ovenpaa wrote:You can either find the wood but not the space, or you have the space but no wood. We have not run an open fire here in years as we have no real space to store the wood and then in the space of a year two large trees have been dropped, sawn into good sized lumps and left to the elements, the furthest one is maybe 75 yards away and the other 25 yards....
We had a Morso stove in DK and lots of space for storing wood but had to pay for everything we burnt as there were never any windfalls or trees cut down near us.
Sods law.
Dave..
I wish I could post a couple of photos. but my Camera is 'Bust' I dropped it onto a road on holiday last year. it worked OK..ish but the lens cover/shutter stopped working and suddenly a week or two ago the lens stuck in the fully extended mode. Not having much luck technology wise at the moment................... I won't mention the 'Bleeding' computer. Hey Ho! no matter at least we are warm..
The camera I/we use is a Lumix TZ5, the shutter has been jammed open for ages, the lens cover is sporting quite a dent and I just knocked it off the bench on the shed so now the top has a dent as well.
Still going but I guess the writing is on the wall for it....
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ovenpaa wrote:The camera I/we use is a Lumix TZ5, the shutter has been jammed open for ages, the lens cover is sporting quite a dent and I just knocked it off the bench on the shed so now the top has a dent as well.
Still going but I guess the writing is on the wall for it....
Dave..
My camera is also a Lumix TZ5. I believe the nearest repair center for me is in Crawley West Sussex. Will have to take it in next time I'm going down that way.
Still haven't had my camera repaired so I bought a cheap Panasonic Lumix FS 16 about £90 with case and 8gig memory card.
Well we have been running the stove for about three months now it is lit at 0545 every morning and the last logs are put on at about 2100. As you can imagine we are getting through an awful lot of logs. So I decided that i would have to start storing some for next year. We love the stove but it would be very expensive to run if we had to buy logs. The chainsaw has paid for itself over and over
Next years logs.. All top quality Ash.
I have got logs stashed all over the garden my wife hates it.
Jenks, with my Insurance/Surveying head on, be careful not to allow trapped moisture behind your logs to breach the DPC if there is one.
It is common for folk to find damp/moisture in their homes only for it to be attributable to something like this. Does the plastic sheeting run down the back of the logs too?
It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's the sudden stop at the end!
Thanks for that , It might no look like it but there is a gap of about one inch between the logs and the wall (well most of them) This wasn't for the reason you have just warned me of. More to allow air to circulate round the logs. The wall is north facing and most times when it rains it comes from the west and the logs stay dry. The westerly wind blows a treat up between the house and the fence. The wall in the picture is the old part of the house and does not have a cavity Probably why we need to burn so many logs to maintain a good temperature. We recently had the insulation in the attic beefed up. 46square Mtrs 11'' deep £99. money well spent methinks. Re: the plastic bubble wrap, no it is just tucked behind the top row of logs.
Today the weather being nice I thought I would go out and harvest a nice bit of Ash that I spotted a couple of weeks ago. It took a bit of getting as it was covered in Ivy but a bit of elbow greece soon had it clean..
Half an hours work and I had at least a week or two's worth of quality Ash..
I walked out to where the Ash was and picked it up later with a vehicle on the way out I crossed the beautiful river Dever a feeder for the Test..
I also walked past a really productive flight pond.. Shot probably no more than four times in the season..
