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@pleasant ah nevermind about that... Coltan is mined by almost every black individual(even kids) in DRC(Congo)... its called blood Coltan, because every day some guy or kid dies in mine shafts that collapse and bury them alive... What a hell, this is the world we live in today... better get used to it... 😱

Unless it's a catalytic wood stove I would never give up ceramic tile stove. Problem free ,works every time , just brush the chimney well every year.

battery chainsaws are good if you're in a hurry ,have 2 good batteries(preferably charged...) and the work you're doing is not too long/hours and isn't too demanding. Otherwise I'll take the gasoline 2 stroke chainsaw anytime anyday! Now, for some years am running a Makita EA6100 but I'm "itching" for either a 70cc chainsaw or even a 390 chainsaw (395 seems good for me too 🙄 ). I like heavy things

Best song for me 😎

@Johnsond without foreign citizens willing to work for sht sallary EU and UK would be in prolonged recession... BAD stuff economically speaking...

@Mick Dempsey Orban is a very corrupt and very dangerous individual. Has his whole family and close friends in various theft schemes involving public money or even EU funds/money. A true snake and cameleon at the same time! As for oil and gas "needed" in Hungary: Croatia alone can replace and supply ALL of the oil or gas needed in 24 hours! They said it long ago but Hungary refused and still buy russian oil and gas! That says a lot about Orban ,Hungary and what happened lately with the 1 year exemption, even of Trump... Thiefs and criminals in power, corruption is just a joke allready... 😱 Nevermind wars...(still ongoing)... P.S. we had just recently russian drones bomb Ukraine AGAIN hundreds of meters from Romanian people's houses... What Trump is doing? absolutely nothing... besides stopping conpletely any arms delivery to Ukraine..

@sime42 asbestos, formaldehide and you're still here 😁 Anyway: burning oak ,hornbeam or any other wood in log form is nice. But if we would all heat our homes with only that,I'm sure we'd run out of forests to cut... 😂 Maybe if we'd live in Siberia we wouldn't run out of trees to cut... But as is, new forms of useable energy should be tried. Although Navien , NTI caprice 85 or even Kiturami condensing oil boilers are "tempting things" to have and use 😁 I myself am "cheating" still having installed some time ago a new condensing gas central heating just to be safe and instant hot water.. Unless using mechanized stuff at every stage, getting dried firewood will be labour intensive. At least here in Romania...

What good are gold ingots and stacks of cash if you're dead? Healthy and happy is enough. Of course don't starve to death and a home wouldn't "hurt " either. But to live only to make money and buy gold or other valuables is pointless.

I forgot to tell you: alcoohol will not let your body burn the fat in the blood. Then bad cholesterol will appear and in time that's what plugs arteries. Ask your doctor about this to verify. I will celebrate 10 years since I last drank alcoohol on 15 november 2025! It shows: I'm a lot more fit, capable of much more sustained effort and overall stronger than at 33 years old. I can't believe it myself but today I can do 50 pushups with no hesitations. Wait 30 minutes and do another 50 pushups. I honestly couldn't do that at 33 years old. But I drank almost daily with the "ex-anturage". Wish you all the best and stat healthy!

Hey , I know of a woman IT engineer that in 6 months developed cancer and died despite specialized expensive treatment... Only if you have a complete hospital AND full team of doctors for you only ,you might live above average... But yes walking 50 meters and breathing hard is a problem to be adressed... I'm about 43-44 years old but if I don't do at least 30 km on bicycle plus about an hour of exercise for almost every muscle group, I honestly don't feel well.. Lately I only have time for "kettlebell play" and it shows... My father is 75 years old almost 76 and despite catarcte ,prostate removed because of cancer, one kidney gone some time later because of same cancer still lives an active normal life. Oh ,and won't give up cigarettes, a pack a day 😂 All my relatives dead now lived beyond 83 years. In summer swimming in a pool(not sea) and running on a stadium is the best thing to do! First running about 5-6 km then swimming(wich is more demanding on the body). Enjoy life no matter what! Since I was a kid I saw people around die suddenly out of nothing... If you're still moving ,enjoy it 😁

