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It's a stupid idea. Registering domestic poultry won't make any difference to anything, just more busy-body interfering in peoples private affairs. Got to register your duck while countless wild ones wander about willy nilly, you can't get much more friggin ridiculous.

I will think about complying if all dog owners do similar.

I deliberately season it for at least three years. If you leave it that long the bark starts to peel off and you don't get all that sticky resin all over everything. Doesn't effect the way it burns IMO, if anything it improves it. My supply is practically unlimited so not bothered how fast it burns. The deal is I will make sure there are always dry logs, missus can burn as many as she wants.

Very nearly all I burn and has been for decades. You do need an airflow in your burner, sounds like you may have shut the fire down too much if they are black. Very little ash compared to most. If you are not getting the heat out of them are they stored under cover /out of the rain. I do burn other logs occasionally and would never say the leylandii wasn't as hot, in fact much more likely to say the opposite.

The 36v rear handle will cut about as much as the average petrol saw will cut on one fill in my experience. That is a good measure of how much of your boot you can/can't fill.

You don't want to which is why I mentioned it. Those packs don't look particularly sealed and if stacked in a damp UK garage you would just have a very big pile of sawdust by next winter.

Same here but a degree colder. Are your forecasts reliable then because if that forecast was for here it would be raining on Monday and nonstop for a fortnight. I'm not confident they can tell us what did happen with any accuracy never mind what will happen.

They also double in size if they get damp and explode all the packaging

What are the edges of a Brades or Elwell like quality wise? Spent many a day splitting logs with an old felling axe as that was all we ever had. A splitting maul was an absolute revelation. Then when I became rich and famous (by that I mean I actually had some money in my pocket for once) I bought a Gransfors Bruk axe. I cut my finger on that and was absolutely amazed that you could even do that with an axe. The edge on that thing is something else. Have I just been used to what would have been the equivalent of a B&Q axe back then and the Brades and Elwell would have been as sharp as a Grunsfors?

2 years ago I'd just lost my Mum to cancer, 1 year ago I was in the lowest depths of 6 weeks continuous chemo and radiotherapy treatment, 6 months ago I lost my cousin to prostate cancer. I sniggered at the joke because that is what it was, a joke. Pretty confident my cousin would have laughed out loud tbh. I've seen a few comments on the internet gloating at the news (elsewhere, not here) and that is a bit sick but that isn't what this was. "Humour is the best medicine" comes to mind.

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I have an old friend in Russia. We don't speak much these days but he fairly recently got back in touch over the Ukraine war. Basically he had swallowed absolutely everything that Putin and his propaganda machine had put out. Russia was the innocent party as far as he was concerned and Putin the good guy. I didn't argue with him one bit, all I said was that he was an intelligent guy and he really shouldn't believe everything he was told. I think he must have gone away and thought about it because after some time he got back in touch to say I was probably right. I also say we shouldn't believe all we are told either, the truth is maybe somewhere in the middle. I will also say from what a few Russians have told me their army is mostly conscripts, none want to be there, training is terrible, equipment is terrible, conditions are terrible as in no food, no first aid etc and the one thing going for that army is there are a lot of them. I do think we need to be careful we aren't heading into WW3, a lot of signs are there worldwide that we may be doing just that. Idiots.

I have a box wedge on my log splitter, you wouldn't believe how much kindling I have. Sometimes I can go for 3 days purely burning kindling to heat the house.

That is what I always use and let it soak in.

Isn't that already banned?

Thought about it. A guy on Youtube said it wasn't a good idea as it affects combustion, I doubt it would. In practice I honestly can't see it making the slightest bit of difference in any situation. Maybe if the air temp was minus double figures but even then only maybe. Utilising the exhaust heat is going to be much more worthwhile than fretting about the intake air.

I think it will be a surprise if it survives at all. There is a lot of pressure to ban woodburners and I think that pressure will increase.

Wires are a bit scruffy as they are fitted to a spare battery, in the process of running a wire to the next room (where the heat goes) and connect to the battery bank in there. That is charged off solar and runs all the other stuff in there such as lights, pc, printers and labelling machines. No fuel filter fitted as the one supplied wasn't sealed so no fuel could get through, will fit one when it arrives. 2m exhaust going through a bulkhead/thru-hull fitting. Designed to go through boat hulls and is double skinned. Goes through the door because I didn't want it through the wall, it is an insulated cavity wall with brick on the outside and didn't want to put a hole in it. 2m exhaust should be cool enough by time it gets to the wooden door. There are lots of doors and I don't use this one. Fittings holding the exhaust were what I had lying around from a previous project involving water pipe. Hole in wall for heating is just a single block wall into the next room, hole in that doesn't matter to me. Heater the other side of wall from where I would normally be working to give less intrusive noise although with the radio on it's not an issue anyway. Would be different if it was where I wanted to sleep. Put fitting into top of tank asI reckoned less likely to get leaks than a failing connector in the bottom. It works fine.

I should think there would be massive savings by not having to have newt surveys and archeological reports on the seabed. They will be fecked if the bats find it and decide it's a cave though, perhaps they just work on the assumption that it will be finished by then or maybe they put it down as ecological mitigation.

Not much rain and not as windy as the last storm. I think we escaped.

No but if it was me was asleep in the van it may as well be unattended.

Yeah, I've watched a few. I'd say it was well worth it as there's loads of heat lost. How safe are these things? Are they safe enough to just leave running unattended? Would like to just leave it running permanently in this weather but don't want to burn my shed down. It is all well assembled and correctly fitted. Nothing combustible near the exhaust etc. I guess if they aren't safe they wouldn't be aimed at van camping folk.

Glad to hear you are progressing. Can't be easy at all.

I got one for my shed, arrived earlier this week and got it fitted and fired up by this morning. Runs on red and uses very little, been on all day and used a litre maybe. Does throw out nice warm air but my shed is too big for it to ever get hot in there. Way too much heat goes out through the exhaust and it really needs to go through a household radiator or something to get more out of it. Shed was 3°C and is now 8°C. Doesn't sound great but it is full of bottles of apple juice which act like a massive thermal sink. Got to warm all them up before it gets warm. Don't really want it too warm but it's too cold to be working in there at the mo. The problem I have in there is the bottles get very cold during this weather and then when it warms up they get condensation on them. Bloody nightmare trying to get labels to stick onto a wet glass bottle!