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No, but ah kin reed history bukes, re 1917 loike.

Matthew, Yes, I definately need steel tracks, from my personal observations, the city pads might just suffice, but still a bit narrow. And David, yes whilst I appreciate the extra grunt at reach, associated with a traditional rear engined counterweight layout, the ability to squeeze and work between trees afforded by the Kobelco could be wile tempting? For 3k more I could get a Kobelco115 with a blade, but I need to avoid "mission creep", price wise anyway. And when-not-if, I ever get bogged a lighter machine without a blade will be easier extracted methinks. Anyway I need to find out what the brand new this morning oily puddle is below the Skoda, before I head off across the water in her, btw I am guessing power steering fluid and at near nuff 8 years and 120,000, no shame to her. marcus

A choice of 3 all within £1,000.00 of other; (i) a 2006 ZX80LC on city pads (ii) a 1999 EX100, on steel tracks (iii)a Kobelco SK115SR, ditto I have plenty of room, so dont need a compact digger, nor do I envisage moving the digger myself. To do general "farm" duties, cleaning sheaughs, extending and maintaining hardstanding, fencing, possibly digging a Pond, plus, just perhaps footering with timber/firewood. An outlier would be a Case CX145SR, heavier, but at less money. Thoughts please, I would plump for the ZX80 iffen it were on 600 steels. marcus

I wonder how they dispose of the crate?, I suspect some of the numpty chatteringclass purchasers, put it out for the binmen?

And of course the premier wood for burning is the fabled Black Walnut, worth an absolute fortune, and often offered on such sites a Gumtree or Ebay. but I digress !

The first reply was a very good answer.. I would only add that whilst mostly firewood is sold by volume, and the dry weight of various woods varies widely, hardwoods generally being more dense than softwoods, and since the burning(calorific) value is actually remarkedly consistent per kg of dry weight, most common hardwoods will outperform most common Conifer/softwoods volume for volume. BUT Dry Softwood/conifer is perfectly good firewood, for burning in a stove, if priced/bought correctly. I only burn conifer/softwood, and have done so for 20 years without issue. marcus P.S. I wuz till typing while others were posting!

No, but the left(ies) are so much better at throwing a violent destructive strop/riot/revolution when they dont get their way, with a proven track record going back to 1917. imho(where the "o" is for observation, not opinion)

Perhaps a touch of Sharia Law should be applied to the no-doubt devout Muslim men, who were involved in these awful grooming cases, and, of course applied with the reasonably sketchy burden of proof that seems to be required in Middle Eastern/Arab trials. Like the old Wild West approach to their known wrongdoers, "he will be hung after a fair trial" cheers marcus

We ran those Suzuki 2 stroke engines in(I think) Victa push mowers, quite phenomenally light, powerful and torquy they were too. The 2 brothers who "owned" them meticulously used the red Stihl 50:1 mix oil, and they never need a plug or missed a beat. Unlike another individual who mixed by *guesswork, this despite 20 years of experience guidance, explanation and training, and changed plugs oftener than he changed his underwear(probably) *Idiot, who could not be told, would never jibble fuel jar remnants to allow him an empty 5/10 or 20 litre jar. No Sur, 3 litre, 7 litres, 11 litres, God knows how many litres, ergo he could not get a 50:1 mix. but I digress

Never mind this shameful issue; https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/965633/army-veterans-jeremy-corbyn-soldier-prosecutions-white-feathers

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An there I thought it was a mobile SAS patrol !

Rough Hewn, There is however a significent difference in the surface area and therefore evaporative capacities of sawn timber vis-a-vis split timber. Alyicdon, I figger the 15%" for woodstoves is mostly a "get-out" clause by the manufacturer, any issues, lets check the small-print, sorry Sir, your timber was not dry enough. cheers marcus

I disagree, natural seasoning, properly set up and managed, with split timber, and with good airflow, can easily pull %ages down to 15ish, and once in a shed, no odds, both kiln dried and air seasoned will reach equilibrum with the relative humidity. My take on the subject, is that once one gets the sap out, it is relatively hard to wet firewood, or rather, remarkedly easy to re-dry it, if that makes any sense. By the way, where does the average consumer/end user store their firewood? and for how long? Anyway bringing the firewood in to the house/beside the stove for at least 24 hrs before burning, makes a vast difference. I only season limited amounts of Conifer though. marcus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Planted_Trees It mentions somewhere near the bottom that there was widespread belief that this was a true story, but this was not the case, written to promote and encourage people to plant trees. My bad. however the search "the man who planted a forest" also brought up the Indian man who planted a significent acreage of forest on a sandbar.