2025 Trump and Orban in a public meeting: "Hey Donald, Ukraine is winning the war..." 🙄

alcoohol is for weak people 😁 on 15 november I will be celebrating 10 years since I last drank alcoohol. And it wasn't beer. P.S. beer should be free! or at least massively subsidized by ALL governments(taliban included) 😎

next POTUS? let me see, by the way things are going I wouldn't be in the slightest way surprised if Satan/Lucifer himself would get elected... And I'm serious on that. If a convicted felon with a lifetime of theft gets elected then ANYTHING is possible

wood briquettes are eco stuff. Before that they are just garbage wood dust. Add some energy and technology et voila: you have a product that can heat your stove/house. Same thing for wood pellets. Those are good for fully automated central heating. Just make sure the "fuel tank" doesn't run out of wood pellets. Fire wood is nice ,in theory. Until you realize you have to gas up the chainsaw, carefully cut a big as tree ,watch out where it falls , clean it so that only the main trunck is left clean, cut it up AGAIN to the length/size of your truck trailer, secure it and transport it to processing factory... And I haven't gotten into the chainsaw-it again in slices long enough for your stove... Then split it. Then stack it. Then wait for it to dry up... 😱 First time I got wood briquettes I was amazed shocked and in awhhh 😂 "What's that you say mister truck driver? You have a hydraulic elevator? AND an electric fork lift?! Where do I want the pallets placed?" 😁😎 I did nothing that day but hand him the money in cash. about 750 euros. And the damn things heated the stove just the same as regular wood,wich I had to do all of the above mentioned things... My Makita EA6100 will get used only once every two years 🥳 And I had "prepared myself" with another 7 tooth sprocket a new original 20" blade plus an Oregon .325 chain... I'll be old and senile before I destroy both blades/chains and chainsaw on fire wood if that driver keeps doing that thing with the hydraulic elevator and electric fork lifter... 😁

@Stere I use wood briquettes because they are cheap, don't need to cut them with a chainsaw, split them, stack them. And they are very dry from the package. Also they have about 5kwh per kg if I should believe the specifications. Because they are dry they burn fast and give off a lot of heat. No they are not like coal or coal briquettes. The fire burns for about 3 hours, and then the ceramic tiles are hot. 90% at least. They stay that way for about 10-12 hours. I don't need more. And this type of stove doesn't need electricity. It has a natural draft chimney. An advantage if power goes out in the middle of a blizzard at minus 15 Celcius... Happened once and I had to wait for the electric maintenance team for about 16 hours... I don't have a generator or ups to power the whole house until "normal electricity" decides to return 🙄 I did used coal briquettes and they burn at least double what wood can(5-6 hours) and coal gives off a lot of heat per kg or volume. Too much for a ceramic tile stove. Coal or coal briquettes heat up too much a ceramic tile stove. And once you've loaded it in the stove a few too many there's nothing you can do about it. Just wait for hours for coals to burn off... And hope the stove doesn't crack open 😂 Hornbeam ,as is and what I still have at least 2 years dry , burns longer than wood briquettes but gives off a nice bed of coals to maintain the fire hot. Yes Romania HAD or at least I think it still has large forests, IKEA know better ,even Austrian corporations were exploiting Romania and cutting everything and anything they could. For PROFIT not out of politeness.. Honestly ,it's beyond me what a f... our politicians & authorities in power actually DO here in Romania... Coruption here is a long neverending problem... For starting a fire I use a cotton rag ,the size of a man's hand wich I place spread out first on the cast iron grate, soak it in diesel fuel as is ,place ANY small two finger thick wood even a bigger piece on top and just set the cotton rag at the bottom on fire... A huge healthy fire is raging in there in about 5-10 minutes! I stopped trying any other method of lighting a fire because this rag+diesel thing works too good 😁 Even hornbeam will burn from a cold if in small size(4-5 cm thick). I'm very curios if this method will work with oak too. In a full on winter I think I use a whole 20 liter canister of diesel. I'm happy with how fast I have a fire going. And wood briquettes light up fast too. Especially if poured some diesel on them. OIL is king. COAL is the queen 😂 Natural gas, their kid

