Woodworks

I was talking about how chunky they are not the length. Our 12" logs all get stacked so dont know their weight just the shorter ones in crates

Depends on your climate. Just working through so sycamore felled early this summer and it properly on the turn! 2 years and it would be compost here OP as said heartwood should be fine but the sap may not. If it's a turkey oak then the rotting sap can be an upsetting amount of the wood.

Try weighing the crates. Small logs are lighter for sure. Take it to the extreme and fill one with kindling and its about as heavy as jay cloth haha

Not dry but we cut our logs smaller than many and this makes each cube a bit lighter and they also dry faster so win win in my book. Ignore how long it takes re-splitting all the oversized logs coming off the conveyor haha

Dont think it's that low. Takes about a tonne to make 2 cube and thats processing straight into the truck without the rigmarole of crates and drying all the logs. Happy to do this in the off season for a bit of turnover

Ours unseasoned price for logs is £140 for 2 cube loads.

We are also in Devon on Dartmoor and the dehumidifier has been on overtime lately

Relentlessly damp. Not crazy amounts of rain but nothing dries up with such high humidity including our logs. October 194mm of rain. Average humidity 92% November 150mm of rain so far. Average humidity 94% Drizzle and fog at present

Think you will roast! Ours is 7 or 8 kW and can heat a medium sized barn conversion with below modern regs levels of insulation. Is it on an outside wall or internal? Just if its on an outside wall I guess a fair bit of heat will be lost to outside certainly more so than a free standing stove.

Presumably that wouldn't give the axle weight though? Never worked it out on my truck but pretty sure I could be within its overall payload but over the rear axle limits if the weight near the back of the bed.

Felled a large beech on the farm that was about 48" across with 346XP and a 20" bar. This was on a Devon bank so needed a platform to cut out the middle in the gob as there was no where to stand. Turns out the tree was two that looked like one to the untrained eye. As I did the back cut the two stems went down in a V. Used the prepared exit strategy fairly hastily ?

I built a platform with a surround screen around my splitting log. Then each part split piece was on the platform and came easily to hand. As the old adage goes work smarter not harder

Too late for this season IMO. Ash is one of the driest woods when fresh cut but reluctant to give up its remaining moisture. Smaller the better for speeding up drying. Wood loses its moisture fastest through the end grain so cut short and chunky will dry faster than cut long and slender.

Cant say it high on our list of worries but we do suffer with high humidity at times. If we do anything about it it will be to fit an MVHR system like the Fresh-R so no ducting

Thanks for all the suggestions Decision made. Just going to treat with boron and except that there will be exit holes in the future. The insulation will come in handy for some project or another.

Looking to heat treat it myself. Picked up some free insulation sheets which I can make a box but the next problem is a heat source. Does anyone know of a thermostatic electric fan heater that can go up to 60C? All I can find is Pro 3 phase beasts or small domestic fan heaters which will presumable cut off before they get to 60C

What temp do kilns run at?

Good point about the danger of treatments. Look like Borax might be ok but not sure it will kill any live worms in the wood

Does woodworm killer discolour the wood at all. Just wondering if I need to paint it over all surfaces or localised treatment?

Hope someone can help. Making up some kitchen tops for a customer from some boards they milled themselves. There is evidence of woodworm in lots of places on the boards but these are the worst. The wood is a little over but not too far gone from a structural perspective but suspect they will soak up a lot of finish ? . I cant see fresh dust but the boards were only milled a year ago so would this all have happened since milling or is it more likely to have been in the tree when alive? Do I need to treat the holes or will any worm die with the wood now being dry? Also how do I finish the tops. Do I fill and then finish or could I varnish which might fill all the small surface holes? The third picture shows the little surface grooves that worry me the most. I nice neat vertical hole is at least easy to fill I have done plenty of woodwork over the years but never with spalted and wormy wood so a bit lost as to how to manage it. The customer is pretty easy going and does not expect perfection but the tops with will get hard use. Thanks

Yep I have been pleased with mine. It's an Olight wave H15. Not the most powerful but its lovely and light to wear and has a nice built in rechargeable battery. Perfect for walking or running but probably not the range the OP is after. I had one much like in the link below which was brilliant with good strong beam. Sadly it developed a fault after a year or two so bought a way more expensive Lenser 7.2 but it is not as bright or as comfortable and five times the price. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Zoom-Headlamp-350000LM-Rechargeable-T6-LED-Headlight-Flashlights-Head-Torch-Fish/402411689538?hash=item5db19b1642:g:2JIAAOSwx~dfSOki

Ones just been found "Anyone lost a Avant 635 from Hampshire/Sussex/Surrey area. One has been recovered in the back of a stolen Horsebox. Horsebox was stolen from Bramshott and found in Upper Hale. Contact Surrey Police for more information." https://www.facebook.com/findadigger/

Bit obvious this but a decent bench mounted vice is essential I think. The bigger the better IMO. Done. Always like a vice to be super sturdy so mounted it on a 6"x6" length of oak which goes right to the floor and bolted this to the side of the bench. The vice can rotate so having overhang on two sides can be handy.

Flat water windsurfers like Damer bay (mouth of the river Camel) and St Johns lake on the Tamar. Damer also produces good waves in some set ups. A few of us still go out on Plymouth sounds but that is not as popular spot as it was. Got Quite a few mates who do the foiling in Torbay. Loads of windsurfers to be seen in Mudeford in Dorset as well. Probably not as many of us about as its hay day but far from dead. Still get 40 of us out at a spot on the right day

Yes its still popular in the SW. The big wave sailers have never switched to kites. Now we have windsurfers, kitsurfers and windfoilers (windsurfer with a hydrofoil) which is getting quite popular.