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Burnt over 2m3 (softwood) on a rayburn (with back boiler) per month & thats only lighting it in the evening. So thats 100 quid cost per month @ 50 quid per 1m3 (what I paided). Rayburn is probably a very unefficient compared to a modern woodstove that claims 80% efficiency or Wood Gasification boilers with a modern Accumulator tank. To upgrade would cost is alot though was hoping for the RHI scheme to come in soon to subsidy them Oil would be cheaper & less hassle I reckon. But I always have the idea that one day oil price may go mental if something kicks off in iran anywhere else etc & the price ican only be heading up. Coal is cheaper but a dirty fuel dust gets everywhere. Firewood one of the most expensive fuels atm if you have to pay for it probably
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Whats this book you mention going to be about?
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Its from the FC website. Forestry Statistics 2011 - Forestry Statistics 2011 - Trade
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So is alot of firewood actually imported stuff or is most homegrown? With the big increase in the people fitting stoves & biomass boliers I dunno how the UK can supply enough without resorting to more imports...
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I have this one it works fine: Digital Damp Meter Tester Detector Wood Timber Moisture | eBay So can I recommend it
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Free pallets
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There talk of builing a load of more new biomass powerstations all over the UK . Alot of the wood will be imported from places like Canada Baltic & Australia etc. UK biomass plants Wonder what this will do to timber prices? Prices of woodfuel will skyrocket I reckon as there will be a huge demand increase.... Alot of the proposed plants are massive in scale compared to the existing ones. RWE to convert Tilbury power station into biomass plant | Business | The Guardian This one would burn 7 million tonnes of wood every year. Buring rubbish makes more sense to me as it s not imported.
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I can't find any reliable info about a ban really being brought in apart from a few localized resident campaigns & news stories about banning t outdoor wood burners (OWB's) whatever then are..... Supporters, foes of outdoor wood furnaces square off in hearing | The Connecticut Mirror Don't think it will happen apart from smokeless zone type things in towns etc EDIT:Hey they look like armoured portaloos now I want one! Central Boiler - E-Classic® Models
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I still rememeber the dutch elm disease firewood glut that kept us in firewood for yrs, its great firewood. I didn't realize there was hardly any elm left alive, they were wiped out round here & any remaining elm suckers seem to die when they get over a certain size.
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Why not just round it up to 10%
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I find it odd that Norway would need to import any wood? Isn't it sparsely populated & covered in trees?
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The world's biggest and most vulnerable trees ? in pictures | Environment | guardian.co.uk
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When a did my 31 training after instruction on the first day cutting logs on the ground etc, they let us go off on our own. Next session I cut down @ debranched several dozen conifer 6" or "matchstick" trees as the instructor called them. He just sent us all out into the woods in different areas were he had spray painted a load of the trees & said fell as many as you can manage before the end of the day A couple of tall leaning sycamores ones that were in amongst the conifers were cut (under supervision) to cover the leaning tree thingy.
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Buy a moisture meter so you can test em: Under a tenner Digital Moisture Meter Wood Timber Damp Tester Detector | eBay I don't see a problem of selling unseasoned or wet logs if the seller is honest & its reflected in the price....
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REF what the price of hard wood cord now thanks
face cord replied to mendiplogs's topic in Firewood forum
There isn't much decent hardwood firewood availiable around in North Wales its mostly softwood. I'd pay £30-40 a tonne for stuff like that to burn. Even if I had to cut it into rounds & fetch it in a wheelbarrow to the road side cross country Probably a really silly question but how do they weigh wood @ the roadside to sell it by the tonne? Is it caculated by the volume of artic trailers? -
Seems a waste to burn them all couldn't it be firewood. If you put a sign up saying free logs bet it would all vanish like magic...
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Black membrane covered in woodchip?
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Some more about SCR willow trials Willow for Wales Helyg i Gymru Alot of spraying going on surely there must be better ways to control weeds such as mulching
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Is there anywhere to buy this in north wales. Only need a small amount & can collect. Google fails to find mention of anyone selling it here. Councils seem to use it everywhere though so they must be getting it from somewhere...
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Sounds really impressive if thoose figures are correct. A 6" trunk in 3yrs are you sure thats actually possible! Iv'e planted 100's of willow wips & none have done anywhwere near that but they weren't special the SRC hybrids just cut from some some random trees etc Found some info on SRC yeilds etc: http://www.bowhayestrees.co.uk/logging.html
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Monkey Puzzle seeding tips wtd
face cord replied to clyde's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
from wiki So theorectically a mature tree must produce thousands of seeds?! Seeds seem expensive on ebay. Being a tight bastard kind of object to pay for something as abundant as that. Not many stands of them around though usually single specimen type trees that won't produce viable seeds... most likely Will have to keep an eye out for locations of any stands. Then collect a 1000's of seeds -
What was the saw like? Suprised makita would sell something that cheap i thought they made quality stuff well drills anyway maybe the chainsaws aren't.
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So is there no point in felling the affected trees to try & prevent spread to other healthy trees? I have some very badly stunted trees some midly affected trees & some 100 percent healthy trees all close together, but it sees to have got alot worse in the last few years One tree looks so badly diseased that I reckon it might die from it. Also my coppiced willow have canker also
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The amazon- unnatural histories!
face cord replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
Sometimes I wonder if Mad Max is actually a film that depicts a realistic future scenario. Modern society is built on a abudance of non renewable fossil fuels & other resources that are going to get increasing more expensive & uneconomical to extract. Question is can there be a smooth transition away from them without a collapse or was malthus right after all? What population can the world support without any oil based fertillizer boosting crop yields or the extraction of fossilized water from aquifers..... -
Iv'e often thought thoose mini woodstores wood be a good thing to make & sell from pallet wood. Iv'e seen some really shoddy ones for sale for like 80 quid or more so must be quiet a big profit in them. Loads of places seem to be seling them recently. Iv'e made serveral deluxe ones for myself from some free wood similar to pallet planks but over twice as long.The screws & lap larch roof wasn't cheap though. Also you need a fold down tarp at the front to keep off the horizontal rain, which most ones you see for sale don't have but small tarps are cheap. Most expensive thing is the roof.... Breaking up pallets is a hassle but they make good kindling. Tempted to buy one of theese: http://galler
