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    I've just gone through the registration process to see what they are after - and it looks like it will cost £54 for the initial application - as to whether there is a annual recertification (likely) and what charge that would be...who knows... As part of the process I have to upload a quality manual and if I don't have one, they will email me a template of one that I can use (currently under construction!!!!!!) So I don't have to do anything until they do something it now means. I think I can stomach £54 and a few forms to enable me to get the RHI. I should have said - I will be leaving it until the very last minute and certainly won't be signing up unless I absolutely have to.
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    @gdh, Where did you get that group of files from? Is it downloadable from the internet or did you have to apply for it? I've been on the BSL, Woodsure and Readytoburn web pages and apart from a single application form on the Woodsure website, I can't find much info. I'm a self-supplier so unless things change, it looks like I'm going to have to certify to myself that my wood is good for me to burn - which I already know it is as it is all air seasoned for between 18-24 months (and I have a cheapy moisture meter 🤣 to confirm this). Looks like it could cost me between 5 and 10% of my RHI payments from a quick calc, so not the worst news, but it is still money going out for no good reason - a tax on carbon efficient fuel.
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    Received my letter today. I'm registered as a 'self supplier' so that I can reclaim the RHI for my biomass central heating system. Not quite sure (yet) what I need to do to continue to claim the RHI but as I've got about 3-4 years left on my RHI claim, I don't want to lose that! I'm watching with interest!
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    Hi Kev, I have a biomass central heating system - boiler and thermal store in my garage and pipes running to the house. My distance from store to house is probably 20m or so. My installers ran a pair of pipes to my pumping station where it then breaks into 3 systems (ie 3 pumps), 1 for DHW and 2 for CH (one downstairs loop, one upstairs loop). Insulated pipe is buried in the ground between the garage and house, pipework in the garage is just insulated with pipe covering foam stuff - I could probably add some more but too many other jobs.... I have one set of isolating valves, which disconnects the house from the boiler/store and then magnaclean filters on each CH circuit with their isolation valves. I don't have any way of individually isolating one circuit from another though.
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    I thought I'd have a go at some silver birch that's been felled for about 3 years now. Might have been rotten but there was only one way to find out. Maybe 5 but probably 4 boards out of it. Milled quite thin (1.5") not sure what I'm going to do with them though.....
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    Big birch

    TuscanPhil replied to AHPP's topic in General chat

    @Rough HewnCan any nice / good / useful etc planks be milled from Silver Birch? I have a trunk down in my garden (might be rotten by now) that I keep trying to find some time to have a go at milling instead of turning into firewood logs for my consumption.
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    Can't help I'm afraid, but if you do end up scrapping the rest, I might be interested as I have a JB M300 that might need a few parts - the one I have is just for garden use (not commercial) and it will hopefully live long enough for me, but a 'donor' could prove useful - albeit I'm not that close, but not too far also.
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    Send me a PM and let's chat!
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    And finally Log 8 felled in Aug 2020: Base - 50cm Top - 40cm Length - 7m
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    Log 7: Base - 30cm Top - 30cm Length - 3.6m There is a lesion? where the branch was rubbing against another stem - see photo.
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    Log 6: Base - 45cm Top - 35cm Length - 10m
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    Log 5: Top - 40cm Base - 40cm Length - 3.6m
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    Log 4: Top - 60cm Base - 50cm Length - 6.5m
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    Log 3: Top - 40cm base - 30cm Length 3.5m
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    Log 2: Base - 50cm dia 'top' - 38-40cm dia Base to 'top' length - 5.8m total length 8.5m
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    All sizes are approximate! Log 1: Base - 50cm dia 1st union (branch) 40cm dia Dist to 1st union - 5m Full length - 9.5m (but this bit is probably just firewood at a guess)
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    I had 5 oaks felled a few weeks ago (well early June 2021 to be exact) and I need to 'clear them up - be that selling the logs on, or turning them into firewood etc. However, I'm not sure if they have any value to millers (or indeed if there re any nearby millers that would want to buy them) and if not, I'll just end up turning them into rings, then splitting / seasoning them and using them in my biomass boiler to heat my house. Over to you lot to advise me on what best to do with them. Oh, the last log was felled in Aug 2020 so has been down a year now. If you want any additional details or photos, please ask. All are located 'roadside with sufficient access and are in between Gloucester and Newent. Standby for multiple posts - one 'log' to a post to try and keep ambiguity down.
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    Another 'play' today with an oak log felled last August - my trusty (42 year old) chainsaw had the odd issue but nothing insurmountable. 5 planks was the end result (and some sawdust) and I decided to put them through my new planer thicknesser (even more sawdust / chips etc) before I let them season. My thinking for this is that they are destined for 'rustic' garden furniture, so any warping as they season wont matter as they are already planed smooth. I figure I'd lose less board by planing them now rather than after they've seasoned when I might lose more due to cupping etc. They are now stickered and stacked on my (flat) garage floor - no space in my woodshed at the moment. They are about 7.5 ft long and up to 1ft wide - milled at 1.5" and planed down till they were near enough mark free but not totally. Destined to be my garden bench / seat / table etc etc
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    Looks Good!! Are they 3" boards? I have some oaks felled a few weeks ago that I might plank up, might see if anyone on here wants them, or might just (sadly) turn them into firewood, of which I can make comfortable use!
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    Photos (in order): JB M300, Stiga mower, Honda mower, Wacker plate, Leaf vacuum, Log splitter (mains and before anyone starts - my pump only runs whilst the ram is in motion, hence the low hours).
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    Yup, done that to my log splitter as well!! Had to buy from China, so a slightly longer wait for it to arrive, but simple to wire in (if you are 240V electrically savvy) and then I just cut a square hole in the wiring box on the side of the splitter. I didn't buy from this seller, the one I bought is no longer available, but it is the same make and model pretty much HM-1 Timer Square Counter 0-99999.9 Hour Meter Hourmeter Gauge 0.3W AC220-240V WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Relative humidity: fully sealed. Size: 7.2cm(2.83in) × 7.2cm(2.83in) × 4.1cm(1.61in). Due to the difference between different monitors, the picture may not reflect the actual...
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    I'll take some photos later today.
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    I've put one of those on various bits of kit. I think I have about 5 or 6 in use. The longest is about 3-4 years (on a lawn mower) and is still counting well. I've bought them as cheap as about £4.00 and all work just as well. Simply wrap the supplied wire around the HT lead (near the plug) and secure it with tape or a tiewrap and the push the wire into the slot on the underside of the unit. I tend to mount them on the air filter but make sure you leave enough slack in the wire so you can get the air filter off again!!

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