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lozz
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Yes it is interesting, so thanks go to the forum owners/moderators for letting it get this far, no doubt this thread will run it's course soon.
Flywheels, compessed air, super capacitors, not looked into these yet but very interesting, I wonder how air tight some of the mine workings could be ignoring adit portal, shafts, and collapsed upper workings.

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jagman
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#82

"lozz" wrote:
Yes it is interesting, so thanks go to the forum owners/moderators for letting it get this far, no doubt this thread will run it's course soon.
Flywheels, compessed air, super capacitors, not looked into these yet but very interesting, I wonder how air tight some of the mine workings could be ignoring adit portal, shafts, and collapsed upper workings.

Lozz.

Nirex experimented with that extensively back in the 1980's and 90's
The answer is apparently not at all 🙂
Under pressurisation it all leaks away

lozz
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12 years ago

#83

Thanks, that's the end of that idea then, we need another storage method.

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lozz
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12 years ago

#84

Super capacitor overview as of 2007, batteries out of the window?

http://www.cantecsystems.com/ccrdocs/brief-history-of-supercapacitors.pdf

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Morlock
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12 years ago

#85

May be of interest to the tree huggers. 🙂

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lozz
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12 years ago

#86

"Morlock" wrote:
May be of interest to the tree huggers. 🙂

http://order-order.com/

I'm a tree hugger, haven't had a heating bill for 30 years, all them luvly logs.

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Morlock
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12 years ago

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Suppose I was 2 years ago whilst prussiking up 40 foot Leylandi to fell in sections. Seem to remember two trees lasted about a fortnight in Morso Squirrel! Lots of heat generated during cutting and splitting. :lol:

lozz
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"Morlock" wrote:
Suppose I was 2 years ago whilst prussiking up 40 foot Leylandi to fell in sections. Seem to remember two trees lasted about a fortnight in Morso Squirrel! Lots of heat generated during cutting and splitting. :lol:

Ah, the Morso Squirrel, one of the first stoves I ever had, a little cracker. Now have a large stove it does the lot, hot water and radiators.

Years ago all my fire wood came from United Downs mining area before the authorities closed a lot of it off, loads of adit timbers etc, used to burn with a nice coppery glow!
Also I was the Sawyer at Geevor, I had shed loads from there from the sawlog offcuts.

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Morlock
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The Squirrel is a nice little stove, much more useful now I've fitted a boiler insert so get a reasonable amount of hot water, plus one rad in bathroom.
Used to get cheapish bagged Anthracite from Tower before closure.
Worst one can do is to inform neighbours you'll take free firewood as deluge of old chipboard units arrive! :lol:

lozz
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"Morlock" wrote:
The Squirrel is a nice little stove, much more useful now I've fitted a boiler insert so get a reasonable amount of hot water, plus one rad in bathroom.
Used to get cheapish bagged Anthracite from Tower before closure.
Worst one can do is to inform neighbours you'll take free firewood as deluge of old chipboard units arrive! :lol:

You can just about get a bath out of a chipboard kitchen unit, when I lived up t'north as a nipper the railway ran along the back of some of the houses, we used to go to the bridge to watch the train approaching, one of the guys on the footplate would shovel coal out of the tender as fast as he could when passing the back gardens of the houses, soon as the train passed an army of women wearing pinnies and armed with buckets and shovels would climb over the fence and shovel up the booty, happy days.
Sectioning a tree or indeed any tree work can be more dangerous than poking around in old mines, there is a lot that can go wrong for those not in the know and also for those in the know when they forget! Take great care with chainsaws.

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Morlock
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"lozz" wrote:
Sectioning a tree or indeed any tree work can be more dangerous than poking around in old mines, there is a lot that can go wrong for those not in the know and also for those in the know when they forget! Take great care with chainsaws.

Lozz.

Certainly is a very dangerous affair should one forget to wedge against 'nip' on back run of chain (amongst host of other dangers), did the most dodgy sections with laborious recip saw.

South Wales valleys had similar coal delivery arrangements. 😉

droid
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12 years ago

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"lozz" wrote:
I lived up t'north as a nipper the railway ran along the back of some of the houses, we used to go to the bridge to watch the train approaching, one of the guys on the footplate would shovel coal out of the tender as fast as he could when passing the back gardens of the houses, soon as the train passed an army of women wearing pinnies and armed with buckets and shovels would climb over the fence and shovel up the booty, happy days.
Lozz.

Kept a few farmhouses in the Hope Valley going, that.

It was the bloody great lumps that got heaved out, if the fireman couldn't be bothered to sledgehammer them.

lozz
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12 years ago

#93

If it was a domestic situation then you did right to section it.
Yes the simple wedge, can save a lot of bother, I have done a fair bit of chainsaw use over the years and also wittnessed some follys, a lot of folk seem to think chains never need sharpening..Little and often is the best way to sharpen, before the chromium has gone.

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Morlock
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12 years ago

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Although we were careful with the sawing our triple extension ladder with added tied on bit left a bit to be desired.
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lozz
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12 years ago

#95

Looks hairy, did you have a harness on?

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Morlock
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12 years ago

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Yep, my Son up the ladder with harness at this stage, rope at side of ladder through pulley on tree, another at ground level and then back to Gri-Gri out of falling tool range.

lozz
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"Morlock" wrote:
Yep, my Son up the ladder with harness at this stage, rope at side of ladder through pulley on tree and back to Gri-Gri out of falling tool range.

Nice one, those Leylandi are sods to do. My tree climbing days are over but I do quite a bit of felling down the woods for my firewood, I have a large stove, my Landrover filled with 5 to 6 ft lengths of cord wood normally lasts for 2 weeks this time of the year once the wood is crosscut and split, we light the stove at 4pm and put the last load on at around 8.30pm everything is well warmed up by then.

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Morlock
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12 years ago

#98

Update on Lake District proposal.

http://news.sky.com/story/1045037/cumbria-votes-against-nuclear-waste-site

ChrisJC
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12 years ago

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"Morlock" wrote:
Update on Lake District proposal.

http://news.sky.com/story/1045037/cumbria-votes-against-nuclear-waste-site

Pity.

Perhaps it will be resubmitted.

Chris.

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12 years ago

#100

"royfellows" wrote:

Flywheels

Now I have heard stories about a monster built in Russia many years ago, they got it up to some enormous revolution rate and then the bearings failed with the results similar to a small atomic explosion. Cant find anything on the web about though.

This the incident in question?

http://rense.com/general41/grat.htm