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Make fast kindling with a slow splitter
openspaceman replied to Ontario Firewood Resource's topic in Firewood forum
I remain fascinated with these though will never have a use for one now. I would happily put my firewood axe away and use it for my firewood. I only burned a few bags of sawmill slabwood that had been through one. Is the length of chop consistent as long as the wood is at right angles to the blades or does diameter effect it? -
Which reliable 6'' chipper 10k - 15k budget
openspaceman replied to Floclimber's topic in General chat
We used tracked 1928s on the railway, not as good on big stuff as the Heizohack but they went anywhere. Toward the end of my job they were taking a B&S engined splitter as well so everything could be chipped instead of having to wire band the logs. I wanted to make a simple splitter powered by the chipper hydraulics. -
Make fast kindling with a slow splitter
openspaceman replied to Ontario Firewood Resource's topic in Firewood forum
They will of course dry pretty quickly too, I wonder if the chopping micro splits them so they dry quicker than sawn to the same size. I'm damned if I would get involved with nets but as @Billhook says a ventilated box or IBC would be ideal if mechanical handling is available, not much use for my domestic storage though. My little Morso s11 burns them well and builds up a deep layer of char that keeps the stove warm till morning. I could probably shovel out a kilo of char in the morning if I wanted to save it. -
It's a shame as I don't agree with how the english language has been hijacked and effectively banned the use of ordinary words which I used to illustrate the point. However I did not intend to offend, especially not Saul who I enjoy reading his antics on here. I'll let it drop rather than dig a deeper hole.
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Check out super-capacitors, some people use them instead of lead acid car batteries. As Spud says they can be charged and discharged much quicker than a EV battery and they have near infinite charge discharge cycles. The saying is while you think of EV batteries in terms of kilowatt hours super capacitors are more megawatt seconds. They will likely be used in transport as they can soak up sudden charges where a conventional EV battery cannot absorb all of the charge the regeneration could give out, so place the super-capicitor to absorb the huge spike and feed the main battery at a rate it can take to catch up.
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The SMRs are derived from the power plants which were used in subs.
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Rolls Royce also promote synthetic aero fuels but have hived off their solid oxide fuel cell business to Korea, even so they have laid off loads of engineers and may well not survive if their submarine based modular reactors don't get the go ahead.
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Less beer consumption means less yeast byproduct?
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It is very stable and was used for draughtsmen’s rulers, I have some from WW2 that my father used when drawing up plans, they are scaled but in inches. Churchill got very upset when boxes were felled at Chequers for the war effort, he called it arboricide.
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Biggest aircraft that ever flew (just) in WW2 was nicknamed the spruce goose
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They're just niggardly about use of english. It took me a minute until I realised which Al you meant. Did the roofrack survive the trip home?
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Could it be a poll axe with the spike cut off?
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I read that the spider crabs aren't popular here and mostly for export except that they are not getting exported because of bureaucracy. What's the culinary difference and where can I try some?
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Golly I thought it was wily
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the softwood carcasing that looks slightly green is likely copper azole treated sometimes also with borax. railway sleepers have a more effective copper treatment, possibly hydrazine. How close are your neighbours downwind that might not like to breath heavy metal oxides?
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Also more elastic IIRC
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I don't know, honey fungus gets everywhere, standard advice was to not plant a susceptible species near the site of the infected tree. Also the RHS stance seemed to be from personal experience of their curator rather than science. After 1987 we had to pick up or excavate all the stumps and transport them to a stump dump. Awkward to get at, not windblown ones, were blasted.
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It's not really secondary air, it's a way of getting hot excess air in to (nearly) guarantee a burn out. Looking at the video earlier in the thread comparing stoves this extra excess air ( there is always some excess, unused oxygen in the secondary air) being introduced probably increases massflow significantly, so heat is lost in this air being given a free ride and exiting at whatever temperature is left after heat exchanges to the room. One benefit of the catalyst is that you can feed it nearer stoichiometric amounts of air thus minimising massflow but I', still not convinced of the cost benefit.
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With those failed unions near the base already it's plainly compromised, as the name says it's not a strong timber and it has an evolutionary trait to vegetatively propagate by layering after cracking and reaching the ground.
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Yes hornbeam coppices well but often older maidens fail to resprout.
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Yes and it does so from the base, so over time the stump rots out and the coppice grows as a ring around it.
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Quite logical progression; a catalytic converter allegedly enables a clean burn of a smouldering log, i.e. no proper flame or secondary secondary combustion but a clean burn. Add a heat exchanger to the flue and you further cool the flue, this is what condensing gas boilers do, they have a drain. I see it less now, maybe because of ss liners but one could often trace out the course of a flue up a brick chimney by brown staining of the mortar as the sooty condensation percolated through. It was also acidic so gradually leached out the lime in the mortar.
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No but even with 20%mc wood you're chucking a fair amount of water up the flue so ideally want it to exit the top above the dew point. Every kilo of wood you burn at 20%mc means you're chucking 0.6 litres of water up there. I haven't worked out the saturation of the mixture of water, nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide as there are a number of variables so safest to keep it above 100C
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Mine are a bit more bashed than that web picture, I have one straight and one bent tip pair. I guess fishing out rubber hoses has been their main use.
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Hemostats, because they lock shut, useful addition to the toolkit
