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that monster oak stem? I'd have happily taken a little, a lot or all of that. I'm very northern point of Croydon borough, Upper Norwood, near crystal Palace. I'll PM you my details if you have anything in this area, and as I said I'm on the tip site directory. Happy to give a few quid for a load, and a few more quid for a load of good stuff like Oak. I suspect between nepia and I we can take are of a lot of arb waste from croydon, merton, bromley etc!

Happy to pay a fair amount for a bit of ARB waste. I've pushed cash into my usual guy's hand but he refuses, but I'll keep trying.

As a scrounger that bucks and splits my own, I'm suspecting it'll be harder to scrounge this spring and summer as I am guessing tree surgeons will have a lot less work then normal. Oh well, next winter's was CSS last spring and summer so I've time to rebuild my at stacks.... Or I turn the gas Ch on for winter 21/22.

I had a chain, i think it was one of the northern arb supplies/piranha chains, where just a couple of links had rakers that the file would not touch, far too hard, file just skated over. chain was never on a grinder, hand filed until dead, never managed to take those 2 or 3 rakers down, the cutters filed ok though

Yes you could call them....a groundie? Being serious for a moment though, I am at the very Northern edge of Croydon borough, SE19, and although I don't have the time to come and ring that up I can take it if you want a tip site, and I've enough saw to deal with it.... If you've lifted it into your truck, I can deal with it here. Look in the tip site directory for my number or pm me. You'll find my place easily...I currently have about 4m³ is Oak, sweet chestnut and Lawson cypress on the front lawn which I did collect yesterday in the Octavia (multiple trips to a nearby tree surgeon)..... Wife would do her nut if I went out again today for more wood!

I'm in north Croydon, yeah go on, you can drop the rings at my place for just £250 so long as you say thank you. Oh and I'll loan you my snow shovel for £20

And a damp cloth dipped in ash is great for any sooty deposits.

Same here, ash haze only. Gets a wipe with a bit of newspaper ball I'm using to start a fire maybe weekly, and a wipe with damp kitchen roll every couple of weeks maybe..... It's nice for a day or two before building up a bit of haze again

I have limited control of my DEFRA approved stovax, and need to pay attention to the wood I load (type, size and amount) or else it'll be too hot. I shoved 2 pieces of Holly on it the other day, bit of a hot reload as I had a lot of coals still, but thought one large and one smaller bit of Holly would be ok..... 90 seconds later I was sweating, physically and nervously, as the flue thermometer hit 450C and the ir thermometer backed that up. That was with all vents as closed as they go. It is tricky to run sometimes! However with two logs temps were dropping in only 15 minutes, down to about 300C after half an hour and 20 minutes later I was loading again with no harm done. I have warped the baffle a bit over time, but not seriously. I just take more care with the log type, size and number these days, oh and if it's ' woomph! Wood' then I make sure to let the previous load burn right down before reloading, hot reloads can be a problem as I just described!

Your comparing apples and oranges. £65/ton roadside for fresh felled, processor length and diameter (8' *6-12") straight hardwood ready to buck and split and season. Vs your price for the end product. The ton of the former does.. Not sure...3m³?

Having installed a second stove, and since dad passed away I've taken on supplying mum with logs too, so my consumption almost doubled. First year of that was fine, o managed to get loads and loads and a huge percentage was Oak, so I filled my boots and probably processed 1.5 years worth of wood to get to 2 years ahead at the new consumption. However last year was more difficult, the guy was just doing less take downs and more small pruning work. I managed to scrounge 2-3 cube from neighbours that had trees removed but even so my supply looks like it'll be down a cube or 2 by the end of the winter. Hence I thought I'd try the directory too.

I pay nothing. I collect ARB waste from a local tree surgeon who has no yard space. I've had ~50m³ over 5 years, probably 2/3rds hardwood but it varies. I take some soft as I like some and it helps him. I'm very lucky I know, I have tried to press cash into his hand but he refuses! I once paid another guy 50 quid for Transit tipper load of Ash rounds which probably made 3-3.5m³ but was an absolute pig to split. I'd be happier paying more like £30 for that amount, and £10-20 ish for similar volume of softwood. Oh and I added myself to the tip site directory last weekend, I'll pay beer tokens but not more at the moment.

