Woodworks

I remember loading my Hilux single cab with beech. Plenty in there with greedy boards on. One of the groundies was a retired traffic officer and he said he would have pulled me back in the day. Weighed it all when unloading and it came in around 800kg if I remember rightly so just legal.

Your max payload would presume even distribution of the weight so you would want to get as much weight as possible up front or it will all be sitting on your rear axle. 

1 minute ago, carlos said:

 

woodworks did you put in ventilation from the inner part of the house or between the drylinning?

Inside we have standard trickle vents and mechanical ventilation in bathroom and kitchen as building regs required. Nothing more. If we had our time again would have probably fitted MVHR but not having cold surfaces does stop condensation forming in the first place.

We did look at tradition options. Had a heritage builder recommend lime render inside and lime pointing outside. His case was yes the walls get wet but they dry out again when the rain stops. He didn't have an answer when I asked how the walls dry when it rains literally for months on end which it does. When the barn was my workshop water would get right through the 600mm thick windward facing walls and run down the inside. The way we have done it the walls can be soaked but we remain on the dry side. Its a plastic tanking membrane by the way and any water that penetrated runs below the slab and into a sub floor drain. We started from scratch and it would be a bugger of a job as a retrofit in a house you were living in.

Not got MVHR but we do live in a 200+ year old stone barn.

We did dry-line the whole place with insulation inside of that. We literally tanked the whole place like it was a basement so any water that penetrates the walls does not get into our living space. Recognising old walls need to breath we lime pointed the whole of the outside. It works and has done for 10 years. Not totally mould free as there are few thermal bridges that have slight issue and the north facing bathroom. The rest of the place  is spot on in spite of our climate which may not be as bad as parts of Ireland but is pretty darn soggy by English standards (Dartmoor)

Nice relaxing one for a wet Sunday morning 😃

We see division everywhere with no common goals nationally or internationally so are we at the  beginning of the end of our current way of life? 

Would imagine as well as cooling it would suppress the nasty dust. Not going to nice chips off something that hard 

1 hour ago, Sutton said:

Thats from a spot price when it was briefly very high due to it being very cold on a still evening of high demand. It was doing the rounds on Twitter but not a reflection of the average just what a supplier had to pay for a short period 

When hedge laying I have found this to be most definitely true. 

Snowbound, so I popped next door to see if my 79 year old neighbour needed anything from the shop. She said she did so I gave her my list. No point in both of us going out in this weather.

3 minutes ago, monkeybusiness said:

Are new boats many many times more expensive than second hand? I assumed they held their value fairly well (but am not pretending to know anything about that market). 

When it comes to sailing boats they used to hold there value incredibly well. My dad was a keen sailor and he always said he never lost money on any of them. Mind you he would say that 😆  

23 minutes ago, Vedhoggar said:

Conditions favour seller more than buyer of domestic firewood at the moment I would have thought.

Yep. We could sell our stock several times over this year but we are in logs for the long haul so not going to take pee just because we could this year

Yep its looking warmer for sure. Above freezing down here this morning with rain forecast for today.

2 hours ago, arboriculturist said:

 

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IMO that is way, way too low for 100% hardwood.

Every single overhead we have has risen by way more than 10% and that has to be recovered by increasing the price of the product.

Hardwood roundwood up 29% 3 weeks ago !!!, so you have to follow that trend partially.

I am charging new business more than established.

So what are you asking per cube and 2 cube? 

These guys cover my area so we need to be in the same ballpark price wise. We are still more expensive without the kiln dried and Woodsure tag.

If you go for 2 gates they need to line up near perfectly as any miss-alignment is very obvious. One large gate meeting a wide post any twist would be far better hidden. 

12 minutes ago, Big J said:

I feel that this is a good point at which to bring up my old pet campaign for all season tyres.

 

They're the difference between not being able to move or control your car and being able to go about your daily life, albeit a touch more slowly.

