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i burn any softwood but if i want a long slow burn to keep the chill out the house i will stuff the fire to the hilt with any hardwood i can get my hands on if i,am out all day or want an overnight burn its hardwood but find softwood better during the day burns hotter i know it burns quicker but its great for getting the kettle singing for a brew and free hot water for my dishes so yes i prefare softwood or even a mix of say 75% softwood 25% hardwood lasts me hours so not up n down loading the fire sorry ment to say logburner i,e doors etc as i,ve read somewhere softwood spits more so not good for openfires etc

hi chris what area are you in the uk maybe you could meet up with one of us who has one to look over etc ?

i was thinking same thing gx340/390 parts interchange etc i took the advice from a arbtalk member and won a concrete floor saw off ebay for £72 engine is perfect for my log splitter so that may be the way to go and you will be left with loads of spares too good luck anyway by the looks a nice arbtalk guy will help you out with the bits you need i just wished honda had fitted a oil filter to these engines as i,am alway worried about oil condition so always checking mine and changing it when its getting a bit black and petrol,y smelly etc

@ 50 now my past has caught up with me too lying under trucks in all weathers gritters binwagons with airpipes ripped out with an old mattress on a slutchy landfill or repairing plant cat dozers 360,s etc etc i,am at times cant bend to pick a feather up i have to kneel then grunt gasp to get back up so yes i,am a life long pill popper i cant even get my kecks on in a morning as i cant lift my left leg hip kills me n you would piss yourself watching me trying to get down stairs in a morning i,am stiffer than elvis thesedays i walk like i,ve shite my pants at times with the pains n clunks from my neck knees shoulders etc

J B WELD thats the stuff i think is good for the petrol/oil engineeringy thingys lol have been told its good stuff i,ve bought some myself but never used it in anger yet but others have used it on petrol strimmer tanks and worked

Just looked up the pond liner epdm looks like the right stuff to go for top guys thanks for your input another thing i,ve learned today thankyou so much very greatful

NICE ADVICE LADS THANKS SORRY I,VE NOT HAD CHANCE TO REPLY TODAY me and my cousins going to go down to my plot and try the roofing felt idea if not may go with the guttering set up but a bit worried about leaf litter build up blocking up having to unblock etc as its all under 2 silvebirch and a oak

hope this link works BBC iPlayer - North West Tonight: 25/11/2013 she,s be through hell and i visited him after he had gone into a coma & one of the nurses met colins daughter in the hospital coridor as she was comeing back to visit her dad and was told by the nurse that she was sorry for her sad loss etc but on arrival to the ward colin had,nt even passed away so they new he would,nt recover could,nt meet a nicer man a very sad loss to all his family i think its disgusting how this happened sorry i forgot normasmy cousin & been a rock for me whilst i,ve had my own problems

ps this must be a common problem when building tree houses too ??????

good advice so far but its a roundtree through a square hole n trees sway as you well know so may look at the roof felt idea just need to find the right felt to suit weather/wear n tear through the winter i will take some pictures tomorrow so you get your head around what i,am trying to do etc all sides are open roof is supported by scrap wood and telegraph poles etc

I,ve built a log/work shelter about 50ft long 12ft high sloping down to 9ft against a pallaside fence for ventilation for my firwood pile but the problem i have is i,ve got 3 large mature trees i,ve had to build the roof around all with big six roofing sheets so now have water running along the roof sheets then straight into the log shelter where the tree pops through the roof" as anyone else had this problem its not my land or trees so cant & dont want to cut,em down birds nature etc i,ve got bird feeders on the go and nest boxes in the roof so want an easy way around stopping water running in all over the wood any diy advice ideas would be greatfully recieved thanks

how fast was that" >>>>>>>>> there here next to my laptop i cant undrestand how fast it got here infact quicker than my lecky bill lol cheers rob greatful

good advice thanks will take that on board cheers steve its seans fault ash01 he keeps giving me scrap wood as in wood full of scrap iron barbwire nails cast iron drainpipe slate/stone etc lol chance i,ve had to take sorcing my firewood from arbwaste etc

I,ve ordered a couple box,s of save edge so only the best for the best lol so dont mess with the best

Just ordered a couple boxes of rob cheers greatful

Musing through ebay atm had tried a couple boxes oregon but thinking there must be a better file as i feel there dulling off quickly if i look at them in the outdoor light they look like there polished off even after one use i,am rotating the file to get a better bite in the cutter so to speak so is it stihl this time bacho or where can i get the save edge ones mentioned in other posts as i hav,nt come across them on ebay advice would be greatfully recieved thanks

what do you do with the bars after there kippered can a damascas knife thingy be made from a bar or grind it down for a kinderling axe lol

gridded plate as in like pushing a spud through to make chips ? . As far as i know you will have to have very good wood no knotty stuff because at 30 ton something has to give if you doing arb waste stick with a knife and make a decent 4 way splitter to fit over the knife for any decent stuff. As for the engine if you go big then big fuel go small and use a 2 stage hydraulic pump if you going to make it on a road towable trailer as it will be a pain to push around if its over engineered big donkey engine big ram (big weight) etc unless you have a tractor to make use of the hydraulics

i will watch this post with great interest as i,am looking at trying a rocket stove as on youtube as i,ve no way of making a brew on my plot but never thought there was such a device to boil water and now discovered a kelly kettle too but the rocket stove can cook as well as boil water

and a man who,s mad/brave enough to use it lol

yes it was a dud coil but with the honda coil on the timing was out with only having one bolt hole lining up was getting spark at wron time and the exhaust manifold was glowing red/yellow when running but on fitting the new coil setting the air gap etc it ran a treat but still had glowing exhaust on the cylinder with new coil fitted so after swapping coils round changing plugs etc worked out that there is only a very very small air gap to circulate air from the flywheel through the head fins and tin cover around the cylinder head/barrell as as i was workg in the dark it was hard to work out that the cylinder that had,nt been working for a whileand its cooling fins blocked thus no airflow on one side of the engine so that cylinder was working but not cooling thus the red/yellow exhaust port i even had the exhaust system off to check valves was ok and not burning fuel in the exhaust instead of the cylinder sorted it in the end though but was a head scratcher and had me baffled for a while we never stop learning do we ?

did you ever get the rayco sorted out an update would be good incase anyone else has same probbs etc

i would have the logs and some of the chip but hope its not the crap stuff you have given me in the past conifer and dead ivy etc :001_tt2: you knock,em down n i will movem thats if you dont smash the head of the grinder or run low on fuel

i,ve got to say this my friend/neighbour john was having his firewood stolen and sat watching one day all quite in his back garden and this is very true he watched his own nextdoor neighbour throw a dart with a string on into his logpile and spent about 5 mins doing this nicking his firewood before the thieving sod noticed john sat watching him they never spoke to each other ever again john told me if he had asked he would of give him some to but to steal is so wrong in my book

heartbeat all creatures great n small yeasterday channel ow,t do with wood n watching bedlam now lol were all maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad you know on channel 4 but do like listening to radio 4 too