Cord stack and Log pile pictures

[rowan lee]

Someone i know lived in france and he said that they sell in metre or half metre lengths and the customer cuts it to the length they want

 

Serious stacks there mate

 

A friend came back from a small town in France recently, where the local firewood merchant sells unseasoned m3 of bundled oak billets for only 15 euro a pop.

Well cheap if your doing your own, and you still have some fun processing it up into logs your self.

[john burgess]

nice looking pile how long did it take you to stack that lot? as for bark up i guess it sheds rain better?

 

it's quite difficult to say as soon as the shooting season is finished and the catching up is done and the ground is dry I start cutting this year probably done between 400 and 500 m³ having said that already sold some of course. I will put a another picture of the large stack when I can

[gensetsteve]

you will notice it's only the ends of the stacks it easier to build the corner up if the flat surface is down the rest of it is mostly face up bark down but I don't think it makes a lot of difference

 

There is something satisfiying about being surrounded by neat stacks of billets. I dont get the same atmosphere with my white vented bags.

[dave fox]

Someone i know lived in france and he said that they sell in metre or half metre lengths and the customer cuts it to the length they want, but generally push the ends of the billets into the fire as they burnin the middle.

 

I billet but dont stack straight away when space gets tight i process into m3 bags i did stack but time is of a premium.

 

thats alot of timber, is all that for fire wood?

[Hogs Breath]

yes it will be some of the bigger stuff would have been ok for milling if it was shrapnel free.

[Fungus]

Not mine, but just as well a nice stack of spruce ready to be transported form the Dutch woods to the ... ???

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Edited September 1, 2011 by Fungus

[farmer_ben]

I guess that they are cut into logs, i don't see the point in cutting billets as you have to handle the wood again to log it.

 

its less handling then cutting 3 logs and then splitting each one though....

[gensetsteve]

I think billets are good as they dry fast but you need a saw bench with conveyor to make it really work.

[Peter]

Heres my stack for this winter.

 

[Charlieh]

Heres my stack for this winter.

 

 

you must be selling it by the ton? is that why your keeping it watered to keep it nice and heavy