Small things matter

[Bugtownboy]

Good job both

[Joeboy]

Le bog roll firestarter!
Surely I can't be the only one to have found the dragons breath benefit of a bogroll starter(or two)?

[Joeboy]

On this the most un-WBS stove day the exhaust wrap finally arrived so I cracked on and got that done along with a couple of finishing details inside. Black slate hearth extension and matt black chequer plate heatshield finishing piece.i think it's looking quite good?

[Joeboy]

In this order
Spot temp of WBS door glass
Spot temp of shielded rear exit flue from cabin wall
Spot temp of unshielded inspection bend







The wraps work well.
10 minutes later and the wrap is dried out(apply wet so it shrinks onto the pipe).
Temps are
360 WBS glass
93.7 Rear exit flue outside of cabin
172 unshielded inspection bend

And finally the home built airgapped wall penetrating heat shield.... 73.5 degs! I am rather overjoyed at these results. This is the deal of the year for me at £147.50.all in. SWMBO said she prefers it to the Burley ( which was £3.5k all in or 95.79% more expensive).

[Moxi]

Cracking job! love the finishing details

Moxi

[Joeboy]

Cracking job! love the finishing details

Moxi

Thanks Moxi, I think I got all of this job from head to reality instead of a reasonably high percentage which is my usual expectation. SWMBO is going to set me up for cooking in the Autumn which I am looking forward to. Got some timber storage baskets to sort tomorrow and that will be one more resource set on standby for grid avoidance.

I was very happy when SWMBO weighed in with the touches. She has a great eye and can see deeper than me.

[Joeboy]

Got another load of logs off my mate yesterday. The exchange this time was a box of red and couple of bottles of bubbly from France. Seems a decent exchange medium.

Load

Woodpile before

Woodpile after

The amount of small(6" and under) that disappeared into the top back row was ridiculous (in a good way).

[nowty]

Le bog roll firestarter!
Surely I can't be the only one to have found the dragons breath benefit of a bogroll starter(or two)?

And your reused egg box full of wood shavings too.

[Joeboy]

Le bog roll firestarter!
Surely I can't be the only one to have found the dragons breath benefit of a bogroll starter(or two)?

And your reused egg box full of wood shavings too.

Well spotted! That is swmbo's idea. We call them crinklecut boxes and she is an avid collector and stacker of same . All the woodchips from the electric chainsaw work are collected, sacked up and used.

While prepping for the second row of logs we cleared a few long term awkward stumps/log sections. Knotty, multi direction jobs. Just a couple you know?





This afternoon will be splitting off what I can with Solar powered hydraulic logsplitter.I try to waste no part of it and touch the world as gently as possible with our WBS's.

[Moxi]

I use an assortment of hardwood and steel wedges on knots and knarled stumps knock them in with the lump hammer in likely spots and ten every time I pass hit them all once or twice to take up any slack and they usually fall apart within a week; had some Cecile? Oak that was full of knarled sections took me forever to reduce it down but not a lot of overall effort and it burnt nicely when accompanied by some ash and hawthorn.

It’s satisfying to get all the tree into the WBS and knot ( geddit?) waste anything

Moxi