Steven P

When I got my first saw, a mate, a foresters son, said he'd never run with me again* if I didn't get appropriate PPE. Harsh but fair and his point - the same here - was he'd sleep better at the weekend knowing his pal wouldn't be legless on a Monday. *We're both runners, I needed company on the fells and hills... which was a bigger thing than not buying a pair of trousers, tough love but has to happen.

it's cheaper for them if you take down the bottom half of that last one.

I can feel the draft from the fan a distance from the stove, what I loose in heat (negligible) evens out the heat distribution in the room better. A bit more effective - the stove area is cooler but the seating area is warmer which is where I actually want the heat Temperature gauge is next to useless, a couple of times it has fallen / been knocked off the workings have spun round slightly and is well off now - they all depend on being treated kindly. Far better to read the fire and see how it is burning to gauge if it is hot enough or not

I get the feeling from your post that you aren't best buddies just now. You could ask him for the value of the wood but would that make your relationship with him tricky - you have to live next door - or would it make no difference. As for value, depends on the species. Softwood, dried and split for firewood, delivered commercially £75 a 'tonne' - builders bag full. If you are onto asking him for money then you also want to emphasise the trespass onto your garden. Might be prudent for neighbourly relations though to chat to him, see which branches are offending him and do it yourself in the future - saves trespass and any charging for the wood he has kept. He might go the other way, mega petty and any fallen twig or branch gets shot back over into your garden - as is his right - for you to deal with. If it was me I'd let the branches go but be very clear you will not accept him entering and trespassing in your garden. And yes, photos would be handy to make a judgement!

are they the ones that they made a load in bright orange to try to appeal to the boy racers? Didn't sell well so went cheap and all the pensioners picked up a cheap orange car?

Adding to Gareth - very correct, it is surface water and will dry off and burn easy enough. You'll be fine. Imagine it takes months to years for a log to dry to 18% moisture in the air, it will take that long again to get wet (unless it is sat on wet earth or similar) in the rain. Most rain water will simply run off the log (however I tend to pack my winter logs away under cover at the end of September to make sure they are nice and dry when needed). As for most efficient heat... don't be hung up about flue thermometers, temperatures and so on, look at the fire itself. I can burn some woods, smouldering away on a big bed of fire that will be hot and some woods will be bright flames, a small fire and relatively cool... so look at the fire, you want a bright lively fire most of the time - the flames burn off the soot, smouldering is more smoky, more soot. So flames are a good thing. Personal view, I'll try to get a couple of good hot fires in every now and then to give the chimney a good blast... but be warned... get it wrong, a real hot fire is a danger for chimney fires if there is a soot and creosote up there (so never skip cleaning the chimney in the hope of "I had a good hot fire, it'll be OK"). Far better to burn dried wood and not a smouldering fire.

I did OK with small amounts the other year, £20 a car boot full - unseasoned split wood at about 30cm lengths.... never mentioned fires - was pocket money for me and cleared the drive. Mine was all softwoods though. So you might offer your volunteers the opportunity to take some as a thank you (assuming you get volunteers working), otherwise a donation and a suggested amount might be the way to go. Make sure it is clear of course that it isn't seasoned, perhaps market as 'outdoor fire pit' logs... which I don't think come under the ready to burn scheme. What the customer does afterwards is up to them. Noting that if you cut it and split it too soon, your log pile might shrink 'by magic' over time if the car park is open access.

Do you think he has been smoking something funny over the weekend?

The money is a symbol of his power I suspect when you get that rich - can do anything. More money, more power. Very competitive types, if Zuckerberg has 1 billion more than Musk then Musk will want 1 billion more. As for the man himself and the photos above - I don't believe he has any skeletons in that closet (unusual for Trumps inner circle, a lot of his pals and nominations have links to underage relationships as grown men). Maxwell and Epstein wanted to be photographed with everyone - it offered a certain protection for a while "you can't say anything cause we have photos of us being all buddy-buddy, how would that look?". Think Sime42 has it - money and power.

Apart from the cost of a battery saw big enough, do you need a petrol saw for the courses?

Going back on topic, We got it at the weekends - Dad had it on in the van (Radio 4? He always had Radio 4 or later Classic FM because they had the best coverage over Northumberland)

I'd also add believe nothing from Linked in, Facebook or Twatter. Be sceptical about anything from a politician, and always ask where the money is coming from and going to who.

I saw the wages ages ago and was tempted - no specific qualifications needed, it was £30k when I was looking (but before 2012) - which would have been a handy 1/3 extra at the time... but the obvious competition for the jobs, like thousands of applicants for each interview spot. Think the wages were equal to train drivers so I guess about 80k now?

The one bloke to 3 - they had a 2 bloke step (this was on QI) till one of the blokes died early in the shift - storm season, other bloke was freaked out after a couple of days of dead bloke on the kitchen table, put dead bloke outside - tied down - winter storms broke the lashings and dead bloke vanished.... "yeah right" said the police a week or so later when they changed shift... so now 3 blokes.

How easy is it to hide a tracker? Can they go in the bowels of the machine or do you just need to take the plastic covers off to see it? Different in a large machine like a chipper or a van where there are 100s of hiding places but a small machine? Take the cover off, rip out the tracker, and away you go I think

Or... empty, drained and well vented.. which is a PITA - easier to keep full

DIYNot are usually more argumentative than Arbtalk! But the last post in that thread is quite good - working it in my head to heat insulation, heat travels by conduction (touching things), convection (hot air rising) and radiation.... so sound proofing - stop stuff touching the outside walls (conduction), and fill a layer with something solid (convection) is how I read it?

A producer friend of mine did her loft space - perhaps too much for you, professional specs to the extents that even the air intakes went through sound insulated boxes. Think she also used Kingspan or similar behind plaster board. Wood is quite hard so sound bounces off it - good to sound proof a room but for recording not so good - Kingspan absorbs the sound. If you're not recording in there and happy for a few echo's it mighty be OK - not an expert I just remember from her photos she used fibre insulation

Also try the local tree surgeons if you haven't. Do you have any particular woods or just "wood". Should be able to source them easy enough - and probably delivered if you can cover the fuel and time. 12" Oak might be harder to get than 12" leylandii for example (guess which I spent the afternoon splitting... but up in Scotland)

Winter there is serious stuff!! Never been in the arctic night, but could do the midnight sun any time (a few really good trips to Tromso, kind of fell in love with the eternal day, never been for the polar night though (family hit the finances before I could), would need a real strong mind I think).

I'm sure his absence will be missed greatly!

Sorry, Gareth, holiday blues or whatever and my mind is slow, that one is too cryptic for me.

Ahhh, if it isn't your news feed filtering the stories then you are choosing to only highlight the bad news stories of Muslims and not the others then? Am actual thought process from JohnsonD and not an algorithm from The Daily Mail. Why would that be then?

Yup, I reckon I could live in Greenland for a bit.

If replanting, adding to my comment above, consider the height the tree will reach - if acceptable go for that but if not go for something that is shorter