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I now got the hots for a Zetros. Proper sexy kit. 6by obviously.

dry dry dry, its been inside in an airy shed for months Might run a planer over it, it is rough sawn all round. see what that brings to light. No Macro function on my wee Sony digital camera so unlikely to be able to meaningfully photograph. Cheers marcus

:blushing::blushing: It could possibly be Oak. I simply took the "notion" it was conifer, cos in a long straight length, with a clean straight grain. Plus no tell-tale medularry rays? i.e. it did not look like any oak I have come across before. but then it is relatively decayed Could have been the bottle of Armagh cider interfering with my cognative process too btw:lol::lol: m

I was cutting firewood, logs and old posts and paling stabs and scrap constructional timber. Been lying in an open shed stacked cross wise on a double pallet, since the spring. I reached for a length of 2" by 4" old "studding" type rail. It was astoundingly heavy, despite being almost rotten and riddled with wood-worm. But "bone" dry I cut a random length and set aside. it measures 264mm by 105mm by 51mm and weighs (pure happenstance) exactly 1.0kg (on kitchen scales) volume =0.0014137m3 1.0m3/0.0014137m3= 707 times 1.0kg =707kg/m3 I rounded to 710kg to allow for the decay and wood-worm voids. The end grain simply looks like conifer to me. it had been used in construction what the devil was it:confused1:/is it:confused1: apart from prime firing. marcus

Shortage of housing is largely a myth. At least here in Northern Ireland. But to a lesser extent the same factors are at work in the rest of the UK (i) Divorced couples insisting in living apart, at the taxpayers expense. (ii) Feckless young woman getting pregnant to gat a place of their own, at the taxpayers expense. (iii) C0-habiting couples on benefits claiming to be living apart, requiring 2 roofs to be paid for by the taxpayer. (iv)Older parents living alone because their children have left home, due to independance and job mobility. (v) Single young people, due to increasing prosperity, being able to live in a place of their own. Nett result, houses, despite getting ever larger, have far far fewer people living in each house. Especially those on benefits. marcus

Well butt end on first about 8m, (10m?) it may jink a bit, but surly you can ballast the front end, ideally on top of the butt to keep it in posn. OR a concrete ballast block (tractor loader type) on the draw bar in front of the headframe OR build up/crib up/fill up the back end bunk to cock it up in the air to the rear. then ballast down/rachett strap/chain down at the front. I am paying NO attention to the legal niceities btw. What length is it ......................at max?

^+1:thumbup: Only pity was I did not design the house around such a centrally located stove, ideally open-plan aka the "Swedish" model. Perhaps for our retirement.

Morso (assuming standards are the same as 17 year ago) or Clearview When we bought ours the sales person said No water jacket if you want to admire the flames/keep the glass clean. and actually sensible since in the winter months the central heating boiler, be it oil or wood fired is running anyway, and heating hot water. And the stove will not be lit summer months. good stoves cost good money. Our Morso despite 8 years continuious 24/7 firing (out of 17 years, burning 6 mths/yr) and literally the flue glowing red hot Is still structurally perfect. The sealing strip need replaced and the scarfical inner iron work ditto. but no disgrace. PS In my humble opinion stoves should be CAST IRON. Not welded sheet steel

Hmmm, After my "toe in the door" bid E-bay have "withdrawn" the listing. Is Northern Ireland the new Orkneys/Shetland Islands perhaps

I suspect you need a box tipper, unless you have exception rotation on your loader headstock. Tattie boxs are very good. I bought a few a wheen o year ago. However the hungry Co. Antrim farmers/tattie growers dinny part saft with their ould wans, nay, not even the decrepit wans. cheers marcus

About time!

TIMBER HARDWOOD SOLID AMERICAN WHITE OAK ROUNDS PLANED 4 SIDES | eBay Cant quite get my head round (& pardon the pun) a round/circle having 4 sides m

Aahh!

Edit British Farming does pay, here an now. Tis actually "fashionable"again. Perhaps not far a hi-faluting lifestyle some of the wanna-be wives want. But a good living none-the-less. regards marcus

Good video btw (cept for the bits filmed within the LR?) Wot breed is the other sawmill, i.e. not the orange one? Proper jealous of those who get to work with real trees/timber. And have the skills and drive to succeed. Marcus sigh.

off the top of my head R&S systems?, will check tomorrow, but they are now the NI agents for Froling.

