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Never been one for "banking" a fire with wood, always thought it wasn't best suited to it and it drives the chimney sweep nuts, so always tended towards using a drop of coal if I wanted the cooker kept in for a while. However, coal has went a bit mad and I've plenty of wood of most types available so has anyone ever found any particular type of wood that was ideally suited to it? I know hardwoods are generally better than softwoods but just curious if there's anything that just sits and slumbers cleanly that wee bit better than the rest?

Are they second hand by any chance? "Only used one summer".

Mrs CC is finding that the oven in our solid fuel cooker actually does the same job reading about 20 degrees less. 150-160 in it seems about right for most things that would be needing 180 odd in an electric oven.

Our solid fuel cooker has a vent in the fire door which spins on a thread to either open or close. It's recommended to be open for wood burning and closed for coal, especially smokeless. Sounds like they may have been burning coal in it primarily and blanked the secondary/top air vents? Would explain the poor performance at least as the steel plate will have robbed it of any air it was getting, as Neil says.

But even the concept of keeping bees on the ground is unnatural as you're keeping them down where the air is coldest in winter and hottest in summer. I also think the vast majority of beekeepers everywhere now also feed some form of sugar to the bees so they can take as much honey as possible, which is totally unnatural, not to mention unfair. Imagine if you spent all summer growing your own healthy fruit and veg to keep you going all winter, and someone took it all from you and replaced it with a winters supply of Big Macs.

I was reading up on this and it was quite an eye-opener. Turns out that for all the ranting and raving about bees and nature, modern bee-keeping practices are actually just the equivalent of intensively reared chicken or pork and about as unnatural as you could get. I hope the OP does indeed follow up on this with more detail as his/her project develops.

I'm pretty sure the Natural Beekeeping Trust had links to someone selling ready made wild bee hives. Natural Beekeeping Trust WWW.NATURALBEEKEEPINGTRUST.ORG Bees in the wild, bees in trees, bees as our teachers

You sound like someone who has more interesting and/or useful information to impart Jean. There's a forum here somewhere for pretty much anything you can think of, don't be slow to chip in in future.

Bit of vermiculite board should do your job, it's what's in the bottom of our wood-burner. Be cheaper, handier got, and easier worked with.

That's your problem right there, you'll never get the best out of wood in a multi-fuel, especially hard wood in big lumps. You'll need to split the wood down further to have any success, even when it's dry, as that'll keep the grate covered better. The coal in the bottom will help if you do it right, but it's not without it's foibles either. Ordinary bitumen coal will be smokey, and anthracite is very prone to shattering and disappearing through the grate if you don't time it right. If you were getting on OK with softwood probably best to get back on to it asap.

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Aye as Paul says, season it well and it'll be fine. Turns remarkably hard when seasoned as well. In my defence, any of it I've burned has been either windblown or a limb which has been trimmed. Indeed I've planted out a few random self-seedings in the woodland to appease the spirits.

What make of bearing are you using?

The yanks refer to it as "bean oil". Still available but always was potentially disastrous in strokers in the wet as the oil reacted badly with water and would stick the throttles open, more than a few people killed because of it. So Castrol formulated A747 for two strokes, enough castor to prevent seizures, but much more user friendly and no sticking throttles. Also still available and until recently pretty much the go to oil for classic racing two strokes.

Just to complicate things a bit further. First alkylate fuel I used was the Husqvarna one, simply because I was at my nearest Kubota dealer getting a few service parts and they had it on the shelf. Next I got was Aspen, again simply because I happened to be in a different dealership and they had it. I'm pretty sure that all the stuff I'm using it in runs slightly better on the Aspen, so much so that I'll be buying it specifically from now on even though I could get the Husqvarna one cheaper. I know that's not reflected by peoples experiences on here, all I've been able to rationalise is that everything I use it in is old school carburettor, even the new stuff, and maybe Aspen is designed to perform better across a broader range of equipment. Haven't used the Stihl stuff as the local Stihl dealership is pants. *edit* - forgot to add, and more relevant to the thread title, as I move more things over to alkylate I'll probably go to Aspen 4 and just add oil to make things simpler.

Apology willingly accepted. 🙂 Normally it wouldn't matter so much but in this particular case both sentences had to be taken together to articulate my view accurately.

Pity you left out this bit. Selective quoting is taking a part of what a person says and using it in isolation to portray an entirely different meaning to the message they were initially conveying. You don't work for the BBC or some other mainstream organisation do you?

Going to be really interesting to see how this plays out as Musk is going to have to ride two horses here, and that seldom ends well. He's part of the establishment, he didn't get to be the richest man in the world by being anything else. "Green agenda", "new world order", "build back better", deals with the Chinese, etc, etc, he ticks all those boxes and more, the epitome of the modern day "globalist". Yet here he is now owning and threatening to shake up one of the establishments main propaganda tools. Is he really going to do what people are expecting and allow the 'progressive' agenda to be challenged, even sometimes exposed for what it is? The thing is, we will see the headlines of some of the big companies as they make a big visual out of withdrawing their twitter funding (they call it "advertising"!), but you can be darned sure there'll be a lot of big money pulled out of twitter which we'll never know about because we were never supposed to know about it being there in the first place! Given the false nature of so much of today's 'wealth', will he be able to hack it, or is he actually a wolf in sheep's clothing who has pulled a master stroke to simply tighten his grip over the society that he claims he wants to liberate. Let's see.

Man alive is that a feckin' understatement!

Equally true. I'm just not a 'blocker' by nature.

Fair point, that's how I read it too.

Democracy - not always a good thing!

Only saying it as I see it. Racism, sexism, ageism, sectarianism, etc, etc, none of them are a one way street.

I would usually find it hard to consider such an aggressive, insulting, and personal attack on anyone, as being in any way acceptable, no matter who the target may be. For Ms Abbot I have no trouble making an exception. A dyed in the wool racist, and only put in power for that very reason.