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  1. Woodworks
    It's like bashing your head against a wall sometimes! I dont want to be poorly paid but given choice between better pay and a crap job or poor pay and a fun job I would take the later. We spend so much of our lives working to do something you hate.
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    Yes and it's as dull as shit. I could be a sparky but rather be poorly paid and happy thanks.
  3. Woodworks
    Surly this is the reasoning for low wages. Plus it's got to be more fun than the boring repetition that some of the better paid trades require like plumbing and electrics!
  4. Woodworks
    When I have taken nets I tie the straps to each other to avoid spillage. Other than that though I cant see a problem as the bag cant move far in that tub.
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    Oops. Chemical fixing is great. It's what holds our first floor up at home.
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    First Jim and now Callum. Not good. Glad we can chat on here to find solutions. Steve. Yes the big retaining pin does move but does sometimes need some WD40 or similar. Awkward to tap up and out but doable. Make sure the ram is not at full extension either way as that will make very hard to budge if there is crap in the slider. Once you have it out. Not sure you have to remove the ram to get the housing off though. Just lever up the end of the ram inside the housing and disengages as the end just drops into a slot. Dont thing you even have to remove the bolts on the end of the splitter
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    ???? Ash is one of the driest woods when fresh cut at around 35% Very slow to dry from there on but good logs once dry. Beech and Oak are the two that start off very wet. Oak drys slowly but beech is quite quick drying and after a year is dryer than the ash which started off with half the amount of water in it. As said many many times of here it all burns when dry just a heavy one beats a light one IME
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    The things people would rather have than money in the bank ? It would be easier to have a handle placed somewhere in the middle of the door and the door being one piece maybe?
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    Yes we get ours from Perry Hale
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    Cheap battery drill for 6" screws is a big ask. Cheap impact would do them OK but I would be surprised if the cheaper offering of drill will have enough oomff to drive screws that big home. My 2 speed Dewalt couldn't thats for sure but the 3 speed one does with ease but way over your budget. No option on replacement batteries for your old Makita?
  11. Woodworks
    I tried that but never again. Had some crates out for a few months late winter with no hats but living on Dartmoor it proved a bad plan as they sat wet for long periods. When they did get covered the logs dried fine and no rot as such but they looked bloody awful. Steve a bit under 1.2 m3 if I remember right. If you are stacking them you can mound them up so when they have dried and settled probably around 1.1 m3. I handball off the top logs to get each crate down to a cube picking out the short ones for the few customers that want dinky logs
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    Hi Steve. Been using them for many years. Airflow is great and not killed any yet but the bases wooden or metal have need some repair work or new pallets in the case of some of the wooden ones. I started wrapping mine with chicken wire but now just cable tie the two cross poles that hold the tank in vertically into the bigger gap you get on the ends of the crates. Not many logs fall out but a few need picking up from time to time. Not much mould on our logs unless the crates are out uncovered for a time but not had any complaints either way as long as the logs are dry. Pump truck works fine on all the ones we have.
  13. Woodworks
    Looking at the rotary sweepers the brushes are lose. Will they remove caked on chunks? The brush on our rods is very stiff and just the right size for the inside of the flue but then its very difficult to push through restrictions. Wish my folks flue just had soot like you have neiln
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    Thanks for that Lucan. Some of our Devon banks are very gappy so one of those packs would be spot on.
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    No damage to the flue last year as it was professionally inspected with a camera when the new stove was fitted. No access around the flue without major masonry work. Might look into a rotary sweep brush as it was one helava job getting the stiff bristled brush up the flue. Yes worst was where the chimney breaks the roof line so more cooling. Oddly there was a block just above the stove but I guess soot had fallen down over the summer and when dad had his first fire this amalgamated into lump. The rest was not too bad.
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    That sounds like good benchmark Mr B For those that were asking about costs of PV http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/renewable-energy/electricity/solar-panels
  17. Woodworks
    ICE are massively inefficient and secondly our grid energy is not totally dominated by fossil fuel and what is is more efficiently burned than our cars or trucks can ever manage. http://gridwatch.co.uk/
  18. Woodworks
    At the minute not great but plenty of electric cars on the market and we could run our saws on Aspen. Not suggesting things can completely change over night but market pressures lead to change hence tax the polluter. Change will probably be painful but it needs to happen and soon IMO.
  19. Woodworks
    Tax fossil fuels to the hilt IMO. They are finite and polluting so the sooner the alternatives look inviting the better. As for the original question £7 a month better off according to the guide.
  20. Woodworks
    No the glass is always spotless. If anything they run it hotter than ours but it is smaller so less gas to go up the flue. Long stainless flue inside an old stone chimney on an outside wall. Would be better if it had vermiculite beads like Stubby mentions but the chimney is pretty big in places so would take one hell of a lot of beads to do the job. Cant get an insulated liner in as there is a squeeze in the stone chimney and this made getting the single skinned liner in a tricky job. I will just sweep it more often
  21. Woodworks
    Yes I was a bit shocked how much there was in there. It's not used all the time either. Cant honestly say I think the Burley is that great. They had a larger Woodwarm before that was often shut down too far due to being too large for the room and had less problems cleaning the flue when it was in place. Lit it for them today and it is working better than I have ever seen it so maybe it was never put together quite right as the baffle is a bit fiddly and can get out of place easily. Time will tell I guess
  22. Woodworks
    They are pretty good with how they use it after some lecturing. It's a well regarded stove (Burley) and you cant completely shut it down anyway and I have never seen the secondly air more than half way shut down. It's a small stove with a long uninsulated chimney so no surprise the water and creosotes condense before they get out the top. Worst bit is about a meter from the top and this is where it comes out the roof so I guess cools even more.
  23. Woodworks
    Just been sweeping my parents and our flues. Both modern stoves burning the same wood. Had trouble getting the rods through my parents one which had inch thick lumps of soot caked onto the inside of the flue. Got half a bucket of soot out of it. Then did our ours and got a wine glass full. I put it down to ours having a fully insulated liner while my parents one is a plain liner in a stone chimney. I am sure the fact we have a larger stove helps as well but not to that extent. Going to be cleaning their stove every few months from now on as the chimney must have been virtually blocked!
  24. Woodworks
    I would be surprised if you found work much work for it beyond what you need to do for yourself. I do firewood processing and the going rate for guys with the Farmi is around £30 and hour and I am not rushed off my feet with work for it. If you are limited to customers with rings and no lengths your customer pool gets smaller still. Also the Farmi handles rings very well and is faster than most vertical splitters. So for the negativity but calling it as I see it.
  25. Woodworks
    Yes have used vermiculate board and it's easy to shape but does crack quite quickly. On the other hand if they dont fall apart can keep doing their job. The board in our stove is cracked but been like that for two or three years without falling apart.

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