I did express reservations about the unsatisfactory Clearskies installations, that I was personally acquainted with and asked would the RHI scheme be better run or supervised. I was somewhat curtly told that "this was not the place for that discussion". And, yes I figgered an unturned stone or two to go yet. I would say though, that the installer I got a quote from, does know his stuff, and I visited and was impressed by a local installation of his. A Froling boiler too. All very simple, no unnecessary plumbing or pipesizes, throughly impressive imho. Also was talk/discussion of simplified heat meter installation, leastwise for the sub 45kw domestic schemes retaining oil as a supplementary heat source. They also appeared to be keen to get "Social housing" outfits to buy in, with "district heating" type schemes. Now where have I heard that before.

I attended a very poorly attended public consultation exercise recently. Basically spent an hour talking us through the freely available info off their website. Then asked for questions. No mention of certified log suppliers. discussion of getting "buckshee" installations commissioned and approved. Some sensible suggestions from the man there from CAFRE. Discussion of problems with biomass willow in North Irish market ( & love to know what that was about?) Also discussion of issues/problems with pellet installations under the Clearskies scheme. Generally a waste of a good morning. I summed it all up by stating that as a potential candidate I felt I was being asked to "buy a pig in a poke" The last Clearskies grant aided scheme here in NI did far more harm than good with shoddy unsatisfactory installation by fully approved but cowboy operators.

I presume the Sprinter has a 4*4 varient. Available as a chassis cab=ergo pick-up/dropside bodywork. job done

I have been accepted (i.e. a voucher granted) in the Northern Ireland scheme. A couple of issues preventing my instant uptake. (i) Is the fact that for 17 years we have lived in this house we have been used to burning the Morso in the living room. (ii) I would wish to retain the perfectly good oil boiler regardless. (iii) this would mean we would need to have a heat meter installed, rather than "deemed" payments. Which running the Morso, would be un-economic. Nor can I get figures for likely payments under the "deemed" system. All rather frustrating. Ideally I should also get a solar domestic hot water system installed and rip the oil boiler out, but more dosh up-front and against my deeply ingrained "waste not" principles. PS The 3 year pay back does sound a "no-brainer" of a decision. I do realize that the timber has to be funded or provided "extra-over" good luck marcus PPS Here in NI the "counter-factual" heat source is oil, therefore RHI payments not so generous, compared to a gas counterfactual on the mainland, and only over 7 years forby.

Hmmm! That answers a question for me Allow £100/m3 for hardwood and multiply by the appropriate factor to put a value on my softwood. Factor lying somewhere between 0.66 and 0.75 =£70.00/m3 hmmmm ah bin undercharging a trifle.(but were still in billet lengths/bundles)

I really really must lay in a large supply of obscenly large Cuban cigars, in acknowledgment of the increasing value of my previously virtually worthless commercial woodland. PS I dont smoke, but could consider starting!

I can kinda sympathise with the filling station staff. From the perspective of knowing a local entrepenure used to send staff to Muff in Donegal to buy the cheaper petrol for his ski boats. Umpteen nominal 20 litre plastic jars in the boot and rear seat of a car. In the summer heat. Some of his drivers also smoked. IF? they had been involved in a collision on the way back it would have been an inferno.

460/461 spec "G" Wagen perhaps. Mind there are a couple of prob 1980's Amazons knocking about locally, very well fettled, but with a lovely patina of age/nicely faded paintwork. I feel a pang every time I see one o them.

I have always shafted my own spades, shovels, sledges, billhooks/slashers, hammers and hacthets. Not shafted an Axe yet. I keep by likely lengths of Ash in a variety of lengths. I was lazy the last time and used a power planer, followed by a belt sander. Seemed to work OK. I oil the shaft when it starts to get a snug fit, prevents it getting prematurley wedged, I figger the oil will soak into the grain and be unlikely to render the shaft any more likely to slip out in use. Use hardwood wedges (glued in) or an old fashioned nail, or suitable shaped scrap of steel as a wedge. Suck it and see as they say. I actually like the slight irregularrity in hand shafted tools as it allows ones "muscle memory" to learn the correct alignment, after a bit of familarization. I know what I am trying to say, but perhaps expressing it poorly. PS All that said, I appreciate an Axe shaft is trickier due to the more 3D nature of most of them