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Soft wood is great fire wood!, needs to be dry and burns a little faster than hard wood.

 

In Scandinavian country's, where its real cold, it petty much all they burn.

 

done some trials in my area with a few customers with good dryed soft wood and things look promissing , but i always tell them what they are getting:001_cool:

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I'm getting fully geared up for logs this year. Last year I sold out in 6 weeks and during that time was getting a average 10 answerphone messages a day for logs. Sold around 140 loads/bags. This year I'm aiming for 300 loads/bags.

 

I tend to do the big builders type dumpy bay (0.9 cubic metre) hardwood £60, mixed £50 and softwood only £45. For a loose 1.2 cubice metre hardwood load is £80 and mixed £70.

 

Softwood as long as it is dry will burn fine and produce lots of heat. Athough of course you may get a bit of sparking and it won't last as long. Most of my customers seem to have been educated with 'hardwood good' 'softwood bad' but I think with these modern log burners dry softwood is the best thing to get the bed of the fire going. The key is to split all your logs as soon as possible - on site even. Green wood is so much easier to split. I then bag them and then lift into a polytunnel where the temperature can get up to 40 degrees C. There are so many people near me selling loads for £40 that were wet but it just makes my logs look even better.

 

All those people who have spent £2000 + on a log burner are not going to leave it just sitting there whether it's cold or not. It used to be firewood was something you did if you had a bit of spare time but now you can make good money with it.

 

I suppose what puts a lot of people off is that you have to split and store the wood months before you get any income but I'd say if you're a tree surgeon bringing wood back to a yard you're mad not to start setting up selling wood in a small way.

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I tend to do the big builders type dumpy bay (0.9 cubic metre)

 

Thats a big bag most builders bags (IE the ones with sand in) are far far less & even the 80cm x 80cm x 80cm common sized ones are only 0.52 of a cube.

 

Oddly the batch I have are 85cm square internally so are 0.61 cubes.

 

Even a 90cm square one is only 0.7cm2

 

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Soft wood is great fire wood!, needs to be dry and burns a little faster than hard wood.

 

Yeah right on,i've got loads of customers that think hardwood is the be all and end all!These new stoves are so much more efficient an if there installed correctly,liner etc the softwood lasts alot longer than you would think.It's all we burn:001_cool:

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nowt wrong with softwood, i,v got some customers who specificly ask for it. Best firewood you can get is what you get for free, 2nd best is the driest!!!!!!! larch, cedar and pine are great to burn in a stove, spruce maybe not so good but does give off good heat. as timber prices rise....and they are reaching record levels, then choices will change, after all its all about money

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