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Apart from fungal attack I always wondered if it was associated with lignin softening in the heat. I walks south from Euston to Waterloo today and took in several squares with their huge london planes (which I thought looked in very good nick) with all the office workers taking lunch and sunbathing by them, it doesn't bear thinking of the injuries that could happen if a large limb let go.

My experience is similar except I haven't a huge pile of firewood nor anywhere to store more than the ~2m3 solid wood I burn each year. If I run out then I'm sure it will show up in an increased gas bill.

Much the same for the 084 and 076 for me, I've kept them so far to show I could stave off old age but it's not worked.

Is this the gentlemen, in LLoyds coffee shop, gambling on which ships will founder? it's like the enclosures acts kick-starting modern agriculture while starving many lesser mortals. What about Karl Marx advocating limited liability, without which our modern capitalist system could never have grown.

You'll need to dry it for oil spill. I think the mixture of molecules making up wood have bits which are hydrophilic (attract water) and bits elsewhere that are oleophilic (attract oil). If you heat them a bit more (torrefication) the mixture is modified so they become hydrophobic and oleophilic. Tom Read patented a torrefied wood product called seasweep for absorbing oil spills at sea but how he made it he kept secret. He claimed it would float indefinitely being hydrophobic it didn't re absorb water. http://orig.seasweep.biz/faqs.html

Too hard to judge but I think a link up approved firm working for NR would be able to lower any overhanging branches during live running with a NR approved safe system of work. It largely depends on the line speed on that line.

The stems or the nearest part? You need to be accurate because if no part of the tree is within 10ft of the nearest rail NR don't consider it to be on or near the line. They will still take an interest if overhanging network rail property and if there is any danger of the work threatening the line. You cannot straight fell them if they are within 2 tree lengths of the line even if wholly outwith NR property without an agreed safe system of work.

The ones we had pre dated stress control I probably have the various paper originals but unlikely to find them in the short term. I digitised the owner manual and parts manual for the 222 turbo when I sold a slightly different non turbo model to @john p . PM an e-mail address and I'll attach the two PDFs

These get asked for quite frequently so I’ve got the fletcher stewart user and parts manual from my old work. It's not the best of manuals and refers you to the engine manual. Also the 222 turbo model has no stress control

Yes, I had to read it again

These were still in use for threshing long straw for thatching well into the 70s

Beau what's the point of me drumming up trade for the fines from your excellent retort if you go posting things like that? ? It's actually not far off what I posted, essentially our soils are too good for it to directly benefit and the climate not harsh enough. Reclaiming brownfield sites is a possibility. If you have considered adding perlite to a heavy clay soil then I'd suggest trying charcoal fines instead. I see no disbenefits in using it and it should aid a composting process

That's activated charcoal, it has an iodine number hundreds of times higher than ordinary charcoal and in the past was made from bone rather than wood.

The jury is still out on what benefit biochar conveys but it seems to make most sense in poorer soils and worse climates than ours. The only place in UK I am aware it benefited tree planting was in the tailings from an abandoned mine because of its ability to hold heavy metals. Yes to the mulch for water retention and reducing weed competition at establishment. One benefit of biochar from arb waste is brownie points for carbon credits. One could deal with arb waste, reduce its volume and sell it as a soil improver on a smaller scale than having to load chip wagons for a power station AND offset all that diesel and petrol the business uses.

No planting experience and I can't see it being a magic bullet, I'd go for a soil rich in organic matter and add some biochar for luck. I'd not want to make Craig Sams any richer so would suggest you get some fines from a charcoal maker local to you or make your own from brushwood in a flame curtain device or trench.

That's the problem of being up the spectrum, it takes a while and posts from Gary before I realise and then you come along to prevent a quiet withdrawal.

Unpaid bills are a civil matter Dumping waste is a criminal offence

As it doesn't have a barrel it presumably doesn't count as a fire arm. AFAICs anything with a barrel that can fire something the size of a grape vertically over 100ft is.

