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  1. neiln
    I have a couple of super old, pearce and use type, camping gas cans and blow torch that I cleared from dad's garage (he passed away last October). I don't feel too bad about using those up rather then binning them. How do you do it? Torch straight on a couple of splits? Any kindling or paper?
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    right, stacks are tarped, ive a few totes of wood in and ive split 3 large sacks of kindling. I'm ready to go. I like chainsawing, fiskaring and for kindling its more fun now i've got a better hatchet but its the volume.. with 2 small stoves of my own, and mum to supply for hers, i split a lot of kindling. I shall be experimenting with a few other lighting methods this winter....fire lighters and blow torches for 2....although it feels wrong!
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    Bought one earlier, bought a bigger chainsaw quicker, read Norwegian wood earlier, found here and arboristsite earlier,.... Mainly the bigger saw.
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    I'm like rob the sparky and my wife similarly does not use the stove if I'm not in. However ground floor is open plan and 2 stoves heat the whole house well enough down to just below freezing.... Combined with a tightness/determination to be frugal means I run the stoves as much as possible, which is about 50 hours per week (evenings and then more at weekends). One stove runs like that October to early may, the second stove as well mid November to mid April
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    yes well, I only cut firewood for myself too. I could still get by with the ms180 but f*** me, its a lot less painful to deal with big stuff with a big saw! I do think the 365 is overkill though, but if you are consistently dealing with stuff over 12" or so and hardwood then I'd say get a 50cc saw.
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    Yes it's a beast but it's heavy. I bought a (lightly) used one from bill Pearce on here, brilliant saw. Pulls a 20" bar in hardwoods very well. I've heard and believe it will pull up to 28" fine. I have a ms180 too which I use on all the stuff up to about 12" as it's so light. If the 180 died I'd probably make do with just the 365 but wouldn't like it. If I was starting fresh and found for a one saw plan I'd look for a 50cc saw and a 16-18" bar.
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    It's not unusual to have a chilly evening in September, even in the South, although hopefully it's not until mid October I'm burning regularly. By sometime in November I expect to be running both stoves every day in order to keep the Ch off and the wife happy. Still enjoying the sunshine and pleased to not be fetching wood in and feeding one or both for the moment though! My open wood stacks are uncovered all summer but I'm now watching the weather and will tarp them before it turns wetter. That's my cue to bring some in and to split a bit of kindling in readiness.
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    Stubby, £474 is head only and before vat. Great see though.
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    True WD is very thin. A bit of veg oil on a cloth wiped over the inside might be better.
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    Yes I if I did the inside I'd try to keep it off the bricks, although I doubt they would suffer in the slightest I'd remove them and spray the body behind them. The baffle in my stoves have a few rust spots so I'd do that maybe... That's about it.
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    You oil the outside? I guess it's stove black/polish finish not painted or enameled? Does it smoke when you next fire it up? I had been thinking solely about the inside and whether a couple of squirts of wd40 would help.
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    Makes sense to me that they last well if built well. If you aren't stupid, run them hot but not over fired, keep the bricks good and the door seals good, feed it dry wood, sit back and relax. I I've thought before, should I do anything special over the summer? I usually Hoover it out after sweeping the flue but then I have done the sweep a bit early and had another fire or two some years. I then just leave it with vents open so it breathes. My lined flue has a cowl on the top so little rain shouldn't get in but air flow always feels right to keep moisture at bay. Does anybody bother with anything more? A squirt of light oil or other water repellant for example?
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    Lol! Love the dog welfare comment!
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    I've never left it long before splitting. I will always try splitting any wood i scrounge when green, and mostly I find it splits best green. I guess that is very much the case for Euc. I've never had any large Euc either, can't remember for sure but probably had 15" ish max. Maybe the old heart wood gets harder?
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    lets be logical. are our circumstances different in a way that mean we need different regs? different city sizes or useage patterns or pollution affecting weather or economy or....? Then think, do we have or can we generate the resources to set our own, good (better) regs and is this a good use of public money or should we worry about other things and spend our taxes elsewhere? I'm not expert but I tend to think our differences are not that great and we have little to gain, so no, lets use what has already been developed by the EU (or US).
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    Australian Eucs, some at least, are incredibly dense, some of the gums sink in water they are so dense, and they are still very very dense after seasoning. E.gunni over here is a fast growing weed of a tree with a highish moisture content. I've never had it that size but have had it a few times and found it very straightfoward to fiskar. leave it alone and it splits itself almost and it dries out fast. often seems to grow twisted...or at least the few i've had have been that way. Smells great. splits easy, seasons fast but I would put it below leylandii as a stove fuel tbh, it gets fairly light. it does split easier than leylandii though.
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    I think you'll find they are copies of the US regs. hard to believe i know, but the EPA regs are tight and I'm fairly sure we/europe is simply copying and catching up.
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    Just back from a short break in the Cotswolds and a lovely cottage in stow that looked freshly done up. It had a couple of stoves that looked nice enough from the outside and being me, a keen stovist, I had to have a quick look inside. I didn't see a brand name but they felt cheap, the doors felt very light and flimsy. My guess is they won't last. My own 2 stoves are only in the £650 ish price range (a Stovax and Franco belge) but seeing or feeling these cheaper ones reaffirmed my thoughts that it's worth spending a little more. I'm not sure if you need to spend £650, or £450, but there are definitely still stoves that are 'too cheap' about.
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    Oooph! Still they will pay for themselves in what, 3 years I guess. I dunno TBF I've never bothered to get a sweep in so can only guess what they charge.
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    Typhoon, cyclone and soot eater are all the same kind of thing, power sweep systems. I had no way of knowing if paying more got something better but was nervous of a cheap system breaking and leaving the head and some rods stuck, so one of those rare situations where I was happier to pay more.
  21. neiln
    Those rods/head look like the ones I have, except mine are the screw together version.
  22. neiln
    I would assume the exact same for flue liners too. Promises of 10, 20 or 30 year warranty hahahaha. Buy a decent one but not because it's warranty lasts 30 years.
  23. neiln
    Super easy splitting and as dense as Oak, great, if only it were closer to SE19
  24. neiln
    fair enough. i broke a glass this winter gone....screws holding it were too tight (not my fault...i couldn't get them out), and my baffle has a little warp too. Although it was a cheapish replacement and the warp probaby speaks as much to the quality as my treatment. although like you i agree, run a stove hard and clean, but unlike you i stick to wood. I reckon its coal that causes most of the over fire damage. i think you'd have to really go for it to do damamge to a small stove with wood....do a hot reload and leave the air open and it will go very very hot but small stoves will burn though the fuel so fast i decent stove will survive fine...unless you do that repeatedly all day long!
  25. neiln
    I think you are over firing that stove.

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