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It adds about £30 on if they're complete from the ads I see Gaz. Looking at around 30-40.plus for the cage alone and 70 plus most of the time if I include the plastic scrap I dont want as well. Individually they do come up cheaper from time to time but once traveling and time is taken into account it's not worth faffing around.
If you leave the lowermost segment in, they're not too floppy and still do the job fine but obviously theyre not going to be as strong for stacking. You can bolt the top bars back on to reinforce them after cutting if you want too but I dont bother as its never been a issue. Once its filled the bulk of the weight is going straight down rather than sidewards mostly, the cage is just there to stop it sliding sidewards and falling rather than supporting the full weight. I dont even bother with a door, its never slid out the opening.
When I put one ibc by the house door, on that especially without the door cutout I'm leaning in rolling round my overlarge stomach for the lowermost logs and its awkward and makes things much more difficult. For that I have a top made from a old pallet skinned with osb wrapped with black pallet wrap to keep it dry and we wrap the ibc cage with pallet wrap too, which looks quite tidy and fairly weatherproof. The lid frame just drops around the ibc in situ, and the lid is hinged at the rear making it easy to grab a few logs, but also it self closes and doesnt move because of the weight of the pallet wood.
One of the wood places I use sometimes sells big bags of wood, and he lines a ibc cage with a empty bag and just fills the bag then forks it out the cage to load it for people.
If I run low on cages, I just keep one to load with same and end up with a stack of big bags all containing a m3 of split wood each.
Ive got to take a sawzall to 2 empty ibc's this week because I bought more pallet racking and once again the uprights are too long to load onto my master pickup same as last time. But I've reused the cages I cut about last time for wood already.
One day I'm going to make a actual H frame for the cab instead...
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Sounds like you need a ladder rack....
There's nowhere solid to mount one, the sides all fold down to leave a flat bed (aka a plateau here), normally they have a H post just behind the cab somewhere, but it came with a aftermarket tubular frame and pvc tilt to turn it into a weird quirky soft bodied van but that mostly lives on the racking in the barn as it gets in the way of loading same as any van body does. That frame drops into mounts in the deck and a permanent H bar or supports for a rack would interfere with, so I'd have to make something bespoke that probably used the sockets the tilt frame fits into and easily removable between use as I use it as a flat deck to collect longer logs loose, & its on my round-tuit list but for now way down.
I'm ok with using ibc crates like this for now, I posted the pic as practical evidence that cut about ibc cages dont fall apart with a few sections removed if your sensible about it.
I'm ok with using ibc crates like this for now, I posted the pic as practical evidence that cut about ibc cages dont fall apart with a few sections removed if your sensible about it.
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WE got one from Aldi for about £12 and it does a sterling job. It takes about 20 minutes to get up to temp then the fan kicks in and spreads the heat nicely.I bought one of these and it's doing the job of spreading the heat nicely
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You mount the post's on the floor of the bed.
Or, mount the uprights into sockets welded onto the sides, hitch pins
to quickly remove the rack for other usage (like when folding the sides down)
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I had one but the wife has acute hearing and could not stand the noise it made .
After a moaning session I put it in the fire no noise now .
It went off with a big "puff" noise , in hindsight probably not a good idea to burn it .
But very satisfying
After a moaning session I put it in the fire no noise now .
It went off with a big "puff" noise , in hindsight probably not a good idea to burn it .
But very satisfying
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So Sadie the log lady came today with an extra 2m3 for our holiday cottages. We never light the fire in the house honest! Its so easy to just transfer her the money when shes done! Anyone want to buy a log splitter!
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Me too. We finally found a multi-fuel stove my Wife & I liked. It'll replace the crappy unit that was in our project home.
Its a Hunter Herald 14 which we bought from Ben, "Mr. Stove", who refurbishes multi-fuel, cast-iron, wood and other stoves. We had to wait awhile for delivery as his is a small business, and he gets swamped this time of year. The wait was not a problem, as I still have to build a stone surround feature. Here is a not so glamourous photo from the other day when it arrived.
