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Well it was shirtsleeves yesterday and suntan but today my fundamentals have been frozen while mowing and I see the Blackthorn is out in beautiful white flower, so again “Beware the Blackthorn Winter” saying comes true!

I do not sell firewood but burn a lot and the stove is on all day every day and night throughout the Winter. When we have some sun the hot water is heated by solar tubes. i burn Ash , Oak, Elm and Sycamore. Mainly Ash and am not fanatical about checking moisture with a meter. All the wood is kept loose filled in 2 cubic meter wooden boxes which have open slats and are stored in an open fronted lean-to. I can tell by looking them whether they are fit to burn, colour ,cracking, settling in the box and also weight of each log and sound it makes when clacked against another. Out of interest , I will try the Fairy Liquid method on some different pieces using our air compressor maybe attached to a rubber loo plunger and do a video on the result (if there is one!) Proof is in the pudding and the stove has a temperature gauge both on the door and on the heating pipe which operate in a narrow band if everything is ok with the wood. Added to this there is no smoke out of the insulated flue when running and I have put the chimney brush up the flue only once in years and there was honestly nothing there but a little dust. So because my supply is fairly constant and uniform, I have reached a stable situation after a time I have the luxury of not having to deal with the general public and therefore not having to deal with the new rules. When we did try and sell wood years ago it was painful. They wanted different lengths, different splits, pine to make it smell good, and some wanted it stacking in their woodshed which was through a gate across the lawn, down some steps, well many here know the story. One customer we found sprinkling the wood with a garden hose because he said it makes it last longer!!!! They walk amongst us!

I always loved this one, Villanova Junction from Woodstock, which was very different from his usual guitar work and very moving.

Never heard this live version of it before either, I think he must have been practicing ready for Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock !

I see that the lyric sheet I copied missed out the most important bit at the end! WELL MAYBEE, MAYBE IT’S JUST A CHANGE OF CLIMATE! smell of a world that has burned. Well, maybee, maybe it's just a change of Climate. I can dig it, I can dig it baby, I just want to see. So where do I purchase my ticket, I would just like to have a ringside seat, I want to know about the new Mother Earth, I want to hear and see everything, I want to hear and see everything, I want to hear and see everything. Aw, shucks, If my daddy could see me now. Source: Musixmatch

Just realised Jimi was way ahead of the Global Warming theme back in 1968. I just want to talk to you. I won't uh, do you no harm, I just want to know about your different lives, on This here people farm. I heard some of you got your families, living in Cages tall & cold, And some just stay there and dust away, past the Age of old. Is this true? Please let me talk to you. I just wanna know about, the rooms behind Your minds, Do I see a vacuum there, or am I going blind? Or is it just remains from vibrations and echoes Long ago, Things like 'Love the World' and 'Let your fancy Flow', Is this true? Please let me talk to you. Let me Talk to you. I have lived here before, the days of ice, And of course this is why I'm so concerned, And I come back to find the stars misplaced And the smell of a world that has burned. The smell of a world…

Branch Logger has to be a better way than these options!

If it soon rots in the ground, it doesn't sound as though the treatment is very effective!

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All I can say is that it now works well for us. You cannot change the length of the loggings except by buying a bigger machine what is the point when they work perfectly as they are? We found the plastic net bags to be very irritating as they were messy in the house and bits of twig hung onto the sides. Now we put them all in a one ton potato box 6x4X3. Or 2 cubic metres and I put a load in an old wheelie bin with a hinged flap at the bottom and fill a coal scuttle with them. The wheelie bin full lasts a couple of weeks and sits outside the conservatory next to the box of firewood The loggings seem to form a bed of red hot coals and last longer than conventional kindling. I think they would work for BBQs and as Woodworks says they will make perfect charcoal. A lot depends on grading the timber to make things more consistent and leaving you with the required result. This of course is the same with any kind of timber processing. Yes it was easy initially to put a whole long branch through the machine, and very satisfying, but the end result was a bit too bitty. We are very happy with our kindling and because the machine does not grab the wood like a shredder( meaning if I hold on to a length I can stop it or should it become caught in my clothing it will stop or pull me towards a hinged bar frame at the mouth of the machine that operates a cut out switch for the PTO. Hopefully this means less chance of losing fingers as is the danger of making kindling with an axe or splitter or even worse “Wheel of Death”!

