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Gavin
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I don't understand this business about burning with little heat. Comes up regularly regarding poplar or willow or alder or whatever.

 

I'll build a fire out of alder, and you come stick your hand in it and tell me if it's hot.

 

Indeed :001_rolleyes:

 

I am currently burning green Horse Chestnut (felled yesterday :biggrin:)

 

OK its a large Farm 2000 type boiler, but I can't keep my hand on my radiators and my house is toasty :thumbup:

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I don't understand this business about burning with little heat. Comes up regularly regarding poplar or willow or alder or whatever.

 

The HSE are banning premium wood from 2016 onwards because it's too dangerous when it catches fire - it will only be permissible to supply cool burning safety wood to non-professional users.

 

I'm amazed you didn't know already!:laugh1:

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This really is not helpful and untrue.

 

The timbers you list are not the easiest to dry and keep dry.

 

If they are dried properly and stored in a way that keeps them dry they burn perfectly well, in fact dry Alder is extremely good fuel, IME.

 

We as an industry really need to be correcting this misinformation that goes back to the days before people correctly seasoned and stored their timber.

 

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