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thought it might be, but thought (like the seller) it might be burnable if you have a waste oil burner

I'm not related to the seller in any way, but I know you guys are often after IBCs. I stumbled on this add by accident but possibly if you are close to newport on tay then there are 8 here, less than a day to go and they are at £5.50 th lot. you need to deal with the contents though... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Waste-Used-Hydraulic-Oil-Perfect-For-Waste-Oil-Heater/253849012044?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3Dfedda426f58d4a56b7ee2cb54bd4fc06%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D14%26sd%3D253849012044%26itm%3D253849012044&_trksid=p2481888.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A899f1e5d-b475-11e8-b036-74dbd180ecb5|parentrq%3Ac030e5e81650a9c4adabe838fffcbc47|iid%3A1

we not? Holly is a soft wood....isn't it? its ever green, so i thought that made it soft, no?

Visiting mum and dad yesterday, dad's very poorly, cancer has left him as skin and bones so he feels the chill. I arrived early evening to find he was feeling cold and had just climbed into bed. Lucky I'd arrived with another car boot full of dry wood splits, and a sack of kindling. Stove was soon burning beautifully and dad sat on the sofa beside it. Utterly priceless moment for me.

I quite like leylandii, its pretty dense for a softwood, denser than cedar by a way. Yew for the energy win though. My favorite for very close to oak like density, easy to split, easy to light .... so long as you don't have to deal with th prickles.....Holly. Always grab that when my tree surgeon mate has some in the pile

No reason given. It's clearly a fake offer, but I think these are legal, unfortunately.

Yep fake deal, amazon email, 'Your order has been cancelled. if you are still interested in this item follow this link to pay 3 times as much....'

yes, on one of the other sellers, where it says something like '3 new from £xxx'. They were £223 with 15" b+c

Ahh... looks like i got the last of this batch (fake batch?) as its back to £608.

If a saw does arrive, I'll check it's genuine and not stolen. Where's the serial number on these and I guess email husqvarna direct?

Ordered. Can't believe it will come. Firm believer if something seems too good to be true it usually is... But Amazon and credit card protection so... Estimated delivery 15 September. Having just bought s 365 from bill p, I have no need for a 550xp ... If by some miracle one arrives I'll have a dilemma, wtf to do!

Croydon (where I am) had just shrunk everybody's landfill wheelie, and replaced the recycling crates with wheelies (one for paper, another for glass, tin, plastic). It's clearly aimed at making it harder to just send to landfill and encouraging households to use the existing recycling more. Which is good. While I'd happily separate a bit more at home.... With my garden waste wheelie it's hard enough to store 4, let alone 5 or 6!

If bio mass power generators are sucking up so much logged timber, are they creating a viable market for ARB waste? I guess no one can provide the bio mass plant the guaranteed volume, but the firewood producers can pick up the ARB waste to fill the gap in logs? I know it doesn't go through processors, so cutting and splitting is much slower, which costs, but given the waste is cheaper does ARB waste make up the gap with a small increase in price for the end customer? I'll keep on scrounging up the wood and stockpiling my personal supply to give me 2 or 3 years security. Can't go beyond that, I'll have no garden left for the kids to play!

calcium can make some clays less claggy by making the small clay particles stick together into larger lumps, more like grains of sand. Ash is largely calcium carbonate. I'm no gardener so only go on what i read but the potassium in ash is what the plants want, its about 5%. The problem is ue too much and pH goes too high, to alkali, and more problematic on clay which is already alkali. Only way to be sure is to test the soil.

Allotments, good idea, loads of those very close by, I could even fill the green waste wheelie with saw dust and just about walk it to the nearest. I'll see if they have a contact and if they are interested.

Hmm, greasy ash and saw dust on the compost heap? I'd happily give to farmers, but not many near crystal palace. I have offered to any neighbours for pet bedding, not got shot of any though.

Currently I process about 12-15 cube a year at home and I compost as much of the sawdust as I can, mixing with my grass cuttings. I have too much though and the rest I hide in the wheelie. That's getting harder. Council have just shrunk our wheelie! Any other uses/disposal methods? I won't be making a bonfire, I find these anti social. I'll be carting loads to the recycling centre if need be. Similarly with ashes. I think I know all the uses and currently it goes through the compost and on to the garden. Bit concerned I'll be over liming a clay soil (London clay) and I think most earth worms don't like it so it slows them down from working on my compost. Think I may have to add some ashes to the already full wheelie. Open to ideas though. Cheers

Fairly dense, decent wood to burn

Oh I agree, and strive to burn very clean. I virtually never see smoke from my flue and get very little soot from the yearly flue sweep. Drying my own wood for 2 summers, splitting it small, burning it hot and fast. However as one of those, I suppose, middle class London dwellers I could instead of burning about 8 cube a year, go back to gas bills that are 3 times the size they are now. I started burning for the ambience, started processing my own wood to save money, found I liked chainsaws, axes and the stove, do it loads and save a lot. I feel smug doing a bit for sustainable energy/carbon emissions but guilty about any pollution, even though I minimise that and know if everyone burnt as cleanly as I did the problem would be tiny and probably not on the agenda.

Is there a balance that should be considered? Impact of local pollution from stoves Vs benefit of contribution to reduced carbon emissions from fossil fuels? It's comparing apples and pears, and very hard, but in a choice between gas/oil heating and wood heating the pros and cons should be considered.

Tax new stoves and you drive the wrong behaviour.... We all hang on to older stoves that are less efficient and less clean. So I doubt they will do it.

ratman, i know. stubby, if its cold enough there is steam, its made in efficent burning and eventually the cold air make it condense. that is the other very easy clue it isn't smoke... gap/clear coming from the chimney....plume suddenly appears in fresh air a metre or so up.....smoke don't do that! top down firefighting! personally i leave th pros to do it as they wish. As for firelighting,...bottom up is fine just use lots of kindling to get it roaring fast, that's my technique...smoke for 30 seconds if that i reckon. get the stove and the flue hot fast, get a good draw, get the secondaries going fast...get it all clean.

the wanky neighbours don't see smoke, they see steam condensing in the cold. ts white not black/grey

Enforcement of this, there lies the problem. There is so much that affects wood MC, it can reabsorb readily, and how do you even measure it? Meter? On what, one log, freshly split face, along the grain applying a certain minimum pressure to the pins, at the 'middle of the split' ... Or do you test multiple, or every log in the load? Is an average below 20% ok, or must every tested piece be that dry? Meters aren't the most accurate, should weight measurement and kiln drying be used to measure MC? Who is going to do it? Who is responsible for the product? You soon need a paper trail from producer to retailer to customer. Maybe instead the better way is customer education, customer responsibly too. Customer emits smoke, customer in trouble, but help them through education. How about clear, bold labelling on firewood products... Make it shocking even like smoking health warnings.' burning wet wood kills'. ' if your wood smolders and smokes it's wet, return it to your retailer for a refund and seek a better supply'

It does look like a minute sun in the middle of the stove.