unprocessed logs required

[BARNSLEY BOB]

builders bag.. 0.6 m/3______360 kg _____v.dry beech_____£80.00

nets. 40x65 ebay. ______ 30 kg ______ " " " ______£ 3.50

[Tom D]

I believe that if they were cut smaller you'd get less air and more logs, so more weight even for loose filled bags.

 

Bizzarely the opposite is true, try emptying a bag of large logs and splitting them smaller then refiling, they won't fit!!!

[Tom D]

Was delivering logs today, five bags worth, levelled the load and worked out volume 2.6 x 2 x 0.7 = 3.16 cube. I took this over a weighbridge and again on the way back, the logs weighed exactly 1500 kg. So about 500kg per cube is about right, the logs were mostly beech and scyamore.

[treedave]

Bizzarely the opposite is true, try emptying a bag of large logs and splitting them smaller then refiling, they won't fit!!!

 

That is wierd, will have to cut smaller, so they dry faster and end up with more bang for my buck. Do you end up with less logs, due sawdust and splitting waste when you do small logs from large timber?

[Tom D]

TBH I don't split my logs that small, i have just noticed that the smaller you chop them the more they bulk up. I tend to aim for a bout 8"- 10" long and 3" - 4" wide, thats what people seem to like round here. any extra small ones go to my gran as she has a small stove and the big ones I burn myself.

[treedave]

Seems familiar - 8-10" for most folk, a couple of customers take all my 4-8" off cuts and I run on 18" or smaller. I am getting more people asking for logs up to 14" for bigger systems that heat water etc. What I need now is a tipper or a trailer and crane - well sick of hand balling off at the other end.