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Hi any aga people out their as i'm having problems with mine at the moment. Its an old conversion and i have been doing my own servicing for several years no probs, did a service 3 months ago and last week it suddenly lost heat down to 1/4 but had not gone out. Removed the burner and it was coked up, cleaned it out checked the oil level with the hacksaw blade method and it was high lowered the BM valve and got it running again but did not check the level again. But it would not get up to temperature, i Kept turning it up at the BM valve but this made no difference, so turned it out to have another look tomorrow.I cleaned out the filter at the tank which was really filthy, have not checked the filter at the valve. Surely if the oil in the burner is to high it will produce a yellow flame and soot not keep the temperature down, any suggestions ?
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Hi all, i'm sitting next to my woodburner full of douglas and its baking in hear, to hot really,lovely stuff when its around 18 %, been selling it and using it for the last 25 years, chucks out the heat more than any dry hardwood, but as mentioned before use a flue thermometer.
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Well, wild wood was rubbish so........
woodland dweller replied to normandylumberjack's topic in General chat
Hi all, as the ash was hung up on a smaller one why did't they cut that one down as well, the bloke is drying to make money from the woods, he sold the usable ash for £250, but when it came to extracting it the horse team must of cost cost around £200 and £25 for the chap with the tractor, fuel,1 days labour etc etc good job he's got a job as a writer to go back to. Trouble is them townies will think this is forestry. -
Log Burner - Overnight burning
woodland dweller replied to Nick Watkins's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Hi all, i hope insurance company's dont put on a levy for woodburners as we run 3, and with our thatched roof the cheapest premium this year was over £600. -
Relocating to Somerset, Full time work required
woodland dweller replied to alex_m's topic in Employment
Hi alex, did you choose the peter pracownik picture, years ago i used to do picture framing for peter, just as he was starting out. About 27 years ago he was selling nick nacks in the Taunton Antiques centre where i had a stall. He used to pay for any work i did for him with pictures or prints, i have loads of them. Sorry cant help with work tho. -
Hey AROB dont get me wrong i like watching the program and others like grand designs, but they all follow the same pattern like all the house building programs every one runs out of money half way through, they then run around feeling sorry for themselves then hey presto they suddenly have some more to continue. When i have spent the day cutting and clearing in my woods i a'm covered in sawdust sweat and sap, not looking like i have just walked out of an arb catalogue. 2 pigs running around for a season wont kill off all the bracken and brambles, you could see when they took them away their was loads of it still untouched. Anyway its good viewing and gives us a laugh
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the only money being made is what the t v company is paying. Did you notice how clean his chain saw was, probably never been used, once the camera's off someone else is doing the work.
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Yes i have one, i shall dig it out and send it to you so you can photo copy it and return the original, if no one comes up with anything better. pm me with your details.
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Hi Nature, if you get this message can you email me back at [email protected] i might have something of interest for you!
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Making a profit from woodland?
woodland dweller replied to Nature's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Better to loose it than rush in and make mistakes, their is more than one wood for sale. -
As the lady was having a liner fitted to her new wood burner then next door was going to have one fitted as well as his woodburner just feeds into the chimney.
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No slate roof. Long time ago it was 1 house now 2 small cottages.
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i use a top handle for hedge laying ,saw doing the cut other hand steadying the pleacher as it falls to stop it breaking at the cut and directing it to where it needs to go. Some snedding so it will lay flat. Can't be that precise with a 2 handed saw. Is this wrong ?
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To all you stove fitters out their. a customer of mine wants to fit a woodburner to a fire place in her old cottage but the stove company say that because next door shares the same chimney they cannot as hetas will not allow 2 liners to share the same chimney. I spoke with hetas, they could not give a reason for this rule, except to say as the liner can get up to 700 degrees it could burn thro and burn thro next doors liner, i did point out that the melting point of aluminium was 3000 degrees. can any one tell me the reason for this.
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Thanks guys for a few ideas, at 53 its difficult to change your ways. Any more input will take us of topic so i shall shut up now.
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Thanks guys for a few ideas, at 53 its difficult to change your ways. Any more input will take us of topic so i shall shut up now.
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Thanks guys for a few ideas, at 53 its difficult to change your ways. Any more input will take us of topic so i shall shut up now.
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Wow i can only dream of these figures, been a 1 man band furniture maker / carpenter and joiner for 25 years just done my accounts for 2011-2012 turnover just under £22,000 running costs and materials just under £10,000 so a miserable profit of £12k. own my house, partner doesn't work 2 kids,£18 per hour 5 days a week no holidays, top it up with savings, stressed up to my eye balls. Perhaps i should get a proper job as the other half keeps suggesting.
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Wow i can only dream of these figures, been a 1 man band furniture maker / carpenter and joiner for 25 years just done my accounts for 2011-2012 turnover just under £22,000 running costs and materials just under £10,000 so a miserable profit of £12k. own my house, partner doesn't work 2 kids,£18 per hour 5 days a week no holidays, top it up with savings, stressed up to my eye balls. Perhaps i should get a proper job as the other half keeps suggesting.
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Experiences and techniques of using screw type log splitters.
woodland dweller replied to Woodworks's topic in Firewood forum
Used mine for the last 15 years , run it with an old ferguson 65, never sharpend the wedge or tip and it splits anything i show it with ease, do tons each year. Never used a vertical splitter as the Hydraulics are to slow. Never squashed a finger yet as i never hold the logs around the sides but just push onto the cone until it bites then leave it to do the rest. -
you are really are a sad lot, can i join in ? If i was having a party for silly names on the guest list would be :- Ben Dover and eileen Dover Bill Please Ivor Biggin Jim Class Tim Can Dan Dare Dick Tate Robin Banks Justin case laurie Driver Felix Cited Gerry Atrick Carol singer wayne Dear And not forgetting Mr & Mrs Bates and their son Master Bates. Once new a chap called Amius Crump and a family down the road called Rodolf,and had an insurance broker called Rod Allcock. The other half thinks i'm slightly retarded this proves it. Shall i get my coat !!!!!
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Hi all, years ago i was friendly with a local action house who would let me take any bits of unsold furniture from house clearances, i would break it up for firewood, took an axe to a large wardrobe when an old purse dropped out stuffed full of notes about £300. As the wardrobe would of only gone to the dump i kept it. Only happend the once.
