A different way to chop your wood

[Chris Sheppard]

Hmmm, cheap disposable clean burning bags/nets and bung the whole sealed bag into the gasifying boiler.

Really reduce the handling too.

Be very good for my spindly birch, I like new toys btw!

simples

 

We did look at that option too, but didn't manage to find anything sensible net wise that was seen to be green to burn (i.e not plastic)

[Stereo]

I've been thinking about using all the piles of brash we get from our coppicing. I figured we need a machine which can chop it into 2" lengths and then somehow produce shrink wrapped logs. As you say though the question is what to wrap it in.

 

It's a bit gutting feeling the heat off a brash fire and thinking it could be saving your gas bill instead.

[Daniël Bos]

We did look at that option too, but didn't manage to find anything sensible net wise that was seen to be green to burn (i.e not plastic)

 

Jute/hessian sacks? They'd let the air through and would be well eco to burn. If you get hold of a decent amount they're not too dear (got 100 for £15 a few years ago) and they had coco nibs and coffee beans left in them so they'd smell nice when burning as well:biggrin:

[likeitorlumpit]

This idea is brilliant- chopped up sticks.

The only downside is that a fire filled with these would burn fierce and fast and I guess would need constant minding.