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  1. woodland dweller
    Thanks for the replies, fire bricks at £2.20 each are out, so muttley i like the sand and cob method, just need to get hold of the cob.
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    Hi, i'm in the middle of making a pizza oven and was wondering if anyone can tell me if its ok to use engineering bricks for the igloo shaped dome as i have loads of them or do they have to be fire bricks?
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    all good fun, done it loads of times, but this got me thinking, i balance some stones and leave them standing and go on my way, along comes a family core look at that little child says running up to them, touches them and the whole lot comes down on his foot. Sorry to spoil your fun but could do some damage or do you knock them down before leaving. I like to do sand sculptures and leave them behind for children to take a look before the tide washes them away, the sculptures not the children.
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    Blackdown Hills Woodlands Fair Saturday 6th july near Wellington Somerset, if anyone interested.
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    we had a population explosion 3 years ago. The other half did some weeding one weekend and came in with 36 on her. She had to strip whilst i had to go over her with a magnifying glass and tweezers to remove them. That year if you put your hand in a flower bed you could see them crawling up your arms. living where we do us and the kids are used to them as we get them regularily on us. Horrible things, we have a bottle of surgical spirit in the house, just unscrew the top and place over the tick for a few seconds then lift off with tweezers, only the wife gets any reaction to the bites.For the cats i just pull off quickly. Always weed with disposible gloves these days.
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    I work in my woods all the time on my own, but before i cut anything down i will always take a minute to work out what could go wrong, look for any dangers and then get on with it. Very safety conscious, as a furniture maker, carpenter and joiner for 25 years working on my own 1 mile from the nearest neighbour in a workshop with every machine the has the potential to remove parts of you body has made me this way. Once had a large 3 inch splinter pass through a finger and had to wait 1/2 an hour for the wife to return from picking up the kids to take me to A&E to have it removed.
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    Thanks for all the replies, it looks like timberol is on the shopping list.
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    Hi all, as the title says. Young brambles sprouting all over the place need to hit them before they grow. Again rhode seeds sprouting and bushes taking over, amazing how quickly it can take over. Can i spray bushes or do i have to cut down and treat the stumps. Thanks
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    Hi Brian, looks like stone pine to me !
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    Just split some and retested with the moisture meter the ones sat next to the wood burner reading 16% are 18% inside and the ones furthest from the wood burner reading 22 % are 25 % inside. This is the first time i've used fresh cut wood but remembering the old firewood poem " ash dry or green fit for a queen" i thought i would give it a go as i have run low on the usual Douglas i burn. Hey s varty and rob D read the start of my thread i stacked 3 wheel barrow loads beside my woodburner actually leaning against it, then cranked it up so like kilning it to get it to this moisture content. And yes the meter is ok as i calibrated it with a mates.
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    Hi Axeholme, if you are going to send them out on pallets, you can make them wider as a pallet is 1.2M wide. They can go out assembled as height for a pallet is 2M and you are just under. If sending on pallets the cost varies depending on post code across the country. If going flat pack remember that they must be easily assembled by idiot's. I know as i run sunnyfields poultry housing and i send my chicken houses all round the country on pallets. Have a look at my website.
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    I will split and take another reading monday and post back.
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    Those cuts on the woodmizer took some working out, but i cringed when i saw him using the sawbench with no riving knife or blade guard and the surface planer without its guard.
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    Hi all, don't know if this has been asked before, but why can you burn Ash green, and is their any other woods you can burn green. Saturday i cut down an ash just a small one about 18 years old as i was running short of dry firewood,within the hour i had the log splitter on the tractor and had split the lot. Took 3 wheelbarrow loads into the house to stack beside the log burner to dry off. Put some in the fire and they where the hottest logs i have ever burnt. Put the moisture meter on some as they came in, my meter will only read up 25% and they were on that so could have been a lot more. About 3 hours later i took another reading and they were down to 22%, the next morning took another reading and they were down to 16%. Why sell seasoned Ash when the fresh stuff kicks out the heat and burns lovely ?
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    hi justme i could not get the bucket idea as the tank is allways full. As for the second part your drawn off water its being replaced with cold water which will cool the tank down, then when the critical temp is reached the heater switches on. On a timer by the time it comes on if you have used hot water during the day this being replaced with cold means the whole lot needs heating up again using more electric than keeping it warm all the time. I'm no expert thats the way i can get my head around it , will try timing it next month to see if less electricity is used.
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    Could it not be POPLAR the grey , and light colour and black streaks on the same board and the close grain looks like the stuff i have used in the past, comparing it with a sample from the workshop it looks similar.
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    Surely if you have the immersion on timed the water will cool down so when it switches back on it will have to heat the whole tank up again using more electric than leaving it on all the time as it only switches on when you draw off any hot . Was wondering as we have 2 hot water tanks on all the time.
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    Just pulled out a royal in good condition on a bungalow referb i'm doing for a friend, going to put it on ebay for them, don't expect to get much any one interested its in east devon.
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    Goldfinch ___________
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    Hi all, thanks for all the input regards heat pumps, i have shown my friend all the responces and it has helped. He is having solar panels and a wood burner fitted as well as the heat pump. Yes the house has loft and wall insulation and double glazed windows so it should work well. Although at the moment the place has been empty for 3 years, i a'm doing a complete refurb its bloody cold inside. Insulation is great if you can have it but my 400 year old cottage has no cavity to insulate and the half that is thatch has no loft. The single glazed windows are well drafty. No heating except the 2 wood burners, luckily the fire wood is free. At moment a new build sounds nice, roll on summer.
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    Hi all, anybody know about air source heat pumps are they any good or not. A friend of mine is going down that route, so before he spends about £15.000 grand on a system i thought i would find out more about the set up. Has any one you know had one fitted and are they happy with it ?
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    Heres one of my businesses www sunnyfields poultry housing
  23. woodland dweller
    Talking to a farmer friend today about price of land he says "trouble is they ain't making any more of it and they keep building on whats left".
  24. woodland dweller
    Preserve wildlife pickle a squirrel If someones having a hard time i say "life is sh*t deal with it"
  25. woodland dweller
    Hi James, once you have your boards dry to about 9% you will need the following to make a decent job. Saw bench the rip the boards to oversize dimensions thicknesser to take them back to a reasonable size, for doors and framing say 7/8 ths inch. edge planer to square and straighten them up saw again to finish diemensions radial arm saw to cut to length and for cutting tenons spindle moulder for cutting grooves for door panels morticer belt sander and orbital sander then away you go, cost for above second hand about £5,000, plus a large dry workshop. My advice go buy one , been making bespoke kitchens for about 25 years it ain,t easy even with £20 grands worth of equipment. But if you are still up for it and need some more advice just ask.

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