Aunt Maud
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Thanks, Along with your advice, I found this very helpful. Silviculture of birch (Betula pendula Roth and Betula pubescens Ehrh.) in northern Europe
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Thank's. I think that's a more reliable way to do it in my case, as there seems to be a lot of fungal spores in the air which are discolouring the bark.
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I think that there's a massive amount of worthwhile knowledge floating about on this firewood thread and if a chap wants to know, then they should have the right to be presented with the correct information by whoever has the knowledge. That way, whoever it is doing the asking will react in a positive way and make the necessary adjustments to either their storage methods or firewood buying choices. With all due respect and all that, being told that they shouldn't be firing with wood because of well......stuff, won't encourage them to get to grips with the issue and sort their storage and buying choices. Just saying.
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Last month to process logs to sell this coming Winter ?
Aunt Maud replied to arboriculturist's topic in Firewood forum
Very good stuff. I'll have to read it a few more times to get it to sink in though. -
why do some people take the stihl/husky debate so seriously?
Aunt Maud replied to flatyre's topic in General chat
You need a trip to Tescos to answer that one. -
why do some people take the stihl/husky debate so seriously?
Aunt Maud replied to flatyre's topic in General chat
<shrugs> Dunno, but that's what some folks do. It's the same no matter what you get involved in, be it Skiing, cycling, climbing, digging holes...... </shrugs> -
why do some people take the stihl/husky debate so seriously?
Aunt Maud replied to flatyre's topic in General chat
I would imagine people use it to justify their own purchases. -
Splendid stuff.
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They're a lot smaller than the Birch at our other place, but that's better drained and on fertile sandy soil and they don't have a fissured lower stem either. Is it just the bark that distinguishes the two if I can't see the leaf ?
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I'm about to start cutting our Birch coppice,which we bought 10 years ago and seldom visit. Before I do that, whats a foolproof way of distinguishing between Betula pendula and Betula pubescens at this time of year ? The coppice lies on peat bog and I reckon it's Betula pubescens I'm dealing with.
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I've just got me an MS261 for £380 inc vat...In Denmark!!, would you Adam and Eve it ? Quite a nice little saw. Anyways, happy new year and stay safe.
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It's a woodworking tool. Generally in my experience woodworking tools have a sharp edge, unless they're a mallet, a 2' rule or a piece of string. But the I come from the school of not hitting things too hard, or expending more energy than necessary.
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Imovie on a mac is very easy to use and gives good results.
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If you've got access to a mac, things will be better. I make time-lapse films for the construction industry and use Final Cut Pro. Macs are the preferred tool for movie editing. I used to export movie files for PC, but gave up and started to upload to Vimeo with a function for them to download as they pleased or stream straight from Vimeo.
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East wind with an ice storm on the way for tonight and frost for tomorrow, -4ºC for the coming week.
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I think a lot of these low moisture readings are false, when you consider that the typical moisture content of timber flooring laid over heating elements is 9%. * * Desch and Dinwoodie, Timber - Structure, Properties, Conversion and Use 7th. Edition - Macmillan 1996.
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I've got a circular stack on the go with a lot of Beech and Sycamore in it. I was thinking of leaving it for two years, but I've just been outside and put my cheek to the side of it and I can feel the wind going through it. It's going to be between 25 - 30 cubic meters or more, depending on its stability when I get up to 3 metres high. I reckon it'll be ready to burn for next winter. I've built beehive type stacks before, but not on this scale and they've dried really well, if they're built so the wind can blow through them.
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I bet they burn just fine at 18%. All this kiln drying of firewood down to parchment % is a waste of resources, time and money.
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Sound advice and not telling anyone on the interweb where things are hidden is savvy.
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Wooo! That's a first ever......Does a small dance.
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Sharpening angle, thickness of the blade and technique makes all the difference. Splitting with finesse is the true and only way to enlightenment. Om!
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Ooops!...missed page 4 of replies.
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He hasn't taken a moisture reading yet, as he's doing it the proper way and weighing them first, drying them in an oven and weighing them again. The difference between the two weights of the same piece of wood will give the weight of water it contained. Then he'll do some sums to produce a percentage and average it out between the pieces that went in the oven. I reckon I've lowballed it and it'll end up being even higher, because its been a wet year. Those hand held MC reading gizmos only give a reading at the surface or a millimetre or two under it. Oven drying samples and weighing them will give a more accurate measurement.
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Well, I don't have a splitter, only a very sharp maul. But I guess, a hydraulic splitter has a wedge with a double bevel and a ram that pushes the log onto the wedge, which is then forced into the timber slowlyish and parts the fibres. So there is an element of compression at the bevel and tension down beneath that, where the log splits. Whether there are more compressive forces than tensile forces, or that they are the same, and which of them makes the chips fly is a matter for someone more savvy than me. But I reckon your moisture content is about 18%.
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You're slowly putting tension into the fibres wood with the splitter. When the fibres suddenly release because the tensile force slowly increases and becomes to great for them to resist then the wood flies around. Pow!
