1 year seasoned oak logs

[djbobbins]

Agree it will be another summer at least before it's ready to burn. I have got some oak which was felled and split spring last year (so now been down about 9 months) and which has been stacked outside but out of the weather. I checked some last week and it was still 35% MC.

 

On a purely cost basis I'd agree with the view that you're not getting a bargain, but not getting completely fleeced either. From a burning perspective I personally wouldn't want to be stuck with only greenish oak to burn.

 

 

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[Big J]

I bloody hate oak. Nothing takes longer to dry and frankly, I don't think that it's worth the wait. Give me sycamore/elm/lime/any softwood any day.

 

Oak sulks on the fire, and needs nursing like a sick child.

[Ashes_Firewood]

I logged up quite a large Oak tree in September that had fallen off the top of a rock face about 5 years ago. Then split it all up. It was still fresh as if I had felled it that day! It's brilliant when seasoned but it really does need to be left to dry for a couple of years AFTER its been split

 

 

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[face cord]

Cubic yards & metric tonnes?

 

Many he should use cords?

 

Wish the uk had gone properly metric & not this mish mash of 2 unit systems all the time, that sellers like to use to confuse people.

 

There was stall at the local market here selling veg by the lbs which I thought was illegal nowadays?

 

 

His woodland looks nicely managed though but the website is confusing.

Edited February 13, 2013 by face cord

[Hodge]

Why do you want oak? You would be getting ash or beech logs that are ready to burn now.

 

 

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[mixedangased]

I bloody hate oak. Nothing takes longer to dry and frankly, I don't think that it's worth the wait. Give me sycamore/elm/lime/any softwood any day.

 

Oak sulks on the fire, and needs nursing like a sick child.

 

hate oak too,got some stems been down 10 yrs +,bet if i ringed it up now it would still be sopping

[agrimog]

oak.....its got to be about the worst firewood going, takes forever to season, doesnt burn well, and stinks, leave it for the furniture guys and get some beech or ash

[kev7937]

I'm sure when I read through his blurb yesterday it stated the oak was seasoned for a year and needed another year to properly dry.

 

It all seemed pretty honest to me, but I did only skim it.

 

 

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[lanber]

Thanks for all the replies chaps, maybe i will give the oak a miss.

[Woodworks]

Thanks for all the replies chaps, maybe i will give the oak a miss.

 

Oak is lovely when dry it's just that it is slow to dry.

 

All you guys who don't like oak give it to me I love the stuff