@Muddy42 well ,to each his own 😁 But let's face it: that wood has been outside all its life. I like to give it "a home" for its final time on this world 🙄 I would force dry it but summers here are hot enough AND lately dry As in no rain for weeks and no humidity in air... Now when I see/encounter fog I marvel at it ... Nevermind rain. Even in winter air is so dry that skin cracks, especially lips/face... If a blizzard catches you outside for too long you will have cracked skin or worse if ut's minus 10-15 Celcius... This is one reason I use tons of wood briquettes: I know for sure they're dry under 15% and I don't have to cut "slices" from a log with the chainsaw or split it. Just grab a cutter ,a 10 kg bag, slice it open and just cut wood briquettes in 6-10 cm long pieces. They even light easy . I couldn't ask for more.. Of course I use wood for the good bed of coals it creates and helps burn the briquettes. Price is also a reason: there isn't anything ready to burn cheaper than wood briquettes. Plus the company I buy from delivers it to your home. Driver has hydraulic lift on the truck AND electric lifter that can take a 960kg pallet anywhere you want. With wood logs is nowhere near as easy. A lot more work to be honest. But I prefer wood logs straight from the forest because I know the man selling it for years. Not once he tried to "screw me" . Got to love the guy 😁 And the logs are rott free, hardwood . There are other options too. Before the war in Ukraine you could buy a 40 ton truck full of oak "residue" small parts from wood factories from Ukraine. Almost ready to put in the stove. All legal, but this was the only condition: they sold only in a 40 ton truck. And you must have the space to store that much firewood. From memory I think one truck had 30 cubic meters of oak in small 10-20x10-15 cm pieces and 5 cm thick. Almost perfect for fire in a ceramic tile stove! That it's all gone/destroyed today... That's how I got to wood briquettes. Almost the same thing,even easier to handle and cut in small pieces(with a knife...). This could be a solution for those who want really dry firewood: a 40 ton truck every 2 years, dry it all in oven type drier and life is good and warm 😎 For lazy people there's always natural gas or fuel heating oil.

A photo from today 10 november 2025 of oak under plastic sheet. Been there for about 21 months. Looks dry 😂 Second photo ,hornbeam 2-3 top pieces and beech around it. Whole wood in that picture is at least 2 years old. Beech burns like hell gate is open. 🙄 White-yellow big flames, hot but doesn't last as long as hornbeam. Also hornbeam burns more "civilized" yet leaves a hot bed of coals if only this is thrown in(no wood briquettes). Too hot for an unprotected hand(leather thick glove) to have the door open for too long. Once few years ago ,when I didn't knew what coal briquettes can do, I started the fire with small hornbeam wood AND 4-6 oval "egs" of coal briquettes... In about half hour the whole thing barely burned half and the bottom half of the ceramic tile stove was so hot I couldn't even touch it... Lesson learned about kwh per kg of coal... Good thing I didn't used 5-6 big pieces of petroleum coke+ dry hornbeam... 😂 In half hour there wouldn't be anything left of the cast iron grate... Even so I have quite a few cast iron grates, cracked, warped, broken... They don't last 3 seasons in the same shape or form... By the way: has anyone used 316 or 310 stainless steel grate? I begin to suspect the grate gets to 900-1000 Celcius after a intense fire with dry wood be it beech or hornbeam...

As a note on existing very dry 2 year old wood ,only hornbeam maintained its bark, shape or in my words stayed in the same physical condition as it was when I split it. Everything else had somewhat deteriorated, bark coming off ,a lot of wood dust. I guess if after 21-22 months of hot dry eastern romanian months this oak doesn't "perform" I'll just buy in spring a big damn truck of no rott hornbeam logs 🥳 Since it looks so good even after 2 years. Nevermind how well and long it burns now. I remember well I first split and started stacking the hornbeam not beech. if it takes that long for wood to dry in Scotland, might as well burn coal 😁 I could never wait 5 years... Or buy a 40 ton truck every 2 years and wait for all that wood to dry. Solar heat would help wood dry ,but in an enclosed space. My wood shed is dark brown but am "itching" for some years now to test a 400ml spray can of mat black 🙄 I am afraid that in full july/august sun the whole shed might get too hot... As is I can't stay in there for more than 10-15 minutes whitout looking like out of shower... And thirsty... AND this year the only cherry tree that made some shade on the wood shed has about dried for unknown reasons... SO: next summer/s will be HOT inside... Has someone tried a black wood shed? out of curiosity 🤔

