Softwood vs hardwood

[bobh]

Both, x27 at home, hycrack at tigh-nan-alt and done a deal with tommy to use his splitter which makes sense as its right next to to stack

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Going trough some douglas ATM and it looks promising. A delight to split and got some samples in the house for speed drying and seems a bit weightier than the rest of our softwood.

 

DF & Larch my favourites. DF is a dream to dry and process. GF if you can get it is superb too.

 

Stove suppliers in my opinion are the ones who need educated as they are constantly telling customers to use only hardwood

 

Very true.

[arboriculturist]

Hope you're right bob, I've just had 25t of larch delivered, read somewhere it's the hardest of the softwoods but dries fairly quick. Will find out over the coming months I suppose.

 

Processed 50T Larch last year - fantastic when dry!

[brynseiri]

It certainly is easy to cut and handle, these trees have a lot of blisters (featicules?)full of sap on them, making them no good for the sawmills. It's all WW1 era planted, and quite huge. 'Twas cheap enough for me so I'll go back for a few loads and maybe sell some, see how it goes. It's all wind blow that I fetch. It certainly is a pleasure to extract and log them compared to the oaks on our farm.

 

 

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[slippymurphy]

Hardwood s aptly named, bloody hard to get in any worthwhile quantity.

I burn and sell dry softwood all the time and regulars come back for more.

Sure sell hardwood if you've got it if not sell the soft stuff

[Coolcutter]

Nothing wrong with soft wood on a stove with the door shut but make sure it's dry, got some larch on mine right now burns great.

[briquette_seller]

Hope you're right bob, I've just had 25t of larch delivered, read somewhere it's the hardest of the softwoods but dries fairly quick. Will find out over the coming months I suppose.

 

Larch is good stuff, when dry.

Very quick and easy to process.

I sell about 300 tonnes a season, and never have any complaints.

 

Cutting and splitting Pine is a dream, like a hot knife through butter, very heavy though, doesn't really dry in the round, needs to be cut and split before it drys.

Bought 150 tonnes of Pine 18 months ago, still as wet as the day it came through the door.

[brynseiri]

How long after splitting softwood would it take to dry under a Dutch barn as opposed to the 12 months at least for oak?

 

 

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[briquette_seller]

How long after splitting softwood would it take to dry under a Dutch barn as opposed to the 12 months at least for oak?

 

 

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I put everything in log boxes to dry, takes about 3 months this way.

Will take longer to dry and a heap, wouldn't take any longer than 6 months

[Peasgood]

Biggest issue is that it doesn't stay in as long as hardwood unless you have a very good stove that you can shut right down.

Next biggest issue is the sticky sap being brought in to the house. I weather mine for two years to get rid of the sticky stuff.

Best part is there is very little ash.

I like it and most of the firewood I use is softwood.