openspaceman

Yes and dried to 20%mc by the tonne is worth slightly more than hardwood. At 4kWh to the kilo and gas at 15p a kWh what does that make it worth. Into October and still too warm to light up yet and sunny enough not to have bought electricity for 210 days running so far.

Heathland sites are acidic soils, those elements are basic metals and would raise the pH which changes the suitability for acid loving plants, especially things like bog asphodels but the heathers too.

No chance, the Eder is lighter to tab in with and far more power, can pull just short of 4 tonnes force with a snatch block. Having to carry in ground anchors doubles the weight to carry.

you should not add calcium, sodium or potassium ions to a heathland site

if you go to that trouble just put ammonium sulfamate granules into the hole and whittle a stick to plug it. Far more eco friendly than glyphosate

A bit of bare ground will be good for heather to recolonise as long as any arisings are taken off site to reduce fertility.

Winch ones as small as that out whole.

I must treat myself to a new one, what's the highest temperature they measure now?

might help to say your rough area

These things often just drop in and are not sealed so they depend on the depression in the chimney to suck a bit of air in.

Sounds like you are as bad as I was, made far more money working for someone with enough acumen to price jobs profitably.

Quite so. It looks like Burley stoves give out a high percentage of the released heat to the room and thus the flue gases are much cooler than a conventional thermometer can indicate. On commercial biomass boilers I saw flue temperatures typically around 115C. This of course means they are running very efficiently without the risk of condensation in the flue. With a temperature at these lower ends you will almost certainly require a well insulated chimney to prevent the water vapour condensing.

Not so much news as speculation, we shall have to wait and see.

It is looking like an internal explosion, maybe a drone of some sort launched in from the german side and detonated in international waters to permanently deny use of russian gas, burning bridges in case of any waivering. If so it is a major escalation.

The stoves I have used from rayburn through aga to jotul all have removable cast iron cooking hobs but the pot sits on top of the hob plate, there are many third world stoves that are designed to have sunken pots to increase the heat exchange which is important when you wish to minimise wood use while cooking but not at all important when the stove is mainly for space heating.

Incana is my guess

" Under the Highways Act 1980, any way over which the public have a right of way on foot only and which is part of a highway that also comprises a way for the passage of vehicles." direct quote

Pavement surely? The whole of the carriageway and sidewalk/footway is paved and a footpath is a right of way that isn't necessarily a road/carriageway bridleway or byway, so much as I object to many americanisms this is a more logical one to my feeble brain.

off on a tangent but sidewalk makes more sense than footway to me.

Depends what time in the morning; leave the airport by the tunnel then M4 West one junction onto M25 anticlockwise 4 junctions to A3 southbound to Guildford. You will sit in traffic as you approach the M3 till past J11 and queue on the off slip at Jl0 before 11:00 but it still beats the back roads most of the time unless there is an accident. Get over to lane 3 as you approach the M3 and move into lane one about 2 miles after J11

When did heating season start in the Highlands? I was holding out for another 3 days at least.

I cannot help more, I am seeing more of the dyers mazegill mushrooms than I remember before but it is some years since I saw saw a fruiting body and noticed the tree subsequently fallen. Most scots pines on the heath here that are pushing 100 years old tended to show signs of schweinitzii, mostly as a dark stain of the heartwood and the smell, but when I was harvesting them in the 80s it was known as polyporus schweinitzii

Yes as the little lady said Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien The whole thing was a cock up from the start and I expected an impact on our financial sector but abstained as I am not young enough to suffer the consequences and didn't anticipate it getting this bad but a lot of that is to do with covid and the government trying to spend our way out of it, and failing. I consider the management of our larger companies, hijacked by their global shareholders' demands rather than sustainability, to be the major reason our industries have failed. Of course my trade was a part of this demise as traditional sawmills closed and all those little niche timber outlets were lost till we were left with good structural logs going into biomass rather than value added products.

I would say it was a significant brown rotter often causing collapse of the stem, the exposed wood then has a characteristic jeyes fluid like smell, or wind throw.Those ribs seem to run a fair way up the stem, any chance of using a resistograph or similar blunt drill or hammer? When they fruit on the ground away from the tree I suspect rotten roots. I'm seeing a few dead or dying mature pines with similar fruiting so I think the dry weather may have exacerbated the fungal attack.

Have you figured out if it can be spliced thin enough to pass through the winch? Wear an tear have taken a couple of metres off mine but I'll be long gone before it gets too short, just wondered. It's a touchy subject because a number of accidents have happened in vehicle recovery when something other than the rope has let go. I know of one fatality from back when we used nylon cable lay for climbing and old ropes were repurposed for lowering. Not a bad thing then because it took the shock out of the system (and on one occasion cause me to fly when I misjudged the branch weight). Many years ago a National Trust team were using a manual fell assist, like a tug of war, when something gave way, the attachment broke loose with a stub still tied to the rope and it was propelled onto the lad's head. Essentially this is converting stored elastic energy into kinetic energy. When used in vehicle recovery with a second vehicle it can be very useful. Kinetic Energy Recovery Ropes convert the energy of the recovering vehicle, as the stretch in the rope brings it to a halt, into an impulse that delivers more force for a short period than the traction of the recovering vehicle could exert. The timing of driving both vehicles is critical and because the forces on both vehicles is high attachments have to be stronger than static pulls. One thing when winching to pull a tree over is that after the tree has begun moving the rope goes slack as the winch cannot keep up. Then it is only the hinge (or as second rope at an angle) that keeps the tree from breaking out sideways. To mitigate this we have tried allowing the winch to hoist up a weight so its gravitational pull keeps the rope taut but one could use the elasticity in a rope to do much the same if the other problems could be addressed. Trouble is to get the most elasticity out of the rope you would tend to get a bit too close to a breaking point.