I think I still have a launcher for empty coke cans, the sort with a rim at both ends that needed a can puncturerer to open (two triangular holes on opposite sides of the diameter to pour for those not old enough to remember before ring pulls), it used .22 rimfire blanks.

I think it's the original 12 months if that is what the shop offered but as a consumer item there may be statutory cover for more than 12months, it depends on what the court decides is a reasonable life for the machine. I'd say it is reasonable to expect 4 seasons use from a strimmer not used commercially. The shop is entitled to refund the money rather than offer a repair or replacement but also deduct an amount for fair wear, tear and depreciation. I think 6 years applies to things like fridges and other white goods. The legislation is the consumer rights act 2015 The fault has to be shown to have been present at the time you took ownership of the product

Apart from the obvious mistakes in using the wrong units, pointed out in the comments, I think I see other bad logic , I'm off to be a log goblin now but if you want I can revert to it later. I thought I showed that it was modest and I believe coal comes from equally long distances. While the energy density of coal is over 1.5 times better the actual weights will be similar, which is why the the wood is densified into pellets first, plus once at the power station they can be crushed and blown in much as coal was.

Not to hand, I see it cited in a number of anti wood burning web pages but not the original evidence, I was told it in an online discussion with a combustion chemist from Colorado, Tom Reed. Their equilibrium moisture content year round is under 10%, he called it "Denver dry". I can explain the phenomenon: Take a cup of petrol and light it, as the petrol boils off the surface it burns with a smoky flame, this is a diffusion flame and the reason it has black smoke is that the carbon particles stripped from the hydrocarbon molecules don't immediately burn like the hydrogen does, they then have insufficient time to burn to CO2 before they exit the flame and are quenched in air. Take the same pool of petrol and entrain it through a jet like a carburettor and allow it to premix with the right amount of air before it is burned and you have a clean blue premixed flame as the petrol and air are intimately mixed. A wood natural draught wood flame tends to be diffuse rather than premixed What happens once the fire is lit is that the primary air reaching the bottom of the burning wood first causes the freshly formed char to burn. This generates a lot of heat and the heat in turn causes the remaining wood to pyrolyse. The offgas of CO2, CO from burnt char plus the pyrolysis products (and inevitable nitrogen) rise where they meet the flame and sufficient air to diffuse into the flame and consume all the fuel gases. Most of the time the stove is designed that the mixture of gases rising entrains the right amount of air to complete combustion plus enough excess air to ensure a fuel molecule meets an oxygen molecule. Pyrolysis above 330C is reckoned to be mildly exothermic, so once it starts in a log it can continue in a chain reaction. If the wood has some moisture then the chain reaction is slowed because the moisture absorbs heat as it is vaporised. If there is little moisture the pyrolysis chain reaction results in more heat in the log and increased rate of evolution of pyrolysis offgas. Thus the gases rising from the primary combustion increase and are more fuel rich. Hence the secondary air entrained is insufficient to burn the carbon out within the flame. Now this doesn’t happen in a pellet stove where the pellets are around 10% mc wwb because the pellets are trickled into the burn pot at the same rate as sufficient air is supplied by a fan, so the pellets char, pyrolyse and burn at a consistent rate.

If you go to https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/ you can register for a reminder, I over ran my first fiesta mot by 8 months and about 10000 miles and never got pulled.

Thanks for the correction Graham I'll rework it below and take your point about being well stacked, the other point is the bulk density goes down as the logs are split down smaller. 1.7m^3 solid will weigh about 1.8 tonnes green beech, seasoned to 25% it will weigh just short of 1.25 tonnes

I would guess about 50% of that is air space so 1.2m^3 of solid wood. Weight would depend on basic density of the species, gum over here is eucalyptus and heavy. Beech 1.2m^3 solid green wood weighs slightly more that 1.2tonnes and contains 45% water. seasoned to 25% (the easy bit) and it will weigh about 900kg