Woodburner fans, get buying - there's an over-supply of logs!

[welsh dragon]

Log splitters are billiant and they don't cost a fortune. You can pick one up on ebay for just over £100.00. Easy to use, can cope with decent sized wood and it givies you a workout at the same time, so you kill 2 birds with one stone so to speak.

 

[Alex H]

I would love to find one of your saw mills to deal with for my joinery oak . The cheapest I can get through and through is £1200 a cubic M . I know the timber comes from France and I even have the shipping labels but I cant speak le French

When we were renovating this house, I made all our kitchen furniture from French Oak. I even bought the wood here and made the stuff in the UK then brought back the finished article

This cost 350€ without the sink - wood cost in the UK was £700+ at the time



I can always ask at the sawmill I use - transport may be a problem though

 

[Alex H]

Sharpened my chainsaw last weekend and spent this weekend sawing a felled copper beech.
Here's the resulting log pile for our wood burner, should last a few years :-)

That's not a log pile - this is a log pile

 

[Ludwig]

Check what wood it is before you burn it because it could be very valuable. If is is walnu, yew or or burr oak it could be worth £100 a cubic foot so burning it is lburning a load of twenty pound notes. If everybody got a woodburning stove it would cause such pullution and those of you with them should consider the environmentasl impact very carefully before getting them installed. Also it sends the price of wood soaring so making it uneconomic for small rural businesses to survive and those chattering classes with there woodburners are the first to complain when their post office, garage or bakers close due to a lack of rural employment.

 

[welsh dragon]

Are we going to engage in a hissing contest now? I have more logs than you do? yours may be longer, but not as tall ?

 

[Alex H]

Are we going to engage in a hissing contest now? I have more logs than you do? yours may be longer, but not as tall ?

They're not mine - I use oil (don't tell @Ludwig though )

 

[welsh dragon]

They're not mine - I use oil (don't tell @Ludwig though )

. Winding him up eh?

 

[Proto]

Tree surgeon mate dropped this off a couple of weeks ago. I enjoy splitting the logs myself but you need a decent axe. I think of it it as an outside gym. All now split and stored away.

 

[Dayvo]

Have a look at some of these - wood stack art:

https://www.google.no/search?q=wood...q9ygPo0YDgAg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=559

 

[welsh dragon]

Have a look at some of these - wood stack art:

https://www.google.no/search?q=wood stack&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=dvBLU5ncDYq9ygPo0YDgAg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=559

Me likey some of them

 

[ArDee]

Whoa. Brilliant. They do say you can make wood burn twice. Once you drag it around and cut it, and then when you put it on the fire.

I thought the saying was that it warmed you up multiple times; when you cut it down, when you dragged it out, when you cut it up and spilt it and finally when you burnt it.

 

[welsh dragon]

I thought the saying was that it warmed you up multiple times; when you cut it down, when you dragged it out, when you cut it up and spilt it and finally when you burnt it.

Semantics. Ok NUMEROUS times. Better?

 

[JtB]

In mid winter, it wouldn't last that long in my house definitely

I'm just a part time burner at weekends because I like real fires and smoke better than artificial (gas) fires. We have the central heating so we don't rely on the stove for heat.

 

[Chris Norton]

Check what wood it is before you burn it because it could be very valuable. If is is walnu, yew or or burr oak it could be worth £100 a cubic foot so burning it is lburning a load of twenty pound notes. If everybody got a woodburning stove it would cause such pullution and those of you with them should consider the environmentasl impact very carefully before getting them installed. Also it sends the price of wood soaring so making it uneconomic for small rural businesses to survive and those chattering classes with there woodburners are the first to complain when their post office, garage or bakers close due to a lack of rural employment.

I'll counter this with........

Burning wood is considered to be almost carbon neutral due to the co2 being burnt is the same as that released as when the wood rots.
What about the jobs related to the woodburning industry? Take mine for instance, a Town and Country stove. So made out of British steel in Britain by a family firm. Then the installer, 2 lads who work round these parts. Logs are from local suppliers about 2 miles away. So thats at least 4 businesses supported by me and my decision to burn wood. Add on the waste wood I get from the local trussed rafter supplier which would only rot in landfill. Lets now add on the effect it has in rural areas where wood owners now actually have a commercial product and can employ people to fell, chop and replant woods. Then it's on to nurseries growing saplings.

It's all good for me.

 

[welsh dragon]

I'll counter this with........

Burning wood is considered to be almost carbon neutral due to the co2 being burnt is the same as that released as when the wood rots.
What about the jobs related to the woodburning industry? Take mine for instance, a Town and Country stove. So made out of British steel in Britain by a family firm. Then the installer, 2 lads who work round these parts. Logs are from local suppliers about 2 miles away. So thats at least 4 businesses supported by me and my decision to burn wood. Add on the waste wood I get from the local trussed rafter supplier which would only rot in landfill. Lets now add on the effect it has in rural areas where wood owners now actually have a commercial product and can employ people to fell, chop and replant woods. Then it's on to nurseries growing saplings.

It's all good for me.

Wow. I feel positively pious now.