firewood fund

silverwhistle

Greenfires wrote: »

Not a chance! £175 for a tad over a cube?!!

Good grief! (I hadn't checked their web site.). I'm another scrounger - picked up some more from less than 100 yards away yesterday - and have a couple of years on the go seasoning at any one time in my terraced house garden. Kindling is pallets from local workshops.

As I get older I might want to do less processing, but plenty of ads in our local free magazines and road side signs out in the country, it would just be a question of getting someone trustworthy. A moisture meter is your friend. Sounds like they're appealing to the Sunday supplement crowd.

Greenfires

A moisture meter is your friend.

As is knowing how to use one! We've supplied a new firewood outfit near us with several hundred empty ibc cages for storage. Now he has a nice website with lots of pictures of all these cages sitting in the sunshine all full of logs - and a few videos with the moisture meter to help shove them out the door to easily lead buyers. Including one where the first reading he takes returns "OL" which I assume is "out of limit", and the second one where he sticks the probes into the end grain of a log. And he's the "professional"....sad ain't it?

alankershaw66

took a delivery from them yesterday, was a bit worried that the palatte wouldnt fit in my front garden but all was ok,

couldnt resist lighting the burner last night and it was worth it! Surprised at how many people scrounge their wood, from my experience that stuff does to the wood burner what too many microwave meals do to the body

silverwhistle

No. We scrounge it then we season it. In the case of leylandia I also debark it, which is easy after it's been seasoned a bit.

Ectophile

All my scrounged wood is cut up and stacked for a year. Then it goes into the log store where it sits for another year. Only then is it ready to burn. Except for the conifer that's taken 3 years to be any good.

The stuff I've been burning recently is going really well. Mostly willow, which isn't even supposed to be any good as firewood.

Swipe

alankershaw66 wrote: »

from my experience that stuff does to the wood burner what too many microwave meals do to the body

Nonsense, I've burnt all sorts of rubbish in my stove and it's still going strong 20 years later

firefox1956

Swipe wrote: »

Nonsense, I've burnt all sorts of rubbish in my stove and it's still going strong 20 years later

Same here.............