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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46052 Location: yes
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Posted: Sat Jun 26, 21 8:53 am Post subject: |
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re bbq firewood
a mix is useful in type and size
cooking on fire is not the same as bbq with a bag of charcoal
it gives more scope for variety, but it needs more skill
among the better common timbers are:
ash, stick split and lump
oak, lump or kindling size
birch, all shapes
chestnut, lump
fruit wood, lump, grilling
as to "soft wood" it will give heat as kindling, probably ok for things in pans, not so good for short order grilling or slow roast
that said cold climate "soft" wood can be pretty good in larger sizes, it is a matter of arranging the style of fire for the task
re kindling or fuel dead hanging is ace stuff |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15834
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46052 Location: yes
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Mistress Rose
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46052 Location: yes
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Posted: Mon Jun 28, 21 10:50 am Post subject: |
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bag charcoal usually needs a little tinder and kindling
a couple of minutes making feather sticks covers that
best charcoal in a bag can be started easily with a version of your card trick
by flame or spark get one bit to take light in a crevice with a white powdery surface, gently blow, sandwich another bit with a white surface on top and pinch them together and blow until you have a small hand forge
put them down and add more fuel, blow
the blowing bit is technical and needs advice and practice for a variety of situations
i usually hold the initiator fuel to blow, easier, and it will mention when it is hot enough
best best charcoal is very fresh, covered in white and will take direct with most ignition sources, the stuff i made every night in the tent stove would light with a fire steel, a quick arranging and set the air intake to burn and be cooking breakfast faster than an electric hob
my light camping thing works like this
settle down, light cookfire, use the last fuels to form a clamp, get it well hot with plenty of embers, cover with sand or earth, it will steam and blow smoke for a bit but usually that is not an issue
it is not an efficient conversion or very predictable, it will produce easy light charcoal from many timbers, it will give dry char sticks, it may produce a decent yield especially if there are a few chunky bits of dense timber included
ps for easy light stuff, the classic hardwoods are ok, blackthorn is outstanding and even softwoods will do ok if clamped when between fire and ashes |
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Mistress Rose
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 21 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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Back again for a short spell! Tried a few times but my home working has to win over the library to keep the fires burning. I am still selling about 3 nets of kindling a day, and I don't ever have a fire on at home and only have heat in food or up to 5 hot water bottles in bed if it is very cold. So what are folks doing with my kindling in this weather? There can't be too many fires being lit at night surely?, and soft wood is not a lot of use on BBQs. My guess is OAPS.
I have done a lot of kindling since I have been off for a while, collecting as much as I can now when it is a, available and b, dry! The company I used to work for are keeping it for me, and also a local store in Welshpool gives it away, but there it is only any worth going in good weather as it is outside and subject to Welsh rain! I have made my objective to chop as much as I can 3 days a week. I also have a friend who has a small wood working business in the local town. I have been a good friend to them and so I an hoping he will take me on in a casual basis and allow me to develop more products of my own, which he can have when I fall over or have had enough! Though I think I would like to "go" in my own wood shed at home!
I now know I have made a big mistake and have allowed a young girl to keep her horses, 2, on my fields for 2 years. Her father is going to do the field work for me-hedges and so on; and he will trim the large trees branches, as most are overhanging the field and I hope to be doing a good log trade. I wanted to have 2 other horses for a week or so as the owner is going to hospital for no2 baby and wants them out of the way of husband, who is not stock minded. However the new girl will not allow me to have the horses to do someone a favour. I hope she never needs a favour from me! Luckily the friend has an alternative become available in the last 2 days so ok but could have been a near thing. Easy to be wise after the event , but wait till next year when there will be no stock, even after the summer grazing!
I am about to clear up the old veg patch. I haven't grown veg for a year or so now and I have a lot of self set trees growing straight up with few branches of diameter-just the thing for show jump poles so I am hoping to see the friend as he has a large lathe and it may do the job for me. I don't know how they turn long poles but my guess is the pole turns and the cutter goes forward along the pole as they do on normal lathes? I need some advise here!!-please. The finished pole should be 5" diameter and 12ft. long. They should have no splits but that is un controllable they say!
"See" you all when I can, and best wishes till then! |
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Mistress Rose
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8792 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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Mistress Rose
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Thu Jul 15, 21 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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Well it is like this -the library reopened and then closed again. But hopefully this time it will keep going for a bit longer that one visit. Nothing exciting happened recently, but I have got it into the little girl with the grazing agreement, that, when I say she has to go, she goes! and she has a grazing agreement which will end on the last day of September, signed and sealed today-fingers crossed for me please folks! She didn't understand the meaning of the heading "Summer grazing", but she does now-April 1st to September30th. I explained that if I allowed her to exceed her date then she could claim a tenancy, which is out of the question. The alternative is to put the horses back where they came from across the road which is where they I will put them if she doesn't go when I tell her go.
Not much else happened. But I do have a reasonable quantity of kindling cut and I will be concentrating on that from now on for a few weeks to get the stock to be winter ready-a minimum of 500 nets by September will mean I can have breakfast in bed in winter and in time for start at 8am instead of starting chopping at 7am and boycotting breakfast! That hour makes a big difference-you chop like mad to keep warm in winter! I don't remember if I told you about my neighbour who has made a stick chopper for me using a design he found on the internet-I now chop much quicker than before and my right arm doesn't ache anything like it did when I chopped by hand, even if hand chopping is faster.
Thankyou for the second sock bulletin, MR, I look forward to their inauguration! You must tell me how much money they are.
I will be back as soon as they say I can come, been good to read some of your posts. |
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