Stick your hardwood where the sun don't shine

[Dean Lofthouse]

Been burning some Beech I have been seasoning under cover for two years. Burned it for the last two month, not too bad but can only get the heat out of it if it's cut into small bits, good for over night burns.

 

So today I went down to the yard and got myself some nice leylandii

 

Yehaaaa, stoves glowing like a good un and only opened the vent halfway, kettles steaming away on top in minutes and I,ve had to move the settee away a little more. Just need to keep an eye on the flu temp so it doesn't,t melt my chimney stack

 

Why people disrespect softwood is beyond me.

 

Softwood....it,s the future...you can stick hardwood from now on

[nepia]

Know just what you mean: I burn 90+% softwood at home but can I persuade customers to take more of it...? Not for lack of trying, that's for sure. They all want to plonk a lump of oak on their kindling!

[mendiplogs]

Been burning some Beech I have been seasoning under cover for two years. Burned it for the last two month, not too bad but can only get the heat out of it if it's cut into small bits, good for over night burns.

 

So today I went down to the yard and got myself some nice leylandii

 

Yehaaaa, stoves glowing like a good un and only opened the vent halfway, kettles steaming away on top in minutes and I,ve had to move the settee away a little more. Just need to keep an eye on the flu temp so it doesn't,t melt my chimney stack

 

Why people disrespect softwood is beyond me.

 

Softwood....it,s the future...you can stick hardwood from now on

 

HI DEAN ours is going very well on beech was the beech cut into logs mate were running very old well seasoned oak thats been very good loads of heat as the GAS DOES NOT GO ON IN OUR HOUSE :laugh1:jon

[Mick Stockbridge]

Leylandii is shite, alright to fire up the stove with but that's about it. You'll get up every hour to load the stove whereas I'll get up every two hours with a decent bit of Ash or similar.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Leylandii is the future Mick...

 

You just need an efficient stove, you know...like a "Yorkshire" stove from Dunsley in Holmfirth

 

dunsleyheat website - Multifuel stoves

 

We Yorkshire folk know how to make em. Just like Jon knows how to make good Cider

[Michael C]

Leylandii is shite, alright to fire up the stove with but that's about it. You'll get up every hour to load the stove whereas I'll get up every two hours with a decent bit of Ash or similar.

 

I'm burning Spruce at the moment and find the same, keeping the stove loaded is a constant job, otherwise you will end up relighting it.

[treequip]

Leylandii is the future Mick...

 

You just need an efficient stove, you know...like a "Yorkshire" stove from Dunsley in Holmfirth

 

dunsleyheat website - Multifuel stoves

 

We Yorkshire folk know how to make em. Just like Jon knows how to make good Cider

 

Except that.....I got a better deal for a Dunsley Yorkshire stove from stoves are us, even after I turned up at Dunsleys place with a pocket full of folding.

 

It is a good stove though.

[Yeti]

It's all I burn at home as did two generations before me burnt pretty much good thick slab wood last year...no chimney fires no gunk in chimney and nothing but toasty fires

gave up trying to "educate" customers onto softwood was raising my blood pressure too much.

We don't have enough hardwood in U.K to keep burning the stuff at this rate

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

I'm burning Spruce at the moment and find the same, keeping the stove loaded is a constant job, otherwise you will end up relighting it.

 

Tell me about spruce! Gone in a flicker; much prefer larch, western red cedar and mac. Got some dead standing douglas coming up - any good?

 

We don't have enough hardwood in U.K to keep burning the stuff at this rate

 

precisely

[Dean Lofthouse]

Except that.....I got a better deal for a Dunsley Yorkshire stove from stoves are us, even after I turned up at Dunsleys place with a pocket full of folding.

 

It is a good stove though.

 

they have to sell at RRP so they dont undercut their outlets i think