Woodburners do you agree with this?

Towser

3m cube of unseasoned logs for £50?? Tell me where to send the cheque!?

the information was from the Daily Fail,

Yes that was what I was wondering, you have confirmed my suspicions that the information does not seem to be correct and we do not agree with the article.

Therefore
APROX 200CUBIC METRES MIXED CORDWOOD tree surgeons mixed timber , mostlysoftwood and some hardwood would be about
£3000 ?

suisidevw

200cm for £3k would be a bargain if it WAS 200cm.

Towser

It's on ebay now for around £1000 but other half won't let me buy that much! and is furious I would even suggest it. It would solve our fuel problems for a few years.

Is there anybody else in the Beds, Bucks or Herts area who want want to club together and get ourselves a bargain.

The advert is correct I couldn't believe it and have been emailing the seller. The seller has offered me to visit the site where it is as it says in the advert.

I don't think it will fit in my garden. I have had a nice time thinking about all that wood though LOL

alleycat`

The photo is dated from 13 years ago if i'm looking at the right thing.

Wrong part of the country for me, hope you've got a grab lorry and a bit of free time for processing / storage

Ectophile

Towser wrote: »

Yes firewood is a lot of hard work but it is tax free.

How do you get hold of your free wood?

Most of my free wood is from voluntary nature conservation work on Sundays. Some of our tasks involve chopping down small trees that are growing where they aren't wanted. At the end of the day, the wood is just stacked out of the way and left to rot*.

Unfortunately, most of the time we are working well away from the road, and it isn't worth the effort of lugging piles of logs hundreds of yards back to the car.

But if we are working near a road, then a few of the better logs will make it into the boot of my Land Rover, either at the end of the day or some time later.

*It's called a "habitat pile", so that it sounds less of a waste.

silverwhistle

alleycat` wrote: »

If they person who wrote it suggested on arbtalk that they should be selling 3 Cube for £50 they'd probably get shot.

I doubt it.



More likely sliced into bits with somebody's favourite gransfors!

Basil74

Ectophile wrote: »

Most of my free wood is from voluntary nature conservation work on Sundays. Some of our tasks involve chopping down small trees that are growing where they aren't wanted. At the end of the day, the wood is just stacked out of the way and left to rot*.

Unfortunately, most of the time we are working well away from the road, and it isn't worth the effort of lugging piles of logs hundreds of yards back to the car.

But if we are working near a road, then a few of the better logs will make it into the boot of my Land Rover, either at the end of the day or some time later.

*It's called a "habitat pile", so that it sounds less of a waste.

My apologies if your just being ironic, but you don't sound very conservation minded to me... anyone who's knows anything about woodland habitats would know that rotting logs and ''habitat piles'' of brush wood are extremely valuable for a range of wildlife, from fungi to insects to small mammals and birds.

seven-day-weekend

We got a woodburner earlier this year. We did it not so much to save money but to be a little bit 'off-grid'. If needs be we can heat the downstairs of our house with it and cook a stew or a curry and boil water on it.

We bought some seasoned hardwood with our Winter Fuel Allowance to start us off but the rest we have scavenged and it is in two woodsheds in the garden, ready for next winter. I think we can largely get by on scavenged wood now, maybe have to buy a small load of seasoned. We take our trailer out every so often and have 'scavenging days'.

We have gas central heating, but of course when the woodburner is on it does not need to work so hard.

I don't think it does save us any money, but it is using sustainable fuel and will still work when the Russians cut the gas supply off .

And looks nice too.

Ectophile

Basil74 wrote: »

My apologies if your just being ironic, but you don't sound very conservation minded to me... anyone who's knows anything about woodland habitats would know that rotting logs and ''habitat piles'' of brush wood are extremely valuable for a range of wildlife, from fungi to insects to small mammals and birds.

There's a bit of debate over habitat piles. Many people think that they are the ideal habitat for fungi, creepy-crawlies, and the things that feed on them.

There are some people who argue that there's nothing natural about a pile of neatly-stacked logs, and it isn't anything like as good as a fallen mature tree.

I'm not enough of an expert to know.

Towser

We have gas central heating, but of course when the woodburner is on it does
not need to work so hard.
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I think this would ideal. Though the potential to save money is there I was just wondering how people do it. Not many people have spilled the beans.

I was in debt as a student which was a very scary time as I was brought up in a strictly credit way.

Now that I have worked out my SOA (not in debt except mortgage)and budget I can see the largest part of my budget is spent on fuel, council tax and food. Hubby pays mortgage. I now shop at Aldi, can do nothing about the council tax and really working hard to reduce my fuel bill as the potential to make savings are there.

The woodburner came with the house 135sqm compared to average 90sqm. However we have the heating on as much as we like but still end up with the average combined bills of around £1400 per year. So we are not doing too badly. But it's the potential....

So far the only way out I can see is to buy from ebay at a good price whenever it is local rather than going to the local wood/coal merchant.

I want to find a tree surgeon who gives away wood. I will go to the local recycling plant for free kindling. Definitely do voluntary nature conservation work for free wood too.