what logs have you been chopping today!

[Bustergasket]

That’s a good temp out the kiln, are you running water to air heat exchangers ? Iam running one but it’s uninsulated, but in a building, and i fully exhaust the warm air as opposed to recirculating, would always like to get higher temps, good job you put that crate in [emoji106]

[richardwale]

Sorry am I right in thinking you re kilned imported kiln dried firewood?

[SbTVF]

That’s a good temp out the kiln, are you running water to air heat exchangers ? Iam running one but it’s uninsulated, but in a building, and i fully exhaust the warm air as opposed to recirculating, would always like to get higher temps, good job you put that crate in [emoji106]

Thanks! That sensor only goes to 70 so I’m assuming we get more like 72 at times!

Yeah it’s 90kw of water heat exchangers with 3 fans circulating it through a 10” sub floor or exhausting if the vents open. Gets to about max 60degrees if I vented constantly but that doesn’t do as good a job either imho end up with wet centres in bigger logs usually.

100mm of kingspan insulation all the way round. Probably going to add another 75mm to the ceiling when I get around to it before next season.

[SbTVF]

Sorry am I right in thinking you re kilned imported kiln dried firewood?

Yep and it’s a good job I did or I’d be getting complaints. I actually think it’s wetter than the 6 month seasoned I dried earlier in the year [emoji15]

Perhaps I dry my logs too much...?

[gdh]

Finally got on top of our oversized stuff today, that's the oak oak done, now just 100ton of massive poplar to go.

[Woodworks]

5 minutes ago, gdh said:

Finally got on top of our oversized stuff today, that's the oak oak done, now just 100ton of massive poplar to go.

My back hurts just looking at that oak. Slow going I guess

[gdh]

9 hours ago, Woodworks said:

My back hurts just looking at that oak. Slow going I guess

Yeah, not an easy day but satisfying. The splitting was alright, around 4 ton an hour, putting it through the processor is harder work, ideally I would have a longer splitter and load it all with forks but we usually leave it as billets and most of its two bent and knotty to make straight lengths anyway. 

[swinny]

Call it criminal but i’ve had and got lots of oversized arb ash and beech that gets sent off for biomass. 

 

Too busy contracting to do logs and it wouldnt pay to get someone to do it!

 

silly situation realy but it is what it is

[gdh]

2 hours ago, swinny said:

Call it criminal but i’ve had and got lots of oversized arb ash and beech that gets sent off for biomass. 

 

Too busy contracting to do logs and it wouldnt pay to get someone to do it!

 

silly situation realy but it is what it is

The problem (or good news depending on your point of view) with all the massive chippers about is that they can justify paying the same price on any diameter wood whereas firewood costs increase drastically when you have to split it down so it would be hard to justify not selling it for biomass to be honest. 

[scbk]

Big bits of elm today, and that time of year again, working in the dark

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 1, 2018 by scbk