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spandit

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  1. Me! Just this morning! Got given a few bulrush heads and scattered them over my new large pond so hopefully some of them will take
  2. I have to use a big leisure battery on my Jimny otherwise the engine stalls with my TS9500. Has recovered my tractor more than a few times...
  3. It is customarily polite to ask permission before posting one's image online. Bring it on
  4. At least I was right!
  5. PM sent. If I'm right I got it straight away
  6. Maybe it spits a bit like chestnut. Use a fireguard
  7. It's a hardwood and burns brilliantly but as you have found out, it's a pain to split when dry
  8. https://www.muddyfaces.co.uk/product/giant-noggins/ There are many examples of logs being offered for insane prices I'd say this would be a pretty measly log delivery: https://www.muddyfaces.co.uk/product/collection-of-wood-80-pieces/ £400!
  9. In my workshop I have an old Esse oil burning range that I'm trying to convert to burning wood. Lit a fire in it yesterday with softwood and the top oven temperature went off the scale - over 300 degrees. Latest plan is to build a cob rocket stove inside it as would be nice to have some heat in there but not as much as that! Have wrecked the paint and the magnetic door catch has melted off. I'd imagine with the boiler full it would stay cooler but I have no way of plumbing it into anything
  10. I'm glad the public won't burn softwood as it means local tree surgeons often can't get rid of it and dump it round here. I find leylandii branch wood is pretty dense and burns for a long time. Currently burning a mixture of leylandii and Corsican pine and keeping toasty warm...
  11. Nothing, since I started stacking them in round piles
  12. Awesome. What paints did they use? Ideal for forest school
  13. Give him £20 as good will for a beer or two
  14. You can tap gently with a ball peen hammer and cut it out in situ, although on an aluminium part you need to be careful
  15. If you have the space to take loads of wood chip too then I find tree surgeons are often keen to get rid of it and often have a few logs too but it’s stuff that needs cutting, splitting and seasoning so hardly free. I’m in East Sussex and have a few regulars who get rid of waste which I use to mulch paths and trees but then I’m lucky to have the space and access
  16. I use petrol hand warmers, cheaper copies of the Zippo. I run them on Aspen 4T (cheaper than lighter fluid) and they’ll stay hot for a whole day
  17. I've constructed a Holzhausen as my other pallet log stores were all full. What I don't know is how are you supposed to use the wood once seasoned? By pulling logs off the pile you're damaging the structure or do I just cover with a tarp?
  18. Lose 10mm but don't cut it straight where your string is - cut it concave
  19. Had somebody turn up and speak to my mother in law before dumping some chip - just wanted to clarify something but don't know who it was. Very grateful for the chip and still hopeful for logs.
  20. I make it just over 3.6m but I'd want them a bit bigger than that
  21. I've got a load of used stock fencing going free if anyone wants it
  22. Wow! Cuts up to 4 inches!
  23. How cheap is cheap? What size inlet/outlet?

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