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magnet

Joined: 05 Apr 2010
Posts: 41
Location: Northumberland

Posted: Fri Oct 12, 12 7:45 pm Post subject: firewood bonanza

Due to the recent floods in the area our local beach was piled high in wood.So last weekend we managed to get two pickup loads away.
With it all cut and stacked the hard work was worth it, more so now the gas and electricity prices have just gone up.
Afew months ago i made one of these https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_z4ar_he_o this its by far the best saw horse that i have ever used, so if you are handy with a welder its a great project if you cut alot of wood.
The only change i made was to splay the foot bars for extra stabillity..............Magnet

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35057
Location: Devon

Posted: Fri Oct 12, 12 9:20 pm Post subject:
Don't put drift wood in a wood burner though. The salt is bad news for the flue.

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 12 7:01 am Post subject:
Could leave it out in the rian to wash the salt off?

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 12 7:01 am Post subject:
sorry, rain.......... Fingers too fast for brain.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 12 9:42 am Post subject: Re: firewood bonanza

magnet wrote:

Afew months ago i made one of these https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_z4ar_he_o this its by far the best saw horse that i have ever used, so if you are handy with a welder its a great project if you cut alot of wood.

That one looks like it's bolted together, so you don't necessarily need to weld.
And he seems to be struggling through that wood. Is it something really hard, or is his saw blunt?

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 12 10:09 am Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

Don't put drift wood in a wood burner though. The salt is bad news for the flue.

Exactly how bad?

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35057
Location: Devon

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 12 10:22 am Post subject:
https://bit.ly/SRMhrY

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 12 10:30 am Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

https://bit.ly/SRMhrY

Oh yes, very clever.
Endlessly repeat a something you have heard somewhere without concern for its accuracy or relevance, and when challenged on it point the challenger at an internet full of b******t.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 12 11:12 am Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

Jamanda wrote:

https://bit.ly/SRMhrY

Heh, heh, heh.

She's right, mind.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 12 11:27 am Post subject:

Nick wrote:

She's right, mind.

Not right enough to answer the question though.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46211
Location: yes

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 12 11:29 am Post subject:
plenty of freshwater drift wood round here there is a tangle of several trees about 5 m up the centre pier of the railway bridge

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 12 11:32 am Post subject:

dpack wrote:

there is a tangle of several trees about 5 m up the centre pier of the railway bridge

Should be able to charge somebody to clear that.
Is there a phone number on the bridge?

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46211
Location: yes

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 12 11:34 am Post subject:
the risk assessment makes me cringe

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 12 3:20 pm Post subject:

dpack wrote:

the risk assessment makes me cringe

Best we charge double then.

DawnMK

Joined: 01 Dec 2008
Posts: 895
Location: Buckinghamshire

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 12 5:21 pm Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

Don't put drift wood in a wood burner though. The salt is bad news for the flue.

learn something new everyday thank you

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