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Some more sterling work there mate, im beginning to realize that i should keep things simple, when im in my workshop for a day or two i make one or two or half a lavish thing, and im thinking thats not the way forward. Two questions if you dont mind. Do you turn the bats green? if so any secrets to drying after. What sort or price range can you realistically achieve on the tealight holders? thx James

That is completely brilliant reminds me a lot of this, but in a completely different context. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7x8wd36uJg]Chav Vs Wall and Loses "BIG TIME!!" (STUPID IDIOT) - YouTube[/ame]

Looks good to mefor the money, and i would expect you could acieve a reasonable reasale on it if it wasnt up to scratch. If you do decide to go for it, i would appreciate a review, as ill be interested my self in a few months. Thanks James

Agreed, had a look at the palax55 now aswell, looks good but only 200mm cut in one pass. others do 270mm. U can get a palax with an engine though which is appealing but its £3000+vat. Pretty sure im gunna get the eagle and mount an engine on it myself, got a couple in the shed that would run it i think. Thanks for your input,much appreciated James

Dead mans shoes tideland mysterious skin alone in the wilderness(my favourite docu, and a must see for any real woodsman, see what can be done with no chainsaw, honestly please watch it.) once were warriors but i could watc alone in the wilderness over and over again.

Thanks Chris, i prefer the look of the eagle too, and i think the price difference swings it. Just wondering really if you got more for your money with the japa but obviously not. Thanks again James

i did it, suited me ok, kids are at school now and ive just had a knee op, so im a stay at home dad with the kidsout all day.best of both worlds:thumbup:

Thats sweet, innovative use of a wm.

Hi guys, looking at buying a saw bench splitter combo, have priced the two above models hakki:£1660 delivered+vat, japa100: £2130+delivery+vat. So my question is, which is better, i prefer look of hakki and its a lot cheaper. Is there any other saw/splitter combos im missing? Advice much appreciated, Thanks James

Hate to admit it but it was bought from the devil. 40% Windbreak Netting Greenhouse Shade 1m x 5m: Amazon.co.uk: Garden & Outdoors Its great and comes with eyelets in edges already. We just sewed it together with fencing straining wire and stapled to posts. Been up around 6 months and think it will last well. Very strong and cheap

Hey catweazel, think you misunderstood the system, the 3 1000l tanks are purely for dhw. Not sure why they fitted two expansions to each tank, just how it was designed. If you look at the first picture you can see a large grey 5000L tank for the space heating, this has its own 500L(i think) expansion(not shown in photo) if were burning logs the water from the large tank heats the 3 1000Ltanks via heat exchange. Twin coil: 1 for solar one for log burner. Space heating comes from tank underground into house and through heat exchanger in basement into rads. we too have no temp control at present(we will be fitting trvs when we get round to it, but the way we use boiler we wont be overheating. ITS all manually fed with logs. and we monitor heat manually, such a big old house(see pic) we would never get it roasting anyway. Was never the objective. Comfortable was what we were after. Could of had bigger boiler,burn more wood etc, but didnt want too. Before this system we only had wood burners. System was more about getting corridors and landings commfortable too and not having our older residents carrying logs to the third floor to heat there rooms. Web address to follow. James P.s. the only manual switching is between gas and log boiler for dhw.

