Imported kiln dry logs ?

[ash_smith123]

if it's 30% it's not seasoned has to be under 25% but both are kiln dried. this is the kind of bad marketing that is extremely annoying and gets emails sent to trading standards

 

 

Right... who says for me to advertise seasoned Firewood as seasoned firewood it has to be under 25% moisture?

 

How is it bad marketing? I'm marketing a product at an average of 30% moisture and that's what I'm selling.??

Trading standards DO NOT have a rule for the moisture content of wood! Like I've already said IF i was advertising a product at let's say "seasoned firewood under 25% moisture" and selling it at 30% moisture then trading standards might want to get involved.

Just to remind you all I AM TELLING THE CUSTOMER EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE GETTING.

[ash_smith123]

Are you from the Isle of Man? That would explain a lot.

 

 

No I'm not. Why would that explain a lot?

[Logsnstuff]

Right... who says for me to advertise seasoned Firewood as seasoned firewood it has to be under 25% moisture?

 

How is it bad marketing? I'm marketing a product at an average of 30% moisture and that's what I'm selling.??

Trading standards DO NOT have a rule for the moisture content of wood! Like I've already said IF i was advertising a product at let's say "seasoned firewood under 25% moisture" and selling it at 30% moisture then trading standards might want to get involved.

Just to remind you all I AM TELLING THE CUSTOMER EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE GETTING.

 

do your own research the information is out there and what you are doing is misinforming the public and creating unnecessary complications wood at 30% is not seasoned and has never been considered seasoned. like I said in my last post tell them your wood is 30% and kiln dried which it is bu you know fine most people wont buy it.

[axehaircut]

Ash smith are you air drying your timber in the round? Seriously non sarc

[ash_smith123]

How am I miss leading them though? I've told them it's an average of 30%? To be honest most of the time it's less than 30% but I cover my own ass just encase there's a few crates out of the 2500+ a year I sell that are 30/31 in the dead middle of the log and not 26/30% like normal.

They are all 10/15% on the outside of the log, how many people on here see companies putting the moisture metre on the outside of the log and saying "look all our firewood is dried to under 20%. Yes it is but it's still 30/35% on the inside!

 

If seasoned wood is supposed to be 25% moisture and you sell it at 15% is that miss leading them then? Because I hear from customers quite often "I won't go for the kiln dried that burns too quick" so do you tell your customers if a batch your selling to them is 15% not 25%?

[SbTVF]

If it's 10% on the outside and 30% inside its probably averaging less than 20% across the whole log anyway. So of course it burns well.

 

 

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[ash_smith123]

I don't count the outside of the log. Otherwise I would be advertising my kiln dried as 0%! Just the freshly split face.

[muldonach]

If it's 10% on the outside and 30% inside its probably averaging less than 20% across the whole log anyway. So of course it burns well.

 

 

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If it is at 10% on the outside and 30% on the inside then it is at 30% - wrap it up any way you want - its not ready to burn and "seasoned" firewood should be ready to go into a fire

 

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mac

[richardwale]

Exactly. Sorry ash you are totally missing the point. Fresh is fresh, stale is stale. Seasoned is universally under a certain percentage.

[ash_smith123]

Exactly. Sorry ash you are totally missing the point. Fresh is fresh, stale is stale. Seasoned is universally under a certain percentage.

 

 

Yes and for my product I'm calling that percentage "an average of 30%".

It's really not that hard to understand.

Like I have said before, there is no rule, no law, nobody saying I HAVE to advertise seasoned under 25% so I'm not. If my seasoned is not up to scratch why do I sell 1500+ cubic metres of it a year, with a large percentage of that being return customers. If they are happy I'm happy, in the last 6 years of doing it I haven't had a single complaint about my seasoned firewood not burning. So to be honest, I really couldn't give 2 hoots about what most of you think!

You crack on selling your superior air dried firewood that you all test the split face of and every single log you have ever sold has been under 25% moisture! [emoji106]

CW seem to be selling a fair amount of timber (17,000 tons) under the banner of seasoned being an average of 40% for the last 20 years so let's all report them to trading standards....