Wood burner install / ideas

[openspaceman]

25 minutes ago, Alycidon said:

Pellets are the thick end of £300 a ton now,  when I put a pellet boiler in at home they were £120.

 

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Much the same here, we brought them in at £70/tonne as dunnage between the stoves in the container, the intention was to make them in Bridgend from the waste from the technoboard plant but they folded. Mine sits in the shed now.

[Woodworks]

29 minutes ago, Alycidon said:

Pellets are the thick end of £300 a ton now,  when I put a pellet boiler in at home they were £120.

 

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Still a bit cheaper than logs then and drier 

[openspaceman]

6 hours ago, Woodworks said:

Still a bit cheaper than logs then and drier 

Not for me as I don't pay for my logs and I quite enjoy the few days it takes to cut and split.

 

What weight do you allow for a bulk cubic metre of logs @ 20% mc?

 

The pellets will have 900kg of dry wood at 5.3kWh/kg so ignoring combustion efficiency and extra steam up the chimney about 6.3p/kWh

[Woodworks]

12 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Not for me as I don't pay for my logs and I quite enjoy the few days it takes to cut and split.

 

What weight do you allow for a bulk cubic metre of logs @ 20% mc?

 

The pellets will have 900kg of dry wood at 5.3kWh/kg so ignoring combustion efficiency and extra steam up the chimney about 6.3p/kWh

When I have weighed a cube its in the 350kg region

[openspaceman]

32 minutes ago, Woodworks said:

When I have weighed a cube its in the 350kg region

£93/cube is equivalent then

[Woodworks]

9 hours ago, openspaceman said:

£93/cube is equivalent then

And we charge £120 for 1 cube of logs

[openspaceman]

2 hours ago, Woodworks said:

And we charge £120 for 1 cube of logs

How many of your customers use it as a primary heat source? My total gas bill including standing charges is less than half that per kWh yet I still burn logs.

 

Most of the logs I burn would end up mouldering away in the corner of a field  so there's a reasonable displacement of fossil fuel, I could also save about a kg of char a day in winter  if I were a bit better organised and use that in the garden to offset about 35 miles of motoring carbon emmisisions.

[Woodworks]

20 hours ago, openspaceman said:

How many of your customers use it as a primary heat source? My total gas bill including standing charges is less than half that per kWh yet I still burn logs.

 

Most of the logs I burn would end up mouldering away in the corner of a field  so there's a reasonable displacement of fossil fuel, I could also save about a kg of char a day in winter  if I were a bit better organised and use that in the garden to offset about 35 miles of motoring carbon emmisisions.

Only one that I know of. They cook and do the hot water off wood as well. Plenty mix their heating ie running the central heating low and using wood to make things cosy when home.

[Ontario Firewood Resource]

 

[Stubby]

9 hours ago, Ontario Firewood Resource said:

 

I was just dozing off when I noticed the fishing rods in the corner . What do you catch over there matey ?

Edited February 20, 2021 by Stubby