 

All season tyres for the win 😁

Think Liz has proper winter tyres and not all season tyres. Still leave them on all year 

When the weather is cold these SKYTEC ARGON

Not the hardest wearing but I have a habit of bashing my digits if I let my hands get cold. 

The rest of the time a pair of the grey cut resistant ones from one of the tool sheds. Brands seem to chop and change monthly. 

Lovely crisp frosty yesterday with light snow mid morning. Freezing rain over night has left our roads lethal but the better half (nurse) dutifully went off at 0700 when I could barely  stand on the road. Fitted the car with proper winter tyres which have transformed it for days like today. Would crash my Hilux within 100 yard of the gate if I had to go out. BFGs are great in the snow but sheet ice they are pretty much useless IME especially with a light back end of a single cab.

Pics from yesterday run with the dogs 

Sunrise from Pew Tor

Looking west at approaching snow showers

Great Miss Tor from White tor

And a bit of snow on Pew tor on the way back

Needless to say the dogs loved it as much as me. Legs are knackered today though 

46 minutes ago, Big J said:

 

Per roadside tonne. Not per dried tonne. But then, that does depend a bit on species.

 

My understanding is that conifer is 10% higher in calories per dry tonne, on account of the resin content.

Yep. TCD posted up a table on this years ago. Think Larch came out top per dry kg

2 hours ago, doobin said:

But then you run the risk of having expensive stock next year if prices come down again. Better to have it on par with current cord prices IMHO.

 

What are people being quoted for cordwod? I was quoted £2500 cash for an arctic of processor ash last week!

True but I haven't bought any timber at the new inflated prices yet. Bought in all I could in the spring  when it was clear what was going to happen this winter but prices hadn't gone up. 

£240 for 2 cube for us. Put it up 10% back in April

Unless your kilning no need to pass the extra price of cord on to customers today as the logs it makes wont be going out until later next year. 

This looks fun 

2 hours ago, Conor Wright said:

We hear so much "green" speak and "circular economy" stuff yet the reality is just the postponement of pollution unless there is a viable way of fully recycling these cells.

 

Its been done    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpe8HalVXFU&ab_channel=FullyChargedShow

Also there are plants set up ready to recycle batteries but they cant get the batteries to recycle because of this https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2022/08/01/electric-car-batteries-lasting-longer-than-predicted-delays-recycling-programs/

Everyone goes on about hydrogen being green but most of what we use currently is made from fossil fuel somewhat defeating the object of the exercise. Sure it can be green if you use renewables electricity to power the  electrolysis but its very inefficient and seems a huge waste when the electricity needed can go straight into batteries with little waste 

2 hours ago, Stere said:

Hydrogen  makes alot more sense its a shame it seems not to  have being developed much as it needs more infrastructure spending.

 

Japan were/are all set on hydrogen but  it seems to have being   shelved  globally as electric won out.

 

Sorry hydrogen, electric cars have already won — here's why

INTERESTINGENGINEERING.COM

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Hydrogen fuel cell cars emerged as an alternative to both the electric and combustion engine vehicle in the early 2000s...

 

 

Mistake imo

Toyota hasn't given up but think that 11.3 million of our money down the drain 

Toyota in £11.3m government deal to develop hydrogen pickup trucks

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Government funding will help set up a pilot production line to develop clean energy vehicles.

Fine here as well. Thanks for sorting it 

20 minutes ago, scbk said:

SAIC/Maxus also do an electric panel van with the same towing weights, but they've messed up imo by making it 3500kg gvw, when the uk law allows 4250kg in electric.

Obviously, they've built it for worldwide markets

Yep. I was interested in the E-deliver 3 chassis cab version to make a log delivery truck but need 1000kg towing for the processor. The Panel van version can tow 1000kg but chassis cab only 600kg.

Needs sorting out as clearly electric motors are perfect for towing in that they have loads of torque. 

Here is one you can actually buy in the UK but rubbish towing capacity.

Rivion is pretty posh, large and expensive!