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Mark Gellatly in Stafford?
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Not on ash, though. I find a fat maul much better with stringy wood like ash. Granted it's fab on e.g. oak!
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Why not just use a chop saw?
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Well, I tried a new Granberg the other day. A remarkable difference for this - admittedly pretty inexperienced - user. For what it's worth, there's what appears to be a very good guide on using it on Amazon in the reviews, too. Maybe in another 20 years I'll become a dab hand and hand-sharpening without any sort of guide, but for the moment this did a _lot_ better for me with an old chain that had got well out of spec than the clip on guides.
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Bad end to the season if you don't change one of those trailer numberplates! :-) Seriously, good one...
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He is what is generally known as a "troll". That is, someone who goes on for a like this just to wind people up and be unpleasant. Life...a...he...get...should...
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Nah! He's late. And given his activity elsewhere, there's an awful lot of 1st Aprils in a year... ;-) These people sadly do exist. Sad, lonely types who hide in their darkened bedrooms wasting their own lives and the time of others. Don't get it myself. We should give him a chainsaw. Then he'll either make a worthwhile person out of himself, or get it badly wrong. Either way, problem solved :-D
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Have a look on the other thread, chaps. All will be clear... Suffice to say there's no point wasting your time here! Unless you're either REALLY bored or volunteer to befriend sad cases with no mates!
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What a sad existence! Presumably got no friends?
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Mine's going to have to go up with my costs, I'm afraid. So from £110 to £120 for a cube of very well-seasoned hardwood at one site, and from £90 to £100 at the other. Still a discount for bulk to reflect the reduced delivery costs.
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Nothing on the Firewood Forum for 13 hours???!
ThrustSSC replied to ThrustSSC's topic in Firewood forum
Off to bath, Jon? Blimey, that month went quick! ;-) Good luck with the large cord... -
What happened? Are you all: 1) Recovering from the annual Arbtalk party that you didn't invite me to? 2) Sleeping off the aches and pains of delivering firewood non-stop for the last 3 weeks? 3) Out sawing and chopping like mad to rebuild stock levels for next year? Can't remember that last time it was so long between posts - even overnight! :-)
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:thumbup: Say "No!" to crack, folks...
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Similar here. Although I generally sell by length (6-8", 8-10", 10-15") I keep the small stuff separate to the chopped stuff and if a customer wants some or all small-diameter logs, they get it from that stock. Works well for me - any left-over I simply use myself. But I do hate working with the little 'uns, though. What you save in chopping you more than spend in sawing!
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So THAT's what branchwood is defined as. I've wondered for a long time, as their seemed no difference to me between a 12" trunk and a 12" bough. I wouldn't dream of even trying to sell that stuff - and if I got any delivered in a cordwood load it would be going back (or on the bonfire at no expense to me)! Selling that sort of rubbish is just ripping customers off. Period.
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It chemically attacks the creosote (an alkali, if I remember right, that reacts with the acids in the tar). That changes the properties of the build-up so that it simply drops away. It's not a replacement for proper sweeping, but the marketing folks will have us believe it's a useful supplement! It sounds from your report that it is indeed not 'snake oil'!
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Nah - hand CRAFTED logs! LOL :-)
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Agreed - and I suspect that will rule out Clearview for the OP. But for anyone looking to install in their own home, without doubt worth saving for. Avoid the dreadful saleswoman in their Stow-on-the-Wold showroom, though - just go direct to the factory in Ludlow. They'll even help with things like flue design if you want to install it yourself.
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IMHO you just can't beat a Clearview... Incredibly efficient, pumps out the heat
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Sadly, Wannabe, he was right! 1m3 = 1,000,000cm3!! LOL.
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EBAY dosn't look anywhere near 8 cubic meters to me!!
ThrustSSC replied to egnsean's topic in Firewood forum
Having read the original advert, and the postings here, I think the key point is the seller doesn't know the difference between a cubic metre and a square metre. But getting £102 for a pile of unsawn, unsplit, unseasoned logs that maybe came to about 1m3 is pretty good going! Our cousins in the US and Canada are SO lucky living in an area of the world where their de facto unit of firewood (the cord, or the face cord) is well known and well understood. Adverts like that would simply be laughed out of town there - and rightly so, IMHO. -
Depends on what they were sold as. If sold as "well-seasoned, 20%MC" and they're 40%, then yes. But if they were just sold as "fresh-felled green logs" and they're 40%, no. It's entirely a matter of trades descriptions. If they're not what you ordered, you can reject them.
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Absolutely not a word there I would disagree with - well said! (And I'm someone who thoroughly enjoyed 3 years at one of the finest Unis in the world!) The very best of luck to you with your business. Grow at a pace that works for you, enjoy your life and your work, if you're not enjoying it take a day to get away from it and reflect on why and what you can change! Oh, and enjoy all the tax breaks you get from being the company and not just an employee! Don't feel guilty for a moment - each way has it's perks and that's the perk of being a small business owner!
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PS Yes, I know that means redecorating afterwards :-( But it's worth it!
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Get in line, Sir! ;-)
