Softwood logs?

[Jellystock]

So If your farmer friend delivered polystyrene, you'd get a level load on his 3 tonne trailer and therefore be getting 3 tonne of polystyrene?

[Terry Margolis]

Hi Fentiger,

We sell alot of softwood logs. One of our customers has a stoves showroom and always has a couple of stoves lit. Their prefered wood is douglas fir but we have found that providing it is well seasoned and dry from the rain, then any soft wood will sell to our customers.

 

Hi Kev

 

I am in Llanbrynmair, looking to buy several tons of dried softwood <25% moisture to kick start my 80kW log boiler while my own timber is seasoning. If you can help please email me at [email protected]. Terry

[s.varty]

Pine, Larch and Fir seem to be all about the same

 

Big surprise this year, I found out that conifer (seasoned) Is great as firewood. I feel ill everytime i think of the tons & tons i have burnt on the brushwood fire.

[timthetree]

Looking for some advice. We`ve had a good season on logs, having just come back into it.

We buy nearly all our wood in as 2.5m cord by the tonne, and as we have always done it has all been hardwood. Now I know a lot of people sell softwood logs, which I reckon if you buy per tonne and sell per cube must give more per tonne? So which softwood is good to sell? I know of one merchant who says he sells Larch, is that any good?

We sell almost 100% Sitka, dried to 25% moisture, it burns clean and hot, lots of happy customers with boilers and stoves use it all year round.

We have avoided buying Larch and scots pine as they have a higher resin content, but have bought and sold larch before and it makes good firewood if well seasoned, around 18months to 2 years for timber up to 8-9" diameter.

[windfall]

I have found Macrocarpa to be a good burner, smells great too. Although i have split so much of it recently i am starting to not be able to smell it.

[Arran Woodfuels]

We sell almost 100% Sitka, dried to 25% moisture, it burns clean and hot, lots of happy customers with boilers and stoves use it all year round.

 

Ditto.

 

There is a lot of misinformation going around (even on this forum) about how useless softwood is as firewood compared with hardwood. I think a lot of peeople should think again.

[Fentiger]

In the 12 months or so since my original post we have offered softwood as a lower priced option. This winter we have mainly mixed it with some second grade hardwoods such as willow.

Generally customers who have had it have been pleased, it was all nice and dry to much less than 20% MC.

We will definitely continue with it.

As a side issue I think it is quite useful to offer to customers that are new to wood stoves as it probably is a bit easier to get a good fire with.

[timthetree]

In the 12 months or so since my original post we have offered softwood as a lower priced option. This winter we have mainly mixed it with some second grade hardwoods such as willow.

Generally customers who have had it have been pleased, it was all nice and dry to much less than 20% MC.

We will definitely continue with it.

As a side issue I think it is quite useful to offer to customers that are new to wood stoves as it probably is a bit easier to get a good fire with.

I agree, seasoned dry softwood is popular with new woodburner owners as they find it easy to light, also our local stove supplier uses it in the showroom, and always recommends it to new customers.

The guy from stove shop gets fed up with trying to sort out stove problems which have been caused with people burning green hardwood logs. I think this is happening mainly because there is not enough hardwood around to meet demands, so Firewood sellers sell green wood, I meet customers every week who are fed up with being sold green hardwood as 'Firewood', after they have tried burning seasoned soft wood they are happy to keep using it.

[andyhudds]

Worked in local saw mill for 14 years double stenner band saw all soft wood we had cast iron pot belly stoves for our heat belive me we could get the stoves glowing white with heat from the soft wood

[niftysteve]

:thumbup:ive been burning joinery off cuts this year mostly softwood ,its been fine the best bit was that he payed me to clear it for him