I would just like to say

[kevstar]

Afternoon all, done all the fluids in the Disco. Hand brake cable & speedo cable to fit oh & the flippen track rod end
has a stripped nut & the threads are damaged id forgot about this when I took it apart. I think i have one in the shed.
I could just cut a few mm of the thread & see if I can get a decent nut for it.

Tis hot errr

 

[DanClarke]

... I had our chimney swept last week. It had not been done since the log-burner was installed 5 years ago and the chimney liner installed. I was rather surprised at the amount of pure black soot that was pulled out of the liner. Easily 2 buckets full.
Bloke said, "No, this isn't bad at all for 4-5 years worth". Gave us aa certificate of "CLEAN" all for a mere £65

 

[landowner]

... I had our chimney swept last week. It had not been done since the log-burner was installed 5 years ago and the chimney liner installed. I was rather surprised at the amount of pure black soot that was pulled out of the liner. Easily 2 buckets full.
Bloke said, "No, this isn't bad at all for 4-5 years worth". Gave us aa certificate of "CLEAN" all for a mere £65

I got a quarter of a bucket after two years, I was burning mostly old pallets though and they burn very hot and clean

 

[DanClarke]

I shall be going off for a 3 day cycling trip to Cambs next month. It has been a rather sudden decision.
So I am scrambling to get the delta trike "match fit". The seat fabric has mostly perished and I need to replace it, but they no longer support this trike and a new seat mesh is not available so I must make my own.

Today I dragged the little £/$120 "gimp-suit-maker" out of the bottom garden shed and loaded it up with gimp-stitching thread, The result is not particularly pretty, but I think it will do the job.

Here is the overall "tube-sock" of Phifertex. There is a folded-over 4 x ply long front edge and just a folder over once long rear edge. The old knackered seat is the thing above the new one.

Pretty it is not. I'm a novice sewing contraption user and it's only a cheap Chinese shoe-patcher manual sewing machine.

BUT, I think it will be just as strong as the original, if not stronger. I need the steel rods ASAP to move forwards really.
I shall however place it on the seat frame and pretend it is done.
.... like this.

 

[marjon]

Get a chipper only about £600 worth every penny

Can get cheaper than that which will munch quite big twigs/branches.
But yes bags of chippings are easier to handle

Great fire starters to.

J

 

[marjon]

Do you want some more Marjon got thousands of them View attachment 343618

Thanks but we have plenty .

J

 

[marjon]

... I had our chimney swept last week. It had not been done since the log-burner was installed 5 years ago and the chimney liner installed. I was rather surprised at the amount of pure black soot that was pulled out of the liner. Easily 2 buckets full.
Bloke said, "No, this isn't bad at all for 4-5 years worth". Gave us aa certificate of "CLEAN" all for a mere £65

How big were the buckets .
But then we usually get about 2/3rd to 1/2 of bucket every year. Think the bucket is about the size of a 25l paint can, its a Karcher thing so the hoover does the work and it drops in the can.
But then we do burn 20+cubes a year.

J

 

[DanClarke]

How big were the buckets .
But then we usually get about 2/3rd to 1/2 of bucket every year. Think the bucket is about the size of a 25l paint can, its a Karcher thing so the hoover does the work and it drops in the can.
But then we do burn 20+cubes a year.

J

Not huge bucket I suspect. He had vacuumed as much of it that came down the chimney directly into his catch can and what the physically shoveled out of the fire-box was like a black mountain of soot to the top 1/3rd of the box.

I have always tried to run the flue temp at 300c or thereabouts but we did go through 2 metres of rubbish wood as well as all the Ash & Oak. But, happy-days.

 

[Stanleysteamer]

Get a chipper only about £600 worth every penny

If I had to do this moren once, I would!!

 

[Stanleysteamer]

Afternoon all, done all the fluids in the Disco. Hand brake cable & speedo cable to fit oh & the flippen track rod end
has a stripped nut & the threads are damaged id forgot about this when I took it apart. I think i have one in the shed.
I could just cut a few mm of the thread & see if I can get a decent nut for it.

Tis hot errr

I suppose that if you try and recut the thread wiv a die it just goes round and round? Maybe you could clamp the tie-rod and ball joint to stop this?
I fink your way may be better, unless it starts to go round and round as you use the saw.
Best of luck!

 

[Stanleysteamer]

... I had our chimney swept last week. It had not been done since the log-burner was installed 5 years ago and the chimney liner installed. I was rather surprised at the amount of pure black soot that was pulled out of the liner. Easily 2 buckets full.
Bloke said, "No, this isn't bad at all for 4-5 years worth". Gave us aa certificate of "CLEAN" all for a mere £65

I fort you only burned propah dried hard wood? I suppose it goes up through another floor and the roof space?

I may now stare up ours, if I can. Might actooly be easier to get on the roof and peer down it!!

 

[Stanleysteamer]

Can get cheaper than that which will munch quite big twigs/branches.
But yes bags of chippings are easier to handle

Great fire starters to.

J

Part of what we have been doing is disposing of fruit trees that I took down a while back. We have been burning those and W likes to take all the twigs off for kindling and the next size up for the next stage before we put logs on. It works well and smells nice too.

 

[Stanleysteamer]

How big were the buckets .
But then we usually get about 2/3rd to 1/2 of bucket every year. Think the bucket is about the size of a 25l paint can, its a Karcher thing so the hoover does the work and it drops in the can.
But then we do burn 20+cubes a year.

J

My stars, that must cost! Or it would over here, absolute minimum being €50 per stere. Hope it heats your hot water too.

 

[Stanleysteamer]

we did go through 2 metres of rubbish wood

That accounts for it.

 

[Turktowner]

... I had our chimney swept last week. It had not been done since the log-burner was installed 5 years ago and the chimney liner installed. I was rather surprised at the amount of pure black soot that was pulled out of the liner. Easily 2 buckets full.
Bloke said, "No, this isn't bad at all for 4-5 years worth". Gave us aa certificate of "CLEAN" all for a mere £65

We have ours done every year, herself says it's a requirement in the house insewerants.
Might be worth checking yours?

 

[DanClarke]

We have ours done every year, herself says it's a requirement in the house insewerants.
Might be worth checking yours?

I have no insewerants to check with. I ceased that scam about 15 years ago.
However, now that I am becoming old, frail etc. etc. I may give it another go.

 

[marjon]

My stars, that must cost! Or it would over here, absolute minimum being €50 per stere. Hope it heats your hot water too.

What’s your gas bill over the winter? .
It supplies the underfloor heating and hot water.

J

 

[DanClarke]

I fort you only burned propah dried hard wood? I suppose it goes up through another floor and the roof space?

I may now stare up ours, if I can. Might actooly be easier to get on the roof and peer down it!!

I prefer the kiln-dried Ash or Oak, but last year I took a job-lot of 2xM3 "various" from some local lads and their start-up business and it was mainly pine. It all burnt though and no harm seems to have been done.