Customers Knowledge

[Dave Martin]

Did you not have stringy bits with some of yours? It really slowed me up! Think it's when there's a knot

 

When I first had my stoves installed and before I became the `God of Firewood` that I am today I processed a fallen lime tree from my bottom field with an axe and it was easy splitting huge rings..... but then again I am sat watching Worlds Strongest Man and thinking ..big lads but not very strong

[gensetsteve]

I have about 20 tonnes of lime sat in the yard I cut some up last spring and have burnt it a few weeks ago. At first I thought o, then it fired up and as you say burns like Ash. I have an oven thermometer sat on the stove and it reads the same with ash as it does with lime the only thing that knocks it down is the Oak. The only thing which annoys me is the thick bark which falls off when its dry.

[Nat]

I have bags of split willow, very very dry.

 

Cannot sell them - can't give them away!

 

Is burning lovely on the open fire at home, hardly a spit or a pop!

[peckerwoo]

I have bags of split willow, very very dry.

 

Cannot sell them - can't give them away!

 

Is burning lovely on the open fire at home, hardly a spit or a pop!

 

"give a dog a bad name,,,," ?

but I gotta agree on general public opinion on seasoned willow is completely unfound and unjust?

I`ve been firing it outside, whilst tugging on fine cuban`s n single malt in the chimnea and find it shoves out great eat way beyond any softwood and certain hard`s?

under-rated considering every aesthetic involved!

awaiting personal stove/woodburner performance with eagerness,,,,

cheers all `arbers

[Taupotreeman]

I have bags of split willow, very very dry.

 

Cannot sell them - can't give them away!

 

Is burning lovely on the open fire at home, hardly a spit or a pop!

 

Can't understand this. I wouldn't buy Willow for firewood and I don't bother collecting it myself as I can afford to be picky but if you leave it out for collection for free people turn their noses up. Surely ANY firewood is good wood if it's free?

[gensetsteve]

I know where there is a good pile of horse chestnut. Bone dry and feels very light but burns hot and not too fast but if you put too much in a load you get complaints so its not worth cutting. One of the butts is 20ft long and over 3ft wide. Because the customer feels he is paying too much only the very best will do.

[Tom D]

I just mix it all up together, soft, hard, pop, willow, oak, beech. never have any complaints....

 

Just learn to say no to a customer....

[easy-lift guy]

I processed 10 cube of lime this year, its a weird wood no doubt about it! Once dry it catches and burns like a good un, quite like softwood.

 

The way it split and acted when worked reminded me of Balsa wood, which is a hardwood, just really light weight/soft.

 

Balsa wood a hard wood:confused1: this is the same type of wood I used to make countless models many moons ago. Never knew it was a hardwood.

easy-lift guy

[easy-lift guy]

Can't understand this. I wouldn't buy Willow for firewood and I don't bother collecting it myself as I can afford to be picky but if you leave it out for collection for free people turn their noses up. Surely ANY firewood is good wood if it's free?

 

Not so here in Florida. I have seen Brazilian Pepper Tree actually being sold as firewood and when folks collect it from the trash they think it will burn well and it does except the smoke is poisonous. The Tree is in the Poison Ivy family along with mango. Really want to steer clear of them.

easy-lift guy

[skyhuck]

I find the fact that Yew is a soft wood more incredible than Balsa being a hard wood.

 

Yew has to be the very best fire wood I have ever burnt.