Solid fuel central heating boilers

[Anonymous]

I'm not greatly concerned about what you do in the privacy of your own workshop. I'm sure you know what you're doing.

Would you recommend that Mr. Joe Average fabricate and install his own solid fuel stove, Biff?

 

[Anonymous]

My son inlaw made a multifuel stove out of a gas canister
And it's blo*dy great
It does bang out the heat, not arf...

 

[Anonymous]

I'm not fitting a basic multifuel stove - I already have one of those - I'm fitting a central heating boiler with such joys as a thermostat, a fan, a timer, and the ability to be fitted within the next few weeks...

And given how cheaply you can buy stoves from M*chine M*rt I think it hardly worth the effort of making one frankly, if it's for indoors.

 

[Anonymous]

He made a couple of them before.

He just likes engineering things like that...Thats all.

I fancy aving a go at making a wind powered genny.
It's a bit of boys toys really
Just to see if one can dabble and make something usefull
and see it work I suppose
Good luck with your heating
I hear (From a gardener butty of mine) that Dec 4th is supposed to be the start of the big freeze.
They say it will last to end of Jan
(If you believe that......)

 

[Anonymous]

Well, it's aready started here! I'll put the max min thermometer in the porch and see what it gets down to. I'm not putting it totally outside as it's too cold to venture out! Water in buckets and stuff frozen solid.

Lots of bird feeders to fill tomorrow, and I bet the holly berries are stripped.

 

[Anonymous]

We have got haw frost (bad sign that one)
The landy won't start well in the mornings.
The rats have come in from the cold.
So I'm sorry to say this, but it's down to the farmer's shop tomorrow.
And the bird are eating like there's no next day.

 

[Anonymous]

heh, right on cue.

No I would install one either.

NT

 

[Anonymous]

'No I would install one either'???

NT - have you been at the home made booze again? The stuff you kbock up in an illegal still in the garden shed?

 

[Anonymous]

lol. Nt bashes head against side of text box, nearly falling over. The what Evelyn?

What still? {crash}

NT

 

[Anonymous]

Evelyn,

Last year you mentioned that the heavy crop of holly berries indicated a hard winter to come and that they were quickly stripped by the birds. We had a heavy crop last year - but last year's berries are still there! Looks like another heavy crop this year, too.

So why are our birds avoiding the berries? Too well-fed? Too few birds? Wrong birds? Thick birds? What does the folk lore say about berries still there on mid-summers day?

 

[Anonymous]

I haven't fathomed this one out at all! We had a huge crop this year on certain trees, some have been stripped in the past couple of days, others untouched. Yet one tree which usually has a crop has none, others which rarely crop heavily were full!

A recent but article on Country Living mag (I think)
(Hey, I can dream about a warm, mud free home beautifully decorated...) suggested stuff about certain trees being guarded by thrushes who fight off others to keep the berries for themselves, but that seems not to fit in with what is happening in my garden either.