A lot of work for not many calories in terms of wood heat. Buy seasoned logs and keep someone local in work. Pallets can be treated with methyl bromide, which isn’t nice stuff to breathe; tantalised pallets contain arsenic; many newer pallet blocks are chipblock, which is toxic when burned. Don’t pick up CHEP pallets: the company can legally break into your yard to retrieve them.
Great avatar, i like!
With pallets you're never quite sure where a nail/staple might be, I'd sooner blunt a jigsaw blade than hit one with a chainsawplus the amount of 'chips' a chainsaw produces are astronomical, OK in a rural environment but a real pain if you live (as I do) in a suburban environment.
I'm supposed to be incognito when I visit hotels.
Propane?That's pretty good, @raleighnut
The coal merchant only stocks the kiln-dried ones, which are more expensive.
But the crux of the matter here, is that given there's no mains gas, it's either oil or solid fuel heating. I went for a combination of storage heaters and solid fuel given I don't have a suitable / secure place to put an oil tank. I use smokeless fuel as well, but mostly logs. And it kinda does rack up over the course of a winter.
The house where new neighbour has moved into also only has solid fuel heating. Guess he was looking for a cheap source of fuel instead of ponying up. But after all the work I've put into my little wood, why should I subsidise someone else's heating...
As have I.'S not to be sniffed at.Have burnt my share of those over the years as well.
I have one of those Bosch jigsaws as well.
Yes, they are greedy.I went shopping for an annual multi-trip, worldwide travel insurance policy. Being an old git who had heart surgery five years ago, and who is on multiple meds for the duration, I reckoned I would be staring down the wrong end of £700 thanks to those greedy N. American medics.
£140.08 from Holidaysafe Premier. I'm grumpily thanking the insurance industry.
Ta. It’s a sketch for a painting of my old barber and his shop: he was a tandem racer in his day; the chap in the chair gave me my first Elsegood frame; the customer waiting is Billy Ward, a regional road champ from fifties. All in same place on one auspicious day....
