Sticky firewood properties?

[dazlog]

I store my logs on pallets with mesh sides , sheets over top worked ok for no. years now. Like whats already been said just dry it well. Keep it away from view mines getting removed during the night lately:sneaky2:

[Tom D]

how do you move them around and load etc

 

They just fit on the log grab on my little tractor, its like pallet forks with a grabbung arm.

[Martin Jenkins]

I thought this was going to be about sticky firewood.

 

Like those cypress trees I cut down to get rid of last year, they were VERY sticky.

 

I haven't burnt them yet, am going to wait about <a long time> to let them stop being too sticky.

[Martin Jenkins]

@dazlog - I recently came to the same conclusion, got some pallets from someone local, used old fencing posts and old stock fencing and an old tarp, and it's great. I stuck it under some trees to give it additional overhead cover.

[Rentachimp]

so, more than two thirds would like it sticky, eh?

 

Any chance of it Steve??

 

Does sycamore burn well, guys?

[skyhuck]

 

Does sycamore burn well, guys?

 

Yes! and drys very quickly.

[THE88MAN]

it does,and you can disguise it as ash! they soon re-order too,sycamore is a friend to a firewood man

[arbormaster]

have you seen this? http://www.aie.org.uk/aie_data/aie_firewood.html

[THE88MAN]

good rough guide,only things i would pick is cherry(burns bad) and larch(fell it,split it,stack it bark up and it dries quick and burns ok)

[firewoodman]

a customer once told me the best wood to burn is the dryest you can find,

the second best wood to burn is the wood you get for free.

 

in my experience its not softwood that soots up your chimney, but the burning of wet wood.

something to do with the moisure, combustable and non-combustable gasses condensing on a colder surface.

i am in agreement though, it doesn't matter what the wood is you burn as long as it is dry

 

here's a question though.

if every customer of every firewood supplier was to only ask for and only accept the alleged top hardwoods for fuel, how long could our forestry sustain the demand without clear felling as demand for wood fuel is drastically increasing?

 

should we educate on species or on sustainability? do a poll on that one!!!