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Not live ammo but I've 'found' loads of barbed wire going through the middle of logs. Presumably the trees grew up into a fence. I'd rather not find this stuff with my chainsaw blade though!
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I have three stoves - a Charwood Country 4 (steel plate construction) , a Stovax Regency (cast iron) and some unknown (probably Chinese) cast iron. All work okay- the Charnwood is the most modern and efficient of the three. The cast iron Stovax is about 15 years old and now has 3 good cracks in it- so for longevity I might avoid cast iron- but then again a plate steel stove might burn through eventually? I don't fire up the unknown stove often enough to give it a fair lifetime testing. The best advice is to buy something semi-decent (preferably British), don't pay a fortune but don't expect it to last forever. That said with a decent British stove you should expect to able to obtain spares for them for many years. I recently got a new throat plate for our Stovax and it is a really old design. If you buy a £200 Chinese stove off E-bay I doubt if you'll be able to find the dealer again next year let alone spare door glass for it! Definatley spend the extra £300 and get an established brand.
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As said there's plenty of people out there with central heating and a woodburner that gets lit once a year at Christmas. The guy in the house across the valley from us runs his entire home energy from wood burning range (cooking, 12 rads + hot water). He reckons to get through around 15 tonnes of hardwood a year. He gets one big lorry load of unprocessed logs delivered each year which he rings and splits himself. I think his lorry load of uncut logs cost £700 this year- not bad for all the heating in a fairly large house.
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I sometimes aim a small electric fan at the side/back of the woodburner in our lounge. Circulates the hot around the ground floor a treat! PS the small stove in the lounge is a Charnwood Country 4, a quality UK made stove about £480 on E-bay Country 4 - Our smallest Antique Effect Wood Burning stove
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This is the one we don't use in the dining room This is the one we do use in the lounge- a nice big Stovax Regency
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Gloves are important when working with Blackthorn but don't forget your feet as well. I had a nasty thorn go right through the sole of my boot and into my foot arch recently. After that I consider buying builders boots if you're planning to walk anywhere near the cuttings!
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They also showed a lot of Larch felling close to us in the Hafren Forest. These trees were ready for being felled for timber anyway I thought?
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Anyone see the news this morning about the wave of tree diseases sweeping the UK?
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Nice one- needs the person to show the size of the stack- just hope it didn't collapse shortly after!
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Some of the stuff I seem to end up with is knotty 'knuckles', twisted stems, branch junctions & even roots! All of it can be a real pain to split so it often gets left on site. If you are buying to wood process into firewood logs then it should not contain too much gruff stuff. Once it is processed into firewood it should comand the same price I would have thought?
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A old tree from London could be hiding WW2 shrapnel..... Hidden Danger - sawblade damage | WoodlandsTV ...maybe best avoided?
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A couple of Warwickshire sunrises
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Put 2 litres of white spirit in a bucket, drop in an old dry log to soak it up (can then be bagged up and brought to site). Works (and smells) like a giant firelighter have used this technique on wet bonfires many times.
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Well said- just what I need, a bloody Centre Parc on my doorstep!
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I bought one of those Aldi £9.99 maul jobbies- seems okay but not as good as my Bahco one. Don't forget to get a sledge hammer to go with the maul. You'll need it to finish the job sometimes!! And maybe a good steel wedge or two for those really awkward barstewards.....
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That barn looks open & airy- ideal.
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Great photo, nice and seasonal ! Here's two more I took with an Autumal theme: Pumpkins at Hatton Country World Warwick: And Crab Apples floating in our pond:
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As above posters have said airflow is key. In my younger days I made the mistake of neatly stacking the logs from six newly felled larch in a shed. I shut the door to keep the rain out. When I went back inside 3 weeks later every log had a nice furry coating of white mould! An older (and wiser) aquaintence said I would have been better off just leaving the door wide open or stacking them outside. Wood dries slowly internally and the odd rainshower has little effect if sun and wind are allowed to act natutally on the log pile. Very wet wood- like my larch- is almost certainly best left in the open for 6-12 months and maybe moved under cover once its ready for final drying before sale/use.
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I dream of having a barn sized shed big enough to work inside. Always seems to be raining here........
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Good log store- very professional. I'm glad to see you've raised the firewood off the ground on slats- improves air circulation and keeps the bottom log layer off the damp ground.
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Which timber have you found best for kindling and why
log_hauler replied to gensetsteve's topic in Firewood forum
All splitting done by hand- not enough throughput to justify any machinery yet. -
If in doubt - don't bring it your house unless you are about to burn it. I don't think this is wood worm as they burrow deep into the hard wood. Peel back the bark and look for the galleries. I have seen these shothole beetles on newly felled ash this summer also.
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Which timber have you found best for kindling and why
log_hauler replied to gensetsteve's topic in Firewood forum
Any dry pine is good- lightweight and full of resin. We use sofwood offcut waste from the local joinery shop. It can burn too fast though. I've lit the kindling, gone and answered the phone or something, then come back to a dead fire before I could get the logs going!! -
Inspired by a recent post (not sure if this should be in the firewood forum?) post pictures of your log piles here. My 'dry' wood pile resides in our 12x8 greenhouse- nice & dry, sunshine keeps the wood drying and handy for the kitchen door too.
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Love the log store
