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  1. difflock
    (i) How do you match heat output to heat demand, or how well does the boiler control panel modulate output to match heat demand , or where do es it "dump" excess heat if required? (ii) With the ambient heat inside the house, the boiler is prob easier lit, plus walking away for a few mins is less of a chore. (iii) how much room have you to store fuel beside the boiler, how do you bring it in from outside? (iv) In the house would make a big difference to me, it is a nuisence having to put feet on to go outside on a filthy windy wet night. cheers Marcus
  2. difflock
    Is Hugo relaxed, I cannot really decide? PS I took about 10 flash photos and he literally never even twitched. He is casting big-time at the moment so handfuls of dog hair everywhere.
  3. difflock
    Oops! A point I intended to emphasise. Look for ease of lighting, some of the perfectly satisfactory once lit log burners, can be a trifle tedious to light. Otoh Froling and Harz have a third door, which(per their claims leastwise) allow one to simply fill the chamber with the logs (but split timber logs obviously) then stuff in a handful or 2 of crumpled up newspaper, light paper, close the door and WALK AWAY. The boilers operating system/software will take care of the rest. Our Solarbayer=Vigas (afaiaa) is a bit tedious to light, in that one has to kindle a hot burning fire before loading the main charge of logs. PS I imagine the mesa mixing system is sommat to do with a vertical riser tube within the accumulator tank that helps/encourages stratification(from recall, having lusted after a Windhager in the past, available in Ireland but sole supplier is based in Cork, 400 miles away, sigh) cheers M)
  4. difflock
    Froling, Herz, Windhager, HGD, et al. Mostly Austrian, some German.
  5. difflock
    Having spoken too two Americans reasonably recently, about bandsawmills, I found their reception staff to be very easily understood, helpful and clear. Ditto the sales staff, esp at Baker Mills. otoh When I phoned Northern Bank card services about a stolen credit card, from France, in the early days of mobiles (ouch££££) I was routed to a call centre somewhere in the Deep South, since; (i) The dialict was almost indecipherable. (ii) The woman who answered the Ph was as thick as 2 short planks, kept "telling" me I was Austrailian, and was converting from Aussie $ to French francs, cos Northern Bank, had recently been owned by the National Bank of Australia. Despite repeated explanations about NI/ £stg etc etc, etc etc I, only then, understood Basil Fawlty's sense of immense frustration!
  6. difflock
    What value should or could I put on each m3 of conifer firewood (NI market prices)for the 12.5 tonnes/37m3 of timber I will need to burn (per RHI EPC figs) to replace the oil. If i sold the firewood; 37m3 @ £100.00 = £3,700.00(wildly optimistic?) Or even 37m3 @ £50.00m3 = £1850.00 And with the Morso running we only burn about 2,500 litres of oil per year. So current oil bill = £1,250.00 (@50p/l) Or to boil it down. RHI pays for installation costs (So ignore the RHI payments) Then simply a straight comparison between our oil bill and the value of the equivalent wood that I could otherwise sell. and have the blissful convience & instant control of oil heating. (& With the existing wood burning installation as a backup if oil prices go crazy again) Signed Gibber, Mutter n Twitch
  7. difflock
    Funny enough I have wondered exactly the same, could part of the difference lie in the current back-end-of-the-summer ploughing, as opposed to the earlier/older winter spring cultivations. Slurry instead of FYM bound to be another factor contributing to a lesser no of earthworms. Or did a few years of rotovating and powerharrowing do the earthworms in? As opposed to discing and spike harrowing.
