8" logs

[peatff]

Our little Hunter stove will take a 12" piece of wood, she is probably putting the logs endways on to get more in and save fill ups.

[agg221]

You can only get smaller logs in a Rayburn or in a Victorian style open fireplace. There are also some shallower stoves designed to fit in an existing Victorian/Edwardian fireplace opening.

 

Alec

[ballibeg]

I know only too well - was cutting some firewood today for a friend with a Rayburn and even at 12 inches it was still too much!

 

Steve - will let you know. I decided reasonably recently that where possible I'd always buy from small businesses like myself. I don't know how he makes any money on those stoves though as they are very inexpensive and look well made. Will update next week when it's lit.

 

Jonathan

 

Look forward to the update. Looks controllable as opposed to the gas bottle ones I'm looking at on eBay.

 

Dave

[TGB]

Plenty if small, (mainly older stoves) have a max. of 8" clearance. Then again, your customer may be fuelling a narrowboat stove, where 8" is the upper limit.

[Eagle]

I have had the odd customer order logs, deliver them as agreed and then they ask me to come and collect them again as they won't fit into their stove. All 10-12". They claim they can only fit 6" logs into their stove and they never thought to mention it! I had to cut the whole lot in half for them. Luckily just around the corner.

 

 

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[Alycidon]

I usually cut at 240mm but last summer I took on an agency for Aarow stoves, their 4kw stove wants 200mm max, they are flying off the shelf.

 

Modern houses are highly insulated and have tiny rooms so dont need a whole lot of heat, (3kw - 4kw usually) so there is a whole new generation of small stoves coming through for this market.

 

Next year I will cut probably half at 200mm.

 

A

[Woodworks]

"Next year I will cut probably half at 200mm."

 

That's a lot of sawdust

[nepia]

there is a whole new generation of small stoves coming through for this market. A

 

 

I've been waiting for this as it was inevitable wasn't it: improving tecnology = greater efficiency -> smaller logs. A bit of a pain but 'progress'!

[davetaz]

I have 6 customers requiring 6" logs, charge £115/cubic metre, they each buy 2 cubes a year, nobody else local will do any logs less than 10" so I'm quite happy to cut them small. Easy enough when cutting from billets on a Hakki Pilke Eagle saw

[josharb87]

Niftysteve fitted this burner to my mums new place. The hobbit, 4kw, biggest stove available to fit the gap already there. That will need small logs.

 

If woodburners are about efficiency, what would be the point in having a big burner in a small room???