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In the news today https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48155222?fbclid=IwAR39qro2-Ivdsqz3OigIIowfLfOUjS9j7wiTh1Nbw3iAUSlFcLxrr30SOMY
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Just waiting from some feedback from a friend who has just built an interpretation of mine but twice the size.
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No bark but a bit of sap and defects as the center is included in most of the lengths. So £30 a cube as it's less good?
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Got someone popping out for some wood for a mantlepiece tomorrow. What I have is some 6" x 6" oak which must be 10 years air dried. No idea what wood like that goes for these days. I don't want to take the pee but don't want to give it away either so what's a fair price per meter or cubic foot. Thanks
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We used a large log for a table on our part done patio (just concrete at present) Any time we moved the log there were plenty of worms under it.
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We are on a spring supply. Didn't fit ourselves though. Water runs out from under rock and straight into a concrete collection system. The water flows down a short gulley with ventilation bricks on one side. Water goes through these brick and into the main collection tank. The excess carries straight out at the end of the gulley. The main tank is 3' deep and the pipe to us is around halfway up allowing sediments to collect at the bottom of the tank and not run back down the pipe. There is a filter on the end of the pipe to take out any larger particles or wildlife (it has been known) Then the rest of the filtration is at this end. Cant find a picture of a similar system but did come across this that might be of help. https://www.indiawaterportal.org/articles/gravity-based-spring-water-supply-systems-andhra-pradesh-lessons-and-steps-towards-future
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Planed up a face to take pictures for Steve and realised it's field maple. It caught me out last year when we had some in a load and still did not recognise it.
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Love the dumb newsreader who never knew CO2 levels had been high in the past. No doubt levels have changed over millennia but it's the speed of change which does not allow species to evolve or adapt. Combine this with how we have harmed the environment in other ways it does not give many species much chance hence we have so many extinctions taking place now. Not sure what the point of posting the video is. The scientist agrees with the "good scientists" who measure data that must include our current period of rapid warming which we are having without any other natural catastrophic events (volcanoes, meteorites) other than us. If that's all Fox News can find in the deniers camp you have to presume global warming is worse than thought.
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Definitely, no odor to speak of
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Another of the bark hopefully in focus this time. Can ash have bark like this? It was in a load of ash and sycamore but looked distinctively different but then I could be easily convinced the wood was ash if it wasn't for the completely different bark.
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Pretty sure it's not hornbeam as we have a fair bit here on the farm. The bark does have those sort of fishers but is much courser. It's heavy but not hornbeam heavy Off to look up rowan but these were long clean stems and I didn't think rowan grew so quickly as this. Edit. pretty sure it's not rowan either having seen some pictures.
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Been processing logs for a chap today. Had quite a few lengths of this mixed in the stacks and it was a new one for both of us. It's quite a hard and heavy wood when wet. Looks much like ash apart from the darker heart which is different from the dark heart of ash. Bark was more like sweet chestnut and stripped back fairly easily. No distinctive smell. Any thoughts?
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Hooray
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Interesting. I was toying with the idea of using galvanised sheet for my next one. Stainless is crazy money and expands far more when hot so creating more stresses. I know the galvanising will melt but most of it is protected from the worst of the heat so should be good.
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Very shiny. Is it stainless or galvanised steel? These are the bags I used on that order. Pretty value IMO https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/50-Large-Potato-Sacks-New-Kraft-Bags-0433/231887260055?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649
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Hi Ernie. We loaded them with 60litres of charcoal and they came in around 9.3 kg so pretty close with your 10kg. If I could run at lower temps and make denser charcoal they would probably weigh in excess of 10kg
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Out of interest what do you think is the most impartial online news service? I was brought up with the BBC and used to consider it fairly balanced but those days seem to be long gone sadly.
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I confess to never hearing the term before but have seen them around the local china clay pits. When I was a lad they were all flooded but now have been filled in and grassed over but it took an age to do. Used to regularly pollute the river Plym which would turn white and contaminate the salmon redds with the fine silts.
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About time but will it change anything? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/climate-change-environment-emergency-commons-motion-mps-vote-latest-a8895456.html
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Just stumbled across this https://www.thefenlandblackoakproject.co.uk/the-tree
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Hi Chalie The trick is to use rotate the bucket while pushing to load it up. Not that we store logs that way but I was working at a site which had a small hydrostatic loader that I had a go on. It was a large bucket and pile of boiler sized oak logs. I drove into the stack and did not get many but the chap who's machine it was had the knack of rotating the bucket a filling it right up. Crates are great in combination with a loader and box rotator but quite an investment in kit.
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Great effort Andy. It's hard enough getting around the course in shorts and running shoes let alone all that clobber.
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My 560 came with a 0.058" gauge bar same as 550. I know some convert them but thought this was the standard gauge for a 560.
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These numbers are all a bit of a fudge. Again credit goes to Greta for outing some creative numbers https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48025650
