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  1. Aunt Maud
    Steady on the glory.
  2. Aunt Maud
    He has the interweb, so he may struggle to argue otherwise. http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/ss/Satellite?blobcol=urldata&blobheadername1=content-type&blobheadervalue1=application%2Fpdf&blobkey=id&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobwhere=1370006210037&ssbinary=true
  3. Aunt Maud
    If you've got a telly, you need a license. That's about it. I'm pretty sure he needs a court order to gain access to your house, unless you let him in.
  4. Aunt Maud
    Cut through and through with the side of the beam upwards, parallel and above and below the row of nail holes. The nails that were used will be likely 2" or 3". If theres an old nail in there it'll give you an idea of the size, as they'll probably be all the same. You will eventually hit a nail and it will dull your sharp blade. You can see all the nail holes in the top surface of the beam and the lath nails on the bottom if there are any. Sticking a spike/screwdriver in the hole and giving it a wiggle will tell you if there's metal in there. Good luck, the boards will be very nice and I laid some 12" reclaimed Scots Pine boards in our house in somerset, lovely wood and very easy to lay. His are likely to be Scots Pine, "Deal", from the Baltic states as that's what was imported for softwood beams not pitch pine.
  5. Aunt Maud
    Out of interest, if you take a look at the video from The Basque country that I posted on the other thread, it shows that the individual pollard shoots/stems are quite large when they cut them off.
  6. Aunt Maud
    Just wondering if it's grown straight up because of those great big green things hemming it in on either side. I like a pollard and it's crying out for the treatment. What ever you do it'll probably end up going straight up anyway.
  7. Aunt Maud
    Blowing a proper South Westerly. Garden firewood installation getting a good airing and I can feel it blowing through 4 meters of stacked wood.
  8. Aunt Maud
    Whoops! We've got a helluva wind, so no woodland epics for me today thanks. Ah! the luxury of not having a client.
  9. Aunt Maud
    Does it not come with a EU wide warranty, regardless of which EU country you buy it from ?
  10. Aunt Maud
    I'd go and get it myself in Germany if I was going to pay the VAT anyway. I import loads of stuff into Denmark from other EU countries, as it makes sense to save the money for a small bit of extra hassle. Germany is a very reliable country to import stuff from, so you shouldn't have any issues really.
  11. Aunt Maud
    Same as a Shingling hatchet.
  12. Aunt Maud
    If it has a thin blade, it's not a side axe, as they have a heavy thick blade with a bevel on one side and the body of the axe is slightly offset to the eye. You can get a broad axe with a bevel on both sides, but it's a heavy old thing and four an a half pounds is normal, plus the blade is much wider, unless it's a mast makers axe, which yours isn't. 3lb kent sounds about right. It'd make a nice hedge laying axe though.
  13. Aunt Maud
    I've been working on it on and off for a month, but I've had to coppice and collect all the wood in the pickup, which takes 900kg. It's all split with an axe, as I don't have a processor or hydraulic splitter, as it's just me that uses it. I don't think it's taken any longer to build than any other way of hand splitting and stacking firewood to be honest, as the middle is loose fill and the outer walls are 2' pieces. As for pulling a piece out, I think it should bridge like bricks do to a certain extent, and to pull it down or make it collapse would take quite a lot of effort. I do have concerned about the roof, if I go down the same route as the ones in Estonia and put a peak on it. If I do I think I'll cover the roof with a wrap of net or chicken wire, just to keep things in place. It's strictly "Adgang Forbudt" though and my kids have grown up on a building site, so they know where they can and can't go.
  14. Aunt Maud
    Is that New Zealand or Australia ?
  15. Aunt Maud
    It's going to sit there until summer 2017, then I'll take it down and stack it tight in the timber shed to use over the winter. It'll all come down at the same time over a few dry summer days with child labour. I've made smaller ones, which were sheeted and I just picked a cubic meter out of the stack at a time and put the sheet back on. It's a space efficient way for me to store firewood, as the footprint is fairly small considering how much wood it holds, looks tidy too.
  16. Aunt Maud
    These ones in Estonia are 6.5M high.
  17. Aunt Maud
    It's taken an awful lot of beer.
  18. Aunt Maud
    Here you go, I've got to put the roof on it yet. 11M in circumference and so far 3M high.
  19. Aunt Maud
    Anyone got a newt he could borrow ?
  20. Aunt Maud
    4MØ round stack by 3M high gives you just under 38 loose stacked cubic meters. Roughly the same size as the one in my back garden.
  21. Aunt Maud
    Build a round stack and put a lid on it, tin, tiles , whatever, the wind will be able to get at it from all sides and a round stack 3M Ø will easily swallow 20 cubic meters. Its very easy to build if the lengths are 24" and split down the middle. Build it in a ring with the nice stuff on the outside and dump the rest in the middle.
  22. Aunt Maud
    +10ºC and windy. Thats a 25ºC temperature rise in less than a week. No swamping for me, but went to have a look in the local council woods and saw a whopping Birch going for firewood, so it looks like a bit of milling in the woods is in order.
  23. Aunt Maud
    Been doing it upside down this winter and the missus loves it <cough>, less smoke too.
  24. Aunt Maud
    Good thread this...how about Beech ?
  25. Aunt Maud
    Choose... Post reply (on the left) Manage attachments Choose File (on your computer somewhere, one at a time) NB. below that is a list of file types. If they're a .jpeg resize them to 600x800 pixels and no larger than 1.9mb Upload Preview post (to make sure it doesn't look like you live in Australia). Submit reply

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