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Why not just use a chop saw?

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.

Bad end to the season if you don't change one of those trailer numberplates! :-)

Seriously, good one...

Why?

 

 

Sent from Hodge's eye phone using the new fancy Arbtalk Mobile App:)

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...

This guy is having a wind up for April 1st surely?

 

 

Sent from Hodge's eye phone using the new fancy Arbtalk Mobile App:)

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

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!

What a sad existence! Presumably got no friends?

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.

HI THRUST im off to bath now to watch rugby:thumbup1: and im still looking for large cord timber jon

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!

:-)

Didnt realise there was a professional way of unloading logs?QUOTE]

 

I think no bum cracks on view helps.

 

:thumbup:

 

Say "No!" to crack, folks...

I save all my small stuff and it goes to my customers on the narrow boats they like it in their small stoves.or the Mother-in-law !!

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!

I think HETAS say that under 3" is "branchwood" and a compliant load of logs should have less than 15% of it in. Must admit, I'm one of the ones who can't be bothered processing the stuff (folks protest "but it fills up the load!"). Tends to get chipped or given to friends and family.

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.

The white powder is probably something like Stovax Protector

Care & Maintenance Products | Stovax & Gazco, stoves, fires and fireplaces

 

A local farmer burns nothing but damp softwood in a boiler, it used to be running with tar and the flue chocked with creosote, she started using a sachet of the this stuff once a week and the results and remarkable. No idea how or why it works but it does seem to do the business!

 

I’d be really interested to know how it works and if it has any side effects i.e is it corrosive??

 

Trevor

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'!

What about 'HAND MADE LOGS' ?

 

Nah - hand CRAFTED logs! LOL :-)

Clearview you will need to match fund your landlords 500 though to come close to a second hand one

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.

IMHO you just can't beat a Clearview... Incredibly efficient, pumps out the heat

Haha, there;s a decimal point in front of the 64 Rover !..... Sleeping the best face cord thanks :-) ...... For an urban dweller, face cord he would have saved alot instead of buying nets @£3.50, ten of my bags £300... equivalent price to 8.5 nets per my bulk bag, i really think he got value! IMO an artic load is approx 50 cm3, ie £24 per cm3, so if after i buy a load, store it, cut it, bag it and deliver it in a bag costing £3, i don't think it was outlandish, just think of the supermarket mark up compared to what the farmer gets for his produce. Thanks for the comments anyway, appreciated.

Sadly, Wannabe, he was right! 1m3 = 1,000,000cm3!! LOL.

what do you think?

 

Firewood logs corewood | eBay

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.

Thanks for all of the replies. I knew I could relay on Arbtalk for all of the answers. It's a flexible pipe fitted and it hasn't been back filled. We are getting a load of logs delivered in the morning. If I test them with my moisture meter and they are above 20% mc, can I refuse them?

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.

Well done, really pleased for you!

Uni is not, and shouldn't be, for everyone. The problem with current policy is that the labour plan was to make EVERYONE middle class, so they urged us all to go to uni.

It's for that reason that you were so unhappy and we have some lazy bitch in the news refusing to work in poundland in return for her benefits because 'she has a degree'.

If only there were more people like you in this country who have some drive about them!

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!

Your 'condensation' issue is much more likely to be rain as Alycidon says, IMHO. Now you're presumably cowled on top that will no longer be a problem. And once the chimney has dried out, the tar and creosote will stay put and stop spreading.

 

The problem it sounds like you have is tar/creosote coming through the chimney brick and mortar, and staining your walls in the living spaces. Your new flue will have dealt with the issue of combustion products getting through, now you need to deal with the legacy. You need to seal that brickwork with an oil-based paint. And that's real oil-based paint, not the modern water-based glosses or eggshells. Seal it well back from the chimney itself, or you may find the problem simply migrates through the plaster and around the sealing coats. And once it's all dried out it'll stop migrating.

 

Hope that helps...

PS Yes, I know that means redecorating afterwards :-( But it's worth it!

oak is lovely when dry it's just that it is slow to dry.

 

All you guys who don't like oak give it to me i love the stuff

Get in line, Sir!

;-)

Your 'condensation' issue is much more likely to be rain as Alycidon says, IMHO. Now you're presumably cowled on top that will no longer be a problem. And once the chimney has dried out, the tar and creosote will stay put and stop spreading.

The problem it sounds like you have is tar/creosote coming through the chimney brick and mortar, and staining your walls in the living spaces. Your new flue will have dealt with the issue of combustion products getting through, now you need to deal with the legacy. You need to seal that brickwork with an oil-based paint. And that's real oil-based paint, not the modern water-based glosses or eggshells. Seal it well back from the chimney itself, or you may find the problem simply migrates through the plaster and around the sealing coats. And once it's all dried out it'll stop migrating.

Hope that helps...

As far as I am aware RHI domestic is still on. Contrary to my concerns that log gasification would not be included, I gather that they will be supported as long as they cannot burn fossil fuels.

 

I guess nobody will know if RHI domestic will appear until June, but with the way our economy is at the moment would not be surprised if government back tracks.

 

All we can do is pray.

I really, REALLY hope you're right. But I'm not confident - especially not with the move to shale gas recently announced.