We use it as kindling and it is perfect. If you select some lengths of old floorboard even better, but it is a good way of putting to some use stuff that would otherwise be put on a bonfire or through a chipper.

I think this is faster and easier! No time to finish your popcorn!

Maybe Ash is different. Try some oak or pine

Quite interesting and a bit long winded, but he missed out on the bubble test!

The only video I have seen is the Aduro stove one at 1.24 minutes in

Big old Elm. Died suddenly about three years ago had only a touch of DED may have been a combination of age and DED Four foot diameter trunk weighed over three tons and the Matbro did not like it as it is only rated at 2.7 tons so red lights flashing but it drove well with no rear end lift. Lucas Mill to see what is inside next job Hopefully some nice floor boards Two more 15 foot lengths to bring back I bought a cheap (£10) little angle finder off Amazon for measuring height with trigonometry so I thought I would give it a go. It said that the tree was 63 feet tall and we measured it after felling at 64 feet. Load of rubbish machine, I think I should send it back ! IMG_0939.MOV IMG_0932.MOV

As the original poster, I always value the way these threads develop and I have learned a lot thank you all.

I think that also helps my theory, for you being strongly right handed and holding the axe in the way you do, I would think that you would bat and play golf so called left handed.. I am totally left handed but I hold my axe like my cricket bat or hockey stick with dominant left hand at the top of the shaft. I am sure that this is why I am so good at splitting wood with an axe compared to right handers operating the wrong way (turns round and dives for cover under the bed to avoid the mass of abuse about to come out of my computer!}

OK time to give my favourite rant about English cricket and the way it is taught to children. I am a total leftie but although I bowl left arm I bat right handed. I also play golf right handed and when I played field hockey I held the stick right handed. I noticed that all the cack handed hockey players were in fact strongly right handed for all other tasks and most left handed golfers the same. When at the crease in cricket my left arm will provide the main power for all the conventional classic cover drives, the right hand is really only a guide. But the most important thing is that my leading left eye is facing the bowler unrestricted by my nose if I was right eyed. My conclusion is that the so called right hander batsman should be renamed as a left hander and all children should be taught to bat opposite handed to what they bowl, bit like David Gower In particular, some of the greatest batsmen of the modern era including Brian Lara, Clive Lloyd, David Gower, Adam Gilchrist, Alistair Cook, Michael Hussey, Kumar Sangakkara, and Matthew Hayden all bat left handed yet are actually right-hand dominant I see this article has appeared recently to back up what I have been preaching for years but it does not mention the leading eye To find out which of your eyes is dominant, "Fire" your finger at an object with both eyes open. Hold your finger in position and close one eye, open it again and close the other and see which one is actually looking at the object. If we start teaching the kids properly we may start winning again! Cricket players more successful when batting the 'wrong' way: Current T20 World Cup batsmen like Chris Gayle and David Warner use the opposite stance -- ScienceDaily WWW.SCIENCEDAILY.COM Cricket batsmen who bat the 'wrong' way have a stunning advantage according to new research. Batsmen who adopt a reversed stance (right-handed people who bat left-handed...

What about these heat recovery devices for the flues, have any of you had success with one or do they lower the temperature too much and cause condensation and tar build u inside the flue? flue+heat+exchanger - Google Search WWW.GOOGLE.COM

Those tongs are brilliant for positioning the log between the rails (you can see the Lucas Saw rails in the background) once you have established the centre of gravity. The pivot means that you can swivel the 1.5 ton log around with just one finger! They also seem to grab the log first time without me needing to leave the Teleporter and hammer the jaws in, as I have had to do with other makes.

I AM GOING TO MILL THAT LOG! It actually belongs to my neighbour who wants a table or two from it. Massive sycamore that was blown over just clipping his house and breaking a few roof tiles and denting his beloved Freelander!

An axe surely! Right from the start with a bit of wood and a decent flint and some binding, this was not only a useful tool for chopping and splitting wood, but also vital for defence from attack by animal or human. Followed closely by a spear. I think these things came before fire and flint work.