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Definitely go corded over cordless if at all possible. Unless you spend silly money on a pro cordless saw it will either flatten the battery quickly or be unusably gutless.
My dad has an older version of this and despite initially being sceptical, it's pretty impressive.
https://www.husqvarna.com/uk/products/chainsaws/42...
Obviously not as quick as a decent petrol saw but will happily power through anything up to the bar length. Stops and starts almost instantly and is easily quiet enough for an urban garden.
My dad has an older version of this and despite initially being sceptical, it's pretty impressive.
https://www.husqvarna.com/uk/products/chainsaws/42...
Obviously not as quick as a decent petrol saw but will happily power through anything up to the bar length. Stops and starts almost instantly and is easily quiet enough for an urban garden.
paralla said:
Harry Flashman said:
Harry
I keep a sheet of £3 Corex folded up underneath the floor of my Golf R Estate for when I have wood. You need some protection!
Thankfully it did not come with the extremely expensive and totally impractical polished teak boot lining...
guindilias said:
Harry's garden is tiny and communal, all council flats in London are the same. Just an outhouse and a fire pit, and he has to take the lift down 12 floors to get to it. A couple of 4-way extension leads daisychained should do the trick. 
So true. Most of the time, we're just burning rubbish in oil drums. The odd log is a luxury, I tell you. Gets the spoon hot enough for a decent hit.
Depends how old and energetic you are feeling! I bought an electric log splitter to do a pile that big and I'm still working through it after one year! Buy a proper log splitter and do a half hour every so often. 
Don't listen to these machismo viking types that reckon you'd be able to chop that up with an axe in 30 mins before nipping down the pub, it's hard work..
Don't listen to these machismo viking types that reckon you'd be able to chop that up with an axe in 30 mins before nipping down the pub, it's hard work.. Harry Flashman said:
guindilias said:
Harry's garden is tiny and communal, all council flats in London are the same. Just an outhouse and a fire pit, and he has to take the lift down 12 floors to get to it. A couple of 4-way extension leads daisychained should do the trick.
So true. Most of the time, we're just burning rubbish in oil drums. The odd log is a luxury, I tell you. Gets the spoon hot enough for a decent hit.
Is there a power pole or lamp post nearby into which you could tap*. Free power then too.
*Carefully, live working has risks
Me aged 12 and 62. Different country now but firewood has been a constant in my life.
I buy most of it pre cut into 50 cm oak logs at a cost of 52 euro a cubic
metre delivered.
Here most oak is cut at one metre lengths and then split by using a tractor driven splitter. Then stacked to dry. It's cut into smaller lengths when required.
I also have wood from building works.
My stock is normally about 18 cube and burn about 6 per winter.
I buy most of it pre cut into 50 cm oak logs at a cost of 52 euro a cubic
metre delivered.
Here most oak is cut at one metre lengths and then split by using a tractor driven splitter. Then stacked to dry. It's cut into smaller lengths when required.
I also have wood from building works.
My stock is normally about 18 cube and burn about 6 per winter.
I'm wondering at what price point wood becomes economic to heat a room vs gas? Not counting labour.
We can easily get through a net of logs in a long day and night. Which costs about a fiver. Which is roughly 2x expensive than gas, so it's more of a candle lit dinner style luxury rather than a daily all-day event.
Do I just need to buy more wood, or is there other tricks I'm not aware of, eg mixing coal, to stretch things out?
We can easily get through a net of logs in a long day and night. Which costs about a fiver. Which is roughly 2x expensive than gas, so it's more of a candle lit dinner style luxury rather than a daily all-day event.
Do I just need to buy more wood, or is there other tricks I'm not aware of, eg mixing coal, to stretch things out?
sambucket said:
I'm wondering at what price point wood becomes economic to heat a room vs gas? Not counting labour.
We can easily get through a net of logs in a long day and night. Which costs about a fiver. Which is roughly 2x expensive than gas, so it's more of a candle lit dinner style luxury rather than a daily all-day event.
Do I just need to buy more wood, or is there other tricks I'm not aware of, eg mixing coal, to stretch things out?
Don't buy it in £5 nets from the local garage!We can easily get through a net of logs in a long day and night. Which costs about a fiver. Which is roughly 2x expensive than gas, so it's more of a candle lit dinner style luxury rather than a daily all-day event.
Do I just need to buy more wood, or is there other tricks I'm not aware of, eg mixing coal, to stretch things out?
Cost comparison here (up to date as of July 2020):
https://nottenergy.com/resources/energy-cost-compa...
sambucket said:
Evoluzione said:
If I had to pay for it the gas CH would go on.
Fair enough, might have some options now I think about it. Might be a good enough excuse to buy a trailer and some toys.That's my take on it, but many have it for other reasons. It's like keeping chickens for eggs or a vegetable plot for the produce. Most of it is for something to do, the enjoyment, the exercise, etc. If it was for the end product it would be cheaper and easier to go to the supermarket.
It's quite possible i'm deluding myself thinking that burning wood is saving much. Add in the time and fuel spent, equipment needed and i'd probably be better off just putting a few more hours in at my actual job, but that's manmaths for you
Edited by Evoluzione on Monday 31st August 12:59
Evoluzione said:
sambucket said:
Evoluzione said:
If I had to pay for it the gas CH would go on.
