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Ditto to that. cheers, steve

Officially, Husqvarna say you can go up to 20" maximum on the 550xp. I'm currently using an 18" Sugihara pro lite on mine and it's good.... but for small to medium felling and snedding I think it's best suited with a 15" bar. If you're doing small stuff (coppicing/ hedging, etc) then you may find a 13" bar would be best. cheers, steve

Poly, cool, thanks What do I need to do to cut it? cheers, steve

Had a glass sliding window go *shatter* this morning. I'm gonna replace it with Perspex.... is there a type of plastic I should use for that? Or is Perspex, perspex? Is some Perspex more scratch resistant than other types of Perspex? Is some Perspex UV protected? Does some cheapie Perspex turn yellow with age? I know very little about Perspex, cutting it, etc... so any advice is appreciated! cheers, Steve

What's different about the new ones? Are they improved or unimproved? cheers, steve

oooch. I'll try doing the lottery again. cheers, steve

How many £'s are they? cheers, steve

Hi Mathew, my recent attempt at bramble clearing was by ripping through the mass of it with a mini digger and tumbling it into a big pile. A lot of the bramble roots are pulled up. Then follow up with an Austrian scythe (hand tool)... and finally finish off with a strimmer fitted with an Oregon mulching head. I found that much quicker and less physical effort than brushcutting. The pile (or piles) of brambles can be left as excellent habitat for bugs, wasps, bees, etc. cheers, steve

The main difference is in price.... masonry heaters are amazing but also incredibly expensive (talking £thousands). A badly designed and installed rocket mass heater is only as dangerous as a badly designed or installed log burner. There are plenty of idiotic people on YouTube for both methods. I wouldn't go near some designs with a barge pole! cheers, Steve

Think you'll find night storage heater bricks are not fire bricks.... fire bricks are very light in weight and are designed to insulate from the fire; whereas a night storage heater brick is very heavy and its purpose is to absorb heat (as thermal mass). cheers, steve

Hi Paul, the glass fronted version which looks similar to a normal wood stove is called a 'batch box'.... the batch box is loaded up with wood and burnt in one hit. Peter Van Den Berg (from the Netherlands) has done a huge amount of research on the chamber shape to optimise natural flow with an aim towards maximising efficiency in the burn. One of his test graphs shows zero CO2 emissions (for about two thirds of the burn time). There's a website dedicated to his work here: Batchrocket.eu - Designs cheers, steve

Two windmills are standing in a field and one asks the other, "What kind of music do you like?" The other says, "I'm a big metal fan" cheers, steve

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Crown or Dulux?

Looking at the photo in a mirror looks correct. Try it. cheers, Steve

Handy bit of kit that. Excellent turning circle. How did you crack the windscreen? Is the front tyre bald? cheers, steve

Fair enough, just a shame there isn't a button to turn off specific threads, I get irritated at just seeing his name at the top of the forum, it's upsetting my mojo! cheers, steve

I'm gonna start a petition to get any reference to Trump removed from Arbtalk. Wish there was a button to turn off these threads! cheers, steve

I believe they are legal in the UK and if built properly could satisfy building regs; that is accounting for the weight, ventilation, carbon monoxide alarm, distances from flammable surfaces, etc. A downside is that some insurance companies may not be that happy about it and they may require it to be signed off/ certificated by a professional stove installer. Yeah, I think they are rather splendid. The Kelly Kettle design appears to be based on a rocket stove so that is a good example. ....try covering it with cob or insulation and it will probably melt! I've got more time on my hands hereon so gonna be getting the barn in a much more completed status, but yeah I'll defo give you a shout. Sorry but that makes no sense to me. Providing a rocket mass heater is sized properly there is no need for a fan or to force air ...and no need for adding other fuel sources ...and if it's smoking/ coking up badly there must be a fault in the way it is designed. Are you referring to a rocket stove?.... I'm talking about a rocket mass heater. A standard log burner is good for immediate heat.... but in comparison they are expensive and inefficient. cheers, steve

Nice.I needed to boil up some rhubarb leaves (don't ask) and my first attempt was to make a rocket stove out of 3x large tin cans (dog food tins). It made a great rocket sound & boiled the rhubarb in no time.... that was from just using twigs. Although rocket stoves are quite different to rocket mass heaters.... people have tried using metal for the burn chamber and it melts or concrete blocks/ cement mortar, cracks & turns to dust over time. Interesting user review video here: Cheers, steve

Brilliant ....good to hear you finally got a slot. Get proper better soon. cheers, steve

These have been getting increasingly popular in other countries, especially in the USA and there's been a fair amount of research/ testing of various designs. I want one! Wondering if anyone here on Arbtalk has attempted this, or planning on giving it a go? Here's a picture showing the basic concept.... cheers, steve

If I wasn't me, I would sign it, but I am me and I signed the other one. The guy is a bell end. cheers, steve

It's probably an Icebow. cheers, steve

p.s.... and maybe adjust for cleaner emissions too... service fuel injectors, adjust diesel pump, etc??