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gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8630 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45551 Location: yes
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Thu Jan 09, 20 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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You are certainly progressing with the committee, Cassandra, I wouldn't have the patience. The kind of comment MR is advocating is often grasped well after the receiving, so doesn't have an effect for some time which gives them time to digest first and either react later or change the attitude, usually by the next meeting if they are planning to continue.
Dpack has summed the art work up, cost nothing and could make money.
The kindling machine my friemd has is a "bag it off the machine", and it doesn't take "normal" wood you feed a tree trunk in it cuts to 6" then chops and you put the net over the end and bag it up; it is a 2 man operation, with the man at the back flying he tells me. I will be going for a sample to find how good it is I saw some at a shop local to me and not that good, a fair few not cut fully through especially where there were knots. I am not blowing my trumpet, but I have had several people say how good my wood is and how dry it is for lighting fires; not sure how they would react to the stuff off the back of a machine! I have picked up some decent wood at work today so back at it when I get home and another full weekend cutting and chopping. The elbow is getting sore, but that is normal for me at this time of the year One thing is certain there will be no let up this year, I slowed down too much in the summer. Assuming I can get the pallets I need I will give up the work and just chop wood, my pension is not massive but it is manageable. I have got used to "good money" and will notice it's reduction when I retire-50% gone over night! "They" call me scrouge now-I will be then! |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15619
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Posted: Thu Jan 09, 20 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds like a good couple of days apart from the committee meeting. I can't see how a committee manages to not manage anything for 4 months, and it must be getting rather urgent or even critical by now. Keep at it, and with any luck they will realise the error of their ways.
Gregotyn, kindling machines are usually of that type, which is no good for us as we tend to end up with all sorts of bits and shapes of hardwood, often with knots in them. A two man operation wouldn't suit you either.
The people came back today to make sure the area we need to cut for the pylon work is dormouse safe. Rather them than me as there were all sorts of places dormice might have been lurking, but I think they were probably looking in the wrong places, but then who am I to judge; I don't have the right qualifications, only a bit of common sense.
We had to give up because of the rain again this afternoon, but I managed to fill 15 log sacks and do some splitting, sorting and tidying of the pile of wood husband and son had left for me. Son helped with quite a lot of the splitting, so that meant a bit less work for me. |
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8630 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15619
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15619
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Ty Gwyn
Joined: 22 Sep 2010 Posts: 4565 Location: Lampeter
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45551 Location: yes
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15619
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 20 7:48 am Post subject: |
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It depends on when we are talking about. I think logs tended to be sold by the cart full, and were often a lot longer than modern firewood which tends to be 6-12" long in the UK. Our standard length is 10". We have a firewood processor, which will go from about 8" to 20" as it, like most others, is imported. I think most countries which still have more of a culture of wood burning use longer lengths.
Faggots used to be the main product, and they would have been bound with withies or later string. They were used into the 1950s for firing bread ovens in our area, and a few places still use them, although I think they tend to be mainly thicker rods now rather than a lot of top too. Faggots with tops are now called bavins round here and are used for river band restoration.
Pimps are bundles of birch twigs used for fire lighting and are still tied with string then gathered into bigger bundles just the way you describe Dpack. Perhaps used withies in the past, but I have no idea about their history. I remember chopped stick kindling being sold in bundles either tied with string or wire before they came in plastic or net bags.
I think log sacks are a reasonably recent phenomenon as in the past people tended to have a fire all the time as there was no central heating, so would have needed logs by the load rather than the sack.
String has been available for quite a long time as ships have needed ropes since sails were first used, and that is made from thinner strings. It might have been expensive, so yes, withies, bramble, honeysuckle or clematis stems may have been used in the woods. String and rope would have been reused as well. |
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45551 Location: yes
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