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

[JtB]

Watching our woodburner is always more interesting than watching our TV.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Your grandsons should ask the sheep to stop playing football then.

The Welsh national team need all the help they can get

 

[welsh dragon]

The Welsh national team need all the help they can get

Unfortunately your right

 

[JtB]

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 :-)

 

[Alex H]

My supplier got greedy last year and now cant shift anything .
It went from £30 for a tipper truck full to £50 for a 1 ton bag . I think he had been reading the book " How to lose all of your customers in one day "

60€ for a cubic metre is the average price here for 2 year old dried oak cut & split - and there's not exactly a shortage of trees here.

 

[welsh dragon]

I pay £40.00 for a 1 ton bag. Sometimes its all hard wood, sometimes, soft wood and sometimes a mixture.

 

[Alex H]

I pay £40.00 for a 1 ton bag. Sometimes its all hard wood, sometimes, soft wood and sometimes a mixture.

My neighbours will only burn oak - nothing else is good enough , so the several tons of rotting beams, flooring I've extracted from our barns has gone for my sister's holiday home and that of her British neighbour

 

[Cuchilo]

60€ for a cubic metre is the average price here for 2 year old dried oak cut & split - and there's not exactly a shortage of trees here.

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

 

[welsh dragon]

My neighbours will only burn oak - nothing else is good enough , so the several tons of rotting beams, flooring I've extracted from our barns has gone for my sister's holiday home and that of her British neighbour

I find that although oak burns for a long time because of its hardness, you don't get that much heat from it, hence you need a mixtue of softwood and hardwood. The softwood helps the hardwood burn better

 

[Berties]

I've a fine pile of timber but no wood-burner yet

Those chestnut baulks are over a metre long and darned heavy, or were when I 'stacked' them.. Thinking about it, I don't really need a woodburner, I can keep warm shifting them around and cutting them up.

Be aware about storing wood like that in chords,the bigger stuff might get a pig to split,I did a big fell sweet chestnut tree last week and split it straight away cut like butter,
Split a pile of pine yesterday from the valentine storms for a friend and it was twisted already and beech does the same

 

[Globalti]

Dry wood doesn't cut so well with a chainsaw; which is designed for "gouging" a trench through fresh wood with a very high moisture content.

 

[Globalti]

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 :-)

You could do with splitting those bigger logs into halves or quarters, which will help them dry faster and will be easier to stack neatly. A splitting mawl would make short work of them and is very satisfying to use. That looks like about one cubic metre, which would last probably 3 months in our house.

 

[welsh dragon]

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

 

[JtB]

You could do with splitting those bigger logs into halves or quarters, which will help them dry faster and will be easier to stack neatly. A splitting mawl would make short work of them and is very satisfying to use. That looks like about one cubic metre, which would last probably 3 months in our house.

I don't like axes due to an accident with an axe as a child that required stitches :-(

 

[Globalti]

Then use a wedge and a lump hammer and some earplugs.