Tip site usage

[Dan Maynard]

You get covered in sap when cutting softwood down, yes. Leave it two or three years and the stickiness disappears, bark starts falling off. Then it's fine wood to burn.

[neiln]

I've had much more success by talking to guys I've seen working close by, but I wouldn't be surprised if once you get used, assuming it's easy, you'll get used regularly by the same guy.

 

Oh and Leyland, great to have a bit in the pile.  It's one of the densist soft woods.  Less ash from soft woods too.

[pancakedan]

Shhh.... Don’t tell everybody how good softwood is, they’ll all want to start burning it!

It’s mostly all I burn now and I prefer it to hardwood. Yes it does burn quicker and produces zero coals so you have to time the reloads but it’s easier to process, dries quicker and still kicks out a tremendous amount of heat.

[nepia]

Don't worry about it; I've said the same thing several times on here and it hasn't affected my softwood sales!

[StephF]

No idea where your yard is, but in Newcastle it costs £20 tonne to dump your waste, logs & chip. You should get Arb waste if people find out you are offering to take it. I know where all the free chip & log sites are, but prefer to get it to my yard for own use if travel distances allow..

[Chipperclown]

I bring home to my yard just the good stuff but I will say I love a bit of Pine wood (currently have loads), great firewood when seasoned. Conifer if the one I never bring home but to be honest only because it has a bad rep. It may be ok when seasoned who knows!

[Stubby]

37 minutes ago, Chipperclown said:

I bring home to my yard just the good stuff but I will say I love a bit of Pine wood (currently have loads), great firewood when seasoned. Conifer if the one I never bring home but to be honest only because it has a bad rep. It may be ok when seasoned who knows!

All the " conifer " I have burnt is superb fire wood .  Pine is a conifer  by the way . I prefer Leylandii though as its a bit denser . Larch is good also .

[Gav73]

For over 10 years I’ve been burning whatever wood my friendly tree surgeons have dropped off for me to process, the only one I don’t burn is laburnum - that stuff stinks and I’m sure it’s full of nasty toxic stuff. 
tend to burn softwood when there’s someone in to feed the stove and use the hardwood overnight and when going out for a while. It’s worth being fussy and keeping the denser wood for when longer burn times are needed