cornish wood burner
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Wood Shredder or Chipper wanted
cornish wood burner replied to Celtictimber's topic in Firewood forum
You will need a big motor, big cables, big switchgear and of course a big electricity supply, if you went that way. At the moment we are putting some heavy switch gear and cables in and it's amazing the cost of things when the size goes up. I would have thought diesel would be the way to go for that size, unless all the bits come with the chipper, otherwise you could be spending a five figure sum of to install it. -
Agreed, the decomp makes things worse. Never ever use it, even if your saw is right.
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As I can hire a wheeled digger for around £30 / hr I would consider that a bit steep. Consider plant costs and skill needed to operate each machine.
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Wish I could say the same. Never could start the thing even from new. Seems to be a fuel problem that a dealer charged us too much for NOT fixing when it was still under warranty.
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Might be a little retirement project but for now I think I will go for an off the shelf one. Then possibly add an home built one later. Anyway thanks to all for the replies. Some good recommendations added to some good info and humour.
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AP02 has good reviews at a reasonable price. Thanks.
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Interesting idea. However my main concern is removing as many solid particles as possible. We have 3 fires so ideally quiet and cheap enough to have one in each room.
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Thanks for the replies guys, three very different solutions to what I was expecting, but food for thought none the less.
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Anyone have any thoughts on air purifiers that would help with the dust that comes with burning wood?
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We have had an iveco daily van for several years but I wouldn't recommend one. A lot of repairs needed on it over the years. Very poor considering it only does a few thousand miles a year, no towing and is regularly serviced.
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Gets lighter, seems to go porous so will reabsorb moisture quicker, loses some of its energy, basicly starts to rot. Over the peak in the seasoning process.
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It needs to be seasoned then used fairly quick as it "goes over"quicker than say ash, especially if stored outside.
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Pressure loss for a given flow rate is directly proportional to length so longer pipes will need a bigger bore. Pressure loss through a pipe, fitting or valve costs power which will be converted into heat.
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Certainly wood had a uniconfort global boiler and burnt their rubbish in it when I had a look around. Sawdust, recycled wood and a few logs, presumably short ends etc. so their fuel cost would be very low.
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Yes. That's the plan. I expect the hardest bit will be core drilling through the chimney base to meet the fire air supply. Our radon reading was bordering on action needed, so I've already fitted a couple of sumps vented to outside. The fire air supply would just be an extra to the measures in place, and some compensation for losing the ventilation from the open fire, unless anyone knows a reason against doing it.
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We have a small radon problem here so any extra air drawn from under the floor should be an advantage. Basement air would be replenished by the many air vents already installed. It also saves going through an outside wall, so no cosmetic finishing needed. Considering the radon a direct air kit would be a must in our case otherwise a plain vent to the basement could allow radon to enter the room.
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Leylandii: stump grind or dig out? Sussex
cornish wood burner replied to spandit's topic in General chat
We have taken down several leylandii 2 to 3 ft diameter and dealt with the stumps. We found a wheeled digger much quicker than the grinder and you do not ruin your chain trying to cut close to the ground. Only down side was some of the roots needed to be chased back and a few smaller ones needed to be cut off. Ripper tooth worked well digging through the large roots which were up to 1ft diameter. Smaller stumps easily come out in seconds. The ground can then be used for replanting again but too much remained with the ground out ones. -
Thanks Capetown and neiln. Drawing from under the floor makes sense for many reasons so I will go that way.
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I was wondering about doing that. Will building regs sign that off?
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Not something you should be doing. Hope you have good brushes and a CO detector. Very inefficient way to burn wood as well.
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If you are going to look at table saws also look at chop saws. I have an evolution with a 355mm blade. It cuts up to 130 mm diameter log, more if you turn it over. Not meant for logs but there is a knack to cutting and if you go that way I can pass on a tip or two. Much noisier than my electric chainsaw though.
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A few people we know have oversized their wood burners but then can't live in the room, so it's always shut down, which as we know is not good for the flue. Perhaps that message is getting around and more suitable sizes are being sold.
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Someone had a faulty drill to look at. His first thought was quite rightly the fuse, tested the lead with a volt stick (indicates voltage in a lead ), it showed a voltage indicating a good fuse so he ripped the drill apart. Couldn't find the fault as it just was the negative wire broken in the lead.
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Could your problem be connected to the work you did when the bonnet was off. Knocked a wire, damaged or forgot to refit one perhaps.
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I thought you might have gone the chip boiler route. We have a 999kw chip boiler and apart from routine maintenance it runs itself. Around 92% efficient when we feed it decent softwood chip. From memory up to 93% but Sod's law says when we book a chipper it rains. Just chipped some that should come in at about 20% so a reasonable couple of days there. We also get a crazy amount of RHI on it.