Fair enough, might have some options now I think about it. Might be a good enough excuse to buy a trailer and some toys.That's my take on it, but many have it for other reasons. It's like keeping chickens for eggs or a vegetable plot for the produce. Most of it is for something to do, the enjoyment, the exercise, etc. If it was for the end product it would be cheaper and easier to go to the supermarket.
Less than €312 a year for heating my house is cheap in my eyes and it's a lifestyle I enjoy.
My chickens eggs taste better than supermarket eggs and so do my chickens taste better and are reared free range with decent food.
There is just no comparison of taste between home grown veg and supermarket mass grown veg.
It is something to do of course but I don't look at it like that.
Magooagain said:
Evoluzione said:
sambucket said:
Evoluzione said:
If I had to pay for it the gas CH would go on.
Fair enough, might have some options now I think about it. Might be a good enough excuse to buy a trailer and some toys.That's my take on it, but many have it for other reasons. It's like keeping chickens for eggs or a vegetable plot for the produce. Most of it is for something to do, the enjoyment, the exercise, etc. If it was for the end product it would be cheaper and easier to go to the supermarket.
Less than €312 a year for heating my house is cheap in my eyes and it's a lifestyle I enjoy.
My chickens eggs taste better than supermarket eggs and so do my chickens taste better and are reared free range with decent food.
There is just no comparison of taste between home grown veg and supermarket mass grown veg.
It is something to do of course but I don't look at it like that.
Whilst I wouldn't argue your chickens lead a much better life, you only perceive your eggs and veg taste better.
If someone blindfolded you and did a taste test you wouldn't know the difference.
Evoluzione said:
Magooagain said:
Evoluzione said:
sambucket said:
Evoluzione said:
If I had to pay for it the gas CH would go on.
Fair enough, might have some options now I think about it. Might be a good enough excuse to buy a trailer and some toys.That's my take on it, but many have it for other reasons. It's like keeping chickens for eggs or a vegetable plot for the produce. Most of it is for something to do, the enjoyment, the exercise, etc. If it was for the end product it would be cheaper and easier to go to the supermarket.
Less than €312 a year for heating my house is cheap in my eyes and it's a lifestyle I enjoy.
My chickens eggs taste better than supermarket eggs and so do my chickens taste better and are reared free range with decent food.
There is just no comparison of taste between home grown veg and supermarket mass grown veg.
It is something to do of course but I don't look at it like that.
Whilst I wouldn't argue your chickens lead a much better life, you only perceive your eggs and veg taste better.
If someone blindfolded you and did a taste test you wouldn't know the difference.
You are sadly way way out on the eggs and veg taste also. Tesco tomatoes compared to my garden ones,sadly wrong again. Home grown spuds!
Have you ever grown veg?
I do understand you're point of view in most of you're posts but give you plenty of play due to your posting style and past subjects etc. And of course fiat coupes.
Magooagain said:
Evoluzione said:
Magooagain said:
Evoluzione said:
sambucket said:
Evoluzione said:
If I had to pay for it the gas CH would go on.
Fair enough, might have some options now I think about it. Might be a good enough excuse to buy a trailer and some toys.That's my take on it, but many have it for other reasons. It's like keeping chickens for eggs or a vegetable plot for the produce. Most of it is for something to do, the enjoyment, the exercise, etc. If it was for the end product it would be cheaper and easier to go to the supermarket.
Less than €312 a year for heating my house is cheap in my eyes and it's a lifestyle I enjoy.
My chickens eggs taste better than supermarket eggs and so do my chickens taste better and are reared free range with decent food.
There is just no comparison of taste between home grown veg and supermarket mass grown veg.
It is something to do of course but I don't look at it like that.
Whilst I wouldn't argue your chickens lead a much better life, you only perceive your eggs and veg taste better.
If someone blindfolded you and did a taste test you wouldn't know the difference.
You are sadly way way out on the eggs and veg taste also. Tesco tomatoes compared to my garden ones,sadly wrong again. Home grown spuds!
Have you ever grown veg?
I do understand you're point of view in most of you're posts but give you plenty of play due to your posting style and past subjects etc. And of course fiat coupes.
You can't heat a whole house on a log burner alone, it needs one with a back boiler and the associated equipment which costs a lot of money.
Time isn't free, the meter is always running. As per above personally I could be earning money (to pay for gas) instead of setting up to burn wood.
This is my home grown fruit veg:
It tastes just like the Supermarket supplied stuff which costs less. You take your eggs to someone and get them to cook them with others and do a taste test.
It's the automotive equivalent of fitting a different kind of air filter and claiming the car is more powerful, so much so you can actually feel it. Bulls
t. I know it, i've proved it, but it won't stop people from doing it.The above is all hard fact, but that's not why we do it. We don't do things for factual sensible reasons, we do them because it makes us feel good, we like to learn, to master to have new things and many other reasons, we do it because we're human.
One thing though, you can't buy drinkable 9% cider made from 100% apples from a supermarket, that is a fact
Edited by Evoluzione on Monday 31st August 21:49
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