How many acres did that single bloke in France reafforest with Oaks, all on his jack tod, with zero funding? After the 1st war I imagine.

Hey Ho ! Nay worries here in Ulster = Cash-for-Ash la-la-land, especially now as the local yobbo's are collecting for their culturally rich 12th Bonfires. sigh.

What distresses me is the pandering to the acute sensitivities, both physical and psychological of the fractionally small %age at the extremities of the bell curve, and this at some considerable financial cost and curtailment of the simple pleasures of the vast bulk of the population. So should tractor pulling and Santa Pod be banned? And all unnecessary pleasure/liesure related carbon and pollution producing activities Gosh! and how about those filthy traditional charcoal burners, spewing all those toxins into the air. Are we going to be prevented from barbacuing? especially Pork ribs in a Muslim neighbourhood, well if they can smell and identify the aroma, they can choose to be distressed and therefore litigate, for example. etc etc P.S. Perhaps due to my upbringing, but mostly due to a simple formed from observation core belief, but; I consider the average human life to be overvalued, we are born, get or take our chances, then die, if one has led a rich life, why should one wish to continue in a frail shell of a decrepit failing body, and harshly, if one has not had a good life or enjoyed life, why should we expect this to change in our dotage with both a failing mind and body. I mostly enjoy life, and enjoy seeing others enjoy their lives, butI also value nature above some of the lives of some of the negative-equity dross in the "living" in the wider community. again, tough love. mth

There are however quite a few complete nutters "ranting" on other/another forum about deadly woodsmoke "killing" them, in one case it was about the smell of the neighbours woodsmoke.(but I bet the complainant used plenty of aerosol products and perfumes!) Personally I buy into the balanced viewpoint, that mankind evolved to deal with reasonable airborne particulate matter, like simple dust from the natural environment, and that the particularly sensitive outliers should not be pandered too, especially if, as I suspect, there is/was probably parental over-medication, over cleanliness, etc etc leading to the asthma and allergies. Like our disgustingly healthy 25 year old Son, was "diagnosed" with breathing difficulties/bad chest=needing antibiotics when little more than a baby. Which he did not get, well he got one dose, then I dug my heels in. Unsurprisingly, to a country bred and reared person anyway, he lived! In my experience Nurses are the worst for over medicating themselves and their children. P.S. I understand there is a growing realization/acceptance, within at least some of the medical community, that babies and toddlers require exposure to "germs" to develop their natural immune system defences, this means allowing our children to get sick & spotty & snuffle and snotter. Without dying. Tough love. mth

Source? but Too good to be true surely? mth

I would always cut the log or billet in half, then probe the centre of the freshly exposed cut end. I wish I had kept splitting a month ago to have availed of the past couple of weeks of phenomenal drying weather here in Co. Antrim. mth

I did not appreciate your sensitivities Steve, nor did I mean the "bollocks" to be as offensive as it was percieved to be. but for anyone to state that a rocket mass stove, or whatever, can use 1/8 of the fuel to heat the same space is more than a tad incredulous, hence my "involuntary" exclamation. P.S. Openspaceman, impressive and convincing calcs you provided. regards marcus

Bollocks ! ! ! Any decent respectable brand-name wood stove, that anyone with owt approaching brains ud buy, has loads of cast iron to modulate the heat output, and hitting 75-85% efficiency, means a rocket stove must be 8*80%=640% efficient, which canny compute, ye ken, like ! ! ! regards disgusted-of-Dervock

In light of the above post I am in the process of registering a patent for a Burning-Wet-Wood Stove Snake-Oil-Injector to burn wet wood cleanly. If you get my drift. mth