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I think you mean you cannot lawfully because it's pretty plain people can do it. In fact for domestic premises you are allowed to burn lots of things that you shouldn't burn commercially, as long as you don't emit dark smoke. Not that that's a good thing but must be something to do with ancient rights.

That is if there is a linear relationship of moisture to conductivity. Thing with resistances where there are multi-paths with variable resistances in parallel it gets a bit complicated so I though probably a look up table and empirical results. BTW that last FC leaflet shows the pellet burner we first imported in our Welsh unit near Bridgend.

If we take fresh felled 1tonne beech at this time of year, drop it in water and it sinks. It contains 52% wood and 48% water. Dry it till it weighs 2/3 its original weight i.e. 666kg and we have 520kg of wood still but now only 146kg water, so 22% mc wwb actually not quite dry enough but close.

I don't wear mine unless the ground conditions are bad or I am using a motor saw (any sort) so they have probably only had a years solid use despite having them 6 or 7 years. As I don't climb (well maybe a little) I take it the airstreams wouldn't suit me? I am sure I read somewhere that the woodwalker build had changed for the worse but they remain reasonably cheap.

We have mostly known that all along, the point of the thread I thought was deciding which moisture meters measured on the wet basis and I don't think we have found one that does yet. If we put aside poplar, elm, willow and softwoods then the worse case hardwoods are oak and beech, if people have crane scales then one could be fairly certain if 1/3 of the green weight is lost the average moisture content will be below 20%

Not noticed much, biggest difference is in waistline and bank balance after 4 years

Oven needs to be above 100C and I use 120C, nowadays I use a microwave They did: ""prohibited level”, in respect of a relevant unit of wood, means a moisture content of more than 20%; " Pretty well defines it as water must not exceed 20% of the whole weight. The confusion arises with the moisture meters and at best these are only checks, for proving an offence oven drying is probably bound to be used if indeed anyone is ever brought up for it. BTW I supplied myself with 2.25m3 of freshly felled and split beech billets yesterday, had them delivered in a Citroen relay horsebox, I estimate it must have been overloaded at about 1.5 tonnes. I have not given myself a letter explaining I must keep it for two years before burning.

There is still some level of conjecture on this point so while @Woodworks did check dry a sample after using his moisture meter and the result did lead to this conclusion we still don't have it from the horses (manufacturers) mouth, nor am I sure how farmers measure grain moisture, @Billhook perhaps knows? The thing about selling planks is I doubt you get the opportunity to measure other than on the surface whereas you split a log to expose what you believe will be the wettest point for measurement. Of course people buy planks on volume and seldom worry about moisture unless they start growing mould, cup, split or check in use.

Yes they are the terms in your industry but accuracy and precision are more engineering terms, @Stubby may remember but is probably not interested as he will burn wood that is dry enough without worrying about measurement. That was my guess too Oh I've done lots but have never owned a moisture meter I'm still basing my thoughts on the chips for moisture meters mostly being aimed at measuring moisture or dampness in the building or carpentry businesses. But as has been said there is a direct calculation that can swap between measurement systems. To my mind the problem will be with customers owning a meter but logs delivered with an equilibrium moisture content in 90% RH should still fall under 20% mc wwb. I used to be involved in pellet making and one of the requirements was a moisture content of 10% and at this level wet weight basis and dry weight basis converge, the thing was that pellets depend on lignin fusing to form a skin and the sawdust particles being forced close enough together for weak hydrogen bonding to glue them, this is also how paper fibres bond. In a normal British winter in an unsealed container the pellets would fall apart as the ingress of moisture destroyed the bonding.

I'm getting to a similar stage, have I missed something and Woodwalkers no longer available?

I've already got a small crane trailer and was wondering if it would cope and run short distances on the road with trailer empty.

I see it has a registration number, what are the rules for driving on road? With trailer less than 750kg?

John Hobbs who sold the firm when he moved to Oz, I met Nick Rose several times 15 years ago, plucky chap.

Me too but a transparent roof does the job of catching radiant energy and not letting it out, Once the inside air temperature gets up in the 30s drying can be measured in days

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This is why the local mushroom farm had sliding doors on rails for the whole bay, each alternate overlapped.

Air spade and cyclone over bulk bags? Would work out quite expensive compares with a pitch fork and shovel.

Actually I think you miss my point, though no matter it was only idle musings. Plenty of rich people have private jets, yachts etc. as a result of having successful companies as well as riches gotten by nefarious means. These people will likely pollute more but don't have the clout to skew whole economies like the likes of the super rich with 10s of billions of $.

Because governments won't spend the money wisely?

Yes a split charge relay will only cost about 15 quid and that will isolate it when the vehicle ignition is off.

Is it impractical to make some extensions for the lower link arms? A picture may help

That's wealthy but by no means super rich. We need wealthy people to occupy the posh homes, else they end up preserved in aspic by the NT and no use for much, and buy the new cars which then become second-hand and affordable usw. The super rich have billions and often don't benefit an economy because it goes offshore. Also they can avoid tax to some, often large, extent. Our current system is based on the idea everyone can make their own decisions on how to spend and make money. Government takes a massive amount from every person earning money, in income tax ( which major contribution comes from those on PAYE and earning over £40k/annum), VAT, rates, car tax etc, and this gets spent on running the counry and making politicians above averagely wealthy but the money they spend is largely recirculated within the economy. We have a limited say in how we allow government to spend money. IMO we should be looking after the environment and the super rich have a few negative effects here, they tend to have multiple homes and travel extensively between them by plane plus they have ideas that do not fit in with looking after the planet, like in Bezo's case wanting to colonise Mars, this of course diverts vast sums of money that could otherwise look after the ecosytem we have. We have no say in this. It's not that I think the government should have extra money from the super rich more that the peaks should be levelled a bit, I have no idea how to address this.

I agree and always managed on 8ply xply as the 14ply nokian were too expensive for my limited use.

Probably nothing to do with it being softwood more to do with a smoudering fire of damp wood dumping pyroligneous acid up the cold chimney such that it condensed. SS depends on a thin film of chromium oxide forming to resist air getting to the iron and rusting it. Chromium oxide reacts with acid, exposing fresh chromium and iron to oxidation. Long ago I posted a picture of a 316 ss rigid single skinned flue perforated like a colander, the fix was actually to insulate it to keep the flue gases above their dew point. page 7