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What don’t you understand? Or should I say what are you turning a blind eye to here?

If Mark J liked it it saves me bothering to watch it.

It’s not like Stoves create dust like an open fire. I’ve not noticed any discernible levels of dust in either of the rooms we run 10/11kw stoves but on the other hand I don’t do the cleaning and my wife does not work 🤣 Currently we are burning “slab/scab” off-cuts. Lots of reloading, lots of ash in the pan but I can’t say I’ve seen an increase in dust in the room.

This very much depends on the level of insulation your room has. I’m in a sized living room but run a 10kw with no issues, and I run it fairly hard.

I don’t buy the log scarcity line at all. If there is a market someone will be selling. The fact that the guy above can’t take on more orders shows to me there is a gap in the market for someone to step in and soak up what he can’t handle. And they will, without a split second of a doubt. Not to mention Eastern European Imports. Off-cuts are fine as long as they are solid wood, they just burn hot and fast. Great for a flue clean out, Great for cooking with, great for mixing in with dense hardwoods like oak.

We had an oil fired Rayburn until we replaced it with a wood fired Esse Ironheart. Although we did not look to see if we could convert the Rayburn from oil to solid fuel I’d think after the numerous repairs the Rayburn had had that the conversion (if at all possible) it would be a monumental task that would simply not be worth it when you take into account the efficiency of modern stoves. Rip the dinosaur out and bang something that’s genuinely up to the task that you’re asking of it and save some fuel to boot.

Plenty of easily led cranks wearing battered old masks that look riddled with germs darting about the shops with they’re eyes swivelling about in their heads. More power to them, it should have been like this from the start.

Just like clockwork you pop up like a Jack-in-the-box on a Friday Night after a few tinnies fighting the fine fight of blowing Mark off. Well done….

Mark is allowed to dodge tax, BP is not supposedly.

It’s odd how 17c outside feels really nice but in the house it’s uncomfortable. Unless it’s the bedroom when as close to zero my idea of heaven and the wife’s idea of hell. 🤣

Same here. I’ll be burning the whole year as the kitchen stove does the cooking and hot water. The living room stove still gets lit at 07:00 but we will see how long that carries on for. I’m not paying £1.17 a litre for heating oil. Either the price comes down and I will buy more or we will continue to run two stoves which costs me virtually nothing to run. With the wood fired central heating going in later this summer I hope my oil dependency in the winter months drips to near on zero.

We’re talking loft flooring here. The owner may or may not be overly fussed.

As I understand it the boards will not shrink by any significant amount longitudinally. Yes, there will be gaps created when the boards dry and shrink across the width of the boards. With Ash being naturally dryer than say Oak would there be as much as 10% shrinkage? Pre-drilling the boards before screwing them down might alleviate and cracking. This is what I’ve done with the Spruce floor in my workshop and a large decking area I’ve laid in Larch. Neither have cracked, the gaps don’t bother me as getting the shop built was more important to me than gaps in the flooring. We also clad my brothers workshop/office and the front of my workshop in green larch board and baton with the boards nailed down with no pre-drilling and no issues either. All I was really saying is if it’s a loft floor, in a garage and the owner would rather crack on now and not a years time I don’t see a significant risk in just banging them down.

If he’s not planning on using the loft for anything other than storage perhaps they could just be banged in green? I’d also mill at an inch and a half

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I used to think the same but without the machinery to get such trees roadside and then home it’s simply not worth the hassle. It’s actually cheaper to pay the £60-80 a ton roadside prices.

Cant they just jack it up and put something like strong boys in place and replace the bottom boards? Imagine taking them for £3k and not even install gutters? Fools and their money and all that

Why does the Splitter need to run off a PTO? Why not a petrol powered Splitter that has its own tow hitch? Mine is 22T

Its my brothers build so Im not 100% sure? I asked him if he added Lime to the mix but he said no, I will be unless there is a good reason not to-He normally has a layer of insulation followed by chicken wire to secure then a render but I do not see the point with the fire bricks, regular bricks maybe, with the test fire and further larger fires there was very little heat loss We picked up several hundred tapered fire bricks that came from some kind of kiln, perfect for this application I think? The dome was created with an exercise ball then paper mache. Then plaster over the Paper mache.

This is my brothers 3rd Pizza oven build. We’ll be starting mine this summer. They work very well. This is a previous build

Now that we can agree on! Imagine our political leaders, regardless of their affiliation or in power or not where held accountable for their actions? I mean properly held accountable, French revolution style 😁

Where you planning on making a reply Eggs or do you still have the morning shakes?

I wonder if our resident tax Dodger will be as vocal in calling for Rayner and Starmers head as he is for the Tories? Im very curious to see what excuses he comes up with this time 😁 Labour's lockdown lies: Angela Rayner WAS at Keir Starmer's 'beergate' event despite denying it | Daily Mail Online WWW.DAILYMAIL.CO.UK Labour acknowledged that Angela Rayner was also at the event on April 30 last year at which Sir Keir was filmed...

I find firewood production and milling keeps me in shape, I am 6,1 and down to bang on 14 stone on the nose, might even be less now Ive been off-shore for near on two weeks now and not had my usual 6 pack of beer

You get what you pay for really, I am certainly glad I stretched myseklf and went for the Logosol over a Woodlands, but equally if all I could have afforded at the time was the Woodlands Im sure I would have been initially happy I keep my Logosol out in all weather 24/7 with no cover, not a spot of rust on it, I also demand a lot from my equipment and push them hard and its taken it all