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David, needless to say ah nivver even read the link provided, but gave you a like based on your previous impeccable judgement on such matters! EDIT; Make that "Cogently and concisely expressed impeccable judgement"

That eternal conondrum! The machinery you need do do even a little, is generally also sufficient to do a lot, whether you want to or not. Kinda like being "a bit pregnant!" Cheers, Marcus

Well, I will soon be able to comment difinitively, since I ordered another set of crane scales! But from recall less than half the weight(350kg to 150kg?) after splitting and drying, and again from hazy recall drying "in the round" took the logs down to about 30% from over 50% moisture when fresh felled, so significently lighter to wrasle with when splitting, and fewer "sap japs" in the eye.

Well 1.18 l or 1.23 l or whatever, WHEN heating domestic hot water only, in the summer months. Otherwise about/just over a gallon per day, but then the volume of wood being burned is a big factor in our reduced oil consumption.

Yes, .65 US Gall times 0.5(the 1,2 Hr) by 0.8 (4/5) for conversion to Imp gallons, I hope? Going to google it to check Andy Edit at 3.78 l per US Gall= 1.22 litres for a 1/2 hr And der intersnot tells me(as I imagined) that 1 Imp gall = 1.2 US gall, so 0.83(oops!) Anyway see image of logs stockpiled to dry out to be lighter before I handle them to split them, lazy bugger that I am!

The nozzle is a 0.65 = 0.65US Gall/Hr So .65*.5*.8*=0.26 Imp Gall or 1.18 litres per day for a generous 1/2 hr burn. And in the depts of winter, burning a gallon a day for 2 hrs boiler running. And, since I checked the oil tank yesterday, prior to ordering oil, we have used about 1000 l since I filled the tank at the end of Sep(during that 1 week long price spike), so 1000/7mths/30 days= 4.76 litres/day = near enough 1 gall/day. marcus

I had in the past priced up solar domestic hot water panels, but the purchase costs(even if self installing) would never? be financially re-couped since the oil boiler only runs for 20-30 mins to heat the 210l hot cylinder skelping hot. But it would be nice to have endless "free" hot water over the summer months at least. And I might yet install some, just because. We have the perfect fully south facing roof to install the panels on too.

Not true unfortunately, since the bulk of humanity are incapable of saving, prefering to piss it up against a wall when times are good, and then pleading poverty when their circumstances change.

Should be more than 2 winters worth with a single woodburning stove heating 750-800sq ft to 25+ deg (with oil fired underfloor heating am only, for 2 hrs maximum to provide background heat). The loader will lift 1800kg at ground level, being 2 straps of concrete blocks on a pallet. The tractor is 50HP, and weighs 2000Kg The 0.5m3 volume bundles weighed 350Kg wet and the 150Kg dry(from somewhat hazy recall) but I need to purchase another set of crane scales, since I was perhaps unlucky with the first set I bought. But I am timerous about buying more Chinese shite(and they are all Chinese sourced!), nor can I justify a professional set. 350Kg to 150Kg =more than 50% moisture, for fresh felled Lodgepole and Sitka? As I worked my way through the outside stockpile, from oldest to newest, i.e. from 2 or 3 years to guessing only 6 months(ish) since splitting, I noted the moisture levels seemed to rise a little, though the last few bundles I lifted had not been top-covered, and still had moisture trapped beneath the bark in places. marcus P.S. With the current price of oil it seems like a whole lot of investment and labour for a rather poor return on my investment!

Seeing as "very fit" young people have dropped dead on the Rugby/GAA/Football pitch. And it takes a PM to reveal why. I therefore agree with Andys post above, and since I understand they are not conducting autopsies if the "cause" of death was Covid19, we will never know the possibly underlying or contributing "comorbidity" reasons. Plus the not unreasonable possibility of drug use/abuse in the young. And anyway, regardless, there are always the simple outliers. Regards, Marcus

Probably thissun above. Thank you MB, and others.

Therein lies the rub, and I cannot understand why the UK has not pushed forward with wholesale testing, or perhaps representative testing across/within communities, to establish if the communities are clean or recovered. That way we might actually better know the scale of the problem. m

Only for our own hawthorn hedges, suggestions please. marcus

I was serious actually, with some pragmatic provision around the vunerable and elderly, like my 87 year old mother. But for some of the longterm incarcerated in care homes, death could well be a blessed relief, though the Covid19 death is not apparently a pleasent one by any account I have come across. Death is part of life, and assuming we have had our chances, why do we fear it so much? Losing a child has to be the worst, followed by a lover or long time spouse, a parent, not so much, in the fullness of time. Marcus

Be a bad job iffen Adam was a raging homo and Eve was a committed Lezzer then . . .

BTW, Bollocks to continued social distancing, the world still needs to turn, and we need to get on with our normal, mostly productive working and socializing lives.

Not called Adam and Eve by any chance . . .

Hand balled the last 4 bundles in after cutting, and no point in fighting to get any more in. See images;

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Then how come it is/was sliding around in the back?

So?, in those circumstances, how could you "forget about it"?

And our phenomenally fine weather continues here in Nth Co Antrim, 2 or 3 weeks(and I need to check which, but it seems endless already) blindingly fine/bright/dry/warm and with at least another week ahead of us, per the forecast. I am wondering if we have another 1976/1995 summer ahead ? I have never seen the Moss so dry, and indeed so ready to kindle, the top layer of the growing Spagnum would even burn it is so crisp, with no fresh green grass or other vegetation elsewhere as yet to smother the flames. But if we get rain tis better for my grass-seed and the pond! Marcus

Nope a wee Fiat 605C crawler, and the rocking cradle firewood saw is nice to use, fast, and indeed safe. It really needs a 2 nd person bring the billets forward to be a truely slick operation. But! the conveyor needs moved too often, it really needs a short extension that can be rotated, to cover more floorspace without re-jigging both the conveyor and saw. The conveyor is really only for filling bags, boxes or trailers. I might consider trying to finagle something along those lines myself, hmmm? Cheers, mth

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