I'll give it an additional touch-up spray, and do an initial burn outside on one of our rare non rainy days ?
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^^^ Good to see someone refurbishing stoves. All the stove firms round here wont refurbish or maintain anything. Its a case of "Its obsolete, Cant get the parts, Regulations wont let us". "But we can sell you a new one & fit it".
In my mates scrap yard a few months ago & he had 20 stoves in that had come from one of these outfits, all perfectly serviceable but scrapped due to BS.
My mate sold 90% of them to a guy up London who sells them to liveaboards on the canals.
In my mates scrap yard a few months ago & he had 20 stoves in that had come from one of these outfits, all perfectly serviceable but scrapped due to BS.
My mate sold 90% of them to a guy up London who sells them to liveaboards on the canals.
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I used to buy old stoves in France to refurb and sell on, great fun and made a bit but the market here sadly isn't worth it anymore because no-one will fit them due to new regs etc. A shame because they are great stoves and some are really beautiful.
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Had a Herald 14 when we lived in Cumbria. Brilliant thing. SWMBO used to cook on it. Will get through a lot ofMe too. We finally found a multi-fuel stove my Wife & I liked. It'll replace the crappy unit that was in our project home.
Its a Hunter Herald 14 which we bought from Ben, "Mr. Stove", who refurbishes multi-fuel, cast-iron, wood and other stoves. We had to wait awhile for delivery as his is a small business, and he gets swamped this time of year. The wait was not a problem, as I still have to build a stone surround feature. Here is a not so glamourous photo from the other day when it arrived.
I'll give it an additional touch-up spray, and do an initial burn outside on one of our rare non rainy days ?
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Wouldn't bother painting it though, will not stay for long. We just used Zeebrite ?
On a Herald 5 now in our much smaller room, not as effective though for some reason
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Thanks for the tip about Zebrite, haven't heard of it before. The stove is going into the living room which is approximately 14' x 20', or roughly 280 square feet, with a wide doorway that can be opened into the kitchen.
With a fan unit circulating the air, the house should warm up nicely.
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I discovered " Mr. Stove " on that well known Bay auction site. I was surprised that his phone number to call was listed. Although there are a few stoves for sale on the site, he has duplicates of those and lots of others not listed, so you can go and see them at his location in Leicester and negotiate a deal, or order what you want by phone; which is what I did. I seem to recall Ben said they had around three hundred stoves, many refurbished and others in the process of refurbishment.
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Looks great where it is.....just a fit CO monitor....Me too. We finally found a multi-fuel stove my Wife & I liked. It'll replace the crappy unit that was in our project home.
Its a Hunter Herald 14 which we bought from Ben, "Mr. Stove", who refurbishes multi-fuel, cast-iron, wood and other stoves. We had to wait awhile for delivery as his is a small business, and he gets swamped this time of year. The wait was not a problem, as I still have to build a stone surround feature. Here is a not so glamourous photo from the other day when it arrived.
I'll give it an additional touch-up spray, and do an initial burn outside on one of our rare non rainy days ?
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I'll let the Wife know your opinion, and I would be confident of her choice of adjectives in response.Looks great where it is.....just a fit CO monitor....
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No, you first need to polished it with cloth.....I'll let the Wife know your opinion, and I would be confident of her choice of adjectives in response.
Beacon Stoves? Thought Ben had retired. Of course it may be another Ben.Me too. We finally found a multi-fuel stove my Wife & I liked. It'll replace the crappy unit that was in our project home.
Its a Hunter Herald 14 which we bought from Ben, "Mr. Stove", who refurbishes multi-fuel, cast-iron, wood and other stoves. We had to wait awhile for delivery as his is a small business, and he gets swamped this time of year. The wait was not a problem, as I still have to build a stone surround feature. Here is a not so glamourous photo from the other day when it arrived.
I'll give it an additional touch-up spray, and do an initial burn outside on one of our rare non rainy days ?
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