What are you charging for your logs this season

[Stefan Palokangas]

120 for a builders bag

 

 

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[Woodworks]

What surprises me when someone says only burn hardwood and talk down softwood. What do the Scandinavians burn mostly ... softwood as they are drowning in the stuff. Apparently it's the same in Scotland; way more softwood than hardwood trees apparently. A few million Scandinavians that have been log burning far longer than us can't be wrong.

 

Don't think anyone is saying burning softwood is wrong just that you wont get as much heat out of dry softwood as you will dry hardwood. I can see it that if sellers take shortcuts in the drying, softwood may look better as it dries so quickly. So hardwood at say 30% V soft at 20% might be pretty similar energy outputs.

[Silverhooker]

I mostly burn Larch and pine, and the odd bit of sycamore and they all burn fine if seasoned .

[Joy Yeomans]

Speaking to the guys from AMR at the fuelwood open day we are so behind Europe with our logs burner technology. Small logs and hardly any softwood used.

[owen]

Selling logs already. £35 for a pick up load of green un split hard wood logs.

 

 

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[richardwale]

Speaking to the guys from AMR at the fuelwood open day we are so behind Europe with our logs burner technology. Small logs and hardly any softwood used.

 

 

Curious to know why we are so far behind in log burner technology? Thought all the state of the art secondary burn super duper high efficiency stoves were all developed in Europe?

 

Seems that it's a case of " can't use softwood" yet again

[Joy Yeomans]

Because we only mostly use small logs burners as a secondary heat source to gas oil or electric central heating instead of using the wood burner to heat whole of house and use larger logs minimum 12". Easier to stack cut and more efficient to use

[csservices]

Nothing wrong with softwood too much snobbery where wood burning is concerned

 

 

I'll hold my hand up to that one, up until couple years ago all soft wood went on the bonfire or for firesticks if was clean straight easy splitting, last two years I've burnt mostly lleylandii at home with the odd lump of over sized or ugly hardwood that hasn't gone in the selling pile, burns really clean, only empty ash pan once a fortnight 👍

[Alycidon]

Speaking to the guys from AMR at the fuelwood open day we are so behind Europe with our logs burner technology. Small logs and hardly any softwood used.

 

Small logs is VERY important, 100mm average diameter max for optimum results.

 

6 way splits on big diameter logs is not good news heat performance wise.

 

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[Joy Yeomans]

Sorry alycidon I meant smaller log length. More optimum size being length wise is easier and cheaper to process 12" min length