What did you buy today ???

[Tony Nitrous]

Just the pile. 20 m3 of dry birch.
The price of electricity is now ten times(10x) more than a year ago!!
Thanks to Mr Putins attack to Ukraine.

We are just out of winter here. I'd be surprised if I light the log burner again. I do have a few dead trees so I should start stock piling it over the Summer and not have to buy any next winter.

I'm fortunate that my place is very well insulated. Doesn't take much to keep it toastie.  We have reverse cycle aircon that works well, but there's something really nice about a proper fire / log burner.





I've had a few comments about how it's not great for the environment. I don't let it stress me. The alternatives are pretty expensive, and in my defence I'm not using mains water, mains sewer, dustbins etc, I'm planting more trees than I'm burning. 

It'd be interesting to see how home fires compare with 45,000,000 acre bushfires or our coal fired powerstations etc for environmental impact.

[froudy]

@Tony Nitrous

I've got no problem whatsoever with log burners. As far as I'm concerned it's making use of a natural resource that in a lot of cases would rot and go to waste. In a lot of cases too it's free heating. With the way energy prices have rocketed in the UK I think a lot more people will be burning logs over the coming winter to try any keep warm and save some money.

[frenchgixxer]

Living in an old farmer workers cottage in the middle of nowhere in central France, my heating is a wood burner, no central or air con etc. I gather as much deadfall from verges and hedges as I can as it would otherwise just rot. Plenty of wood in France and much of the older housing stock is reliant on it as a heat source and its almost free from the effects of rising electric and gas prices. As for carbon emissions when you burn it - don't make me laugh!

[grog]

When i pulled my old pool deck apart, next door neighbour got enough firewood for two Winters. Today bought 2 garden hoses. One is retractable into housing, very flash. Other is un kinkable, well see.

[Mick_J]

According to our government the DRAX power station that burns wood pellets is carbon zero.  The reason for that is it's not our wood we burn, it comes from America and Canada.  So to be carbon neutral just don't burn your own wood.

[grog]

mjgt, guess my neighbour is carbon neutral, its my wood hes burning. 

[Eric GSX1400K3]

On that logic the car I'm driving is also carbon neutral as the bank owns nearly all of it.  I like that logic

[Hooli]

The theory on wood burners being carbon neutral is it's not fossil fuels, so the carbon came out of the atmosphere as the tree grew & will be reabsorbed by the replacement tree planted.

Personally I don't believe the new religion of man made climate change, but it does amuse me to pick holes in their logic at times.

[Irish in Oz]

Not wood it's plastic.

[GSXKING]

Not wood it's plastic.

Why are you burning them @Irish in Oz they're very nice 

[Irish in Oz]

@GSXKING
Burnt a hole in my pocket.

[frenchgixxer]

Picked up this today from a local farm, a 20ton hydraulic press. It was advertised as "artisinal" which, in France, really means homemade. It's solid as, weighs over 80KG and is nearly 2m high. Has seen some use (farmer upgraded to a 30ton pneumatic one) as many of the small local farms still make their own equipment here. Not so long ago they'd have at least one blacksmith employed too. Now its almost all welding not forging. I'll make some press plates from mild steel scrap I have. Kicker was it only cost 40 euro's, less than £35, so would have been rude to refuse!

[GSXKING]

I can just imagine the  @frenchgixxer from some of the TOOL collectors on here 

[Eric GSX1400K3]

That has seen some use, at at a bit over its 20t rating judging by the dip in the bottom bean.

Can't knock it back for forty euro though....

[frenchgixxer]

That has seen some use, at at a bit over its 20t rating judging by the dip in the bottom bean.

Can't knock it back for forty euro though....

I've simply turned the bottom beam upside down so any use will straighten it out lol