Hello everyone. A small "update" on this oak firewood. Because I burn mostly wood briquettes it will be at least one month until I will probably start burning oak +briquettes. I still have old wood from 2 years ago 🙄 ,very dry but still good. The oak looks/feels dry , it is lighter then when I first got it and "fight fierce battles" with it to store it. Still don't have a humidity tester ,I'll probably get one out of curiosity 😁 Bigger split pieces of oak have started to show some small crack at the ends. When I start burning I'll upload more pictures here of various pieces. Honestly I am so curios how good or bad will burn. Cheers everyone VID_20250202_151245774.mp4

got the oak in logs ,average size/diameter. I split them all in february/march ,average split 5-6 cm by 30 cm length .there's a photo a page back. stored outside in the air/sun ,covered by transparent plastic sheet. don't wanna talk $!@# about oak wood but for f...s sake in the years before this I always had beech and hornbeam logs cut and split the same time february/march and in one year they were dry as f... ready to burn. nevermind 18-20 months of dry 40 degrees celcius Romania heat summers( yes they stay for 2 summers in the air under plastic transparent sheet to dry...). All I can say ,maybe next 2025 november this oak will be dry enough good to burn... Or else it's not for me for sure... I can manage do just fine heating a ceramic tile stove with beech ,hornbeam and wood briquettes in 3-4 hours of burn time. After all that's the purpose and what I've been doing for years(many have done this for decades here in Romania). The only new thing in this are the wood briquettes wich them alone can heat the ceramic tile stove in 3-4 hours ,with some wood(ANY type) thrown in there just to have a good fire maintained). I just got oak because the guy that sells me firewood can bring me at home ANY type of hardwood in logs freshly cut. So far hornbeam was amazing in dry time or how it maintained in time while im storage or how much heat it released and burn time in the stove. Beech burns faster but still heats up the stove just the same as other wood mentioned or briquettes. bottom line : if in november 2025 this split oak doesn't perform as beech or hornbeam (nevermind wood briquettes that are drier than anything and readily available by 40 ton truck if I need them) ,I see no reason to mess around with oak. Not for me!

update 2 december 2024 tried to burn a whole bucket of oak that "looked" dry. not even close to the heating power of even wood briquettes... or birch... after the usual 3-4 hours of burn time the ceramic tile stove wasn't half hot as I was expecting... makes me wonder if this wood will be good to burn in about 1 year from now... I know for sure the tree was green when cut ,+/- a week until it got to me! tricky firewood for sure!

a screenshot of temperatures in july, and another heatwave is coming ,36 celcius in shade... hot august too...

Well,hello everyone.update from july-august ; things are hot,unbearable hot around here... All summer so far has been at 35-40 celcius with 30-40 percent humidity in air... Didn't took a picture yet,but bigger split oak chunks are starting to develop small visible cracks at some ends... And they will still sit for another 14-15 months starting now... If the damn thing/oak is not VERY dry 15 months from now ( another summer like this in the open in full sun aired up and under transparent plastic sheet) then I'm willing to switch to No.2 fuel oil heating and forget about any wood 😁🙄

24 march and even at 17:24 there were still about 16-17 degrees Celcius and 62% relative humidity in the air... I am curios what july and august months will be like this year... 🤔 no doubt the seasoning will be ok in 17-18 months from now if the weather keeps it up like this... And at noon I was sweating in sun today if no wind was blowing...

@Peasgood Probably. I never seen wood briquettes doing that. Romania is not Uk 😁 But if that would happen or have to season wood for 3-4 years and still be damp, I would surely quit burning wood or briquettes. Natural gas, LPG or heating oil are the obvious logical choice in a permanently humid climate! I actually was looking for an oil stove to buy and "study" beeing a curios "bloke" by nature! But the weight of these things alone is discouraging.. I would surely not be able to even move one by myself.. Nestor Martin Efel and Deville Cléo C09424 are nice. Although Deville stopped manufacturing oil stoves some years ago.