Logs

[slowmotion]

[QUOTE 4979025, member: 9609"]4 cubic meters split hardwood ?, at a wild guess 2 to 3 ton - have you got a big van ?[/QUOTE]
Good point. I was a bit optimistic about the capacity of my Vauxhall Combo 1700. It has a cargo volume of only 2.8 cubic metres, and a payload of 600kg. The density of seasoned beech is about 750kg per cubic metre. Now I'm a bit of a slob, and I won't be stacking the logs neatly, so the fill factor could be as low as 25%, in which case I might scrape in at just under 600kg. Of course, the logs could well be more dense that I have assumed, in which case I'll be a bit low on the springs as I wheeze up the M3. Do you think the Mayor of London will be lying in wait somewhere near Sunbury?
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[KnackeredBike]

Why go in your van when you can be like a Mike?



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Good thing he has knobblies or that would be dangerous.

 

[classic33]

Why go in your van when you can be like a Mike?



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Now if that were a trike, not a bike, I'd say it were the "Deer hunter"

 

[classic33]

Mine 's not been the same since I cut it in half to count the rings

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[Tin Pot]

Have it delivered FFS.

 

[slowmotion]

Have it delivered FFS.

Nah, I couldn't have lunch with my sister and her family. Also, if I drag the logs up here in the van, I can use it as a log store parked right outside my front door. With half a tonne of beech logs and many thousand wood lice, I won't need one of those daft Magic Trees in the cab either.

 

[Stephenite]

This is my woodshed.

It's a bit of shambles.

 

[slowmotion]

I rate that as obsessively tidy.

 

[classic33]

Good point. I was a bit optimistic about the capacity of my Vauxhall Combo 1700. It has a cargo volume of only 2.8 cubic metres, and a payload of 600kg. The density of seasoned beech is about 750kg per cubic metre. Now I'm a bit of a slob, and I won't be stacking the logs neatly, so the fill factor could be as low as 25%, in which case I might scrape in at just under 600kg. Of course, the logs could well be more dense that I have assumed, in which case I'll be a bit low on the springs as I wheeze up the M3. Do you think the Mayor of London will be lying in wait somewhere near Sunbury?
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You want to spend a day or two on the bog.

 

[slowmotion]

You want to spend a day or two on the bog.

I had to think about something as I bimbled about on the bike earlier this evening.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

[QUOTE 4979326, member: 9609"]you'll be doing well to get 4 cubic metres in the back of a 2.8 cube van - LOL

we had some pallets/crates in a while back of seasoned hardwood ready for burning (it think it was London bound) and from what I remember they were 1 cube crates and were 580kg, they were well stacked.

Anyway this is my van loaded and it will be well down on the springs with just this in the back - Elm I guess as thats all I'm allowed for free - does make the van smell nice.
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That is soooo stacked the wrong way! How can you have moss and size and shite and stuff just randomly stacked????

 

[Stephenite]

[QUOTE 4979326, member: 9609"]you'll be doing well to get 4 cubic metres in the back of a 2.8 cube van - LOL

we had some pallets/crates in a while back of seasoned hardwood ready for burning (it think it was London bound) and from what I remember they were 1 cube crates and were 580kg, they were well stacked.

Anyway this is my van loaded and it will be well down on the springs with just this in the back - Elm I guess as thats all I'm allowed for free - does make the van smell nice.
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Is that properly dry though?

 

[Stephenite]

Yes. You're right @User259 . Though this wood has been carried in from the 'garden' just outside. It doesn't have the absolutely shocking environmental effect that @slowmotion 's wood has! :P

 

[slowmotion]

[QUOTE 4979355, member: 9609"]may be, but as its free......... I think the nicest burning wood is OAK, but I don't often get that unless it has floated down the river in a flood.

Incidentally my supply of wood for this winter is mostly Birch and I think I have split it far too thin, anyhows, its nice getting cooked in front of a real fire - they say a wood fire is the next best thing after the sun for getting a warm in front of. and I agree[/QUOTE]
It smells nicer than the sun, you can gaze into it, and it crackles pleasantly too. 10/10.

 

[Stephenite]

As you can see from my woodshed photo I've only got birch and scots pine. I use birch with the bark on to get the fire going, and move on to a mix of pine and birch. But it's only for a couple of hours of an evening that i am actively burning something. The heat tends to stay in.

I hasten to add - the wood-burning, -chopping, etc happens at our country estate (read rudimentary holiday cottage in the middle of nowhere (which i love)). I (begrudgingly), and family live in Oslo city.