trigger_andy

I love my Esse, easily the best £7000 Ive ever spent. To have constant near on free heat to the room, heat to cook with and Hot water even during power cuts is brilliant.

Really? Thats sad. My one is 11kw output. I think about 3kw to Water and 7.5-8kw to the Room/oven. I see the website states 7.3kw to the Room where as the older non-boiler version was 10.5kw to the Room. So where has the other 2-3kw gone? Still, how hard would it be to retro-fit a Boiler?

The Esse Ironheart seems to be Wood Fired only now, but still available and built to current regs. The Ironheart multifuel cooker warms the room too. WWW.ESSE.COM Our Ironheart multifuel cooker isn't just great for roast dinners, baking bread, and cooking pizza to perfection - it also keeps the whole room warm!

Because if they do their masters bidding whilst in office they are set for life?

Id agree with you there.

Why do you still find it ironic?

I’ll assume you can only store logs under the stove because they have been designed that way. The heat leak will be measurable and shown to be to a temp where logs will not combust. The sides of most Stoves get very hot which is clearly by design, you want to heat your room up. If engineered correctly I don’t really see the mystery here.

I've bought a few stunning Ash Sawlogs for under £100 a ton lately. Whilst this might have always been the price I'd not have had them if there was no ADB.

I can see less and less lads being willing to give up their logs for nothing or even token offerings as times get harder and harder. Every penny will count for a lot of people soon. I see more and more posts on FB Market place from Tree Surgeons selling Arb Waste at the side of the road or off the back of the truck on a first come first served basis and see to sell the relatively quickly as well. Whilst at the same time huge numbers of folk signing up for tip-site. Seems to be a big disconnect between want and reality.

Fair enough. I dont have asthma. My mill expels the sawdust at the other side to me. Occasionally the wind will lift the dust/chips and blow them in my eye but that very occasionally and its not happened since I fitted a downward pipe. I agree, its all about managing risk. For example my brother lived in central London and developed asthma and nose polyps from the pollution. He'd have been better off wearing a mask than I'll ever be Milling outdoors.

Ive a 1-1.2m diameter standing dead Beech Butt to mill at some point. Nicely spalted from what I can see and bone dry. (if it will mill of course)

I do get what you’re saying but a big sawmill sounds like an enclosed set-up and not outside in the fresh air. Each to their own but it’s not for me.

what leads you to that conclusion other than the pictures we're seeing? As the pictures we're seeing certainly do not show any spalting. They look kinda like these logs I clogged up and they are certainly not Spalted.

I think there will be a lot of good deals for the upcoming season due to all the windblown previously mentioned. Once thats been sold and folk have to start buying their supplies from timber merchants again I can see the good times ending sharpish, unless there is another severe storm again. Ive done well out of the Storm. Had 15 trees come down in the Garden that would have been tricky not to drop on the holiday cottages next door, the wind dropped them on the holiday cottage next door and took the responsibility off me. 30t of mostly Beech delivered for the fuel cost, so about £200. Cant complain.

Not to close to the fire I hope?

And Beech like in the pic will be quite nice when milled as well. A lot more interesting than regular Beech. I made my 4 meter long Workbench out of Beech and that had similar colouring. Worth saving if you're interesting in milling but with so much of it down just now and little public interest I dont waste time on it when I could be milling Oak or Elm.

But the Op does produce firewood….. My moneys on he rings it for firewood.

That was for Oak and Elm. I mentioned that further down. I did not include beech in that. I also said in this thread that I’ve been making firewood out of very similar Beech logs. I’d not do that with Oak or Elm.

I like the way you think. Since you posted that comment I noticed the amount of tags he's added to this thread. Deffo something fishy going on here.

The sad fact is at £200 he'd be better off clogging them up for firewood.

I was thinking of filling ton bags. How much do you charge for them? I had really hoped to get on with the Cabin this summer but just no time for it just now. Been concentrating on other outdoor projects plus firewood production. Then the missus wanted a kitchen island and a breakfast bar last time I was home. Had my building warrant approved today for removing an internal structural wall between the kitchen and dining room so that will be on the cards soon. Then its a new kitchen to install. Never ends. I've a few new parts for the Logosol that I need to mill the beams so I think I'll make a start on molding them in September on rainy days. Ive 5 Sitka Trees to remove from the Cabin site, then I need to get a man in with a monster Stump Grinder to grind out all the stumps that where there. Then its prep for a cement pad, drainage, services etc. Ive 60 x 6" Beams drying though and the more dry they get stickered the less settling I'll have to deal with when I build the cabin. Silver linings and all that.

You location would help..... Fully seasoned Id expect to pay a minimum of £100 a cubic foot. So at least £200 if 2" thick although personally I'd not sell that cheap. You'll most likely have to pay for the other live edge you or the sawmill will cut off so expect to pay about another 1/4 to 1/3rd more than this. If it was me selling a 4.2m Oak or Elm Slab thats a minimum of 600mm wide (before cutting to your chosen width) and 2" thick Id want and would not sell for less than £500, and I think thats cheap.

Either of them smokers?

Ive a good extractor for the workshop and a dual bagger 3ph unit for when I start log molding for my Cabin.

I'm paying £45 a ton for stems like that just now. I was tempted to mill them as Im sure they'd have some stunning colours but I just clogged them for firewood. They look freshly felled and had the same colours as your logs. If thats the case then I doubt they are spalted.