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Where Do You Chuck Your Stove Ash?
peds replied to Witterings's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Dust bath for the hens, scattered along the hedge, and tossed through the finished compost heap as it ages, not onto the active pile. I get the feeling that the creepy crawlies aren't keen on big loads of ash. My bloody mother-in-law cleaned out the fireplace yesterday and removed the bed of ash from the hearth, not just the space underneath. She didn't quite hoover it, but almost. The fire is not burning happily today. Tomorrow I'm going to tip a load from the ash bucket back into the fireplace and tamp it down. -
It's funny listening to you two.
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Nah, that's bollocks. You've got a responsibility to tell people who haven't got a f*cking clue exactly what's wrong with their ideas and why they should be ashamed of themselves for wanting it. The transformation between the two pics above is absolutely criminal, you should be mortified that you helped facilitate it, and the client needs a solid smack over the head with a loy spade. Disgusting.
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Try putting a tire on your (waist height) chopping block. Swap the impact for a nice soft bounce. Also catches your splits and keeps them in place, no bending over to gather them up.
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Dick pics, apparently. A form of revenge porn. Not checked the details myself because I can't see past my woke leftist blinkers. Plus it's all pretty dull. Speaking of blinkers, how can a rooster turn into a jockey? I know they've got spurs, but...
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Sell just 7 trees a day... 450 x 365 = upwards of 160,000 per year!
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I run Aspen because I like the way it smells.
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I might be a while, I'll keep you posted...
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Just dig a trench instead buddy.
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That reminds me... does anyone know if blackthorn seeds are still viable after 12 months in a bottle of gin? Seems a shame to waste them...
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I just think it's a shame that hedges across most of Ireland are mown, rather than trimmed, with no opportunity given to young trees to grow up and replace those lost to storms or die back. There needs to be a selection made for succession, and any tree lucky enough to be chosen could be protected with a length of steel tube, roadsign style, with a small sign on top to prevent accidental mowing. A hedgerow is a fine thing, especially when managed sympathetically... and not just mown into the ground.
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I reckon a length of steel tube is more likely to protect from the flail... Tempted to hide a few lengths of scrap tube I have in local hedges to protect them in cutting season.
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Spoiler alert?
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That's why you should spread them far and wide and, like everything else in the natural world, try not to be too sentimental when they don't make it. I lift as many seedlings as I can from paths and pots and move them somewhere better. They might still die, but it's a better chance than they'd otherwise get. Like corralling turtles into the sea, protecting them from hungry seabirds on their way to the waves... most of them will die anyway before they get to adulthood. You've got to try anyway.
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Andy is absolutely right, you do need to get out and do more tree planting. Great stuff, carry on.
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Shhh, they don't like that question. They'd rather answer the question about how it could be better if it had been done differently.
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So we are all in agreement, we need to tax the rich and put all the freeloading politicians up against the wall to be shot. Viva la revolucion!
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I think it's adorable how you seem to have convinced yourself that you are a higher earner. In their eyes, you're down here in the muck with us plebs, buddy, and they laugh their dentures into their cinzano rosso every time you defend tax cuts for the wealthy, as though you're the one being talked about. The wealthy wipe their bottoms on your paltry little tax bill.
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Lots of ways to measure it really. If you can afford a slightly-smaller megayacht to follow around and carry all the toys (the jetskis, the scuba rib, the helicopter, etc.) for your everyday megayacht, you're unreasonably rich, and should be paying for things like hospitals, railways, universities, that sort of thing. Instead of the second yacht, you get a medal. **************** it, you get a medal for every single billion you give back to the society you benefit from, and a little folder to display them in like a world cup coin collection. I couldn't say for sure, but I don't think anyone on here qualifies. Sorry. (I once saw a megayacht called Lady Lola, forget where, Nice or Marseille probably, with another little tub parked nearby called Lady Lola's Shadow, with all the toys alluded to above plainly visible. I promise you that money could be better spent on... well, anything, really.)
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So we are all in agreement... we need to tax the rich.
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Rather than the liquid seeping from the wood itself, which I imagine would be pretty unpleasant, I'm wondering about the product of the humidity removed from the kiln. Of course, it should just be plain old H2O with no carried flavour or character, but anyone who has ever dipped a finger in the product of a condensing tumble dryer knows that's not true. I also wonder what effect a few chips of it would have while taking a long bath in neutral spirit (that is, barrel aging of whisky without the barrel), and how much you could sell a relatively tiny amount of wood for to any enthusiastic moonshiners. Try posting a photo on https://www.reddit.com/r/firewater/, see what people think. Might be a cool way to get rid of any scabs and scrap.
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What does it taste like? Obviously you'd not go drinking from the reservoir of a condenser dryer or a dehumidifier, but I'm curious what the sweat of 5000 year old bog oak is like.
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Presumably stacking the rings them between stickers and ensuring decent airflow would be better than just having them all on top of other, but it's definitely not ideal. A well-stacked wall of splits can get quite high, and arguably can use less space than the equivalent of stacked rings...
