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From experience over the years selling firewood ,a lot of customers burn wood because of its green credentials, if they knew the real cost of kiln drying logs and chips there would be an uproar!

 

 

Not really? It's pretty obvious when most people advertise that they have been kiln dried in their own biomass kiln system like we do.

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Non don't sell any wood at all. Just think the principal is stupid.

Would people still kiln dry in the uk if it was not subsidised?

 

Weren't the big companies like certainly wood drying before rhi?

 

In regards to drying wood I get what you're saying about drying wood with wood but if you put a wet piece on the fire it's using its own energy to dry itself anyway.

 

On a commercial scale if we assume wood has to be dried (which customers normally demand) it's just a matter of working out if it's better value to have a large amount cut in the summer and stored in the dry or doing repeated small amounts through the winter with a kiln.

 

Off the top of my head it takes us between 15-18% of our total wood to dry what we sell if that's any use as a comparison.

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Weren't the big companies like certainly wood drying before rhi?

 

In regards to drying wood I get what you're saying about drying wood with wood but if you put a wet piece on the fire it's using its own energy to dry itself anyway.

 

On a commercial scale if we assume wood has to be dried (which customers normally demand) it's just a matter of working out if it's better value to have a large amount cut in the summer and stored in the dry or doing repeated small amounts through the winter with a kiln.

 

Off the top of my head it takes us between 15-18% of our total wood to dry what we sell if that's any use as a comparison.

Certainly wood had a uniconfort global boiler and burnt their rubbish in it when I had a look around. Sawdust, recycled wood and a few logs, presumably short ends etc. so their fuel cost would be very low.

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From experience over the years selling firewood ,a lot of customers burn wood because of its green credentials, if they knew the real cost of kiln drying logs and chips there would be an uproar!

 

It's when it's imported that the carbon footprint becomes a joke. I'm with you, we won't have the heating on this winter, only for the water, and we feel good about being greener by burning wood.

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