  8. difflock
    Someone above mentioned a "plan", yes, as far as I am aware, there is a "plan" by OPEC to flood the market with their cheap to extract oil, so as to make fracking/shale oil/Falklands oil etc uneconomic. Cos If these otherwise marginal oil sources become enomonically viable, OPEC got no barganing clout. That no doubt combined with speculators now dumping "hoarded" oil in panic. And to think in 1974 I was writing doom laden essays about the end-of-oil (for "O" Level English)
  9. difflock
    99p/l in Muff today, incl Vat
  10. difflock
    Cept this year I "fell off the wagon" during that brilliant weather we had in September. Off on leave, enjoying life, cutting sticks one day and BAM, off the rails the next. really really bad depression. For ABSOLUTLY no reason. Dr. conculde I am Bi-polar, which hardly surprise me! Pulled out of it there over Xmas, & I joked it were the days getting longer did it for me. BUT I have learned to live with myself during these intermittent bouts, knowing I will always, always, eventually pull through. So now I merely roll with the punchs. In the past I would have tried to "fight" it. cheers marcus
  11. difflock
    At 55, and me n the Mrs. now offically being "empty nesters", with both sprogs in recent (and hopefully prolonged) gainful employment in Belfast. Take it easy, and enjoy life a little more than I used too. And hope for grandchildren to spoil over the next 10 years! And get the Baker Mill up n running. And build another shed to house the Baker Mill an start building log cabins (very neblous, that one) An get the Steyr Puch Van back on the road. And sell various other unused Veh And finish the house, and sheds, and landscaping, and garden, And dig a Well, in the garden. And excavate the existing very overgrown Pond at the Risk. And fit a remote to the winch. And start selling fire-wood (OOps, first need to produce firewood.) And and and, mostly keep the wife happy! Cheers Marcus
  12. difflock
    Now when nuclear Fusion is harnessed. This stratdgy will make perfect sense. Though I favour GTL diesel for HGV's, in a hybrid installation, where the diesel drives a generator at fixed revolutions and therefore cleanly and efficiently
  13. difflock
    I had; (i) Kinda decided on a Cooks bandsawmill, though they are not as keen to export as some other brands. Basically cos they provide engineered/crowned bandwheels on their larger offerings. (ii)When a knowledable engineer I know, and asked an open question of, about what Yankee mills were worth importing, straight up said "Cooks". Hmmm! Anyway I has bought this 2nd hand Baker mill, reasonabally locally, which is still under canvass, until I (a) get a roof over it, and (b) source a 3Ph power supply. The "Forestryforum" website is a good source of info for Yankee built mills, they seem to be a very genuine helpful bunch too. see link http://www.forestryforum.com/board/ cheers marcus
  14. difflock
    corrected that for you, cos intuitively it just bloody looks all WRONG, n always did!
  15. difflock
    Intriegued!!
  16. difflock
    Wot "e" said:lol::lol::001_tt2: I recall this is the same rig our local contracter is looking at, @ over £5k for the trailer(& i tink he said £6k:001_huh:) cheers m
  17. difflock
    Just recieved my latest edition of the GWAG magazine. Eddie Gilmartins re-built "G" Wagen features. Fitted a 5 cyl Sassangyon motor(the same basic lump as I have in the 290TD Van) with an uprated (5.5mm to 6.0mm plungers) inj pump and intercooler /turbo etc. Stupendous torque and 180BHP. I intend to put our Van back on the road, in time to pop down to the Valentine's meet/rally in Wicklow. Cheers M
  18. difflock
    For that size of an install Timon, I ud ave thought a logwood boiler taking 1.0m length billets would make perfect sense. Assuming labour was available, which I suspect would be the case? Or wood chip surely? Pellets best suited to smaller installs. cheers M
  19. difflock
    Absoutly!, So at least go for the electro-hydro hydraulic spec, which can easily be upgraded to remote. My only caveat is the possible added risk of a remote operated winch when operating on ones own. Based on how I would probably be working with a remote, which is exactly why I desire a remote control, which practises may or may not lie within recognised industry guidelines. Like winching windthrown trees, as I cut them, kinda.
  20. difflock
    pm sent. PS This was the same firm, that per a local Bapist Pastor, supplied & installed a pellet stove absolutly free, when the Clear Skies grant was only 50%, I could only figure because one was required to sign up to purchase pellets exclusively from them, and probably at a slightly less than competitive price. cheers m PPS During a RHI presentation about 18 months ago, a rep admitted that they had had "teething troubles" with their pellet production, despite the absolute blanket denials at the time.
  21. difflock
    Very true/very sad, saw exactly the same thing locally with a designed-from-scratch Hoval pellet burning boiler, in a very very nicely architect designed dwelling. I was there simply because I was asked to see if I were interested in any of the salvaged components. Less than 3 years old, endless trouble right from the install, ALL due to shitty (and I could name the manufacturer) crumbly pellets. They simply installed an oil boiler, regardless of the price of oil. cheers m
  22. difflock
    Despite the shortcomings of our Solarbayer logburner, rated at 40kW, BY-GOD it cant half put up heat, even when fed shitty (but impeccably dry) Conifer. That is all.
  23. difflock
    Bloody Hell! I just "worked back" from our EPC figs. a heating demand of 295m2 by 236kW/m2=69,620kW*Hr/Year Devide 69,620 by calorific value of kero at 11.8/kg at SG of 0.845 and say 85% boiler efficency = 5900kg or 6982l at 100%= 8214 litres at 85% = £4,000.00/Yr heating oil bill BLOODY HELL PS We only been living there 20 years. PPS That Morso stove is worth its weight in Gold!!
  24. difflock
    I ud love to read the users manual, be quite a thick document I imagine?
  25. difflock
    Well after a very through measuring session on Sat morning, I recieved our EPC this morning. Need to upgrade the roof-space insulation, which I knew, but peeved that the guy, who appeared to be very diligent, apparently under-measured our dwelling by nearly 50m2. Compared to the Land and Property services stated measurment, and both sets of measurments were taken externally. So does the EPC use the internal area?/volume?, since I know rates uses the gross or external measured square footage/m2age Huh?

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