sandspider
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Well done, that sounds like good value. Out of interest, where did you find the land? On the internet?
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The ends will be drier as they've been exposed to the air, and you won't get an accurate reading from them. You need to split the log / saw it in half then measure the fresh cut surface. <20% moisture is generally supposed to be good to burn. Having said that, I split / cut my logs to the size I want to burn them at, so I don't usually bother to split them again to test moisture! I generally have a figure of about 12% moisture at the ends after drying, and none of my logs are too big, so I'm happy that they are also <20% in the centre. They burn well, and don't emit too much water / steam anyway.
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We do the same thing! Maybe that's why mine gets through batteries so quickly!
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That's a big one! Where in the UK are you? Not really much wind here to speak of - certainly nothing like as apocalyptic as we were promised!
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I've got a Stihl one. Fairly pricey I think (£40 odd) but seems to do a good job as far as I can tell. Does get through batteries quite fast though...
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Get a maximum price in mind before the auction, and stick to it! It's easy to get tempted to bid higher than you can afford...
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Good luck! I went to an auction for a small plot of woodland near me. It was right at the top of my budget, and I'd probably have been surprised and a bit scared if I'd won it! I didn't. No bids near the guide price, so they dropped it and dropped it until people started bidding. Ended up going for about 5k over the guide price of 20k IIRC. (Or possibly 10k over the guide price of 15k).
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Good idea - saves the hassle of sorting the final log length for chopping. How much roughly does one of those cost to make / buy?
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Planning a Firewood Coppice
sandspider replied to pendleton8471's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
The internet suggests that SRC with willow can produce around 13 tonnes of wood per hectare per year (depending on lots of factors, obviously). 2.5 ish hectares to the acre, so approx 5 tonnes an acre. Other woods will vary in productivity, but generally lower as willow is one of the highest (the highest?) yielding tree in the UK. -
Also worth looking at the national hedgelaying society website: NHLS - Home page
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A basic how to video here: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Andv7a0NPEc]Hedge Laying with bill hook - YouTube[/ame]
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YR.no looks good - nice format. The BBC does do a rough hourly forecast, but has no accurate info on likely rain levels - just a graphic...
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Thanks guys, I'll give em all a try. (Looking out of the window (not at 6am!) is good, but a bit more advanced forecasting would be useful!) I live in Bristol, and it goes from sun to rain and back 4 or 5 times a day. Agreed, none of the forecasts seem to be that accurate, and even my barometer can't be trusted...
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Hi all As the title says, really! What site(s) do you use for your forecasts? The BBC seems pretty accurate, but they don't offer an hour-by-hour breakdown (except the video forecast thing - I just want a static page that I can refresh). So, I mainly use netweather and xcweather, both of which have the hourly breakdowns. However, they don't seem that reliable, plus netweather crashes my phone web browser quite a lot. Anyone got a better website? Cheers.
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neglected poplar plantation
sandspider replied to campanula's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Congratulations indeed - I'm pretty jealous. Woodland is pretty expensive down here... Can't offer much advice (hopefully one day I'll have a wood too!) but this was a good and useful read: http://www.woodlands.co.uk/owning-a-wood/badgers-beeches-and-blisters/badgers-beeches-and-blisters.pdf -
5 acres scots pine and douglas fir..log or sell?
sandspider replied to Myles_strange's topic in Firewood forum
I would guess it was worth more as boards, utility poles etc. than as firewood. But would probably be more hassle to realise the value... -
How do you get the energy back out of the thermal store when you want it?! I don't leave my woodburner in overnight, it's just an evening thing really- longer on cold weekends. I don't think the seals are good enough to keep it in overnight in any case!
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"Walnuts... Do not lie..." Get out of my head!!
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Yep, he looks a little toughie. I can picture him staring down a fox, and maybe giving a wolf second thoughts!
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What breed is the dog that's not a spaniel?! He's got some attitude!
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Yep, pretty sure it's a hawthorn. Single pip for the one above, but there's also another tree nearby (that I thought was a whitebeam) that might well be a hawthorn too, and has double pips. Thanks.
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Thanks chaps. Hawthorn would be embarrassing! (Though at least one of my apps doesn't include hawthorn, so that's my excuse!) But it probably is. No thorns, but they both look fairly aged trees and I believe mainly the younger shoots of hawthorn have thorns. I'll go and see if I can find any remaining berries, but those I saw do look like hawthorn berries according to the interwebs. Cheers.
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Hi all Found a couple of these near me. Tried various apps and books, but can't be sure. The leaves look like some sort of oak, but it has red fruit of some sort (mainly gone now, especially on this tree), and the stem is quite gnarled and twisted. Sorry, the pics aren't great! Any ideas? Thanks.
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Now up for £3250!
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Telephone Preferences Service? (Not sure if that applies to business phone lines as well as personal though). Won't stop them all, but it will help. TPS
