log_hauler

We have a 5Kw Charnwood stove in the lounge- this winter I dedcided to measure how much wood we were using. So I filled a builders bag with logs from the pile & when empty re-filled it. Since September we have used 6 builders bags of logs- so just about a builders bag a month. The fire runs 24/7 at this time of year.

Glad to hear you are (mainly) okay. Never forget your PPE peeps....don't become another statistic.

Grrrr wasps.....reminds of the time when I stepped on a rotten log and crashed through into a large wasp nest. A cloud of angry wasps flew up and began to attack me. I legged off across the field and the swarm followed me! The only way I got rid of them was by hanging my coat on a fence post- they carried on attacking that while I kept on running. Still got stung about in 10 places though!

Pitty I'm 200 miles away- I would have bought some off you. I'm guessing you'll have no trouble shifting it!!

Find a woodworking / turners forum and try to get rid of it on there?

I don't think it's a great idea. Fungus and wood boring insects will grow on those dead logs and will probably spead to the growing timber too. Bad managment if you ask me-keep the forest floor tidy.

Been very mild here in Powys-first frosts in what seems like months. I reckon we are due for some cold in Febuary....

Signed up and added my 2 penceworth- line will pass 1 mile from my old house- near the champion pear tree.

There's a serious point about improving how we manage our woodlands in there. How many unmanaged stands of badly neglected woodland do w all know?

Really just goes to show people prefer to burn different types of wood. Since we can't always all be burning seasoned oak/ash it's good to know what the good second choices are. I'll burn anything on my fires (haven't found anything that burn eventually!). The worst day we had though was when the missus fetched in a load of fresh cut Cedar from 'the wrong pile'. When I came home the fire was a pile of barely smouldering wet wood. I got a little pile of coal burning real hot underneath it though and the green wood burned eventually. I certainly wouldn't sell such green wood to anyone though- they would never come back.

Intresting thing is how much easier it is to drag those logs over snow. A technique I have used occasionally in snow is dump large logs on a sledge-a much easier way to shift them over a distance!

Never a truer word said. Got to be ripe for abuse by greedy developers this one.

Best (worst?) snow I've seen, the result of one nights snowfall in the Rockies. That's a Toyota Landcruiser under there!

Never sold any logs on E-bay, but I do admit to looking from time to time as occasionally you'll find punters selling entire trees and stuff they just want removed. Once got a nice couple of trailer loads of oak from a chap in Birmingham for not very much money.

How much is a box of 1000 suitable for a 4x4 MT tyre? I have a set General Grabber MT 33" tryes on my truck which are 'pre-drilled' so studs can be easily fitted.