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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

Well iffen our Government was as all-fired concerned about the Environment and our health, they would be supplying rebated petrol, to encourage its use in non road going plant and machinery, no doubt this would be supplied by flying pigs! but if we got red diesel, why not red petrol? mth

ya boo sucks, from an absolutly non-participating facebook account holder mth

I liked this a lot, see link; https://www.facebook.com/lyons.richard.l/posts/1907029039317484 hope that worked mth

I do keep reminding myself that a lot of the over done stomach churning BBC saturation coverage, is hard nosed commercially driven by the associated tourism revenue generated for GB PLC Which is good. At least here in N I it is easy to escape the hype if one so wishes, simply go stay in an overtly republican area, and/or drink in republican pubs. Or, on the day, attend our local North West 200 motorbike race. But I rather spend the day in the fruit garden listening to the birdsong. Simples!

Meh !

Classic Tractor, April issue perhaps? featured a farm dispersal sale by auction at some date in this month, which featured a pristine one owner one driver 1455 International, and other equally well looked about tractors.

He was telling porkies, me knows, 3' of snow on road tyres?? Had it been compacted down to a solid layer before he drove over it? or how? mth

What HP was the tractor, guessing 20 ish, 20+ prob and what hyd flow have you got to drive the hyd motor, that is how big a motor will the Avant drive? I am only really guessing but I would be looking for about a 15 to 20HP motor good luck marcus

Whilst driving in the Yorkshire moors a few year ago, I got verbally abused by a group of cyclists who choose to meet me head on, as I peeled off a large fast roundabout, i.e. they were deliberately choosing to go against the traffic flow, on the wrong side of a traffic island, headlong into any oncoming traffic.. Can anyone explain this behavouir? P.S. We were sightseeing, I was not driving fast, I also saw them in plenty of time, and conversely the must have seen me, but I was, presumably, expected to stop to allow them to recklessly proceed. I declined to be so bullied and calmly proceeded, much to their chagrin. marcus

Parachute in, make a dug-out canoe outta the tree, and paddle out, film it, and put it on Youtube. please

Actually I was wondering that no-one was thinking about using the latest ultra-capacitors to provide the extra start up current needed for electric motors, when driven by a genny, or indeed even mains powered.. BTW. I came across an interesting article about the latest electric motor breakthrough; "self writing" motors, that use the latest electronic jiggery-pokery associated with cordless power tool motors, to allow for up to 100HP single Ph electric motors, but seemingly more pertinent to the US than the UK or Europe. Fingers crossed there is hope on the horizon for my electric 30HP motor driven Baker bandsaw mill? Cheers mth