Ashes_Firewood

Luckily for me she doesn't like double doors either!

I don't like the look of double door stoves and heard people say they don't seal as well either

Thanks everyone. Best get the money spent now!

Thanks for that. I will be getting an Esse dealer to supply and fit. The 700 also looks nice so that's another option if we need that kind of output.

I have heard other people say that. The house has been lovely and cool downstairs the last couple of weeks whilst it's been horrible and humid outside so hoping it might be cool in the summer and warm in the winter. We'll see

Its says up to 8.5kw so must be the max rating, I can't see a nominal rating https://esse.com/multifuel-stoves/esse-200-xk/ They do a 700 version which is 10.5kw, again no nominal rating provided https://esse.com/multifuel-stoves/esse-700-vista/ I just really like the look of the Esse 100/200/700 so be ideal if I could get one of those to work with the space we have.

Hi wondering if anyone can help. We've recently moved in to our first house and I'm trying to size up a wood burning stove for it. The living room and dining room are open in to each other so effectively one room. The total volume for the living and dining room area is approximately 80.5m3. The external walls are solid stone so no cavity or insulation. They are approximately 400mm thick. The windows are double glazed. In this situation do I divide the rooms volume by 10 to get the kw requirement? The other part to this is that the living room is open to the staircase so do I have to work out the volume for the stairs and upstairs landing as well to size the stove up? Basically treat it all as one big area as the heat will obviously rise up the stairs. It would be an option to fit a door at the bottom of the stairs if it's going to make the stove a ridiculous size. I'm hoping to be able to get either an Esse 100 (5kw) or an Esse 200 (8.5kw) as really like the look of them. If anyone could confirm I'm doing this correctly that would be great. Thanks.

I tried sawing logs from the saw bench straight in to the tractor bucket to stock pile for splitting one year. Works ok but it doesn't take long to fill the bucket so you're forever jumping on and off the tractor. Then end up with a large pile of logs that can be quite outfacing if you're on your own! If I was starting again I'd get a PTO splitter something along the lines of the Posch Hydrocombi so I could split the larger logs down in to billets then straight through the saw bench up a conveyor and in to IBC's. Smaller logs or twisty stuff put through the saw bench then split with the table in the place on the Posch splitter. Maybe one day!

Strange stuff. Feels like there's nothing to it. I've sold it before but only ever when I've mixed it in with Oak

That Massey is mint! Taking a big bit of rotten ash for the bonfire

Been ringing this Ash up

Easy to cut and split. Dries quick. Burns well.

The tree is not something we particularly want or need. It just happens that it could be part of the land we owned if we buy the house. I've asked for some confirmation as to exactly what we would own. I would have to look at it again as when I was there taking photos last time I was just taking general photos for reference. It just randomly came in to my head that there was a tree down there and got me thinking of any potential headaches it might cause. Thanks for the advice so far

I didn't make mine but it's made from the same stuff they make the tip of excavator buckets from like treequip suggested. If it can't split it then it will cut it (within reason)

Hi. We're looking at buying a house that could potentially come with the ownership of a footpath. Near to the end of the area of footpath that we would own where it runs alongside a kids playground is a tree. It looks to be partly in the path and partly in the wall. Unsure if it's growing out the ground on the other side of the wall, need to check. The Tarmac footpath and kids playground are owned by others (presumably council but need to check). Does anyone know of anything we need to be aware of relating to this tree if it turns out we would own it? It's growing through the wall in to the land next door. I'm thinking in terms of maintenance and liability in the event it pushed the wall over and/or fell on someone. Attached a couple of pictures below. Basically the crappy wet path this side of the wall, gate and fence would be ours. Thanks.

Something like that no good or do you not want to tow a trailer?

The middle does look nice and dry still to be fair I just want to go pick up a crate, put it in the trailer and every log be dry without having to pick through and separate dry logs from wet logs. I don't do a massive volume of logs so fortunately I have enough room to be able to stack all my bags and crates inside.

Only problem with storing logs outside over winter is you can guarantee it will rain sideways and a lot of the logs will end up wet. Ideally you need to move them inside in Autumn to keep them dry ready for delivering.

Always wanted to build one of those but never had the time/can't be arsed to actually do it...

I've been cutting some big hazels in a neighbours land for them. It was wild in there must have been left a long time. There's some bits getting on for 8" diameter. It all goes for firewood and the small stuff is burnt with the brash

My PTO driven saw bench cuts hardwood quite a bit faster than that petrol engined one seems to

I was at a Tesco a few weeks ago, can't remember the price but there was 5 dirty damp looking softwood logs in the net. Absolute joke!

How much is the retrofit conveyor? Does it somehow piggy back on to the saw bench drive belts or does it run separately off the tractor hydraulics?

I think it says in the instruction book to get 350rpm on the PTO it's usually between 1200 & 1300rpm? I run mine at 1250rpm. Don't normally read instructions but was bothered if I ran it at too high rpm it might knacker something that wasn't designed for it.

Said that many a time... I probably would of bought the 750mm if it had been available when I bought mine