neiln

Plenty of big stoves in the US have a 'temperature control' the user sets and the stove operates the air controls via bimetallic strip. I think they tend to be those that also have catalytic converters. Check out blaze king. It's for ready of use though, load a big stove once a day, the controls give steady heat output and the catalyst keeps the gases clean. All very convenient for the user, I'd love one!

I'm guessing you're bar oil hole is gummed up. No veg oil only dries when open to the air, I think. It will thicken when cold, olive oil goes solid around 15C iirc, rape is probably a bit lower.

I'm just a householder doing 15 cube a year to heat the house so I don't use big quantities, but I've not noticed much difference from Stihl, husqvarna, other cheap brands even used up some 10w40 left over from a long gone car, and some ep70/80 left over from a gear box change a few decades ago. I did mix both the engine oil and gear oil 50/50 with chain oil though. They all worked..... Although I'd forgotten how gear oil stinks! I think the husqvarna flings less than the stihl and it seems to be a couple of quid cheaper for 5l, so I'll likely stick with that. £12.74/5L when I'm passing by Jonesy.

Do you mean the best 'way'? By best I'm guessing you mean cheapest and least work for you as the property owner? Cheapest for the logs, adverts on Facebook market place and Gumtree, free firewood to collect. You'll have to either get it cut up and shifted ready collect yourself, or try and vet those that turn up to ensure they don't leave too much mess behind. You'll want to take photos of the amount and size of logs and to explain access, any restrictions/conditions and tree type. As for green waste, a waste disposal/garden clearance firm probably.

Yes aren't they! Had two tanks through so not bedded in yet and still stock, so when the cat comes out..wow! Really impressed with the chain speed

This ea4300 is a be freakin' ripper! Wow, what a great little saw.

Try the wood scrounger thread, there could well be some guys that would be very pleased to take a little or a lot at no cost. You may even get a few beers. https://www.arboristsite.com/community/forums/firewood-heating-and-wood-burning-equipment.55/

While it's normally a very bad idea to check the price on something soon after you've bought it, for some reason I did just that yesterday, and Amazon have put the price of the 4300 back to £374. I wonder why it dropped so much? One of life's mysteries I guess, but at least I managed to benefit! I think I also benefited from the strange covid related circumstances they seem to be driving the prices of lots of used things quite high. I sold my ms180 for £121. So the upgrade to a New and bigger, better saw only cost £150 plus a couple of spare chains. I feel very lucky! Now if only it would stop raining and I could get out and try it!

Oh and I bet they didn't have veg oil in the saw. Although the damage from a tank of dead Dino chain oil probably isn't much.... My garden gets far far more every year.

Exactly. The firm doing it, according to the pickup they are using, are builders and gardeners, they don't advertise any eco credentials. From the way the chainsaw was waved about and the lack of ppe I doubt they've any tickets either. They looked complete cowboys I'm afraid. I'm not expert but this is old overgrown oak woodland with a few dead standing oaks. Perfect habitat for stag beetles slap in the middle of the UK stronghold for them. I've had 3 adults in my garden in the last month. Also several larvae in some punky logs that I didn't bother splitting for firewood last year. I'd have expected a sensitive clear of brambles and under story, plus a felling of dead trees and dangerous ones, wood used for habitats, various log like piles for beetles, wasps, bees etc. Chip the rest and spread the mulch on the created paths... Do it all only after an eco survey and account for the birds and bats and whatever else. What we actually have is a slash and burn) clear fell off the small stuff and they've cleared out at least one dead and toppled oak and burnt it, making a large clearing. They have left a sycamore with a nasty lean that should have gone years ago and a couple of dead or nearly dead large standing oak....f' me, the thought of bringing groups of kids around them is a bit scary. All my neighbours are complaining the birds have all scarpered, and with the insects they eat now left with a bit of a wasteland (other than my 30m3 firewood stack 😂) the birds probably won't all return for a year or five. In its place the school plan a pond... I'm overrun with big frogs from my neighbours pond..... Maybe it would attract newts in time.... There's ponds at Streatham common with them and that's not far.. otherwise.. I hope they stick some fish in as I get eaten alive by mossies from my neighbours pond as it is. . This is a potentially good idea executed disastrously unfortunately, I hope the dangerous trees get taken out before they take a kid out or it'll be more then dead wildlife.

If they had any design input for their wildlife area from someone that knew about it, I'm sure they would have gone about it well, and my asking and the council checking will be no bother to them. Unfortunately I don't think that's the case. If my fears are true, they aren't making a wildlife area, they may call it that but they've probably badly damaged an area with stag beetles, countless birds including owls and both green and pied wood peckers, used by bats and I'm sure much more wildlife. If my fears are true, I hope they learn and doing nothing won't help.

Hopefully having informed the council now they might get involved and force process to be followed.

