openspaceman

Was, is and always will be as well as a religious bigot and war criminal.

I've mentioned this before but I was always surprised how harsh the fell cut felt when felling ash and douglas whereas beech and hornbeam though harder woods cut more easily.

No just a big heap of grindings to lose

Just a bit of an update and when I said I averaged 6kWh a day this was a simple calculation from my electricity bills over a year. This method essentially masked how much of the electricity my PV panels produced and I used. Now having had the battery a few months and taking daily readings of the PV meter and the grid meter I see I actually use on average 8.6kWh which is a surprise but for the fact we cook on electric. It does mean that we were probably only utilising about 2.6kWh on average throughout the year from the solar production, most being exported for 3p/kWh. This is a little graphic I produced from my (almost daily) logging of grid use and solar PV production. The gaps show where I missed days and the following column is the total for the missed days and the current day. You will see some days the usage seems to drop down a lot, this is where the battery has stored from the previous day but the solar production has been low. These last several days also don't give a good picture because once the battery is full on a sunny day we have been exporting 2-6kWh/day. I would need another meter between the solar system and grid meter and before my consumer unit and this is not practical without a complete rewire as the consumer unit is shared by the solar/battery system. I intend to heat my water in the summer by solar electric and eliminate use of gas where possible. So the battery has increased my utilisation of solar electricity greatly since mid February. Because of the weird logic of growatt ( the battery has an intermittent fault which requires a reset after it is full and the excess is exported, the fitting firm are being awkward) and that the battery was a retrofit imports from the grid will never be zero. I suspect I should have researched more and gone for another firm's inverter but heh... The economics of the battery; it looks likely from March to October it will save us about 5kWh/day in electricity and some undetermined amount of gas many days in this period, so at current rates about £1.20 plus savings in gas at 8p/kWh. Which will pay off in 10 years at worst, we'll see. I'll continue to monitor for a while but intend to just let the system get on with it. What it flags up is the need to generate 2-6kWh/day in that deep winter period Nov-Mar and that is when the stove is running 16 hours a day. Pointing to the need for a simple themo-electric device. Discuss.

For accuracy I would take a photo of the tree (tag) close up and carry a garmin GPS which I took a photo of the time on its screen at start. At the time my phone or camera had no GPS and the garmin is more accurate anyway. Another advantage of the garmin is it plots my position every second. These photos synchronised with a free bit of software would then load onto google earth or could be plotted onto an OS base map. It was an inventory and simple triage collation rather than a full inspection so the client only required a spreadsheet and the photos to refer to.

A long time since I did this but with a Palax on a tractor I reckoned 14 bags of mixed hardwood, cut ,split and stacked in the barn was a good day for me. Bags loaded on the upside down pallet tines of a small front loader

Slight breeze but clear sky and 16.5 C in shade. Sufficient sunshine for 3 days now to be fully independent of grid electricity and gas plus wood stove only lit during the evening.

Well if you can manage to stick it on them you were workers then you must have some holiday pay due

but that's the very function of a company

aesculus hippocastanum

They were sacked by a foreign company not subject to UK legislation

@GardenKit is just the other side of Exeter from you

As I said you need to reverse while steering from lock to lock so the front diff turns more than the back

I disagree,I don't think much of the transmission brake on LRs, big problem for the unwary jacking them up on sidling ground and a leading cause of rear half shaft failures on series LRs,

I wondered if wind up was the reason that the 2004 hilux had a dog clutch on the output of the diff because that never seemed to have the problem

Yes as @Woodworks says it normally becomes very noticeable as stiff steering, the effect also leads to much increased tyre wear if used on tarmac. If you get onto the tarmac and find it won't pop out of 4WD the procedure I found best was to reverse whilst turning steering from lock to lock. Else jack up one wheel with the handbrake off. What happens is the induced torque from the wheels rotating as different speeds causes friction between the dogs that engage 4WD so they will not slide apart and disengage.

We found there was very little they could do without direct witness evidence of the littering unless items in the waste could be traced back to a commercial undertaking, when chain of custody requirements meant a prosecution could succeed. Anyway apart from the general consensus that the law could be ignored what has been the effect of the legislation on sales so far? Has it succeeded in reducing pollution which it seems is acknowledged to have been overstated for wood? Is less wood being burned? Have many stopped trading in firewood?

Strange I only remember as far back as the coronation😉

That may have worried them that you only saw the job as short term

probably fire damage

Aren't clay subsoils in the SE still recovering from having water squeezed out of them by the weight of ice 10000 years ago?

May I interpret that as you will get a mortgage taking into consideration your income from the current well paid job then move on to a heavy goods driving job which you find more appealing for less money? I still don't understand why a man of your mechanical abilities was not sought after by one of the more mechanically oriented tree firms.

Not me but heat is heat no matter the source, pollution and heavy metals are another matter.

I agree with @Woodworks that a dehumidifier won't be effective. The reason I asked if the RH of the outlet air was tested was to see how close to saturation you were getting, the aim is to get to near 100% saturation at the lowest temperature you can get down to. For example ( and I'm picking these figures from thin air one would have to consult psychrometric tables to get real numbers) it's 15C where the kiln is and the air going in is at 60C, the air coming out should be around 20C and 95%+ RH. If the RH leaving is lower it means the air is not in contact with enough log surface and hence is not picking up enough moisture to be efficient, similarly if the exhaust temperature is higher then not enough of the heat input is getting into the logs. I used to use earlier versions of these Temperature and Humidity Data Logger - EL-USB-2 WWW.LASCARELECTRONICS.COM Temperature and Humidity USB Data Logger

It probably needs more recirculation within the kiln and maybe smaller logs. Have you measured the outlet air for moisture saturation?