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  1. woodland dweller
    Thanks for all the replies, it looks like timberol is on the shopping list.
  2. woodland dweller
    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
  3. woodland dweller
    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.
  13. woodland dweller
    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 ?
  16. woodland dweller
    Heres one of my businesses www sunnyfields poultry housing
  17. 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".
  18. woodland dweller
    Preserve wildlife pickle a squirrel If someones having a hard time i say "life is sh*t deal with it"
  19. 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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    Hi al, yarcombe is just around the corner from mine. Snow is nice for one day but a bloody pain after that, cant get the van out for 6 days so far, the car no trouble.
  21. woodland dweller
    Hi bobh, East Devon, near Honiton.
  22. woodland dweller
    Out in my woods with the camera on wednesday. Hope you like them !
  23. woodland dweller
    Hi pembrokeshire, lovely stuff to burn, been using and selling the stuff for 25 years now as thats mostly whats is in my woods. Sounds like your stuff has been on the ground to long to bother with.
  24. woodland dweller
    Hey stubby 410 for rats, a bit over the top and expensive for the cartridges, get yourself an old garden gun, remember those, run out of cartridges for mine, smaller than a 410.The cost of poison is a megga rip off.
  25. woodland dweller
    how do you skin them, tried once on one i shot to give to my ferrets, iv'e done rabbits but this was a mess and it stank, and after all that they never went near it.

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