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  1. Woodworks
    Oh mate that sounds proper bad. Heal quick It could have been worse. A local chap fell off a ladder and bashed his head. He survived but was never the same again
  2. Woodworks
    Yep ash and it's nice to work and machine
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    Drying logs is mainly about good airflow. The problem with most garages and sheds is they have next to no airflow. If you buy a tonne of logs you are looking to get rid of around 300 litres of water before they are ready to burn! That water needs to go somewhere hence why you need lots of airflow to carry the water away. These are the sheds we use to dry logs
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    Got these two a year or so ago and nothing to complain about to date and the G coupler is great. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00F3D41PY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0133NDH6E/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  5. Woodworks
    Give me a call as and when 07967 632933 Thanks Beau
  6. Woodworks
    Out near Tavistock. I saw you are Callington so presumed the job is relatively local.
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    Be interested in a load or two if you do take on the job
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    Yes what you get from doing tree work may be a different matter.
  9. Woodworks
    Because no one would buy it if priced the same if sold by volume due to it's lower calorific value. It's not the same amount of time to process either. Plantation softwood tends to be gun barrel straight and a dream to put through a processor.
  10. Woodworks
    Had another look at them this morning. They are dying in clusters and these tend to be on the wettest ground. Only found fungi on one standing tree and a different sort on a couple of fallen ones but most dont have any obvious fungi on them. Only other type of tree down there is also on it's way out and it's right shame is was a lovely holly some years ago.
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    Yes there is there some deadwood in the standing trees but nothing dramatic. Will have a good look at the roots tomorrow but I think most of them look much like the ones in the picture.
  13. Woodworks
    Thanks Garry This winter and 2016 are/were shockers last winter less so. Had 4 dry days in the last 2 months for example. Thing is this is Dartmoor so water logging is pretty common but maybe not for such prolonged periods as we have had in recent years. If I took pictures of the root would it be easy to tell if this was the problem?
  14. Woodworks
    Bit of common land just down the road is covered in hawthorns. The last few years have seen many of then suddenly dying. Do they just have a shortish lifespan or could there be something killing them? I can take close ups as I walk the dog down there most days. I would say at least 5% of them have gone in the last 3 years and might be as much as 10%
  15. Woodworks
    No doubt this makes the very best logs but sadly it is time consuming. Had a load of oversized beech last year and cursed ringing and splitting it all but made me a proud log seller when delivering it. Did see a clip of someone using a pecker on rings and looked pretty affective.
  16. Woodworks
    Ground source is no good for the high temperatures required in a kiln. Cant immediately find a graph for a GSHP pump but here is one for an ASHP and it shows how the efficiency of heat pumps drops off with higher flow temperatures. Think kilns need to be heated to 70C so the flow temperature would need to be hotter still. As the graph shows even at a flow of 60C the COP has dropped down to less than 2 which means you are getting just 2kWh of heat for every 1kWh of electrical input. Once up to say 80C I would imagine it would be using more than it's producing. We have a GSHP at home and it does not run with a flow temperature higher than 30C for the above reasoning.
  17. Woodworks
    Yes I think Joy Yeomans ran one. Never heard anyone knock them and would be my first choice if we did logs on a large scale.
  18. Woodworks
    It probably is. Do you think the BSL standard is what might be enforced on the whole industry?
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    No that would be a first
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    Impossible if you live in the wrong place and have a wet winter. had most of our just below 20% late Autumn but they have now crept up to over 20% with endless days of very high humidity. 4 dry days here since the beginning of December. If any future regulation stipulated below 20% we will have give up or build a kiln.
  21. Woodworks
    Not a climber myself but used both types of system on the ground. My Buffalo is too hot for all but the coldest days. That thick pile is just to thick. Found a well worn one to be more useful. Bought a Paramo for casual use but when I found how nice they are it soon got used for my work. Just incredibly comfortable and great at keeping perspiration away when combined with a marino base. Again it is pretty warm but not as extreme as the Buffalo. Down side is they seem to a bit baggy in the cut. Every potential for it to catch on branches but to fair I have not damaged mine yet and apparently they do a very reasonably priced repair service. It only comes out for the wettest of days though as the fabric cant be the toughest.
  22. Woodworks
    But if the secondly air does not get hot enough before it enters the firebox it does not combust. It may be that our stove is not great anyway but our old Woodwarm which drew the air from the room was far better at getting that rolling flam above the logs.
  23. Woodworks
    I have read that but not convinced it's so good in reality. Cant see that freezing cold wet air is perfect for the fire and as I say our stove with it is fairly poor by modern standards IMO.
  24. Woodworks
    Is this for a stove or open fire? We have a stove with a closed combustion system ie it brings it's combustion air in from outside through a pipe out the back. Maybe it's the stove but cant say I am impressed but was the only legal option as it's in an open plan room including a kitchen with extractor fan. Much preferred the old Woodwarm that used the air from the room.
  25. Woodworks
    Ridiculous. Clicked below that add and there is a whole line of cheap tractors. A JCB fasttrack for less than you could weigh it for for scrap. I will just contact his mate to find out more....................

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