Log Goblins

[blaggy111]

Wish this was happening round my way I'd be there every day, running my fire through winter can be a problem. Stone house with solid walls, the fire won't go out for 3 months, get through a builders bag a week so any free logs helps keep my costs down, I can get a bag of silver birch for 40 quid, but £40/week is a lot for me. Even timber you see as low quality can be chopped, stacked and dried to make acceptable firewood.

[njmusk]

Wish this was happening round my way I'd be there every day, running my fire through winter can be a problem. Stone house with solid walls, the fire won't go out for 3 months, get through a builders bag a week so any free logs helps keep my costs down, I can get a bag of silver birch for 40 quid, but £40/week is a lot for me. Even timber you see as low quality can be chopped, stacked and dried to make acceptable firewood.

 

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[renewablejohn]

Wish this was happening round my way I'd be there every day, running my fire through winter can be a problem. Stone house with solid walls, the fire won't go out for 3 months, get through a builders bag a week so any free logs helps keep my costs down, I can get a bag of silver birch for 40 quid, but £40/week is a lot for me. Even timber you see as low quality can be chopped, stacked and dried to make acceptable firewood.

 

Sounds like you need some serious insulation. I live in a big old stone farmhouse with 2ft thick stone walls and would struggle to use a builders bag per month and thats including cooking as well as central heating,.

[blaggy111]

Yes you're right there. We're renting the place, single glaze windows no wall insulation, if I keep fire in it stays warm but at a cost, but its on a private country estate, very quiet/peaceful wouldn't want to move.

[aspenarb]

Wish this was happening round my way I'd be there every day, running my fire through winter can be a problem. Stone house with solid walls, the fire won't go out for 3 months, get through a builders bag a week so any free logs helps keep my costs down, I can get a bag of silver birch for 40 quid, but £40/week is a lot for me. Even timber you see as low quality can be chopped, stacked and dried to make acceptable firewood.

 

Blaggy there must be a tree surgeon/forester near you. Just touch base with them and work out a deal. That last lot was gone before I locked up last night

 

 

Bob

[blaggy111]

I have asked about, area I'm in there's a lot of people on solid fuel so most guys I've spoke to either log it up or have their regulars who take the rougher stuff off their hands.

[Two Acres]

Wish this was happening round my way I'd be there every day, running my fire through winter can be a problem. Stone house with solid walls, the fire won't go out for 3 months, get through a builders bag a week so any free logs helps keep my costs down, I can get a bag of silver birch for 40 quid, but £40/week is a lot for me. Even timber you see as low quality can be chopped, stacked and dried to make acceptable firewood.

 

I wish this was happening round my way too - anyone in Mid-Norfolk that wants to get rid of wood just let me know:thumbup:

[Logdaft]

I wish this was happening round my way too - anyone in Mid-Norfolk that wants to get rid of wood just let me know:thumbup:

 

What he said ^^^^ anything in the Elgin & Inverness areas or in between, willing to work for it.

[Adamam]

I wish this was happening round my way too

 

Me three!

 

 

Got in touch with the local tree surgeon when I moved here a couple of years ago AND OFFERED MONEY for waste that I could buck, split and season (since the local log people I've used are poor IMO) and nothing ever came of it.

 

Oh well.

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Moral of the story, the Home Counties are very affluent, nobody will pay for waste wood.

I've got tonnes of conifer, willow etc in my field,we live in an area where sweet chestnut grows as coppice like wheat (SW France) Farmers sell it in the winter as a cash sideline.

I'd either have to pay to get rid of my softwood or I'll put a match to it one day.