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Is biomass usage sustainable and as green as it is made out to be?
Woodworks replied to Pete Mctree's topic in General chat
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 -
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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Very roughly how many cu mtrs of firewood do you sell per year.
Woodworks replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Just a bit less than you. Not actually worked it but think its around 350 -
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
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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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Just had a chat with Woodsure and they were very clear that we dont have to enrol and there are no costs if supplying loads in excess of 2 cube. DEFRA will be drawing up a letter we need to supply to the customer on how they should dry there logs (delivered at 21%-22%) Thats us sorted thankfully Might make up a letter to deliver to all customers to alert them of the future changes. probably 2/3 of our logs are sold in 2 cube loads already and it might give others a chance to build some extra storage space
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Any links to all this info?
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Thats the way we are heading. Could have sold our supplies twice over this year so can probably sell out doing 2 cube loads only. Doubt the cash in hand boys will be affected so still plenty to supply the smaller buyers
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Made a kayak many moons ago from Granta. It was a plywood stitch and glue construction. Our kit was already cut out but needed a lot of fettling to fit together nicely. Cant remember it being too difficult and the glass fibre tape covers a lot of sins 😆
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Charnwood Downdraft fix with external air vent.
Woodworks replied to Gtflash's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Ours is a closed combustion system. Work fine. I have read that because you are drawing in cold air instead of air at room temp secondry combustion is harder to reach but cant see 20C can make a lot of difference. The only times I have had a slight problem is when we get a gale from the east (the way the air intake faces) it can be tricky to light but nothing like the problems you are having. I would extent your flue higher above the ridge as well as looks very low. -
Should be OK. Scott and Sargeant have been in the trade for a long time
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Only used a Tormek for regular woodworking tools but it was painfully slow. They have to run slow as they would spray water everywhere. When doing my training the workshop had horizontal grinder called a Sharpenset that could have quite a course stone for grinding and might be good for grinder blades. Seems they are still going but the website looks like it dates from the 90s haha. OK forget that. When looking for the Sharpenset page I found this which looks way better for the job iTECH 630mm Planer Knife Grinder 220v 1ph WWW.SCOSARG.COM An entry lefel planer knife grinder: manual movement but suitable for users who wish to sharpen their own knives in the...
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BBC Radio 5 live - In Short, Covid rule-breakers 'have blood on their hands' WWW.BBC.CO.UK Professor Hugh Montgomery says hospitals are facing a "tsunami" of Covid cases.
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Japa 2100 processor "chainsaw cutting problem"
Woodworks replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Had a problem with my Farmi doing this one summer. A combination of using some different chains which were more aggressive and very dry ash. Swopped to a semi chisel chain for that batch and all was fine -
They did have an amazing reputation but think its waning. My mate uses a few Festool tools. He has quite a lot of problems but they are still excellent about warrantees but its still a pain being without tools while they are being fixed.
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Great burning wood IME. Had a customer say "do you have any more of that rocket fuel we had last time?" One year is enough in the right spot. We do split it a bit smaller say max 3" x 3" but we are seasoning in less than a year to 20%
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Wood burners and indoor polloution
Woodworks replied to Saw-sick Steve's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Looking at the amount of dust we get in wood burning season I wouldn't doubt it. Also can smell it in the house after reloading so clearly not everything is going up the flue. -
I use Makita and my mate uses the Festool. Not much in it as we use each others saws on site from time to time. My Makita is a bit more accurate but to be fair his Festool has seen more work. Both good tools IME. Mafell is better than either from what I hear but not tried one
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Picked up an ex army gortex of ebay after a recommend on here. Proved perfectly waterproof. Hoods massive but the upside to that is it fits over ear defenders. Pretty good work coat for the money. At £30 its no biggy if it has a mishap
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Dehumidifier in our utility room does all our cloths drying. Would be even faster in a small cupboard
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Did a head to head here with a mate. Regardless of the book numbers my mates 562 was better
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95% sure that's ash. Is so it's a fairly hard timber that is one of the driest when fresh cut but slow to give up its remaining water. Often gets ash bark beetle that lives in the bark and looks much like regular woodworm but doesn't seem to eat the wood. Good firewood as said above
