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  1. sandspider
    Even on the Grauniad the most popular comments are against the author of that article. Left wing click bait!
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    Doesn't the above only apply if the tree is felled in summer? If winter (and broadleaf) sap levels will be low anyway, and transpiration fairly minimal?
  3. sandspider
    Also looking for a good seasoned log supplier in the area? Had some loads that were wetter than I'd like...
  4. sandspider
    Got ya, makes sense.
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    The directory of firewood suppliers doesn't seem to work any more, just takes me back to the firewood forum?
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    I have a YM1600, and while it's a bit less powerful and a bit lighter than yours, I wouldn't want to lift 1000KG with it! A 185KG mower on the back can be a bit of a handful on slopes, with 40KG of front weights.
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    Rough location displaying under profile pics / on mouseover would be useful again.
  9. sandspider
    www.monevator.co.uk is a useful website. Keen on passive investing - reasonable returns with minimal fees.
  10. sandspider
    Forgot to mention, I can take some chip too. Ideally seasoned, but can cope with fresh if necessary.
  11. sandspider
    Hi all As above - I'm looking for wood near Chepstow. Will consider arbwaste, unprocessed green wood in the round, even fully processed and seasoned wood, depending on price for different options. I will accept either softwood or hardwood, or (preferably) a mix. This is only to process myself for my own use, so ideally nothing over ~12" diameter. Access isn't great, you can get a 3.5 ton van down my drive, or a pickup towing a trailer, but not an 8 wheeler or artic! I can only cope with a few m3 at a time anyway, and can probably only store about 8m3 in total. What have you got, and what sort of prices are you after? No drastic hurry on this as I'm looking to process and season for next winter now, though could also find use for some ready to burn wood. I will also need wood on a continuing basis in future. Thanks.
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    Thanks for doing this Rob. Interesting, but seems quite a faff! Then again, 50% gains in a week are not to be sneezed at... (Future value may fall as well as rise!)
  13. sandspider
    I'd buy green wood to process and season myself, but the price would need to be a good bit cheaper than buying split and seasoned wood, to make it worth my effort.
  14. sandspider
    We have the Vodafone box at home. IIRC Vodafone said it needs 1Mb (megabit, not megabyte) of data to work, but didn't specify if that was upstream or downstream. Our BB is pretty slow, about 6Mb down and 0.3Mb up. Vodafone box works pretty well, I get good signal in most of the house. Box runs hot and does need rebooting from time to time, and it was a bit of a faff to set up - worth it though. Some modern phones allow Wifi calling, so don't need a provider specific box, just a WiFi connection.
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  16. sandspider
    Thanks again for all the thoughts. I've now managed to light both stoves fairly succesfully with a bit of hairdryer application! (Plus door juggling, kindling feeding etc as usual). If I can manage with what I've got I might as well, though the heat gun linked earlier was nice and cheap! It's not been quite so cold or still recently, so that's probably helped. Still a frost this morning though.
  17. sandspider
    One chimney is lined, the other is external twinwall pipe.
  18. sandspider
    No flue damper, though I suppose I could put a sheet of paper above the register plate and light it. Anyway, tried the small stove today with a hairdryer, worked well! Warmed the flue a bit then pointed it up the air gaps in the firebricks. No smoke into the room!
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    Thanks all. I've tried most variations mentioned above without finding a way that works all the time. I agree that paper smokes more, but kindling seems to create too little heat on its own to overcome the down draught. And if I leave the stove door open a crack after lighting up I find the downdraught just continues to blow smoke out of the door. I have to close the door to reduce the downdraught, then open it again to get air to the fire. If I time it right, it works! I'll keep experimenting.
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    Cheers all. Opening a window doesn't help, can make it worse in fact. House is not close to air tight! One stove has a direct air feed from outside anyway. Could try even more paper. Trouble is, that's even more smoke if it doesn't light. Tried your suggestion will, but even with the vents open the paper won't burn hot enough to overcome the draught. Stove just fills with smoke, which leaks out, then gushes out when I eventually have to open the door! I can juggle the door opening and vents to get the draught going the right way as the paper burns but it doesn't always go smoothly, and my wife can't light it with our baby... Hairdryer is the next attempt.
  21. sandspider
    Got CO detectors thanks, and once burning it's fine. Hmm, leaf blower might work. Or hairdryer!
  22. sandspider
    I've tried all the above already, with varied success. No swirly cowl, there's not enough wind in my valley to spin it. I normally light as mrnick does, but without paper first to overcome the downdraft it will smoke back into the room. I thought a blowtorch might be a less smoky way to warm things up and get it drawing...
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    Hi all As above. I live in a cold, still valley and have trouble with downdraft on both my woodburners. When cold, a breeze blows out of them which makes them hard to light without getting smoke everywhere. Both installs are fairly.new and correct height chimneys etc so I don't think there's a problem there. Both burn fine once warm. I light them by building my fire as normal, then burning a couple of sheets of loosely scrumpled newspaper to overcome the downdraft. I light the paper, then my main fire, which works OK, though still smoky. I was thinking of (gently) heating the register plate with a blowtorch or something before lighting instead. Or any other suggestions? Don't really want to faff about with fans in chimneys etc. Oh, and I've been lighting fires and woodburners for years without problems, so don't think it's me! Cheers.
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    We fitted one in our kitchen, which is basically a conservatory. Though the regulations are different and more stringent I believe if installing a stove in a conservatory... We had to replace a glass ceiling panel with a plastic coated wood panel to allow expansion joint fitting where the flue penetrates the ceiling. We went for a burley stove, and it's great. Bit smokey on lighting due to a serious down draught, but that's not the stove's fault.
  25. sandspider
    I experimented with axes, billhooks etc. for brashing and found that a chainsaw was quickest! This was on small and medium hazel. Having said that, my billhook doesn't seem to be sharp, so that didn't help.

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