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Sustainable by single tree? No. Sustainable by managed forest. With enough trees growing a little each year to replace the carbon released from those harvested each year (after accounting for processing)

power is a rate of doing work, ie energy per unit of time. Watts. Watt = Joule per second. energy is Joule, or power multiplied by a time period, kWHr.

with all the gumtree/facebook group etc ads you see for a few bits of rotten timber/piles of painted or treated wood, broken fence panels and general mess, I sort of think they know its worthless but are trying on in the hope some mug will not know better and will clear their mess away for them, but this? WTF? they've had a tree felled and asked for the wood to be left by the looks.....do they actually really think its worth money? 50 quid if delivered, fine, but to collect? Oh dear.

Another hobbyist here. Suburban London but found a local and friendly tree surgeon that just wants logs gone. I get all I need for myself and my mum too, mainly hardwood with enough cypress or such for getting the stove going. ~26 m³ stacked in the garden.... Yes... Yes it's taken over a bit! I enjoy chainsaws, a lot. I really really enjoy the axe/maul. I don't find stacking exciting but it's ok. I also enjoy heating the house for free.... Mains gas is cheaper than most heating fuels but I still save a fortune! Customer says he doesn't have the space? Pff, give him 3 pallets and a £10 tarp, he can stack and dry 3-4m³.... More if he stacks well and it doesn't fall over. 3/5 of mine is like this, along one fence of the back garden. However... As others have said, some will realise an ms180, ppe, and x27 etc will only set him back£300-400 quid... Paid for in a year if they can scrounge the wood up. So maybe supply those that want to split themselves too?

Maybe check out Saltfire. Stovefitterswarehouse seem a straight up bunch and they seem to like them. However if you could stretch to £600-£650 the choices of decently made stoves open up loads. Don't forget to budget for liner or any other bits you need to fit the stove.

2 burners here too, and feeding them is a pain in a way, but rewarding too...its using the wood I put the effort in to scrounging and processing. i use ikea blue tote bags (doubled up) to carry the wood in, and an old pram so i can get 4 from the shed to the conservatory in one go.

Haha! Yes of course no two winters are alike. Although autumn and early winter have been very mild my gut feel is that we will get much colder yet. Although I doubt I could run out of dry wood....I may have over produced for myself as well as used little so far!

Grabbing wood from the shed today and it seemed I've not used much...its been mild. It made me think, when is the middle of the burn season, for estimating consumption? I always think it is more likely to be cold in late winter than early winter and factoring that in slightly I reckon mid to late Jan is perhaps the half way point...about 3.5 weeks on from now maybe, what do you think?

Yes that's what I meant, glad you're safe.

However I would worry if the skirting is near...too near the wood burner

Nope, not been near any wood in months. Family stuff.

Like Rob the sparky I started with the same kit. Found the maul dire, would stick firm a lot, so I soon upgraded to an x27. Gave the maul to my brother as a spare and he seems to get on better with it. Also agree that wood grenades are dire in the wood I get and have had the same, nail the round to the block experience several times. Roughneck do twist wedges for about £6 or £8, my last resort is 3 of those but I'll grab the 365 X torq and noodle unless I know there is buried debris. Like Bob z I, I'm stunned how well the x17 does. I've learnt to use a very low block and crouch though ... First time I used it, set the small round on a tall block, a knot caused the axe to split out the side and deflected it past the block.....a&e and 3 stitches in the shin resulted.... Short axes are more dangerous. I'm tempted by a double bit but there aren't many available in the UK. Not paying £235 for the gransfors, not for something that is just a 'cool looking axe'. Don't see many on eBay UK either....I guess they are mainly a US axe design.

You can get it for far less than that. x39 here for £51 https://garden.jardinitis.com/productos/herramientas-de-jardineria-y-bricolaje/herramientas-de-jardineria-1/serruchos-sierras-y-hachas/maza-cuna-fiskars-2-5-kg-novagrip-prevea-golpes?gclid=CjwKCAiAjNjgBRAgEiwAGLlf2oyCbBhRgFKfunXiDMXAimRgubhIMWGd7b3f-xFnoL4rEG22giJOFxoC_oAQAvD_BwE that's a 6lb head maul there's a true big boy, x46, which i think is an 8lb head £80 on amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004BTZKJM/ref=asc_df_B004BTZKJM57517164/?tag=googshopuk-21&creative=22110&creativeASIN=B004BTZKJM&linkCode=df0&hvadid=258536951956&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2557673180365096043&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9045877&hvtargid=pla-437658674296&th=1&psc=1 the construction of these looks to be fairly simple head and standard fit f a standrd fibreglass handle ....could be wrong, just going on photos. The isocore looks a lot better to me. https://www.amazon.com/Fiskars-Core-Maul-Inch-751110-1001/dp/B014M9LQGG?_encoding=UTF8&path=%2FFiskars-Core-Maul-Inch-751110-1001%2Fdp%2FB014M9LQGG&useRedirectOnSuccess=1& and wow! there's a seller that will sell and ship to the UK for just under $70, last time i look I couldn't get it for less than £95-£100. Tempted to order one....although th 8lb pro stihl maul/cleaving hammer (same as the 8lb oschenkof, just red not yellow)is already in my garage...hmm..

