openspaceman

this is why you get to walk in and do all your maintenance and felling and stacking in the weald then wait till May to September to extract.

I guess I de ash my stove about 9 hours after the last log goes on, I prefer the ash and any remaining char to be cold, it can then go straight on the compost.

Close call, good to think about. I was always a bit wary of using the stump gobbler with a wander lead, to easy to stray into danger. I was much happier sitting in a barred cab with a Marguard windscreen.

You need something like this: from:https://wordhistories.net/2016/08/22/curfew/ Originally it was probably to prevent house fires while people slept and this cover evolved to make restarting the fire in the morning easier, before matches.

Then the bits of biscuit fly everywhere.

On the same theme; when one is out on a walk and decides to eat a cereal or protein bar why does a corner pull of, leaving a small piece of plastic wrapper separate from the main piece.

I was surprised when I first came across one but supposed it was to do with litter. I was similarly surprised when I first came across a ringpull that didn't come off in my hand, by then I had got used to not carrying a can opener to make two triangular holes in the beer can. Recently in an attempt to embarrass me into cooking my share of the evening meals my house sharer has taken to buying readymeals again. Tonight's was interesting as it was a lasagne packed in a one piece glued punnet, much nicer than a plastic tray, it burned well too, after the dog had cleaned it.

This may provide an idea https://fractory.com/metric-bolt-torque-chart/

It would be interesting to see. It's the solid walls and uninsulated solid floors that lose my heat.

Thinking about it , as there is normally about 20% left each year, I process about 8m3. I assume a stacking efficiency of around 70%, probably less as it's arb waste, so 5.6 solid m3. A rough estimate if all around 20% and 1solid m3 contains 500kg dry wood that's ~11200kWh and would cost £1100 in gas plus I get lots of exercise despite owning an old, rudimentary processor rusting in the wood somewhere.

I still process a 10.5m3 stack in my log shed each winter, filling up bays after they empty. I just use an axe and chainsaw but it takes me several days, it provides all the heat for a small, poorly insulated cottage. My mate from primary school and I collect logs together and he processes his with a 6 tonne vertical mains electric one. I am faster for a short while, he plods on at it all day, tortoise and hare stuff. He is also 3 years older and recently diagnosed with Parkinsons , no way can he use an axe or chainsaw.

another riddle that I don't understand, I'm feeling very old.

Too late to worry now, wait and see. The few times I have come across silverleaf it has been in well "gardenered" suburban mansions.

Not on a kinetic splitter but a hydraulic one, the only logs I had that problem with were some very old yew lengths that a woodcarver had had for years and given up on.

Luckily I don't know what you lot are talking about