openspaceman

This was always the case

I wish I had put a vertical divider in mine like that and for exactly that reason. I'm over half way through my log store and could have been refilling one half, as it is we still have February, normally the coldest month here. Also with my fetish for checking the moisture content of my logs with a moisture meter I am finding the beech logs in the middle of the stack have up to 28% mc wwb in the middle even though around 17% on the outside so could have done with an extra month of summer seasoning even though they burn perfectly well.

Yes I forgot he is still a part of UK until the sellout is finalised

I think Marcus has lost his € key

Sort of; haulier is the buyer and hasn't picked up the second load, I just wonder if demand has dropped off as I would expect people to have got over the pre Xmas rush and now laying in stock to process before May so as to get a full summer seasoning in.

It would be interesting to see how new stove sales have been affected. In my little parish there is some reluctance to collect a lorry load of ash which was agreed in October.

I did wonder why it was relatively tall with the air inlet low down

or wrong gauge drive link chain

A bit like arbeit machst frei

I see the pellet plant at Brynmenyn, which we worked on and ended up with Woodmat packed up two years ago. It was jinxed before it started as the sawdust supply from Techboard disappeared before it got running. I was thinking of retail logs as well as this RHI stuff, how long was the duration of a RHI subsidy?

I don't know either but can speculate a bit; charcoal made at temperatures lower than 450C is all amorphous (randomly arranged little chains and rings of carbon atoms, above 450 and the chains tend to form in little rings joined together, little graphene like sheets. I suspect that if the charcoal is held at high temperature for a long time then more graphite like substance will be formed. At around 1000C the remaining charcoal is almost pure carbon and is only about 1/6 of the original dry weight (plus in this instance some of the carbon is burned off to get to the high temperature). Now I don't thing you will get much above 1500C in that kiln (diamond turns to graphite at 1200C I think) but when graphite is made from sintered carbon powder and pitch the temperature has to get above 2500C to turn the whole amorphous mass to graphite. This temperature is higher than a steel furnace and cannot be achieved by burning carbon so I suspect it is done in an inert atmosphere by passing an electric current through the charge and resistance heating raises the temperature. My brother would have been able to give a scientific analysis as the physical chemistry of carbon was his field.

I suppose they couldn't just ban domestic biomass heating so they just made it that expensive so that all the small suppliers would drop out.

I don't know but guess it is the way the browser identifies the file. I see it as an audio only but in firefox I can right click on it and save it, I can then play it in a video player.

Then about 3 months before your 70th you will get an invitation to renew your licence, if you have none of the medical problems listed and you can read a number plate at 20 metres you will just need a current photo or the photo on your passport record to get a photo driving licence valid till you are 73 then I guess you have to jump through the same hoops again. If you want to keep your licence a to include heavier (C1, D1) vehicles then you need to do the medical. I let my c1 and D1 entitlements drop.

Do you still wish to drive vehicles weighing over 3.5 tonnes or buses carrying more than 8?? people?

My thoughts too, I think of all the out of rotation coppice I heaped onto bonfires in the past. Hazel is a good firewood but simply doesn't seem to dry much when left as cord. I have some 6" and down stuff felled last February and 35%to off the scale on my moisture meter (though it still burns cleanly in a hot stove). In fact any wood is best processed into final sizes asap but of course this leads to handling problems and increase in volume. Chunked to 4-6" with the accompanying micro splitting and it must dry fast.

I do want to try one of those, but not just for kindling, the B&S engine puts me off. I don't think I'd bother with splitting stuff but I imagine I would need twice the log storage volume.

Yes but if you just want to try it without altering your computer you can run it live from a CD, though it will run much slower. You can also load it onto a new hard drive, leaving the old hard drive in the computer and then change the boot order of the computer, which essentially is what I have recently done. I have used Linux for about 15 years and mint 17 for the last five and now Mint 20.

new piston rings perhaps

Interesting, if when it's running you see no smoke then you're getting all the heat of combustion out of the log, smoke is unburned fuel. So as long as the flue temperature is around 150C and no air leaks then I'd guess no benefit. Air leaks and excess air are the biggest wasters of wood heat because of the extra mass flow up the chimney. However the Jotul 602 I replaced with a morso 11 was less efficient, wasted heat up the chimney and smoked a fair amount of the time, especially after reloading. The modern fires with firebrick insulating combustion chambers burn hotter faster, so unless I cock up my fire is smoke free withing about 15 minutes of top lighting.

Yes worth noting for the unwary, especially if not VAT registered, that adds 45% to the bidded price

Yes and I wonder how much that is due to a general reduction in rabbit population, whereas roe and muntjac seem to have increased but less damaging?

Lovely butts @lewiswood and very tidy work. I could never afford to buy parcels as good as that.

If you go down the ceramic route never sharpen it with a stone or diamond, the effect is the opposite. Polish only. I prefer steel but do use sabatier stainless knives for carving and dicing veg, even though carbon steel can be sharpened more keenly.

Pressure relief valves absorb most shocks, port relief valves on individual spools if the shocks are from external loads.