Who's still burning?

[david wood]

stove still going strong here, this cold and wet is miserable so theres no way i am stopping burning until temp gets into double figures and stays there and we see good 8hrs of warm sun daily at least.  

 

[trigger_andy]

I’m burning a 1.25 cube net bag of logs every 3 days. 🤣

Boiling hot water. Roasting house (to hot for me) all for free! What’s not to like?

[neiln]

I actually managed a night without the stove yesterday!  Looking at the forecast for the next two weeks, I reckon I'll be lighting it for a few hours must evenings still.  I could end up burning until June at this rate.

[openspaceman]

4 hours ago, neiln said:

 I could end up burning until June at this rate.

I can't as I have no dry wood left.

 

Except some of the beech felled and split in February is just about fit to burn.

 

Looks like the following year will be cedar as I looked at a large deodar today.

[Mick Dempsey]

1 hour ago, openspaceman said:

I can't as I have no dry wood left.

 

Except some of the beech felled and split in February is just about fit to burn.

 

Looks like the following year will be cedar as I looked at a large deodar today.

Yeah, deodar is ok, I burn a lot, partly because it’s so easy to process.

Does burn quick though.

[Stubby]

Not been alight for a couple of weeks now . reached 15 degrees today but windy . Got to 9 degrees or less in the day for me to light up .

[openspaceman]

2 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Yeah, deodar is ok, I burn a lot, partly because it’s so easy to process.

Does burn quick though.

That's the worry; if I use all my hardwood this year and fill with cedar next summer I may run short again as I only have 8m3 of covered storage.

 

@Dom who doesn't post here any more says it will take 2 days to get down and it looks about 150Hft plus a third that again in branchwood so it will fill me up and some.

 

There's just about room for a straight fell but the logistics of dragging the top out to the chipper make section felling more sensible and less damage to the lawn, also I'm not that brave or confident any more.

[neiln]

Build another shed, or just get assume pallets and tarp the top.  That's what I do for 2/3 of mine.  It's fine with good quality tarp.

[openspaceman]

13 minutes ago, neiln said:

Build another shed, or just get assume pallets and tarp the top.  That's what I do for 2/3 of mine.  It's fine with good quality tarp.

I really don't have much  space along with my other junk, this is a small suburban garden. I think I can squeeze a few m3 of short billets alongside the garage under some roofing felt. This is why I have a hectic period at the end of the heating season and the time it takes to refill the store and why I only have the summer months for drying.

[neiln]

Creativity needed. I'm in South London, zone 3, typical '30s semi, so not tiny garden but not acres either.

Old and collapsing garden shed with internal dimensions of 6'6" X 8'6" filled solid holds about 9-9.5 m³.  Front South having wall of the house gets stacked to window sill height and 2 rows deep making another 3.5-4 m³ and finally a pallet wide stack as high as the fence down one side of the back garden, pallets under and tarp over, another 15-16m³.  That all looks quite tidy in my eyes, although the logs awaiting processing piled beside the patio or strewn on the small front garden don't I admit!

 

2.5 average winter's worth of wood if everything is full, although I think most I've ever got to is about 24-25m³.