What do you guys do with your softwood?

[Riich]

Got a bit of a mountain in the yard... the biomass guy I usually deal with doesn't seem too keen, Stobarts may be able to send an artic at some point...

Any one interested or any ideas? Cheers guys!

[TGB]

It might help if more info was given:

Species - Avg. length - Avg. dia. - tonnage - seasoned or not.

[Mountain man]

Pile it up, try not to think about it, hope it goes away.

[shavey]

what area are you, what sort of access, and can you load a artic

[Riich]

Pile it up, try not to think about it, hope it goes away.

Haha that's what we have been doing, trouble is the yards getting a bit small!

 

Yeah sorry more details would have been useful! Everything that comes back from tree jobs that can't go for hardwood logs! Probably two thirds of it is handleable lengths, and the rest big butts we've moved with the hiab. Tonnage about a hundred at a rough guess, probably eighteen months old at the back and last Fridays at the front!

Diameter, six inch upwards. In Tonbridge, Kent.

Cheers!

[Mark Bolam]

If you cut it and split it it will turn into those 'log' things that garages sell for about a fiver for a few in an onion bag.

 

 

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[Riich]

Yes and tonbridge, what you thinking? Cheers Shavey

[Tim Stobart Tree Surgery]

I used a free-cycle style facebook page (it's called weebay, you've got to love Scottish islands) to advertise any such 'logs' that are too **** to sell. There were usually people waiting to take them off site by people while I was still in the tree. On one job I said come back after 5pm and help yourselves to whatever's left (it was for a call center and some of the staff wanted a bootfull). I'd finished by 3pm, and missed the punch-up at 4.30!

 

Now I just contact a guy who came from that weebay, who has a huge trailer and comes and clears them for me, if he's free while we're dragging brash he'll happily help in return for the logs. No value in them just get rid.

[CallumA]

Can't understand why people don't want to burn soft wood as a lot of new wood burners are stoves with a door and it does not matter about sparks. Granted you will need more room to store the increased amount of logs required for the stove! But the reduced cost of soft wood would out weigh the extra work of throwing a couple of more logs on the stove a night. All I use for heating in my house is soft wood as it is much cheaper and available locally. I have a Stanley range in the kitchen and a Hunter herald 14 in the living room, and soon to be installing a Therminator II biomass boiler, which will also burn soft wood. Unfortunately I live in the NE of Scotland because I would gladly take it off your hands:thumbup:

[Stubby]

Can't understand why people don't want to burn soft wood as a lot of new wood burners are stoves with a door and it does not matter about sparks. Granted you will need more room to store the increased amount of logs required for the stove! But the reduced cost of soft wood would out weigh the extra work of throwing a couple of more logs on the stove a night. All I use for heating in my house is soft wood as it is much cheaper and available locally. I have a Stanley range in the kitchen and a Hunter herald 14 in the living room, and soon to be installing a Therminator II biomass boiler, which will also burn soft wood. Unfortunately I live in the NE of Scotland because I would gladly take it off your hands:thumbup:

 

I burn mine