ton delivered. the welsh coal is smokless and only 20 quid more. 1 tone will last around 3 months flat out. biggest problem i have is cutting enough wood as the Mrs burns it before its seasoned!

got a rayburn 355sfw, running 12 rads and hot water....its on day and night, since october 2 ton coal and 6 cube of over grown hazel coppice, though we also have two other woodburners, one is a Dovre and that will munch 2 wheel barrows a day, the villager is a 14kw flat top A and that will munch around 1 per day, so i recon on two/three builders bags a week if its cold and all three are going.... its been much heavier usage this year as we've a 9month old in the house and he's not so hardy in the cold...

NO we had an 09 2.4 out the box, 30000 miles in 2 years falling to bits, 5 diffs 2 complete axles, threw it back at them.... test driven a 2.2 not much better just shiney.... got a TD5 remapped 200hp over a ton far superior bit of kit... landrover have out sourced most of the parts to china to make more £££ and theyre cheaper parts not up to the job.... i know 4 other 2.4 owners that have also got rid, from 2007-2011, one only did 400 miles.... sadly landrover have lost the plot and mojo..

use green or purple heart, often used for dock and pier pillings, doesn't rot and is indestructable,

no turkey oak and robur are similar in charactueristics, but turkey isn't so popular due to the wooly grain and it doesn't finish so nice, it'll still last as long as posts etc outside, its the brown stain, which is incipient fungal attack that makes it less durable, cos its already starting to go, if kept dry its fine.

Any body recomend a timber haulier near WR6? usually use an old chap with an 8 wheeler but he's come a cropper and damaged his knee ligaments, he's over 70 so... may be the end. bought an artic load of oak from bromyard need to get to pensax, around 15 miles.... i'd do it via our tractor but not got a big enough loader/ crane, need to lift 3-5 ton .... there must be some one local?

i'd mill it into 3-6" boards and air dry it, certainly good enough for building work etc, we had a very similar tree recently fell over 1984, totally dead, no sap but fine in the center, we had lots of 3-6 inch stuff one lot of 5X5" @7' long went for water wheel spokes to wales! shame your not nearer, as i'd have had it, problem is by the time you've shifted it theres not much money in it for 1 lump.

i know theres an out fit down cheltenham / gloucester doing them as my o/h did hers down there, i was lucky and just got in before hand. it wasn't cheap, around 1500£

+1 definately sessile oak. the brown colour is down to decay / fungal attack, hence the beefstake in the center, it would not be as durable for out door work but fine for cabinet work. brown is often popular for cabinet makers but its easy to get some too far gone, it quickly goes soft in the center.

Cheers charlie, yep i'm buying oak, nearer to wr6 the better, dead standing isn't a problem provided its not rotten, but where abouts are you?

thats class, next time we have some parked in a gate way i'll go get the loader and some hesstons! we suffer with caravaners regularly park up for the views! last time we had problems with ramblers we fenced with mains electric fencer an electric fence over / allong side some seeds, i plough up footpaths but always put a path back in and often prune the hedge which the path runs along side teh wood so it keeps them out the middle if the field, never works though.

I've a 2" but it cost a small fortune, i've also a forstner bit, ex axminster tools , worked a treat with extension bar drilled 14" of oak post 2" hole easily. Top tip for the forstner, keep pulling it out to keep it clear they bung up easily and can shear off theyre about 80£ with the extension bar. proper auger was around 300!

Weve a stand of hazel, scheduled ancient woodland, oak harvested 30 years ago, never replanted, so now got a mix of ash and oak, fc officer wants ash back, i'd rather put oak back, but hey ho...every ones got their own ideas. as we didn't sign up to the sceme i can put back what i want.....

had the same here 34 in a 30, about 4 yards before the national limit sign, fuzz van hidden up a drive, bloke jumping out with gun.... any way 80£ on course not a bad afternoon out, but pointless, basically trying to get you to slow down using stats. i asked a few questions they couldn't answer.... they didn't like that... i can't remember know what they were.... one pint is that if you don;t take the course in good grace they can fail you....so smile even if it is bollox.... in my opinion its a moneymaking scam, 25 folks morning and afternoon at 80£ a pop thats a few grand a day...the fuzz get to keep it too

green heart won;t be treated, its hard and full of sillica so will blunt anything quick, i'd buy some as i've made sluice gates for a water mill out of it before, horrid to work and cut, dust is worrse than mdf (carsenogenic) and toxic hence nasty splinters. to buy new its around 40-90£ cube....dependant on section

cheers charlie, either or, wyre forrest is about 5 miles away so thats nice and local... if you could find out that would be handy... previously been buying odd logs from folks but its just not ecconomic by the time you've got them back... not for the odd one... theres lots about but i'm not really up on who's getting what or how to get it...

Not sure this is in the right section but here goes, after an artic load or more of oak saw logs, over 20" diameter, delivered to WR6. We previously had stuff from eastnor castle but i gather that the estate managers changed and its all stiched up now.... not really botheres where from just reasonable beaming and boading stuff, for conservation building repairs and air drying and beams.

3-5£ cubic / hoppus foot so around £150 road side, but probably at least £150 in firewood so take your pick. i'd buy it if i were nearer after some oak saw logs but want an artic load!

it does, but on the down side gives the fungus nice sugar in the sap to digest, i think the poles will last better if felled when the sap's down, or maybe ring bark the tree and fell once dead?

well if you care to share where from, i'd buy some more! ours was big stuff, 3'+ diameter all joinery grade, ex parkland stuff.