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  1. richardwale
    Packed into a crate or loose? Either way a rip off. Sorry to hear you've been stitched up. Bloody kiln dried....
  2. richardwale
    On the door handle latch it has a position to leave the door ajar when first lighting the fire. This is paramount to getting the larger Burley stoves going. Mine will never get going without this extra air coming in for the first 5-10 minutes. They also need very dry firewood to get the thing going but by god once they are you never look back. Try lighting it with the door on the latch, full bore and when it's going close the door but leave the bottom air vent leaver fully open for a while. Good luck
  3. richardwale
    Get the room seal kit ( vents from outside ) much more efficient
  4. richardwale
    We have the Wakerley, 12kw. Brilliant stove.
  5. richardwale
    Love it. Great idea, easy to put on a trailer as well
  6. richardwale
    Perfect, all done without a kiln
  7. richardwale
    I'm a recommended supplier on a few stove shops websites. The only way back from a bad experience with another supplier is word of mouth
  8. richardwale
    Buying my firewood would make them switch back
  9. richardwale
    👍 Great, how do you dry your firewood and what volume do you sell?
  10. richardwale
    Last year and this year 90% of my loads have been a mix of hard and soft. This year, only 2 customers have directly asked for only hardwood and will not be swayed to take any bone dry softwood, which is fine. I frequently get text messages saying how good the firewood is so ill continue to sell it. If customers ask what type of wood it is, I tell them straight, a bit of "selling" might be involved but they are certainly getting a quality product when the firewood turns up.
  11. richardwale
    I'd say the same. Buying firewood is a luxury these days
  12. richardwale
    Not you!
  13. richardwale
    Yup, agree completely.
  14. richardwale
    I have no problem with home produced kiln dried wood, arb waste fuelling the kiln etc etc etc, it's the fact that it's being sold as better than air dried that bothers me. It ain't. It's a sales pitch, and the customers are falling for it because they have absolutely no idea what it really means, moisture content, wood species, what's softwood, what's hardwood...density calorific value only burn hardwood, blah blah blah.... Come on, importing it is so not green and it's wrong in my opinion. I tell all my customers that it's really very very very simple...dry is all you need.
  15. richardwale
    So, are others perhaps over-invested? Tied into overheads? Reckon you've hit the nail on the head there
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  17. richardwale
    I also have no interest in spending this year splitting logs and stacking them and keeping them for 18 months. I don't have any interest in doing the same again next year and still not getting any money for what I did last year!! Getting paid in two years time for the work I do today is, in my opinion, a bloody bad hobby!! I'm not sure of any firewood supplier who would use that method!!
  18. richardwale
    Barrow bags are a good way of selling logs. I'm guessing you buy imported kiln dried and break it gown into smaller volumes?
  19. richardwale
    Yup. Even worse when it's imported.
  20. richardwale
    It's when it's imported that the carbon footprint becomes a joke. I'm with you, we won't have the heating on this winter, only for the water, and we feel good about being greener by burning wood.
  21. richardwale
    Cheers Al, will do. Likewise, if I can help just shout.
  22. richardwale
    That's fine but the point is my log is 16% already, sure it won't last like that for long now the weather is turning, but it's air dried, never been covered and that reading on the split face
  23. richardwale
    So if i put a kiln dried log at 16% and and air dried log at 16% outside tonight in my wood store, would the kiln dried take in less moisture?
  24. richardwale
    Then their £5 a day worse off...
  25. richardwale
    Container grown is the way to go, lifting root balls when they are still awake is suicide, mild winters the past few years and they still lift before any frost or dormant weather .

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