openspaceman
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Looks like he has one of the same as mine @Stubby. I've been drying a piece of beech after testing a split face with my moisture meter. Valiant measured 31% on wettest part of split face and oven dry the overall result was 25%. It bunrned very nicely.
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Approved Document J | Part J - Combustion appliances and fuel storage systems | Planning Portal WWW.PLANNINGPORTAL.CO.UK Details of Part J (Approved Document J) of the Building Regulations
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Shook old sweet chestnut do this to a much lesser extent without being hollow
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In my car (no heating on my tractors and they are historic vehicles but run on red) the hot air blows in at foot level and feels much more comfortable than this room.
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Doesn't it depend where you measure it? 600mm above the floor here it is 17.9, at my head height (1200mm) it is 23.3 and this is because cold air is drawn into the room and heated by the 4kW stove 2 metres away and then out via a fan to the living room or up the stairs through the open door. This bad stratification is why I would like underfloor heating but that won't work without a wet system.
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So the fuse blew to protect the upstream cabling but was caused by a downstream fault which replacing the fuse did not fix.
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Pouring a bit of petrol onto polystyrene beads does reduce the volume a lot
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I don't think they were readily available in 1974
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If it weren'n for the risk of sparks from the motor brushes you could leave a bit of petrol in the bottom to reduce the volume 🙂 Back in the day of cleaning out combines in the field you could fit one of those cyclones to a barrel and have a wander suction hose. Power came from the air intake of the diesel engine.
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What strikes me about running a tractor on DERV is that it could be construed that you are using the tractor outside its licensing or C&U regulations. The tax on fuel for road use was only ever to produce an income stream for the governement, nothing to do with climate change or pollution, so now that atmospheric CO2 is an issue the only reason for not taxing all fossil fuel is because of the problems with fishing rail transport, farming and forestry. Time to bite the bullet IMO.
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Well my woodstove has no hotplate and we have an electric cooker but I bought this for 15 quid from fleabay and using kindling it boils 1.5 litres in 15 minutes and I have cooked egg and sausage on one fuelling. It all packs into the base. I would not use it indoors
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not to mention it makes your clothes stink
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The force on the wire is related to the friction of the clutch plate and the amount of wire left on the drum, so on a bare drum and as long as the tractor doesn't stall you will reach the rated pull of the winch
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Treadlight sell them but you need the trigger block on the line too, this conical block rides the rope off the groove. I have the snatch block (only rated at 2 tonnes) but not the trigger as the sudden slack in the HMWPE rope causes problems with the wraps on the Eder capstan, so I slack off and dismount the rope, take up slack and start winching again.
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Yes strictly speaking horticulture is the production of plants but for some reason the cultivation of plants in gardens has been accepted, it would need a court case to set a precedent of what is allowable. Strangely the exemptions seem to apply to sports activities, like golf clubs, whereas in the past mowing of sports fields with red diesel was not allowed.
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I probably read about it in a motor cycle magazine too but it would have been in the late 60s. The thing about a traditional poppet valve 4 stroke engine is that it is simple to build and the sealing is also good around the piston and valve. The Wankel, sleeve valve and uniflow opposed piston engines all have certain advantages but have problems keeping the hot gas or lubricating oil in. The Stirling engine gets around some of these problems by having the whole engine sealed but at the cost of limiting the pressure from which the gas expands from. I think all those WW2 radial engines had total loss lubrication, as does a two stroke and wouldn't reach pollution standards now. Yes there are designs of these engines using modern techniques which address these sealing problems but they come at a time when internal combustion engines are going out of favour.
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Yes that was a rotating conical valve in the head. The ultimate WW2 aero engines were sleeve valved H layout but again the cost of the performance was loss of lubrication oil.
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close to the bone but funny
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I wonder how it would have faired if it were ash, I suspect it would have been riddled with woodworm.
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@Billhook has a log cabin made with it IIRC
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Does any one buy large quantities of poplar
openspaceman commented on B. T. A's blog entry in Member Blogs
If they were pruned at all I would have thought a sawmill would take them. They must be well past their prime now if they were Briant and May planting from the 70s. Several mills used to take poplar for coffin boards and for cable drums (it being generally too weak for pallets) but it's 30 years since I sold any to Barchards, you could see if Chantler Timber still have outlets. -
Not a good idea on two counts in my opinion. @Alycidon knows the rules, I am no expert. 1 The expose flue may burn someone and if combustible material (towels etc) may get too near they will catch fire 2 The exposed flue section would cool down flue gases at that point and could make tar deposits settle in the flue.
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Hyvin tehty kaverit
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Shame it won't be retrospective.
