Growing firewood

[devon TWiG]

22 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

But locked deep within a log and flushed out with the pitter patter of rain?

 

But you’re right, let’s leave it at that. 

try washing resin off your hands and kit with just a bit of water !!!!!

[spandit]

Just now, devon TWiG said:

try washing resin off your hands and kit with just a bit of water !!!!!

Try leaving your hands out in the rain for 6 months

[trigger_andy]

11 minutes ago, devon TWiG said:

try washing resin off your hands and kit with just a bit of water !!!!!

Very true. 

[Paul in the woods]

12 minutes ago, nepia said:

I do sell it in small quantities but as softwood, not hardwood.

 

Horse Chestnut I don't touch!

I don't think I've tried horse chestnut yet. I had some birch this year, nice wood with a decent scent but thought it burnt almost as quick as some of the stuff people don't like.

[openspaceman]

47 minutes ago, Will C said:

It will be seasoning out side, it will season a lot quicker in smaller bits, the sooner you smash it apart the sooner it will dry.

Yes, getting it dry quickly means there is less loss of dry matter (=heat energy) by respiration of bugs living off it. Smaller logs have more surface area exposed to drying air and less distance for water to migrate. Keeping the rain off prevents re wetting and hence keeps mould and boring insects out.

 

I am having to re split [1] my cedar logs , felled 22nd June, and they are 15% mc wwb in the middle, less on the outside having been under a polycarbonate roofed open shed.

 

[1] The morso s11 smokes black, like a car with its choke on, if I put a 5" plus cross section log on as they are so dry that they evolve more woodgas than the secondary and clean burn air holes can supply if put in whole for a few minutes. It's an unexpected pain as being light they also burn fast, meaning frequent loading is needed. Having said that the house is too warm to have kept it fired since I lit it at 17:00, ground floor rooms at 21C and it's still 10C outside.

[Peasgood]

The resin on leylandii is just on the layer between bark and wood, once it has been left out long enough for the bark to fall off the resin falls away with it. There is no resin in the wood itself or at least none that you will feel, see, get stuck on your hands.

Have run my heating/hot water/cooking almost solely on leylandii for decades, an excellent firewood and leaves hardly any ash. Only downside is it doesn't stay in overnight very easily, never found it a problem as it is so easy to light anyway.

[daveatdave]

i burn any wood that i can get my hands on which is not much these days since i retired  willow is ok but it will reabsorb moisture leylandii i find burns smashing if someone came along and offered me a load of softwood logs at half the price of hardwood  i would more than likely take the offer 

[john87]

Is silver birch any good?? Might have a load of that when the weather dries up..

 

john..

[daveatdave]

8 minutes ago, john87 said:

Is silver birch any good?? Might have a load of that when the weather dries up..

 

john..

yes that lovely wood to burn

[Stubby]

7 hours ago, john87 said:

Is silver birch any good?? Might have a load of that when the weather dries up..

 

john..

yep .