Honda

Seems as though your water pump is not working.  

It's obviously sucking in air somewhere. Make some smoke in front of the stove and see where it goes.  

Silver Birch

Scaffolding tower?

2 hours ago, Slicer Dicer said:

Farmer's fury after sheep is mauled in dog attack

WWW.HEXHAM-COURANT.CO.UK

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A FARMING family has claimed that a dog walker left one of their sheep for dead after a vicious attack by...

 

 

I can see that such a popular spot could have been cause for contention. This kind of thing going on and other such things not that it excuses doing this 😡 That's the son- clearly not a 16 yr old. The father could be in his 60s though. All speculation of course. Was the tree actually protected? Got a feeling whoever did perhaps knew it wasn't..?

That article is 3 years old.

1 hour ago, Big J said:

 

Fewer and fewer.... 😉

Top Tip:

If you can count them it is fewer, if you can't count them it is less. E.g. "To make a smaller cake use fewer eggs and less flour, sugar and milk." 

10 hours ago, topchippyles said:

Never new parkside lidl brand was made by draper. 

They are made by Einhell. Draper and Parkside label and market them:

Draper Tools - Wikipedia

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Three year dried oak and beech, Two year dried silver birch and sycamore.  

Woman: Do you drink beer?
Man: Yes
Woman: How many a day?
Man: Three
Woman: How much do they cost?
Man: £7 each including a tip
Woman: How long have you been drinking beer?
Man: 30 years
Woman: If you had saved that money, with interest you could own an aeroplane now
Man: Do you drink beer?
Woman: No
Man: Where's your aeroplane?
 

Oregon chainsaw trousers from Screwfix for £59.99. Make sure you order at least one size bigger than you wear or they won't fit.

Easy has four letters.

Whenever I think of Free I think of All Right Now.

1 hour ago, openspaceman said:

Masonry heaters are popular in US where they have bigger rooms and houses. They get built in the middle of the house so the hot bricks radiate heat all around. Similar things are used in East europe where the flue even runs under brick sleeping platforms. The thing about them is they burn very cleanly because they run flat out for a few hours, the flue gases take a labyrinthine route through the brickwork . Because the bricks don't conduct heat as well as metal the gases have to pass a greater area of brickwork to lose their heat before passing up the chimney. After the fire has burned out the air inlet, and possible flue, are closed so that there is no circulation passing up the chimney.

 

Soapstone stoves are a sort of inbetween, a normal metal stove clad in shaped soapstone which retains the heat.

(See bolded bit) How do you sweep a chimney like that? 

Maybe a silly question but does the stove have a baffle plate fitted? The only way I can think of for a raging fire to not heat a room is if the heat is going straight up the flue. The baffle plate prevents this.

They will go mouldy. Stack them undercover with a good airflow.

Hello Paul,

I, like many others have followed this thread from the start. You seem to get stronger in many ways every week. What do you expect for the weeks to come? 

1 minute ago, Honda said:

Can recommend 'Rules of Civility' by Amor Towles

Quote to add; It is the only book I have read and straight away read again.  

Can recommend 'Rules of Civility' by Amor Towles

I don't think so. 

SPLITTING MAUL

A tool that fires a heavy piece of wood at high speed straight into the user's shin. 

Anne Frank: Best present - a diary. Worst present - a drum kit.

It's probable that the log supplier has kiln dried the oak for the same length of time as other types of wood and that will not be long enough. The only way to be sure is to split a log and test the moisture in the middle. A decent maul will split a straight piece of oak.

Get an adaptor for stove to flue. Get a six inch cowl. Put the five inch cowl on e-bay. 

Blimey! The lettuce won.

Consider this: Liz Truss sacked her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng for doing what she told him to do. But she has not sacked her new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt for undoing everything she told her Chancellor to do. Who voted for this idiot?