Anyone on here in the Firewood game?

[bobk]

About ten years ago we had a pile of split seasoned oak in the yard that was wetter than they would be if dunked in the ocean!! Advertised them on faceacke at about March time as wet logs that needed to be stacked till following winter at a reduced price if any one organised needed any. Except for about two or three sensible people everyone that came to see them or fetch some complained and refused them as they weren’t dry!!! Gave up with the job and stacked them in some old cubicles!! We’ll be burning them for atleast another 5 yrs!!!

Bring them here , be gone next week .

 

[grainboy]

Oak is not the best of burning wood , IMO

 

[br jones]

Dry or seasoned ?

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Oak is not the best of burning wood , IMO

A lot say that but we have fantastic heat with them, have a lot of softwood aswell which gives a lot of heat but burs way too fast. With the oak logs gan get the bottom of log burner full of red hot coals

 

[Goggles]

Soft wood can give you the best calorific burn, but not many of my customers need that. Ash is what suits most of them, unfortunately that’s a finite market at the moment. I burn oak at home, on a hot fire, but try not to sell too much of it because the general public tend not to know how to burn it.
Most of the oak I burn is two years old, if I was to sell it on a large scale it’d need to be four years old, and I just don’t have the storage capacity.

 

[grainboy]

What I meant, you need to know how to use Oak on a fire,

 

[renewablejohn]

Roughly what size are the poly tunnel, and how do you move the IBC cages?
Are you in a very exposed location?

Polytunnels are 20 mtr x 9mtr. and hold 80 to 120 IBC's per tunnel depending on whether straight sided or curved polytunnels. IBC's moved by forklift and very exposed as on a hill top in Lancashire.

 

[caveman]

I've always found that wet wood always dries out when I put it on the fire.

 

[jpd]

Dry wood is shite imo , burns in 10 minutes

unlike unseasoned that refuses to burn?

i am surprised how sedately seasoned ash burns
i am now getting to 2yr old.
as it burns green i though well aged would burn race car hot

 

[Pilatus]

Yes is the answer, mate does it, RHI pays more than the value of logs,
I've always found that wet wood always dries out when I put it on the fire.

I think a big percentage of the new “lifestyle woodburner brigade”, do not realise that there is a BIG difference between, wood being wet from being unseasoned, compared to that same log getting really wet after being seasoned.
To prove logs are fit to burn just put some Fairy Liquid or similar on one end of the log,then blew through the log from the other end, if bubbles appear in the detergent log fit to burn, try it for yourself.
I found the idea after watching one of the
much repack e.U website videos, all in German but with subtitles.