openspaceman

Same firm I used, my wife still uses the one I bought 4 years ago and I presented my very eccentric primary school friend with a £200 one in September. He made the mistake of telling me he couldn't manage anything other than Windows but how I wish I had loaded it with Linux as he tips up here once a month near bedtime and starts downloading 2 hours of updates.

Yes that is a bit limiting, John McDermott (spelling?) and his son are the only ones I know still operate an 8 wheeler in that area, it puts north wales and norfolk out of reach. William Stafford is the area buyer for Euroforest. An afterthought; I think Tom Bitchener's widow may still run Commercial Woodlands Ltd at Bordon. I knew Tom from a long way back and liked him. @ESS was still in the game but not seen him post for a while

with a load of chip being 25 tonnes and any bars probably the same even though you could use an 18 tonne 8 wheeler for sawlogs you'll be pushed to make full loads. Maybe settle for one load of logs and the rest to kronospan.

One of the mahonias?

Yes for top of the range I'm told. I have only recently bought refurbished laptops as gifts for £200 because I'm tight.

I couldn'y agree more for my personal use and stick Linux Mint 20 on it to cut the constant updates from Microsoft but a young girl would prefer the £2500k Macbook pro.

We sent pine sawlogs to Giddings at Southampton, now part of BSW, and Ellis Sawmill, Helvingham Norfolk but a one off would probably best be sold through Euroforest (spit). East bros took larger sizes if they are still in business.

I suspect too long to consider. Chop it small and use it, as long as you can keep the firebox temperature up (around 800C) it can burn cleanly but you will need more excess air so a loss in efficiency. I have some cedar logs which had not been split from rounds and last month I split some out and measured the faces at 45% near the bark and 35% near the centre heartwood. Those surfaces are now 10% less but that says little about the insides. A month in the summer at the top of a stack would have got the whole log down to 15%.

This is true plus you may park across your own dropped kerb and still deny this to others

It is what I use too

I retired 5 years ago, introduced myself to you at the APF show that year.

Most likely you would run a heat main from the boiler and thermal store into the house and use plate heat exchangers to supply CHW and DHW in the house using pre insulated pipe and hope the installers don't rupture them. Pricey Pre -insulated pipe, Underground heating pipes, heat mains insulated pipe INGOODNIC.UK 32 + 32 /110mm Pre Insulated Heating Pipe

The 220?? was the best as it was slightly lower and a 10" square feed IIRC, I only watched but if it had turned over at sutton coldfield it would have rolled all the way down and onto the track even though we were a few tens of feet off track. I was walking and using my hands on the slope.

I'm so glad you corroborate that I was worried I was doing something wrong. I have found some work arounds as my neighbours would jump on me if they saw smoke coming form my chimney.

What can I say other than good luck and best wishes.

They'll straddle the rail then like they did with the Hilux. Rail Roaders and trolleys only on the rails where I worked but much removal of panels to get machines in for off track work.

That's why I find it difficult to burn smokelessly in my stove. BTW last picture needed a blue background

I remember one of your design chaps telling me that when I asked if we could reduce the overall height of a safetrac, so if it turned over it wouldn't touch a train. Not that any did turn over in my time, it was a NR rule called adjacent line running.

A chap from the BBC TV bought a cottage next to the estate I worked on and had a startomatic and Victorinox inverter in 1974. His mate worked at the CEGB research place 5 miles away in Leatherhead. Bob used to attract loads of helpers, including me, to build his model railway and help out in his workshop, I wish I still had access to his myford 7 lathe. All went well till a house guest got up after Bob had gone to work and had a shave. None of us could figure why the lister kept starting up and stopping a few seconds later, so we disconnected circuits till it stopped happening. I've got a Bosky in my garage, bought second hand and never fitted. Along with a rebuilt 2.3 pug 504 diesel engine and a envirofire pellet stove should anyone be interested for donation to charity. What happened after you married, did you get power laid on?

Actually it was 30 years ago when I think back and electricity was about 7p/kWh, gas oil was 8p/litre. So IIRC gasoil is about 10kWh /kg 8kWh/ litre. I don't know how to check back but I do remember working out we did no better than 20% conversion when we should have got double that running most efficiently. Anyway will it be permissible to run rebated gas oil for a commercial purpose even if stationary? as a post script the genset ran 40 hours a week in winter and the service interval came up frequently. Changing the lubrication oil that frequently was a big expense. To offset a little of this I advocated filtering it and adding it to the diesel tank but I was overruled and the oil was disposed of by the mechanic. I worked out the oil represented 2% of the fuel used.

That makes sense and if you look at the specific fuel consumption at various power outputs you will see the sweet spot will be around 70% of the rated power, so to start the motors you need a larger generator but once running the engine is under loaded and less economical. With our 10kVA genset we found the fuel cost was about the same as the kWh cost from the grid ( over 20 years ago) plus we had capital and operating and management costs on top. The interesting thing was getting some heat out of the engine as about a third goes up the exhaust and a third into the coolant.

Stop being contrary @Stubby; if there is no air gap then there is no room for insulation and the metal liner touches the clay tiles and conducts heat to them. I know you burn your logs well but even if you see no smoke particulates and carbon monoxide are being produced unless you have a catalytic stove. Norbert Senf of the masonry heaters association in america reckons even if you see no smoke there will be 4000 parts per million and his stoves are amongst the cleanest.

I suppose because it was a snug fit there was no room to pour insulation around the liner and hence the warming of the loft. If you consider what a chimney does, it removes all harmless the products of complete combustion as well as the toxic bit from incomplete combustion from the living space and puts them high enough that they will be up and diluted before they reach any neighbours. So logically you don't want any heat going up the chimney. With a gas boiler this is done by transferring any remaining heat from the flue gases to the combustion air and allowing little droplets of water to form. With a log burner there is much more water vapour in the flue gases so they need to be kept warm enough so as not to condense out onto the chimney walls. With our industrial boilers we would extract as much heat from the firebox and send it up the chimney at about 110C, as the chimneys were double insulated the gases should still have been above 100C at the top. This is one reason why woodburners are never as efficient as natural gas boilers. Now in my case because my stove does not keep burning all night I am happy my stove leaves some excess heat in the flue gases as during the day the chimney breast heats up and then gives up its heat while the fire is out. My 6" flue exhausts into an 8" approx. concrete, cast in situ chimney. Not ideal as this means the flue gases slow down as they pass the register plate. I seldom allow the flue temperature to get above 150C and on a mild day will allow it to drop to around 110. The corollary of this is the batch burning masonry stoves which instead of being regularly loaded with logs during the day are loaded once with a few tens of kg of dry wood and then burned flat out. All the heat is used to heat the masonry surrounds as the flue gases travel through a labyrinth of brickwork. The fire goes out and is sealed and the brickwork continues to heat the house until the next day when it is reloaded and fired.

Not cheap, won't the screws from an older Walbro fit?

Yes my understanding is that it only applied to standing timber and also that the current owner has not claimed any tax relief on establishment or maintenance costs but tax regimes have changed a lot since I looked at this.