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Or hawthorn, that is a king amongst firewoods

nope unfortunately I didn't, good information though Wood will of course produce soot/tar but that is part of understanding your fuel and following a sensible maintenance program

A wood fire is perfectly controllable and in my experience no dirtier than a coal fire, in fact coal dust is worse. I've used wood to heat houses and boats and had no problems controlling the heat or keeping the place clean

I've never understand this tbh I have for many years burnt 100% woood and found it easily controlled, providing heat as and when I needed with limited imput required. I have on many occasion let the fire tick over for 12hrs or more come home to a cosy boat with an easily revived fire Wood is a good fuel all it requires is an understanding of how different timbers burn, similar to understanding the different coals

Its a comprise I suppose, I was perfectly able to run my morso stove on 100% wood but I would imagine a dedicated wood burner would be even better

Really I suspect there isn't much differance between a multifuel stove grate and a dedicated coal stove, maybe less hole more metal? As I am sure you know, the trick to burn wood is to keep a good bed of ash, something a coal grate is designed to prevent. The grate is also designed to allow air to be drawn through the coal, something that is not good for the careful control of wood fires

Not really no, a dedicated wood stove has no grate to allow bottom air, which coal needs Multifuel stoves are a comprise but a good compromise if there is any doubt about fuel supply Check local suppliers for prices and availability of timber, proper seasoned firewood ( kiln dried is a bit of a gimmick in my opinion but at least they should offer a guarantee of moisture content) is not all that cheap and isn't going to get any cheaper. Villager stoves are good but at the bottom end of the market, higher end stoves tend to be better built with better control but again this is just my opinion

Both contain sugar but nectar is produced by the flowers and doesn't hang around long enough to ferment normally. The natural yeasts on the fruit are converting the sugars in the fruit into alcohol, cider in the wild Mind you I dont drink cider after a teenage overindulgence

To be pedantic its the sugars in the fruit not nectar. Walk through an orchard in the autumn and you can smell the fermentation

Something growing in the flame made me think of this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ritaljhhk7s Sorry completely off topic but very cool Oh and I hope ive worked that link right this time

Well considering its not a fully formed fake rivet until its been filled full of weld on the hull, are these not part of a genuine fake rivet and not the fully formed genuine fake rivet?

Have you placed a load of coal on the roof recently?

Magic, just accept its magic

Could be a use for the "output" of all those compost loos? There would be a surface area effect, less surface area against the fire bed?

Wandering around the topic a touch but there can be large differences between timber quality from different locations based on speed of growth In effect slower growing more dense, closer spaced rings I remember seeing a section through a NZ pinus, approx 60yrs old and huge spaces between the growth rings and because of this it was only good for pulp, useless for building

This I suspect is correct

I've heard good things about those stoves bit generally proper wood burners using well seasoned wood burn timber much better than multi fuel stoves Never burnt logs upright though

Absolutely most of the time I would rather walk without a torch, you are so much more aware of your surroundings, the canal almost shines at night. A torch limits you to the cone of light, I do occasionally use one for those rare overcast rainy moonless nights but it makes me feel strangely isolated from my surroundings

And based on the very tiny sample of my nephew whos just completed a first assent of some unpronounceable peak in Nepal, hes not exactly scared of his own shadow

Following a divorce I ran away to NZ for 6 months, came back skint and unable to buy anywhere to live or even rent a decent flat. Sat in a car park having a brew and to this day I don't know where the idea came from but I thought "buy a narrowboat", 6 months later I stepped on the back of MY boat ( no idea about anything narrowboat at all) 13 years later still loving it