I'm interested likewise, although I collect mine from my befriended tree surgeon's convenient waste stack, he texts me when there's decent stuff there. I have also signed up to the tip site directory just this weekend. I'm confident ARB waste would not be affected by this bill, it's not a ready to burn fuel by any description. I'm not quite sure how the bill will affect me and other scroungers.... Ready to burn wood will cost a bit more and some that currently buy may be turned to scrounging and competing with me, but I suspect life may actually get much easier. The tree surgeon's that do a few tens of cube of firewood to keep busy on slow days and the other smaller scale guys processing ARB waste aren't likely to bother with wood sure certificates and many may give it up, thereby increasing the supply of ARB waste for scroungers like me. Overall though, I suspect any change will be slow and slight.

to fill gaps invisibly you don't use a filler! you take the 'flour' from sanding the floor and mix with epoxy and use that.

SE19, Upper Norwood tip site for hard and soft wood logs for firewood Where? This tip site is my house, located in Upper Norwood, easily reached from surrounding areas such as Streatham, Thornton Heath, Crystal Palace, Herne Hill, Dulwich etc. Access? Access is good and will be no problem for transit-tipper size vehicles as the street is fairly quiet, wide and not chock full of parked cars. What? I will happily accept most hard and softwood logs, happy with cypress, leylandii although obviously I prefer hardwoods. About the only thing I'll always pass on is willow as it is sometimes a total PITA to split by hand! (please call or text me to check) I'll take stuff 6" diameter and up, and as long as its not so big I can't lift/roll/move it by hand then I can take up to 3' diameter, and any reasonable length, say up to 6'. Basically so long as your groundie didn't give himself a hernia lifting the limb/ring/whatever into the truck bed by hand then I'll probably be ok to deal with it (although the more manageable the better please!) Conditions? Clean logs only please, if you know its got loads of nails/chainlink/barbed wire/brick etc in it then my chains don't like it any more than yours, so no thanks. No brush or chip thanks Logs only, no treated wood/fence posts etc. Smaller logs I'm happy for you to tip on to my front lawn. Larger logs that may chew the grass up, please off load by hand. Please don't tip on the drive, it'll smash it. Alternatively, you can tip on the grass verge in front of my house and I'll shift it from there. Please call or text in advance to make sure I've room and to get directions/instructions Many thanks!

yes. as someone on mains gas let alone as someone in zone 3 london I suspect I'm a freak to have 26 to 28m3 of wood seasoning in the garden by the end of each summer (2 years worth supply for me for full heat, and mum for ambiance) ?

Or doesn't help when articles or discussions mix greenhouse gas emissions with particulate emissions, these are two different issues.

Agree Norwegian wood is a great book. To heat with wood through choice you have to enjoy it, the fire I mean. To cut, split and stack the wood yourself you must also enjoy that bit. Currently I love it, when I get bored ... I'll do a lot less and happily run the gas Ch.

I agree wood if bought would be more costly than mains gas but my estimate, based on my reduced gas bill and adding a bit more as the house is warmer with wood, each cube of mixed wood saves me ~£60. So £60 gas = about £100 of logs. Ish.

similarly, my mum has one stove which she runs evenings and a little bit more, supplementing the gas CH, she burns through about 3 m3. I have 2 stoves, run them as much as needed to heat the house and only run the gas CH a teenie bit, maybe once a month. Last winter I burnt 8 m3, this winter I'm on for burning about 10m3. I probably used the CH twice as much last year, I've been home a little more this year.

I'm not expert but I think the EU regs have been following the American EPA regs, including the new ones coming along. Woodworks, a lot of the burn time comes simply by having a large firebox with a lot of fuel, but the cat stoves do allow the burn rate to be slowed much much more than the purely air controlled stoves. It seems, when running low the firebox is only warm and the wood smolders, the cat is separate from the firebox and burns the smoke emitting most of the heat from the stove in "low' and just enough of the heat keeps the firebox temp at smolder. I understand they are cleaner than non cat stoves as the regs ensure they allow for some cat degradation over time. All regulated by a thermostat so the user does very little other than reload every 12/24 hours ish. It must be a very different experience, more akin to a boiler or furnace...functional but probably not very homely/ambient. I put this in the wrong spot didn't I, sorry, should have been in the stove sub forum.

ooo, do you have any experience with them alycidon? i wonder what the burn time is at various outputs.

The big US stoves like the Blaze King Princess or King will do way more than that, ok they are large lumps of stove too and would be out of place in a small..or average UK stove, but then they are heating bigger houses and giving 12 hour burns in cold climates (0F and below), milder climates result in 24 hour or even longer burns

More single wall will also cool the gases too much and cresote up the flue, I'd spend the extra on twin wall.

I'd not be surprised if your stove runs more like 220 ish days a year (chilly nights in early September through to early may, a month at either end being sporadic). And a nominal 5KW stove usually has a min/max of around 3/7kW so your 4 kW estimate may be low too. However the cutting and splitting has to be fun or it's A BIG chore.