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  1. Woodworks
    Its not great with the SA variant. Pretty worrying how fast it's mutating without much evolutionary pressure to do so. Recon we will be having to have updated boosters quite often to stay ahead of this little bugger Novavax’s Vaccine Works Well — Except on Variant First Found in South Africa - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM An early analysis in Britain found that the vaccine had an efficacy rate of nearly 90 percent. But in a small South Africa...
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    Or the trade or was I alone in my ignorance?
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    There will be plenty of that as it seems most moisture meters are made for the construction industry so will read high
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    Monkey gone to heaven Living on a prayer
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    Andrew you are spot on as they do calculate moisture content on a wet weight basis so our logs would comply. Very happy about this and have suggested to Woodsure that they make this clear. So to answer the OPs question "How does one keep logs at 20% at this time of year ?????" buy a new moisture meter thats calibrated to measure on a wet weight basis. Any recommends?
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    Many thanks. Might give Woodsure a call next week and find out if the do it by wet or dry basis.
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    Hi Andrew. I spilt some ash that was reading between 20%-22% with little difference from inside to outside so I am presuming its in equilibrium with the outside RH. The split piece weighs 383g and then 315g when fully oven dried. By your wet weight bases what do you make that as I dont really understand how to do the calculation? Thanks
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    Had a listen. Sounds like a pretty fair description of the changes over the years. Change for the good is happening though. One of our good friends runs a successful dairy farm based on mob grazing. They are planting up shelter belts and increasing the carbon in the soils. Their stock are more productive and from what we see very content to boot. Old and new practices combined for a more sustainable, productive and diverse farm landscape.
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    Confess to forgetting that. Had better do some more oven drying tests on the wood reading 23%
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    On the reverse side of this some farmers including ourselves are moving to mob grazing and other similar techniques which have multiple benefits. Only recently taken on management of my parents small farm and we are already seeing dramatically reduced runoff in wet periods due to the longer sword length. What is mob grazing? WWW.SOILASSOCIATION.ORG
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    And remind us how much do they charge for this service?
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    Not sure how much energy would be needed to get logs down from 22% to 19% for compliance. Probably not that much and I am sure plenty will pay more for "kiln dried"
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    I was just getting depressed about this today. Spent some money on a pro weather station last year and these are the average external RH readings week by week going back from today 95%,90%,93%,95%,95%,95%,92%,91%,94%,95%,91%,94,93% and finally 14 weeks ago we had a week that was 86%. Put that together with these tables Woodworkers Source: Equilibrium Moisture Content [custom wws] WWW.WOODWORKERSSOURCE.COM and its quite clear you need a kiln to have logs sub 20% at this time of year
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    Good to hear. The elms are only on one short section of Devon bank and we have 3km of bank in total so it will need some help to get around the farm. Never been very green fingered so can you point me to any guides on propagating? Thanks
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    Not sure that would be cost effective for them with you coming down from North Wales haha
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    More jobs are at the ugly end of the scale than the "waggon load of softwood in day" end. Trying to give it up now as my back is not holding up to full on days loading and cutting. Not easy though as some rely on me doing there logs each season and seems there are not many other contractors for these smaller jobs about down here
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    Working on our farm hedgerows this week and sadly we are cutting out quite a lot of dead and dying ash. This is going to leave some gaps on the hedge. We have few small elms doing pretty well around the farm. Wondering if we can take cuttings from them to fill these gaps in a few years. Should add I have never done this sort of thing before. Normally just buy whips when we want to plant up the hedgerows. Thanks
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    It gets greener and greener each year as more a more wind and other renewables come on tap.
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    Had a GSHP for 15 years now. Cheap to run and maintain IME. As J says they do need a well insulated house but a new build should be but something is clearly amiss if its costing a lot to run
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    Hi Pete. A natural flame in the living room is lovely but wood burners are a lot of hassle as well. Storing and handling of logs takes time and space. They are messy when loading and cleaning as is all the dust and bits that tend to fall off the logs. When it comes to cost if you are paying market rate for logs the gas fire per kWh will be cheaper to run. This is from someone who sells logs for a living 😂 Over the next two seasons legislation is coming in on how dry logs have to be for sale and this will inevitably push log prices up further.
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    Joined the club a while ago but this seems appropriate and rather too factual for my liking
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    Just a bit less than you. Not actually worked it but think its around 350
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    No need to comply if you are providing logs for the customer to season themselves and the load is in excess of 2 cube. If the customer is very naughty and burns the logs you sold them at 22% you wont be culpable
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    "Your wood is the best around in your locality already Beau" yet we wouldn't comply! Yes bloody lucky with the customers we have thats for sure
  25. Woodworks
    The Farmi is pretty good with arb waste. The old ones with no guarding over the splitter chamber even more so as theres always logs to adjust. Filled 19 vented bags in a day from pure arb waste for a guy some years ago but he does his own now.

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