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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

Made in Mexico!

You keep your yard very tidy, this is NOT easy.

I read an account, recently too, that part of the logic of the disasterous Dippe raid, was to acquire shore based marine crypto material, and crucially this was why a later phase of the op that cost many lives(when it was clear that the simple military-force objective had failed) was proceeded with, which to the men involved was wrong headed and preverse, but "orders from above". The account based on recently declassified 30/50/80/100 year rule stuff (or whatever the various classifications are)

6o year old and somewhat cynical farmers Son that I am, I have never seen an air filter like the one portrayed above. It looks like the outer membrane or fabric degraded, or the adhesive holding it to the cage failed for whatever reason, but the fabric/membrane should still not have broken up/got sucked in. Marcus

Hardly elegant mind, but nice to be able to get in and out of the car in the dry, nevermind fetching in sticks and dogfood, freezer access etc etc. A bit of a wind tunnel happenstance, but then that is better for the wood pile. All DIY, sans paperwork. cheers mth

Yes, measured, and not racing, each bundle being a generous 0.5m3, tightly strapped. I must count the average no of billets per bundle next? And buy another set of crane scales to weigh the billet bundles. But obviously time "lost" setting up, and then moving the saw and conveyor periodically.

See images, 15 mins to collect from the outside pile and cut to between 200mm and 300mm. Moisture readings between 12.7% (from a bundle 2nd row in and 2nd from the top and 16.9% from an outside bundle. Multiple readings taken, and gut feeling, say ave 15%, since the 16.9 was a real outlier. Cut sticks picked at random from the pile after cutting a bundle. The saw with the bigger pully runs, or "hums" sweet at about 850engine rpm, which gives about 225PTO rpm,it should require 925rpm, for 250 PTO rpm(by my calculations) but this just did not sound "right". The bundle resting on the 2 below is the right height for my back, and cutting the middle strap, but not the end straps(eased over a couple of billets to allow me to start) allow the bundle to sit without spilling onto the floor. P.S. Sitting out of an evening into night, watching the fish rise and listening to the birdsong, with an almost endless supply of Swedish Candles.(last image obv)

The soil was quite compacted, as a result of levelling with the tractor land linkbox, so I raked hard, sowed seed and raked again, then rolled in with the Skoda! Some seed buried, or most? still on the surface. And another week without rain forecast! Fingers crossed.

Thanks Mick, that was my feeling too, and no signs of germination yet btw. I did swither about sowing it, having seen the fine dry forecast for a week to 10 days ahead but hey! who believes the weather forecast, especially such a fine forecast! cheers mth

About 400-500m2 worth, and it got a fair shower of rain that Friday evening/night, but zero moisture since, except the rather heavy dew. Question? Do I start watering, or simply leave it alone, I am timerous re starting watering, and then not watering thoroughly enough, or for long enough. Cheers, mth