Storage of already seasond logs

[borderfirewood]

I have a large amount of split logs all under 20% moisture in cubic meter bags,

I have now run out of bags so I am wondering whether to empty them into a light and well ventilated shed to save the purchase of more bags, am I likely to have any mould issues, and will they dry further.

[Hodge]

Bit of a waste of time emptying them out of bags that are ready to sell to put in a shed, you are handling too much. Why not buy more bags or put fresh wood into the shed, so long as it is well ventilated the would should be fine.

[gensetsteve]

We process into large 1.5 cu meter bags. Near time of sale we empty all of them into a vented poly tunnel for say 3 weeks. Reason we do this its easier to load our tipper with bobcat than try and transport and off load expensive vent bags. Also mixes up the different species so everyone gets a share of the beech and ash rather than one customer getting all the ash. I make sure we never manually double handle. I can afford 30p of diesel but not £10 of labour if that makes sense.

[borderfirewood]

We process into large 1.5 cu meter bags. Near time of sale we empty all of them into a vented poly tunnel for say 3 weeks. Reason we do this its easier to load our tipper with bobcat than try and transport and off load expensive vent bags. Also mixes up the different species so everyone gets a share of the beech and ash rather than one customer getting all the ash. I make sure we never manually double handle. I can afford 30p of diesel but not £10 of labour if that makes sense.

 

more or less the same here, we process individual species into vented cube bags and we mix when we go to deliver it, I just didnt really want to spend the money on new bags, with carriage they are £6.50 each.

[Alycidon]

They will dry further yes but you need to consider how you are going to refill the bags without getting a lot of loose crap in them. Last winter I had about 100 cube in a heap and another 50 in bags. Loading the last 10 cube from teh bottom of the bulk pile into bags for delivery had to be done by hand as the crap level was about 30%.

 

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[farmer_ben]

I'm in exactly same boat, bags have gone up in price and are nearly unviable now IMO.

[gensetsteve]

Try lc packaging our big 1.5 cube bags were about £5 last year but they are seriously tuff and we get at least 3 uses out of them. £1.75 a year per 1.5 cube seems cheap when you think what it costs for building space.

[renewablejohn]

I'm in exactly same boat, bags have gone up in price and are nearly unviable now IMO.

 

Have you thought of using recycled bags. I do various sizes starting at £2 a bag plus postage. Biggest problem is cost of postage going up.