Could be. Whatever the intended final outcome do the clearance now to prevent challenge later. I'm probably not too concerned about most possible final outcomes, but the disregard for neighbours and due process and the ongoing burning (it's smaller, but still means my kids can't use the garden or get washing out to dry) has wound me up.

thanks. so minor, but not quite 'right' to cross the pavement.

no mechanism to control/maintain safety until challenged by the fire crew, not hot or clean, hence my raisig it to pollution@croydon

who would need the EA exemption? school as property owner i guess? or contractors conducting the work?

thanks doobin, its clear from my phone call they have no exemption. Who ever called the fire service went too fr in my view, ground is well wet after recent rain which was utterly biblical in showers this afternoon. Although a bonfire as tall as the digger used to pile it up and stoke it, and wider, and plumes of smoke well over the nearest houses was wrong, it wasn't a risk to property or life. That said, as my station officer brother said, LFB will have put out far smaller.

Yes, I'm sure you could find it on google maps. its the beulah hill campus, the (ex)wooded area is at the end of Glenhurst rise. I'm on waddington way, corner to corner with the school property virtually

really? I used to own a house with a footpath down the side and remember my conveyancing solicitor telling me i didn't have right of access from that path, so don't put a gate in. similarly my parents had a corner plot house once, and don't beleive they had right of access to the road along the side, only the front

yes I've seen bats in my garden before, flying across at twighlight. bat survey? its a Harris academy, the workers are definitely not council.

there is no gate, no dropped curb,no pass over, this is not an entrance. they've taken some fencing down and entered. perhaps I wrong but i thought you need permission to access and can't just shove a gate where you like. the access they've made is from the end of a cul-de-sac, they have never had an entrance from this highway. they have 2 different acess points on other sides of their plot. it's not common land, its school property, I'm not disputing that, its theirs, within their fence and not used by the public.

that was first first thought , and all day yesterday. the nearest house is in a cul-de-sac behind me and the entire side of that property is the boundary to the school right where this is happening. I thought they were pulling a fast one and doing something like getting rid of trees they don't like/getting themselves a side/rear access/stealing a bit of land perhaps! until now this bit of woodland I could equally describe as wasteland, unused and steeply sloped, largely unuseable ...the school hadn't shown any interest in it and i wasn't sure they were behind the work! today's phone call reveals the school are behind it. wildlife teaching resource...cool use, good, but follow the laws and ideally be neighbourly and tke on board and address concerns!

Well since I'm pretty sure they have no right of access from the highway where they are entering, its very tempting to park my car and get neighbours to also, to block them ever getting their digger back!

that was my thought and why I bothered to call the school today. the response i got wasn't satisfactory, gut fee was strongy that they knew they were not doing things in a professional and neighbourly manner, and knew they hadn't bothered to check what rules they need to follow let alone bothered to actually follow them. He tried to fob me off then insulted me and told me its on their land, none of my business what they do or how they do it. So I then contacted the council, but given they will be incredibly slow to respond in all probability, I'd love a bit of advice to know where I stand, or rather where they should stand and I can check!

Right now I'm riled and may be losing perspective! I'd be very grateful for some advice on what laws may be being broken and if its none it might help me back in my box! I live in south london, typical suburbs and back on to a school. around the edge of the schools property, between their playing fields and the gardens of my and my neighbours, is a strip of wooded land. Its not wide, probably less than 100m, overgrown tangle but with a solid line of oaks and a few sycamore and such. I'm not aware of any tpos or conservation area/restrictions but this area 'Norwood' is so named as it was part of the great north wood, and there are lots of little pockets left such as biggin wood, grangewood and so on and I suspect this area around the school has been woodland for a very very long time. yesterday work started with a 2 or 3 man band who didn't seem professional, chainsaws but not a lot of PPE, hacking away at trees. digger pushing trees over, no signage...just didn't feel right. Today at half eight they started burning off all the waste, huge bonfire, loads of smoke, going all day, someone (not me) called the fire brigade who attended about 4, workers told to let the thing die out. I phoned the school to try and find out what was going on and didn't get reassured. They claim to be constructing a pond and wildlife area, great, but the manner they are going about it seems very destructive. I've contacted the council about various bit today and asked to speak to the school head. i'd like some advice on what the school and contractor should have done, and is reasonable for me to ask about. so far i've thought of: -are there any tpos etc in place, work permitted? ive contacted the council to ask - was an eco survey done? is one needed? i'm thinking birds, foxes, hedge hogs, frogs, stag beatles...i've had all in my garden so probably in the woods, what survey should have been done? can i ask to see it? -risk assessment? what should have been done and can i ask? -public safety concerns over the bonfire. council contacted - environmental concerns re the fire. i'm guessing its effectively commercial waste and burning on site is wrong. council contacted -general lack of ppe makes me feel its a bunch of bodgers but is it a worthy complaint? anything else? i have also asked council about access from highway where i believe they have no right of access, and possible planning needs about a 'classroom' to built, maybe the change of use? maybe the construction of the pond and paths...but probably not the advice to expect here! thoughts? V Meldrew