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HARD CORE Sculpins recycled £6 per ton is this good price thanks
timbernut replied to mendiplogs's topic in The Lounge
You'd be lucky to gat road planings round here for under 15 delivered but then I've never had it with sand or anything else added to it. -
I have to remove my smug smile coz I checked small print and am not insured for hire😔 BUT the few people I hire know how to treat it and canny with security😏
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Nice one, I did something similar with a wrens nest on yew couple of weeks ago, trimmed the branch it was on and wedged it further in crown and wrapped ivy over top to make it less visible to sparrow hawks , magpies etc and now chicks in it😀
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Big feller with is hand on the loader bucket😀
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I do this as it sorts damaged teeth quicker if I've been cutting stumps really low or gritty wood, also found Stijl files to last a lot longer than Oregon ones
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Yup 😎
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I haven't moved quite so far (nr Norwich) and my mrs has to drag me back!😀 David, nice pics though post topping, there is another one along a back a lane between Beccles and Norwich,think it may be near as big but long time since I passed it, am gonna have a look on the way home from work tomorrow
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80 + vat
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You a Beccles lad then Eddie?
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Have visited that tree many times to admire, it had a substantial amount taken of the top a few years ago (looked awful in winter. Incidentally the cul de sac opposite was called hornbeam close after the tree as it was wrongly identified many years ago! Very sad to see it gone😢
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Good stuff woodworks is similar to what I am trying to do except I'm using an old rolling/off skip and redundant 500lt lpg tanks. Do the holes face directly down onto the box? Does the initial thicker smoke not smother the fire before it reaches higher temp?
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Heard one yesterday, it was the first one I'd heard here in three years!
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Openspaceman, you really listened at school!😀
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I hire mine out but only to people I know,sharpened blades every time and I make it clear 'you bend you mend' had it eight months and hire has payed 3/4 the initial purchase price (4k), no problems so far, but I do worry😏
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They're sometimes larch and Douglas (but the gribble gets em quicker)
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Tip or shovel?
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Hats the one!
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Always been interested by the Adam retort and I found new(ish) YouTube of them trying a new small mobile version in Bavaria and are looking for a manufacturer/ entrepreneur to take it further
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There's no way I could make it pay if I had to buy wood in at current prices😀
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Out of interest would heat resistant stainless be resistant enough? I only ask as a few years ago I was considering using twin walled ring kiln with stainless inner (so burns were less affected by inclement weather) and my wife's late uncle,a highly experienced engineer/fabricator (who had made a half dozen or so ring kilns), said stainless would warp too much. Is the inner chamber of the Exeter made of corton steel? Am attempting to build retort and don't have much financial to allow experimentation and I am at a bit of a loss as to what to use for insulation of the outer chamber, thought a vermiculite and cement mix could be possible, any thoughts appreciated!
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Surprising fuelwood haven't come up with something before as they are an innovative company, think they originally designed the trekkasaw before selling it to Loglogic, can't believe they've never investigated it
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This chap still burning in the same place but not on the scale he used to I passed recently and he only had two of the larger ones on site ( I bought two of the small ones in 2003 ) but there were several artic loads of the wee wedges from pointing stakes waiting to be used. Incidentally I have some notes written for me by one john David of southern down in Wales who worked with all sorts of kilns on a large scale from 1930 as a boy through the war ( he wasn't allowed to fight as his job was considered vital and he had all female workforce ) right up to the late 60s when the industry was well into decline. He writes about internal flues and doing smokeless burns in more urban areas (but these were not retorts!) I have been thinking of typing this up if anyone is interested as I feel it is an insight you don't often get. He died of throat cancer in about 2000 about 3 years after id started burning Now who's boring😀
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Not boring! Always interested in how people operate big or small, I used to visit the guy who burned for big k on the fens, he had 8 9'd twin ring kilns and 4 7' ones, he produced all the charcoal for the foil trays as the imported stuff was too dense and didn't get going with the wax paper ( believe it's sometimes coated with some sort or lighter fuel as well?), the big k stuff all hardwood some from wildlife trusts, he also used s/w off cuts from mills for his own sales, not sure how much wood he used maybe 600/800,think he just does his own now (do big k now have retorts down south somewhere?)
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Yeah! It's been worked hard and although it's had more than fair share of problems it's not been out of action long😀
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'94 transit crew cab tipper have had it nearly 7 yrs on 4th lump though and several props (lots of towing) few days of the rd but most stuff done within a day. Been looking at lr hi cap to replace but want 200tdi so I can get easy fix, seems any number of minor things can cause great expense on modern vehicles
