Rough Hewn
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Find it. I was thinking of you when I posted it. [emoji6][emoji106]
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Got sent this [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
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He's put a clip over the dead mans and the throttle. Interesting about the Lucas mill. The beam maker looks very useful[emoji106] Found the diagonal Alaskan milling hard to watch. [emoji849] Looked like ash too.[emoji51] Love to know more about Lucas mills. [emoji3][emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
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Nice bit of kit [emoji106]
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Only when the wind blows... Then I'd need a large collection of lead batteries which would need changing every 5-10 years. That's why I'm thinking of using ponds. The idea I've been looking in to is as low maintenance and as simple as possible. The wind and solar pump are always on. Would still need to use a few batteries as a voltage/current regulator. Also the ponds would be so much more biodiversity friendly than a row of deep cycle lead/acid batteries. (You can't swim in a lead battery either) The best option is to get an old water mill and put a 3phase dynamo on. Make a tasty sawmill and workshop. [emoji106]
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I've been planning an ecological friendly "house/workshop battery" for a long time now. It's quite niche, but very simple. You have two or more large ponds, on a hill side. One near the top, the other near the bottom. You use a small wind pump and a solar pump to push water to the top pond. A small turbine in the down hill. A water battery. The bigger the ponds, the greater the fall of water, the more potential energy. Wouldn't work everywhere for everyone, but it's my plan if I don't have a river. [emoji106]
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Selling my unreliable dinosaws and buying new reliable saws was one of the best things I've done. A 50cc Saw with 16" bar should be fine for firewood. Husky faster but unreliable, Stihl more expensive but reliable. Dolmar,Makita,echo etc no idea. Just my experience. What's your nearest dealer?
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Yes. They will have dried nicely. [emoji106]
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What? A kit house made from local grown high quality timber? With eco insulation... Sounds like a business plan J. [emoji106]
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I could only do 5 minutes of David Icke. There will always be sociopaths bent on ruling everything. Again look at history. The evolution of larger and larger empires/kingdoms/etc A one world government is inevitable. Either Chinese/Russian or US/euro. It's a global dictatorship. As for climate change being fake... Again. Go study it. You can access lots of raw data. If you're really sceptical, you can collect mud,ice and rock samples yourself and analyse them. Icke is correct about the shady economic groups existence but then claims all climate change is fake??? Oh humans..... [emoji20] -
Yes, But if history is anything to go by... We will be forced to change by nature. If we can adapt in time. The next dark age is coming. I'd recommend hoarding books about farming/hort, medicines,science,construction, electrics,engineering etc. [emoji12][emoji106]
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Yep. The truth is we are all complicit with the industrial military capitalists. There's going to be a lot of change, whether we like it or not.[emoji51]
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Actually this is an ice age right now. We are just in a warm spot. The problem with discussing climate change is nearly everyone has an opinion, but so few have looked at the science. [emoji20]
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Yes mate, that's politics and the gravy train. I studied climate change as part of a natural sciences degree. When you have looked at the evidence for the history of the earths temperature. It's really rather scary. I won't go into the boring mechanics. It's just happening very slowly. I wonder what our great grandchildren will think of us.
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Roundwood is 50% stronger than square edged timber. (For the frame). Then it's square timber frame in fill with waney edge oak cladding and hay bales for insulation. But yeah I know it's been done before... [emoji6][emoji106]
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Nice setup mate [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
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Round wood timber frame? Sweet chestnut and oak? [emoji6][emoji106]
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Bargain [emoji106]
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It can be done, but it's more expense. Seen loads of French barns/longeres with interior insulation throughout. But i know about the height issues with Devon ceilings.
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Put a "milling logs wanted" advert up. If you can collect from Huddersfield, I've got a few logs I could spare [emoji106]
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Here's some examples of milling logs I've bought recently. Beech 20-30" x 8' £65 a ton collected from the forest. Sycamore 3'x 8' superb character £100 collected from field. Elm 4' x 9' delivered £300 Oak 2-3' x 8' collected from forest £100 a ton. Sitka 2 ton for £120 delivered. Prices will vary quite a bit depending who you know, How far away? What's the accesss? Can you collect big heavy logs? A 30" oak log at 12' weighs about 2.5+ tons. And turning big logs on a mill is very difficult. (As I found out [emoji23]) [emoji106]
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Piece of string answer. Hard or softwoods? Forest grown? Artic load or trailer? Graded? Delivered? As a vague rule £100 a ton is a fair price for most hardwoods collected. Less for softwoods. Valuable species can go for a lot lot more. [emoji106]
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The realities of hand cutting
Rough Hewn replied to webby1289's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
If you really want to push your limits, Go to the American west coast or Australia, west Africa or the amazon. You'll be glad to be cutting little English trees afterwards. [emoji12][emoji106] -
Your house is going to be that colour [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