The dhw tanks are seperate volumes so you heat them in order, sun gets first up to temp and then starts next one ,if its out long enough, and you use tanks in order too, basically english sun is unreliable so capture as much heat as you can whilst its out, and use when its not, it also means that if theres no sun you can just heat up 1000L with the gas or p.v.powered immersion not the whole 3000l, hence each tank is seperate and needs its own expansion. I must admit theres aspects of the system im still getting me head round, this being our second winter using it. The system was designed by a company called british eco, i think they did a good job, but thats all they did a good job in. They subbed installation to another company, they got it done inthe end, but start to finish was 10months. I dug the service trenches from the stables(new boiler room) to the house myself to save money, did it over a week, lots of trenches and the worst dig ive ever done for the amount ofservices and unknown water pits in the way. They were meant to come lay the pipe the following week. They didnt come for 2months. needless to say trenches werent trenches by then! I see your point on inhibitor, maybe just covering all bases. Do you guys pump straight into your rads or do you heat exchange? U should now, the house it heats is massive 27occupants and one ancient c/h system all plumbed in steel with big old cast column rads, so we heat exchange coz theres no way we were power flushing. Regards costings, 65k including solar thermal and connection to a secondary building which is used part time(we rent it to groups, run courses from there etc)This means loads of buried insulated pipes and they cost loads. We were able to secure 35k funding but we had to jump through some massive hoops, the most interesting of which is allowing local schools to use as energy project. One ofthe techie guys i live with designed and built hardware and software connected to all our renewables(solar thermal,p.v,boiler) and internet, it gives instant readouts of energy produced, historical figures, and basic conversions to units of energy kids understand like miles driven in average car, light bulb hours, cups of tea u could make etc. This gets sent to 2 touch screen units in our house and to web address anybody(like theschool kids) can access. Its really neat(and way beyond me). School havent done a project yet but hoping they will this year. Its great to be able to see on a screen exactly how much energy you produce and direct difference between cloudy/sunny day,softwood/hardwood. Cant remember what web address is right now, but will post soyou can look if interested. Posted some pics of our new shed here:http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/firewood-forum/24086-show-me-your-firewood-storage-shed-rack-please-4.html Anyway time for bed, enjoying this thread. Sorry if i waffled.

heres our shed. 18m x 8.5m. built it last year. Just trying to get round to finishing the 2500L rainwater collection for garden and greenhouse.Just needs guttering connecting. Will do it when the snow goes .

Oh yes,im currently ploughing my way through the snow to make sure its mine, problem is its about 30 miles away and im not sure it will get me home. But on a serious note im just in comms with me dad to decide if we should put it in his barn and do up to sell? Thanks Peeps

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Thanks guys, good advice. had new head gasket and skim 10000miles ago if that changes anything?

Imho it would work fine if the clamps were good and tight,and some extra ropes wouldnt hurt. Inreality ithink u'd be better either doing it the german way: two circles of logs on outside of stack and chuck logs loose in middle. Top layer creates kind of shingles.we did this for 1year before we built our shed, stacked 40 tonne like it worked well, but when you start using u have to keep covered wiht tarp. Altenatively make a simple log shed to last afew years. fence posts paletts etc, maybe £100 for similar size as your suggesting.

Surely if the estate keeps the lumber it should charge a peppercorn amount to cover transportation, seems to me that the estate is getting greedy. I wouldnt pay £360 for that ash once it was sawn!

Respect to Nick for working hard and putting meat on the table in these difficult times, farming and haulage will never be easy. Any body whos jealous, work harder, earn more but most importantly dont embarrass yourself and keep quiet.

Thx lyncombe. Just spoke to him to confirm price and he will deliver it to me for £500. Thx Si

HI peeps, My mate has had one of these in storage for a few years and now has to move it. No mot but not alot wrong with it when stored. He needs it gone and knows i was looking for a new vehicle, as a favour hes offered it me for a couple of hundred as is, would need to do light work, pull my trailer into my woodland when i buy it later in the year, move my mill and milled timber, the odd butt and cants maybe. What are peoples honest opinion of these, realistic mpg, capabilities working off road etc. I know it isnt the defender i wanted, but look at the price. Your honest opinions if u would. Thx James

will repely to you later gotta go now.

Marcus, i see your point and yes most plumbers are idiots. our boiler was partially grant aided and was also classed as commercial due to being owned by a housing co-op and the size of it, this left us with little choice over allowed installers and as you can guess are installers were idiots, its all plumbed in steel due to the bore of the pipe,and i think this is why they recommended inhibitor which was included in the £65000 cost. They were idiots,when they fitted the expansion to the 3 hot water tanksthey just bolted to floor, when they filled system and it got hot the rods they were onfell over,water everywhere, proper numptys. we put the angle up to hold em up ourselves.

pics of boiler system

I live in an intentional community, 17 adults and 10 kids in one big old house on an 18acre plot. The boiler consumes between 40-50tonnes a year depending on how bad the winter is. Have a 20kw gas backup only to top solar thermal up in spring and autumn.We've had it about 2.5 years. Our log shed was just completed last year and is 18mx8m Ill start a new thread with pics of that,im a builder so built it myself. Pics of boiler to follow, just transferring.