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Another supplier for comparison - I bought my wood store from these people SKINNERS SHEDS pressure treated: Log cabins, summerhouses, workshops and garages Just to confuse things, they still size all their sheds in feet, not metres.

By the time you've paid for the electricity to run the heater and the dehumidifier, your cheap kindling could work out quite expensive. Why not just leave the container doors open and allow the fresh air to do the drying for you?

If you've got a local Wildlife Trust, then they may well have someone who gives advice on management for nature conservation. If you've got big blocks of bramble, a long-handled slasher is the easiest option if you're not using power tools. Alternatively a "Turk scythe" fitted with a short bramble blade (a normal scythe blade is liable to snap under the stress of hacking through brambles). But expect to get scratched and end up with loads of thorns in you by the end of the day. Brambles are a good wildlife habitat for birds and small mammals, so it's nice to leave a few blocks of them. You can also eat the blackberries in the autumn! Avoid destroying bramble blocks during the bird nesting season. Either do it now before spring has started, or later in the autumn.

I think Felix understood my comment. My local advertising rag has lots of adverts for firewood, all offering seasoned mixed hardwood logs. Until I see the logs, I have no idea who is selling bone dry well-seasoned wood, and who is selling damp rubbish that's been sitting in a corner of the yard for a couple of months. So from that point of view, it's hardly worth asking over the phone.

From a customer's point-of-view, there's little point in asking if it's seasoned. because it always will be - even if it was felled last week and has been buried in a swamp since then. And I wasn't aware that I could pick and choose what sort of wood I got.

What worries me about that report is that it includes loads of references, and every single one of them is to another article on their own web site. Looking at the reports referred to, many of the references in those are again to their own web site, and so on. My attitude is that it's a herbicide - you're not supposed to drink the stuff, and I wouldn't eat anything recently sprayed with it. Read the label for more safety instructions.

If it's just a generator, wouldn't it be cheaper to run it on red diesel?

What gets me is that they go to all the trouble of cutting down trees, day and night, in temperatures of -40 degrees, and then they just stuff the whole lot into a chipper. If all they want is woodchips, couldn't they do the logging somewhere with a milder climate?

That could be worth a try. Thanks.

"Rubber swording" is still very much alive and well, though I haven't done it for many years.

Our big problem with open access woodland is our guns. They are actually completely harmless, but the general public won't know that. We wouldn't want to take the risk that one of our members, dressed in military costume, might leap out in front of a member of the public carrying what looks very much like an assault rifle. Many years ago, when I did fantasy live-roleplaying, we used to use public woods. However, running around dressed as an elf and carrying a rubber sword is more likely to cause amusement to the general public!

Hello all. I've been lurking on these forums for some time, but it's one of my more obscure hobbies that has prompted me to register and post a request. I'm the secretary of a science-fiction live role-playing club. Put very simply, that means dressing up in costume and running around in the woods playing games. We use electronic "laser tag" guns for combat, so there's no paintballs or pellets left behind. The problem we have is a lack of affordable sites to hire for our games. We have been hiring Scout camps for years, but the rising prices are making it ever harder to break even on a game. Our members are scattered across the country, but mainly in England, from the South coast up to the Midlands. Does any one have/know of a patch of woodland that they would be willing to hire out for the occasional Saturday or weekend? As a minimum, we're looking for around 35+ acres of private woods and somewhere to park cars. Buildings - even an old barn or shed - would be nice. Other facilities such as toilets or mains water would also be a bonus, especially for weekend games. If you think you can help, please PM me and I'll see if the site would be suitable for some of our members.