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I returned it to the owner of the saw but can get it back, take it to PM as I have a friend that travels to Wellingborough each month.

Just make sure you buy the right one as they differ between Mk1 & 2

Yeah but bmp01 is cleverer than us

Within the constraints of what people expect of a stove I cannot see much other way, Ideally one would push new logs in from under the fire. The reason the flue exit is such a narrow slit adjacent to the air wash is that the air wash is the major combustion gas, it is both primary and secondary air in a dedicated wood burner with no undergrate air. So the back edge of the air entering the fire mixes with the exiting flue gases to make sure any fuel gases have enough oxygen to burn out. The front part of the air continues down the glass preventing tars settling and then, as long as there is enough oxygen left, reacts with hot char to burn it out. This way any volatiles are burned off before the char. This complicated way of gas mixing loses quite a bit of the depression caused by hot flue gases going up the chimney, so the draw is poorer than a traditional up draught fire where air enters at the bottom then continually rises. It also means it is probably best not to reload while the are yellow flames but until the flames are purple of the char burning and open the door very slowly.

No problem using chainsaw to cut through the boards and missing the nails but I have also used a sabre saw to cut down on noise and waste.

I put the nails in a 25 litre metal oil drum, It's only half full after a couple of years but I don't get many pallets since I retired.

Nothing wrong in burning those as long as they are marked HD, KD and DB but not if painted, stained or marked MB, latter doesn't bother me a lot but... The ones with plastic or chipboard corner blocks are to be avoided too. I use a magnet to get the nails out of the ash before they jam the grate. Problem I have nowadays is they won't fit in the vitara and people don't want them cut up on site. Else happy to pick up locally

Have you put a pressure gauge in the feed from the independent pump?

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

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