Get a logburner there great

[predator]

My good friend tells me a few years ago get yourself a logburner well i did the get a builder in rip fireplace out buy the logburner etc etc

 

i,ve never worked this hard in my life lol

 

getting logs moving them about building a machine to split them cost of fuel running cost getting the stuff etc saws trailers wood storage painkillers hernia operations etc etc etc

 

whats you outlook on having a logburner longterm

[se7enthdevil]

chopping logs for the fire gives me a good work out. i might use a chainsaw to crosscut but otherwise it's all hand work so no fuel costs (other than feeding myself) dont have a problem shifting logs as i'm 6'3" and 230lbs which is 95% muscle and to a certain degree enjoy it.

[Farmerdowling]

I've spent the past two days splitting logs from a storm felled tree - I haven't done it for a while and either this tree is really hard or I've got really soft!

[Gardenmac]

Ours has been a life saver this winter with the house being not being on mains gas. We have Calor tank but it only goes on when the frost is on the inside of the windows.

Fire is great warms living room, bedroom, stairs and landing. Should have gone for one with a back boiler to run the heating but it was too costly.

We are ripping through the logs at a pace, almost run out of last seasons. The hardest work I find is sourcing decent kindling, hasn't been so bad the last week or so with the odd job to replace wind damaged fence panels, they burn great, build up a good ember bed for the logs to add to.

Bought a small domestic log splitter(7 tonne splitting force), about to buy a scheppauch log saw to save on using the chain saw. Oh and the Fiskars X10 and X27 make light work of most of what's left. Love splitting logs very therapeutic.

[spudulike]

Logburners are manna from Heaven:thumbup:

 

I scavenge wood, some guys drop it off - it is free and burn anything going.

 

This year I have burnt nothing but dead standing Elm and Ash - haven't even used anything from the log store - all pulled out of local ditches.

 

I have oil central heating but use it for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening, the log burner goes on between 2-5 in the afternoon and is run up to 11.00pm - the heat goes up through the house and pretty much warms it up:thumbup:

 

Cutting the wood - most often cut with saws I am fixing but do use my own ported kit and always enjoy converting timber in to logs, the larger stuff I use the X27 Fiskars on to split - got enough seasoned wood for 5-6 years!

 

If you can get free wood they are great, if you have to pay then not so good. I don't mind investing a bit of time cutting it or fixing peoples kit and taking a bit off wood off the owner if they are good enough to drop it off.

 

Always nice to get the burner going - part of life!

[gensetsteve]

Open fire 80% of heat up the chimney 20% in the room. Log burner the other way round. If you want the heat its a no brainer.

[codlasher]

My good friend tells me a few years ago get yourself a logburner well i did the get a builder in rip fireplace out buy the logburner etc etc

 

i,ve never worked this hard in my life lol

 

getting logs moving them about building a machine to split them cost of fuel running cost getting the stuff etc saws trailers wood storage painkillers hernia operations etc etc etc

 

whats you outlook on having a logburner longterm

 

Well, predator you've seen my log-burner. It's a fantastic machine to heat my whole house and enough water for three showers, but the days of just using just this are coming to an end as quickly as I can. I'm of a mind that the firewood market is too expensive, as we all know, and even buying in 26 tons at a time 12 months ahead and processing at my leisure (cutting more logs when the shed is empty!) I burn about 14 tons every winter. Even with my elderly machinery to help me, as you have said....'It's bl**dy hard work'!!

 

I have now purchased a second hand wood-pellet boiler and have been busy re-constructing one end of my farm house (the worst and most derelict) for the last six years now. This is now partially roofed and will be finished in July, if I'm lucky..... I have put in many layers of insulation and A rated windows so it will have minimum heat requirements this winter. I won't get rid of the stove but it will only be needed, I hope, on the coldest days. I see no other way as we, like many other folk in rural areas, have no mains gas. I will have an 'instant' LPG gas boiler and the solar panels for heating water are in the store ready to go on the roof when it's finished. This means we have a double back-up system in place coz all things go wrong when it's coldest.

Once I have moved into this part I can then start on the other half but my wife won't let me destroy anything (like the drains) until then. I don't blame her either as we have 'done' living in mobile homes!

codlasher

[Woodworks]

We have a woodburner but it sits idle most of the time. I run the central heating and sell the logs. Far less mess and hassle not to mention I sell the logs for more than the heating costs to run

[predator]

I've spent the past two days splitting logs from a storm felled tree - I haven't done it for a while and either this tree is really hard or I've got really soft!

 

pissin myself reading this great init eh"

[pie eater pete]

I think their crap..but thats cos i no longer have gas central heating.Only a Rayburn 355 which will do a cube of wood easily in a fortnight if not sooner! PITA Me and the wife talk constantly about keeping "Ray"(Rayburn)fed...