I agree with Stere, and Buckin' Billy on the 'tube - take several axes to the wood pile as no one axe is best for every lump/wood. Having said that the x27 is my got to starting point, a great performer n most stuff and lght enough to swing for ages. Still need more weight for stubborn stuff - 8lb Stihl Pro maul/cleaving hammer is what i have although if i cold have got a fiskar isocore I would have (even emailed fiskars uk....no intention to bring it here they said). my x17 gets a surprisng amount of use, bought to split easy stuff fast it come out a lot now. I've been getting some quality vintage/traditional axes over the last year and do like my 2/34Lb Elwell on 28" haft althogh its a chopper really so will stick if the wood doesn't pop. Need to rehang as the head has come loose. I've also picked up a 6lb Wetterlings, 4.5lb HB, 2 1/4lb Wetterlings, 4lb Kelly True temper Jersey pattern and a few more all need new hafts...

I'd have thought a glass is at risk of pouring/tipping log chunks in from above.

Don't worry, the rest of the country isn't missing out, it's been a mild but wet autumn/start to winter here in London too.

Mild everywhere. I had both stoves on an over did it 2 days ago.....24C downstairs, 20 in the bedrooms upstairs, still 19C in th morning, still 18C yesterday so nothing lit, still 17C this evening....lit one stove to ensure its not chilly in the morning really. This is south London. I reckon it'll be a harsh late winter though.... hope so...I bought a sledge and my 3yo will love it!

Hmmm... it seems as of tonight I now need new glass. I always thought only muppets broke glass, either by trying to shut the door on a log that was too big to fit, or poorly putting a big heavy log in on a pile and having it roll heavily into the glass. Tonight i lit the stove as usual (lots of paper, a squirt of lighter gel, 7 or 8 little bits of kindling and then 3 very small logs) didn't take og for the flue thermometer to show 270C, and I shut the primary vent completely and nudged the air wash a tad. 15 minute later flames are gone, the small logs are down to coals and I grab 2 logs to reload and...wtf? door glass with a crack right across. weird. oh well. 5 minutes on google and I ordered replacement for £21 delivered.

I bought them after reading on arbsite(the mainly us equivalent of here) that several guys found them so good they no longer used their grinders. It's easy to use and results initially seemed great, but the 3/8 picco has got weird as it's worn down. The standard 3/8 chain on my bigger saw gets much less use so it will be a long while before the same problem becomes apparent if it is a fault with all the sizes of 2in1. I'm undecided..... Probably keep using them for now but if they do weird things to another chain then I may eBay them.

Yeah, I've pulled the round file from the 2in 1 and done that free hand. Would be nice if the 2in1 worked better though.

If you aren't getting dirty glass then you aren't making smoke/creosote and your flue will be clean BUT if you haven't swept your flue at since last year you should.... And that will confirm it's clean.

Yeah you are right, my standard 3/8" chain 2 in1 does indeed use 5.2mm round. That one seems to work well.... It's the file for the 3/8 picco micro chain on the ms180 that has resulted in a very very odd tooth as it's got more worn.

husqvarna manual says gear oil, ep80, if chain oil not available....so when clearing out dad's garage and I found 3 litres, in the saw it went. I forgot how gear oil stinks of sulphur until...eeuuk!. Ive also used up some left over 15 wt40 engine oil (mixed 50/50 with chain oil) with no ill effects. If the viscosity is about right, and its not a drying oil, it will work fine, but any non veg oil is a pollutant. veg oils are drying, but many, like rape and sunflower, take a long long long long time and are likely to go rancid first.

Like rob my two stoves are fitted snuggly into fireplaces and the fans do a job of getting more air flowing around the stove and out into the room, rather than heating the brickwork around the stove quite so much maria's fan is pulling cold air over it, the motor will be fine. The instructions say don't put infront of the pipe as that would be trying to pull much armer air then. the result is the cooling fins don't get cooled so well, the temp difference across the teg is less, the teg generates little voltage, the fan spins slowly pulling little cooling air...and the result, as well as a slow and useless fan, is the teg getting too hot and frazzling. maria's is pulling cool air and blowing it at the pipe, that's fine.

Split small enough for a 5kW stove (12" long and 3-4" wide) by Christmas and It will most likely be under 20% for next winter. It may be better the following winter though. You could try the ghetto solar kiln by wrapping with pallet wrap. Get it right and it'll be down to just a few prevent moisture by the end of the summer.