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I keep the small air wash vent fully open all the time. The main vent I start with it fully open then vary it down to about 50% depending on logs and wind draw over the chimney. I never shut air vent fully off to try and smoulder a log over night, just put a couple of logs on before I go to bed with the air vent set at what it has been at all evening.

Time for my confession. I was a 1st year apprentice 39 years ago, as a 1st year apprentice I was sent with the “battery” man for the day, we went to his workshop which is about the size of a double garage where once a week or so he would get a sort of sit on battery driven road / floor sweeper in to give a battery service to. This consisted of scraping of the white furry stuff from the hundred odd terminals on the battery bank, then check and top up the levels. Well anyway, It was my first time on this job (my defence), we both went to the workshop, sweeper waiting outside, he opened up and drove the sweeper in, lifted the lid on it showed me the mass of furry terminals, told me he was away for a shit with the Sun newspaper under his arm and would be back in an 30 minutes and I was to get battery cleaning. My ppe consisted of my overalls nowt else, I looked about to see what I could use to clean the fur off with, ahh a wire brush, perfect, mmm, these batteries are about 6” square with copper bars between them, when I started brushing a wee bit of sparking occurred, but they were cleaning up a treat. Well 5 mins into my excellent cleaning job, boom, felt my face wet, no idea what had happened, but fortunately there was a sink in the shop so I washed my face, and had a look at what had happened. I was surprised to be able to see the plate tops on one of the cells, looked about the shop and abviously by design the top had blown neatly off in two halves on one of the many cells, so I gathered them up and clicked them back onto the cell top. Continued my cleaning with a cable tie end, which was not nearly as effective. My tradesman man came back and was well impressed with how clean I had got the battery bank. Fast forward 3 weeks when my overalls came back from the wash, and I couldn’t work out why they were full of holes, took a wee while to twig the events of 3 weeks previous and how acid effects cotton overalls. Oh how we laughed.

That looks proper. Like it.

But is she a goer?

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Dimples Heater at the top shiney flask in the middle then 3 bits of wood at the bottom with maybe the left hand bit being wild cherry, but I know nowt, just ask my wife?

Bet your glad that’s done and dusted.

Don’t buy a Flavel Rochester it has a design flaw of a unnecessary large ledge that the glass sits into, this gets a nice big fat slug of ash on it that promptly false onto your hearth and floor when you open the door.

Looks good

I have used a router free hand to do signs in the past, put a walnut stain in the letters to make them stand out, the ones for indoors I just waxed, Briwax, the outdoor ones I varnished. The sign you have done looks very similar to one of the ones I did, the pieces of oak were from the drawer fronts of a very old chest of drawers that was getting chucked and I rescued, well bits of it.

That motor is a beast.

absolutely beautiful So are the dogs?

My willows do this as well, I thought maybe wrongly that they are not the most robust of trees, splitting and falling over at the smallest threat of a storm. In my limited knowledge they don’t age well but grow very easy. That is why it is one of the main woods that goes into my logburner.

Maybe he bought it from the likes of ebay in good faith, and thought he was doing the right thing taking it in for a service, however, great result and pleased for your mate, even better if it was the thieving scumbag that nicked it that got nicked.

I made a simple box on end out of sarking, screwed and glue, placed on end, sanded the sarking and then took it down a shade colour or two with some oak Briwax.

I ain’t a professional tree cutter, but my amateur approach would be to secure with a rope, cut it, then winch it in, that is what I did with a similar one last year that was over my pond in woods.

That’s unusual looking, I like it, I think

Please excuse my ignorance, what is the difference between windfall and wind blown?

They might have an unusual angle to their story

Just back from walking my dog and came across this unusual fruit bearing tree

Was @gobbypunk not looking for a generator?

I have a 25l generic one, I found it noisy in my workshop, I use mine mostly with a small Brad nailer. I ended up enclosing it under my bench in a simple cabinet, I then lined the cabinet with an off cut of carpet, made a big difference to the noise level. You can still hear it but it is not annoying.

Do Wayleave agreements come into it? So if the land owner takes an annual payment from BT then is that the same as granting permission?

I have found the Charnwood to be top quality, no problems recommending them. I have also bought a Flavel, mistake, don’t buy as I have found that a big fat layer of dust gathers and gets trapped on a ledge where the glass sits in and promptly deposits this ash onto the hearth and floor when you open the door. Their customer service is poor as well and were not interested in my complaint.

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