Outdoor seasoning tips please

[swinny]

Cubic meter vented log bags with some plastic or tarp stapled on to stop rain getting into the bag.

 

All other methods involve too much handling, this way the bag is filled when splitting and moved via tractor loader to store area. The bag is only moved when it's sold or used.

 

so even when logs are green its ok to still just split straight into vented bags? and they won't go mouldy?

[Dr.Green]

so even when logs are green its ok to still just split straight into vented bags? and they won't go mouldy?

 

good question as be much much easier

 

also if i do vented bags il need a small crane / lift on tipper , another ad on to think about

[18 stoner]

So Dr, give us a bit more info. How much are you intending to do, is it for profit, yourself, do you have a budget, etc, etc.

[slack ma girdle]

This works for me

Each stack holds about 7-8m3.

In two months the moisture has dropped from 40% to 27%, dispite the small amount amount of rain we have had over the last couple of months.

I have some tarps that cover the tops to over winter.

[swinny]

The mighty NUFFIELD

[slack ma girdle]

The mighty NUFFIELD

 

The mightyRunning Nuffield

[McMichael]

We currently use harris fencing which we have welded the nuts though left it loose enough that it can be folded down and easily moved. Air flows straight through so wood dries well. Oh and all wood is raised off the floor on wooden pallets.

[windfall]

I have had no mouldy logs processing directly into vented bags. I have prepared and sold hard and softwoods.

 

The 4 mesh sided 0.7 cubic meter bags get very good ventilation and season logs a bit quicker than the doubled sided cube ones.

 

You just have to have something that can move them.

[Dr.Green]

So Dr, give us a bit more info. How much are you intending to do, is it for profit, yourself, do you have a budget, etc, etc.

 

It's all 4inch + stuff after my arb work. I intend to make small sideline profit and see how it goes . I've been selling unseasoned from home however yard to small and this land came up. Cheap n out the way £400 a year. Good space in a 12acre woodland. Free to roam with dogs and take chip there

 

I think cubed bags would be good but it's the lifting. I may opt for now to stack split logs then just sell by tipper level load when time arrives

 

I had a possible deal with a garden centre however it burnt down week later. Not me honest mr policeman

[18 stoner]

Ok, in that case, if some kind of loader is out of the equasion, so are big bags.

 

If I were you, I'd go along with any of the suggested options that have been offered for making "pies" of logs, be it harris fence, stock netting, pallets or what ever to create walls of the pies with false floor to keep them aloft. Mostly with the intension of selling bulk(assuming you can deliver bulk), although it means double handling this will be short term if its viable to go into in a bigger way in the future.

 

If you make the pies in reasonable sizes, but not too big so it takes weeks to fill one, then when it comes to sell, you know all the logs in that one pie are seasoned together.

 

Another thing you may want to try, is fill some small nets(the sprout net type) as you split. You can stack these and cover them as with the pies and will cut down on handling later if you can sell some small bags. Be careful though, as these net types usually perish quickly so dont try hanging on to them 'till the next season, they will fall apart.