sweet chestnut

[Martyn Amos]

sweet chestnut,any good to burn?

heard its smokey and spits?

cheers martyn:001_huh:

[Chris Gagen]

definitely spits but great for stoves,

AKA poor man's oak, also good for kindling

[Frankie Lawrence]

good kindling burns realy hot proberly one of the best firewoods but the only problem it spits a fair bit.

[Martyn Amos]

thanks guys:thumbup1:

i did take a large limb off a sweet chestnut last year,but because i heared it spiits i give away[i have open fire]

i always have and burn plenty of oak,ash,beech and birch and my neighbours buy a barrel or two off me now and again[they have a stove] so they will be having some mixed in,if i get anymore.:001_huh:

i also noticed when i cut the limb into rounds how stunning the chestnut logs are,very dark in the middle,also very hard to split[never splits straight,it twists]??

[Frankie Lawrence]

thanks guys:thumbup1:

i did take a large limb off a sweet chestnut last year,but because i heared it spiits i give away[i have open fire]

i always have and burn plenty of oak,ash,beech and birch and my neighbours buy a barrel or two off me now and again[they have a stove] so they will be having some mixed in,if i get anymore.:001_huh:

i also noticed when i cut the limb into rounds how stunning the chestnut logs are,very dark in the middle,also very hard to split[never splits straight,it twists]??

 

Older chesnut twists in the bark so can be very difficult to split but younger stuff splits fine mate. traditional fencing is made out of chesnut coppice and alot of its cleaved by hand so it has to split well:001_smile:

[treemeup]

I think it's pretty valuable as timber and strainer posts

[Bolt]

I am burning sweet chestnut on an open fire fire as we type.

 

Lovely.

 

I am using a chimney to control the smoke

 

and a fire guard to control the sparks

 

 

Ahem, Simples as 'they' say.

[Frankie Lawrence]

I think it's pretty valuable as timber and strainer posts

 

indeed post and rail is where the monney is in chesnut:thumbup1:

[Martyn Amos]

Older chesnut twists in the bark so can be very difficult to split but younger stuff splits fine mate. traditional fencing is made out of chesnut coppice and alot of its cleaved by hand so it has to split well:001_smile:

 

got to be 50yrs plus,its bigger than the house:blushing:

[Martyn Amos]

I am burning sweet chestnut on an open fire fire as we type.

 

Lovely.

 

I am using a chimney to control the smoke

 

and a fire guard to control the sparks

 

 

Ahem, Simples as 'they' say.

 

knew there was something missing,got the fire guard,now need a chimney to go with it:001_tt2: