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  1. Woodworks
    Eeek! Yes, I am a big fan of Woodwarm stoves. My folks 12 kWh one is probably the best stove I have ever used. If the Champion ones are better than them I will eat my hat (easy to say as I never wear one) Edit. Maybe being double sided they are not as well insulated with glass both sides. Some thin double glazing cant be a match for 25mm or vermiculite board so maybe still not getting hot enough?
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    Not meaning to be rude Jonathan but your choice of a stove is not exactly the hight of efficient design. If I remember right you like the Champion stoves which just appear to be a metal box you chuck logs into. Great value on the face of it but they may well not be getting the hot enough to burn all the gases so plenty more to be had from the wood. Our current 7kWh stove which is not exactly state of the art but it can still manage to heat the whole house. If we used that exclusively I estimate we would need 8 cube per season.
  3. Woodworks
    Value yes but the satisfaction from making charcoal is hard to beat ?
  4. Woodworks
    Oh dear, 3 years since I made anything! Had some wood in a load of firewood I didn't recognise but thanks to some good detective work by some of you we worked out its field maple. I cut some bowl blank for the farther inlaw but decided to have a go at turning myself.
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    Got one almost identical to your link from Lidl about a year ago. Way better than the basic-ish Karcher we had before. Comes with a 3-year warranty. Did have a fuel leak but it was just a dodgy fuel pipe and just replaced the pipe. Not slick but does the job.
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    Correct me if I am wrong but open fires don't run hot enough so loads of the gases just escape up the chimney unburnt so completely wasted. Modern stoves are full of insulation to create a hot and clean burn making the most of the available energy. Yes, and having control over the air helps massively. Saw a study on open fires wherein a centrally heated home they could have an overall negative effect on the heating of the home due to the convection drawing all the heat out up the flue.
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    On a local Facebook selling page. Just the £400 for this ash but you have to collect!
  8. Woodworks
    Yes, I guess it does depend on how tight space you have to work in. Been thrilled with the Gehl which makes our compact tractor look clumsy around the yard but the Multione will undoubtedly be even more maneuverable. One thing I really did not like about it though is the way the cab swings out over the rear end when turning. Sure there is a good reason for it but it makes it need more space then you would expect when driving in a shed. There is a good set of videoes on loaders but they are hard to find but here is the intro one. My Gehl is next one down from the one in this
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    Good machines but not sure I would want one in the farm environment. Test drove one and what they seem to be all about is maximum capacity for a light and compact machine. This is achieved through the telescopic boom so heavy loads can be brought in close to the machine and light fiberglass panels. On a farm, you are unlikely to need so much compactness or lightness unless towing to a site but want maximum ruggedness IMO. Went for a Gehl pivot steer in the end as a good SH one turned up but a far more solid machine than the equivalent Multione/Avant but not as compact a package. If I was towing to site and squeezing into gardens I would say Mulione's look just the ticket.
  10. Woodworks
    Guess you are using free wood from tree work? I am paying £60 a tonne delivered so it's nice not having that money tied up too long.
  11. Woodworks
    The reason we do is it's less work. Park truck under conveyor, fill the truck and deliver. Otherwise, it's fill crate, move crate to stack, cover stack, leave to dry for nearly a year with your money tied up then load crate into the truck and deliver. Well worth a discount in my book.
  12. Woodworks
    Yep look exactly the Same
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    No, it's a Lambourgini/Deutz/Same (badge engineering) I should add I have since bought a dedicated loader but that tractor ran our log business and farm for 10 years.
  14. Woodworks
    It's amazing what little compacts can handle
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    You don't need much slope for a log deck to work either. Mine is just two telegraph poles on a round. Any steeper and the nice round logs can roll down too easily! This is at floor level as the Farmi processor has a lifter to get the lengths off the floor onto the infeed but could be made higher with some simple construction.
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    As said further back have you considered a branch logger? Capable of breaking down brash much like a chipper but could also be used to convert some of the small diameter wood into a usable product. Nice simple machines that can rattle through a pile of brash much faster than an equivalently priced chipper. Welmac UK are now supplying the Polish Remet CNC machines like this
  17. Woodworks
    I think this might be an angle. Had many friends come here and comment on how nice the log stacks look. So don't just sell green logs but sell an attractive garden feature that happens to heat them come the winter.
  18. Woodworks
    If budgets are tight you can't beat a tractor and loader IMO. It's all I had for many years and did all that was required just a bit more slowly than a dedicated loader but as said they come with a hefty price tag. If you are getting more serious with logs a tractor can also run a nice PTO splitter at a later date.
  19. Woodworks
    I try to talk all my larger consumers into buying green logs and dry them on site but very few buy into this idea. I don't know why the resistance is there but it is. I suppose quite a few of our customers are upwardly mobile and may not be in the same house in 12 months but most are. Maybe they don't like spending money on something that they won't see the savings for for nearly a year. Not got to the bottom of it but found the market for green logs very small. I think if you sold log stores as well it might help but wouldn't count on it. We only do 2 cube loads and sell those for £140 delivered as opposed to £210 for the same amount seasoned.
  20. Woodworks
    This is less likely to be the case in a well-insulated house. As I understand it you get paid per kWh generated but if you are not using many kWh your return is poor. Probably best suited to old properties where insulation is not an easy option. If I was doing a new build it would be super insulated and except having to maintain an MVHR system which has to be less hassle than feeding a boiler or stove.
  21. Woodworks
    Bugger! now I have to find the book I wrote it all down in haha That was easier than expected. So I fitted the meter on 12/8/11 and it now reads 18793 kWh so averaging 2562 kWh a year for all the DHW and a large proportion of the space heating. That will include the circulation pump for the UFH as well which adds up as they run 24/7 in the winter
  22. Woodworks
    If you are interested I can try and dig out some numbers on how many kWh the GSHP has used over the years. I fitted a meter to it
  23. Woodworks
    I wouldn't over complicate it. If your house is well insulated you are not going to need vast amounts of heat at any time. I used our wood burner on its own one winter in a very cold snap. Our 7kwh stove kept the whole house lovely and warm and I would imagine your place will be much better insulated than our old barn. Solar in the depths of winter for space heating will do very little but could be good for DHW in the sunnier months. You can get GSHP's tapped to take solar hot water. I just went for PV as any excess can be put to good use here on in the grid.
  24. Woodworks
    And that is why we don't use much wood. It's cheaper and easier to use the GSHP and sell the logs. With the demand for wood continuing to rise in a country without much woodland it seems wise to steer clear of being reliant on wood for heating.
  25. Woodworks
    I am guessing she doesn't like MVHR? What's the problem with it? Seen comment from those with it who would never want to not have it again as it brings it lots of fresh but warmed air. A GSHP does not need to be crazy money but I did do all the install which undoubtedly saved a few bob. Think the unit was £3600 which is the GSHP and your hot water tank all in one and that is all plumbed in. Didn't have buffer tank to keep it simple and more efficient. UFH which is basically a prerequisite with a GSHP again was self-installed and around £1500 for all the materials. A few hundred meters of pipe in the field which was around £1.50 a meter and a digger for a day and I backfilled. I have heard of some crazy prices being charged which was undoubtedly brought on by profiteering around the RHI.

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