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  1. coppice cutter
    Another good point. With things that shallow there's no scope whatsoever for sagging or bowing.
  2. coppice cutter
    Also need to seal at the 'top' of the roof. As shallow as that water could easily blow back up the roof and leak at the high end.
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    Noticed recently that some companies are now using a brown paper sort of packing material in boxes rather than some sort of air filled plastic. Has the added advantage of being a good firelighter! But there still needs to be so much more of this sort of thing done and if the squeeze on the cost of oil based products is speeding things up in that direction well that would be one positive at least.
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    But no doubt their private security people would probably either beat the crap out of them or run over them. Possibly both!
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    A friend has the Honda 4 stroke strimmer and swears by it, but they're getting very pricey. I've a 52cc 2-stroke Ryobi strimmer, well over 20yrs old but still going like the day it came out of the box. When it expires I'll probably replace it with either battery or 4 stroke.
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    Makita have made no bones about seeing the future as electrically driven rather than petrol, so that would be a concern for long term usage of anything so powered.
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    Screwfix had them on offer a few weeks ago. Seemed a real good price and I was tempted but ended up going battery instead.
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    Not really, a proper woodburner needs a wee while to get in to it's stride properly. I always start off with smaller stuff, not just to get it lit, but it'll also burn away quicker and form a good bed of embers which seems to be crucial to them going well Throwing a big chunk or two of hardwood on at an early stage isn't going to get you good heat in a hurry in my experience. If you want heat quickly you need to split a few bits down smaller, or get a consignment of softwood as well to use first and then the hardwood after it's going well.
  9. coppice cutter
    I find that the harder the wood, the slower it is to get going. Is it possible that you're simply comparing the different burning characteristics of two completely different types of wood?
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    Too late, the BBC beat them to it.
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    If I had stuff as well organised as that I'd build a load of it in to the saw horse and run the chainsaw through it. Unfortunately what I got wasn't that structured, seems like it's just been a dumping ground for anything wooden for a few years. Old doors, some d-rail in it, roof timbers, the odd bit of thin ply, broken pallets, etc, all nasty stuff to work with. But, it's heating water and saving the good stuff for the wood burners.
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    Seems entirely possible. Typical GO/NGO way of operating, conjure up loads of stuff with zero thought and no background planning as to how it'll be implemented. Probably be a good idea to get your ordering done as soon as possible because if there is a problem you can be sure it'll be the ordinary guy that looses out. It always is.
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    It's pretty time consuming work, and fairly poor quality fuel. It's certainly not something you'd go out of your way to look for, I permitted tipping of it in my old silo as a favour to someone who needed rid of it pronto. I squirrel a consignment of it away under cover during a dry spell and then cut through it whenever suits, usually when it's p!ssing it down. At least with energy prices where they are, it's not as crazy a waste of time and effort as a year ago. It heats water OK. But cutting your own home produced firing is a pleasure, this is unquestionably a chore.
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    I was given four tractor trailer loads of waste wood (old pallets, doors, decking, etc) initially to pick through, take out any big stuff, and have a big bonfire with the rest. Given how things have gone this year, it's all going in the solid fuel cooker, every last naily, horrible piece of it.
  15. coppice cutter
    Brown and Blair were certainly better Conservatives than the present lot.
  16. coppice cutter
    Back closer to topic, how do y'all cut up your old pallets/waste wood? I gave up on the chainsaw as no matter how careful you were you always caught a random nail somewhere so that was another sharpening session. Ended up cutting it with a reciprocating saw, seemed slow at first but it's amazing the pile of stuff you can build up in half an hour. Harsh on the old joints though.
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    Plenty of brash bitches about nowadays, but you'd probably be more likely to find them in other settings.
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    I've my apple trees for this winter bought and paid for. Hoping that if they're paid they can't bump the price up in late winter as I feel that price rises are inevitable.
  19. coppice cutter
    Well actually I wasn't necessarily thinking in terms of the UK only, or even Europe for that matter.
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    Just what popped in to my head this morning over the porridge while pondering the headlines.
  21. coppice cutter
    Are people just becoming so lazy, feckless, spoilt, and self-centred in general that they are becoming ungovernable?
  22. coppice cutter
    Have you not noticed that a central part of the 'progressive' movement sweeping across the western world is that humour is not allowed. It's been replaced with outrage.
  23. coppice cutter
    No, just the general quality of materials and workmanship in the whole job. When BL were building Allegros and Marinas that wouldn't last two or three years, we had houses and building materials that would last several lifetimes. Who, or what, allowed standards to deteriorate to this level?
  24. coppice cutter
    How does that get passed in the first place, surely that's a big part of the problem?
  25. coppice cutter
    Thanks, and yes it is a credit to them. I take your point about government supporting the building of shitty mass-produced new builds, but then what is the alternative. Can you ever begin to imagine the waste and inefficiency of a public house building body nowadays. No easy answers I'm afraid.

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