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You can just get it over the end of a 50cm diameter log. We sell them in the shop along with the Portable Winches. Not sure what materiel they use, Portable Winch call it a "high-performance polymer plastic", the things are bomb proof and withstand whatever abuse you put them through.

Orion Heating - Woodburning Stoves and Forestry Tools Takeley Business Centre, Dunmow Road, Takeley, Essex, CM22 6SJ website -> Welcome to Orion Heating - Woodburning & Multifuel Stoves 01279 813591 Our shop is on Dumnow Road, it's the old A120 from Four Ashes crossroads to Dunmow. Easy to find, just look out for the row of retail units south side of the road. Check our opening times on the website, we're old skool and close for lunch.

It will always be the Hollyoaks stove. They have one installed inside what looks like a lion cage on one of the sets. We don't do Charnwood in our shop, but do have a very nice Morso 7400 designed along the same style, and a Nordpeis Uno, and a big Barbas Eco70. Windows on three sides and great views of the fire. These kind of stoves look great in large British fireplaces because the fire light flickers off the side walls. Depending on where you are in Essex, drop by the shop, were in Takeley.

Cooking ranges are very sensitive to flue draw so need to be installed properly. You may have some adverse chimney conditions there. Too much draw and the heat is pulled away before it gets into the chassis, too little and it never reaches a good combustion temperature. I'm guessing too much draw if you get through lots of fuel. Would be a good idea to have the draw tested after you install the next appliance. The Solid fuel Rayburns are based on 50 year old technology and never really been updated.

A cooking range with small water jacket works very well. The range is on most of the day, so provides a constant 3-5kW into the room and throughout the ground floor. The 2.5-3kW to water is enough for a cylinder or couple or radiators. Keep it running all winter and you'll be cosy and warm without the hassle of feeding 25kW worth of wood into a stove, that's about 7kg of wood per hour!!! We sell lots of the ESSE ranges, a WD domestic hot water model is great. Or for less money there are other European options.

More info on our website here; Stove Fans - For woodburners and multifuel stoves - OrionHeating.co.uk if you want one mention that it came via Arbtalk and you can have it with free postage, April and May 2014 only mind

Yep, your Hookaroon is in transit now! Thanks for your patience, we now have plenty of stock. Here's a photo of the tool if anybody is interested. We carry the 30" Logrite Hookaroon, it seems a perfect size for spiking stuff on the ground and reaching into places your arm should not be. The shaft is a typical indestructible Logrite Aluminium oversize tube with their nice neoprene grip, same as the Logrite Canthooks. The point is stainless steel and replaceable so long as you have the kit to drive out a thick split pin. David

King92, we have some pretty detailed customer testimonials on these. PM me if these are of interest. Regards, David

Very useful if the fireplace opening is a little small and you stove wastes energy heating the brickwork rather than convecting warm air into the room. Also in long rooms where there is no air movement and you need to spread the heat around. We sell the electric ones plus a very nice mechanical Stirling engine version. Same principle, hotter the stove get faster then fan goes. The Stirling engine fan does look great with the little pistons flying around.

We've sold our Logrite Fetching arch to customers doing this. It's built very tough for winching through steep woodland with a big log suspended. I'll not link to them directly, but my avatar sends you to our business page (or wait for our banner to appear above). Not the answer to your commercial extraction problems, but at least it will make removal of big logs a lot easier. It can be setup as a forwarding arch and towed away carrying a log once on tracks, but not on public highway. David

A family member was in the same situation and went for property. Purchased two small flats in easy to let areas. They decided to use a local letting agent do everything, rather than handle all of the tenant issues themselves. After the associated costs; letting fees, redecoration fees for each new tenant (using agent approved contractors), periodic replacement of white goods (via agent approved retailers), re-carpeting, empty hand-over periods, agent fees for chasing non payment of rent, income tax, capital gains tax, other dishonest practices by letting agent, solicitor fees... You get the drift, there was basically zero income, large tax bills and lots of hassle. Lots of money to be made if you are the landlord, rent collector, letting agent and repair man. But that's lots of hard work and hassle. If I had the money I would buy woodland, put it with a local woodland conservation company to manage and take firewood, and enjoy it. Does anybody get this to work for them?

Some days you'll get no draw if the air outside is cold damp and still but typically it will be down to your fluing and ventilation. What about if you leave the bottom stove vent open, will it draw fast and develop a lively fire? If it draws with the door slightly open or the bottom vent open then draw might not be the problem. If not then it is. If the draw is OK and it's a pure woodburner then you may need to wait for an established and very hot fire before closing the bottom air vent. Is the chimney unlined? If so you will need to work hard at getting it up to temperature and pulling sufficiently to maintain a fire. Burning lots of newspaper and kindling can help in these situations. As mentioned it might not be getting enough air from the room. Close all the doors to the room and open a window to equalise the air pressures inside and out. That should make no difference at all to how it works, if it does then you are staring it of air and need ventilation. Kitchen extractor hoods, bathroom extractors and whole house ventilation will create negative pressure in the house and try to pull air down a chimney. This must be taken into consideration. Good luck with that.

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