- Location
- East yorks
get a bale of wheat straw under it and then it should get enough heat to get it going
How to burn fresh wood
- Thread starter Grassman
- Start date
Doing it for the kids
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apparantly once its cut you are allowedTo burn it.
TripleSix
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- Location
- Helmsley, North Yorkshire
Tyres in the bottom of it.
Actually conventional bales soaked in diesel make handy man sized firelighters
Actually conventional bales soaked in diesel make handy man sized firelighters
Goweresque
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- Location
- North Wilts
Find as much of the drier smaller bushwood you can (ie no big stems), heap it up, press it down tight, wait for a good windy day, douse the windward side liberally with a 50/50 red/old oil mix, put plenty of loose straw against where you've soaked it, bit more oil for good luck, fire it up. Have another can of red/oil mix ready so you chuck more on if the straw starts to die down and the wood hasn't caught. The smaller stuff should catch easily, once thats going well start putting the rest on, bit at a time. I tend to put the extra on the leeward side of the fire so the flames are driven by the wind into the new material, helping it heat and burn.
Post Driver
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- Location
- South East
Wedge of strway, diesel, small dry twiggy bits. Hand feed it to get going and use of a leaf blower as bellows to get air under it. After hand feeding it for a bit start adding grab fulls directly on top where the heat is coming out of it.
Once hot in the bottom you will burn anything. Next day rake over the coals,. Few dry bits and leaf blower and she will go again
Once hot in the bottom you will burn anything. Next day rake over the coals,. Few dry bits and leaf blower and she will go again
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Needs to be converted back to carbon for the living trees to absorb again, like the waste oil and diesel, I think tyres have a lot of carbon locked up that need releasing
Can't wait to see Greta quote that on twitter ................ we really do ourselves no favours sometimes
Hindsight
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Have you checked this out with Mr Gove?
Hindsight
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Looks as though you are a lone voice in the wind! The farmer stereotype does come through in the replies. Fascinating.
Well for those over 50, it's been ingrained in us not to waste good food growing land, and to keep everything tidy. That said, I do push trimmings into the corners and leave piles unburnt mainly cos the wind never seems to be in the right direction for burning. Straw filled sheds one side, neighbours poultry sheds another side ( full of straw ) and houses another side. Not worth risking an incident.
As an aside, those truly worried about creature habitats wouldn't trim hedges at all........
As an aside, those truly worried about creature habitats wouldn't trim hedges at all........
- Location
- East yorks
If you are talking the volume from 500 meters of 20yrs of hedging then it will be a large volume, we have some that are on some fallow we have left but its in the middle of a grass field it will get pulled all over
michael N123
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which doesn't sound that bad until you handle/clip them and there’s prickly little lengths of wood wrapped in there wool
If I left a heap like that it would just end up with sheep rubbing and chewing at it
which doesn't sound that bad until you handle/clip them and there’s prickly little lengths of wood wrapped in there wool
Grassman
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- Location
- Derbyshire
Yes he told me to get on as the heat may help kill the Corona virus ?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
The science is out there, plants adsorb carbon and release Oxygen, unless things have changed since i was at school.
- Location
- Huntingdon
Diesel = 45ppl , waste oil = free
just saying
just saying
- Location
- South Molton
So given you eco warrior image, what would you do with this pile @Clive?
Leave it to decompose for bugs and beetles as wildlife refuge or "use it to keep me warm for a couple of winters"?
honestly - this is a public forum, talk of tyres and diesel really does
oh please quit your clearly personal vendetta Sid - it makes you look a bit of a tit ! (putting it mildly !)
FWIW
That wind fall tree has bern logged and split - it will be seasoned for at leat 5 years before i use it as i have lots of stock ahead when it will be burnt in my log burner keeping my house warm. It will also heat my fathers house and a couple of staff members jones as well no doubt
the brash has been pilled up and will be left - it will indeed provide a great habitat for insect and other wildlife and therefore feed bird life and other wildlife
nothing will be burnt, nothing is EVER burnt here as i understand the value of carbon (it’s what we sell) and habitat (it what enables us to sell)
are you the best the NFU really has ? ..... god help us !
oh please quit your clearly personal vendetta Sid - it makes you look a bit of a tit ! (putting it mildly !)
FWIW
That wind fall tree has bern logged and split - it will be seasoned for at leat 5 years before i use it as i have lots of stock ahead when it will be burnt in my log burner keeping my house warm. It will also heat my fathers house and a couple of staff members jones as well no doubt
the brash has been pilled up and will be left - it will indeed provide a great habitat for insect and other wildlife and therefore feed bird life and other wildlife
nothing will be burnt, nothing is EVER burnt here as i understand the value of carbon (it’s what we sell) and habitat (it what enables us to sell)
are you the best the NFU really has ? ..... god help us !
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Bogweevil
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Got a picture?
- Location
- South Molton
They practice swaling on dartmoor and exmoor to reduce the heather density, Pushing up a bit of hedge top is no different.
I think you will find the quotes of using diesel and rubbish are said in jest.
As I have said before it's not a personal vendetta but to tell one person to leave a pile of logs and tops for nature whilst you are going to hack up a tree to burn to release the carbon but then you say nothing is ever burnt, no wood or diesel? is hypocritical to say the least!
Didnt you listen to your friends in government who want to stop the use of wood burners and to use electricity instead?
You have to leave brush for a wildlife habitat that all well and good I have miles of hedges ,acres of trees, culm measures and ditches as wildlife havens. the including windfall trees that we don't burn and allow to return to nature. Only dangerous trees or hedgerow timber are logged.
Yours was an opinion was create a habitat and not burn it. But the OP may have put the corded timber in a pile to make a habitat but you burn yours seasoned of course!
Another jibe at the NFU.... you clearly have a personal vendetta against them?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
A few of the replies might be a bit tongue in cheek.
As for leaving it to rot down, I can see it might be worthwhile creating such a refuge for wildlife in the arable prairie lands, where most signs of hedgerows were dozed out in the name of efficiency decades ago. Don’t tar us all with the same brush though, my average field size is a shade over 6ac, mostly surrounded by dense, maintained hedgerows or mixed woodland. I don’t I’d be providing much extra by leaving piles of brash luring about for the sheep to get tangled in.
As for the OP’s scenario, there is a massive amount of brash their and the landowner wants him to burn it ASAP.