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  1. Woodworks
    No we just leave it to its own devices. Its only a small farm but we have 3km of banks like this so the cost of adding ideal species to them would be high.
  2. Woodworks

    Engineered oak

    Woodworks replied to Al.'s topic in General chat

    Unless it was described as a super rustic grade I would be pretty peeved with that. Not even a good colour match for the filler
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    So firstly I am no pro hedge layer just a farmer managing our banks so they remain stock proof. From my experience the regrowth will be much the same if you coppice or lay so if the laid stems add some useful protection I would do that. They all tend to die back to around 6'-8' long so bare that in mind and make sure they are well staked down with crooks as the sycamore loves to bend up to the light. These are not pretty but keep the sheep out.
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    Sycamore lays fine but doesn't leave the densest of hedges. I will take a picture of one a did a few years ago on my morning dog walk so you can see what it looks like.
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    I thought I covered that one with "keep your head down" Would the Cert bodies not be interested in policing this? They are the ones who will profit so they will want maximum compliance. Not sure what powers they might have though. I honestly think the presure should be on the end polluter not on the fuel supplier. We could provide perfect logs kiln dried to 10% but if they are then burnt by a numpty on an open fire mixed with fresh logs from the garden (or telegraph poles as I saw today) its all a waste of time. I dont know the break down but from what I see I suspect the majority of air pollution is made by a minority so they are the ones that should be targeted. Not easy I grant you but far fairer.
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    Sell logs below 20% Sell logs that need seasoning in quantities greater than 2 cube but I take it 2.05 cube would be OK. Oh and leave a note on how to season them. You could probably deliver these orders in small batches like 1m3 Sell wood for garden habitat piles that happen to come in handy 9" lengths Keep your head down Give up and do something more profitable with your time
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    As I understand it if you are selling less than 600 cube a season you have until Feb 2022 but if more than that your logs have to below 20% by Feb 2021
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    Now you're just trolling ? I have never used a stove that wasn't perfect with logs at 20% . Do you sell ones that dont work at these moisture levels?
  9. Woodworks
    Yep both of those for sure. To be fair I have heard far less about how it will tar up flues over the last couple of seasons from customers so we need to keep plugging away as the message is starting to get through down here.
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    Funny you should mention them being idiots. Had 2 in 3 drops today. First one needed logs urgently as he was about to run out of telegraph poles to burn. I saw these "logs" when I got there and he was not kidding they were literally chunks of wet telegraph pole out in the rain! Number two had got some fresh wood off a mate that he was struggling to burn on his open fire so could he have some nice dry softwood to mix it in with. Wouldn't be surprised if these two dont give off more pollution than 20 sensible users with modern wood burners with our logs. The new regs wont make the slightest difference to either case.
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    Small suppliers under 600 cube per annum have an extra year to comply. They clearly want us all to get kilns as it gives the reason for extra time "The government is minded to consider small foresters to be those producing less than 600m³ a year, as those producing less than this volume may find it difficult to invest in the equipment necessary for seasoning."
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    I can answer that for you. I tried some billets one year and it took as long to cut them up on the processor as it did to cut and split roundwood. The billeting was painfully slow at around 2 cube an hour with a pretty much perfect splitter for the job. Never again. They dried well and were easy to handle but if your time has any value its a no go IMO
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    Not sure it is. Plenty of good sellers like ourselves who's logs are just over the 20% mark due to local climate or limitation of storage space. We sell great logs and they burn well but wont be compliant. Now who is going to fill the gap? I suspect the fresh cut cash in hand boys who will remain under the radar. Dont under estimate the size of this part of the market as there are a lot of these sellers out there. So we may end up with more crap logs (paying no taxes) or kiln dried imports, fricking great!
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    I never realised there were 2 systems. Do we actually know which system they are using? Also I never seen this mentioned with moisture meters. Mine is I think developed for furniture but cant be sure
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    It's a great system. We carefully kiln our logs to below 20% and get them delivered ASAP to tick a box. Then the customer pops them in the shed and they go back up to 22%-24%. Lots of fuel is wasted and some jobsworth will make a few bob off our backs to check our compliance. Sounds perfectly in line with our governments thinking. I thought you were kilning these days?
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    No idea but this is the page I got the picture of the chart from Moisture properties of wood | Wood Products WWW.WOODPRODUCTS.FI Wood is a hygroscopic, meaning it is a material that absorbs water. Water gets into wood in three ways: as a fluid through...
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    You got it. Some numbers for average humidity (RH) and temp for each month. The numbers are from a fairly fancy weather station we bought September 14.1C 89%RH October 10.7C 93%RH November 7.3C 93%RH December 5.5C 91%RH January 6.4C 91%RH February 5.4C 91%RH Then match each with the wood equilibrium tables or the link and you can see no air dried or kilned dried log exposed to our atmosphere can stay below 20% Woodworkers Source: Equilibrium Moisture Content [custom wws] WWW.WOODWORKERSSOURCE.COM
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    Just doing some sums on moisture equilibrium and the last month an air dried log here could be below 20% was August
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    Anyone seen the source material? The BBC is saying 20% is the threshold and I know this was the number banded about some years ago but recently I heard 25% mentioned. If it is 20% we have to buy a kiln or give up. Or we could be like 90% of logs sellers and go below the radar and cash in hand!
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    Some time back I went to see a place with 2 large biomass boilers on the RHI. There is no accumulator tank and one of them has to be on 24-7 if they want some hot water. There is no insulation on the above ground pipes and they are burning soaking wet wood. Will they still get the RHI with it set up like this? Just seems ludicrous to be so wasteful and it really pi$$ed me off.
  21. Woodworks
    2 weeks! For us it started on the 22nd of September and since then we have averaged rain 4 days out of 5 and had a meter of rain. Nothing by comparison with some of the pics on here but still managed to get the truck stuck this morning.
  22. Woodworks
    On similar note a local business guy who spends his life going to meetings all over the world reckoned the money could buy high speed broadband for everyone in the country so making us all closer. Not sure I am ready for VR a world but he may have had a point
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    Lidl one for me and just the narrower disk for all my chains. The mechanism for the grinder head is very good with no discernible play and a good stop for hight. The chain guide part is a bit plasticy but if you hold the chain back against the stop in a constant way it gives excellent results. For the money I cant fault it
  24. Woodworks
    Farmer friend of mine swears by a waterbed. He had struggled for years until they got it. You can adjust each side differently. For myself just a firm quality mattress but my back is not too bad by comparison. Hope you find a solution as that sounds a nightmare.
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    Same here. It's a tricky balance of keeping enough back for the regulars to the end of the season but selling almost everything by the end.

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