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Anyone use a big clear tarp for the roof there wood pile/shed? My idea is to get one & make a semi sealed air space around the logs, so the logs heat up like in a polytunnel & season faster. Atm just have a black tarp. Tarpaflex Tarpaulins: Clear Mono Cover Tarpaulins from Tarpaflex UK - Tarpaflex UK Another idea more pricey was a shead with a Corrugated Clear Pvc roof & sides.

One problem is that you will get a dishonest who steals the logs without paying or robs the money box etc. Iv'e sold some stuff roadside & you get one now & then. Also how busy is the road & how weathly is the area as you need a good number of cars passing & better if their rich ones or they will sell really slow. There is a place down the road (on a main busy road) who only does log bags i & there money box is chained to something & has a narrow slit for the money.. I thing he does ok hes buyed in some softwood cord just to sell in the small net bags. I bought one bag just to see if it was seasoned & it wasn't, I reckon alot of the public is ignorant so maybe that doesn't matter if seasoned . There is alot of passing tourist trade who may the buy theese logs for the woodburner in there rented holiday cottages , I can't see many locals round here buying any wood that way. It was £3 for small onion type bag of softwood half the size of that bag in your picture.

Its not very hard to acess some is stacked is only a few meters from a carpark & there are serval tarmac paths thoughout the area. You could load a big trailer full in a few minutes. Can understand your points though I suppose...

Was walking round a local council ran woodland area were they must have have being thinning hardwood over several yrs & being leaving it. There must be say 50m3 thats just being freshly being felled & is being to rot & alot more volume that has being felled over that last few yrs & left. I can understand leaving some wood stacks for fungi/bugs etc but seems such a waste to leave it all. Alot of huge diameter long straight trunks etc just felled & not cut/moved. & the smaller diameter stuff has being moved stacked Suppose this happens all over the country. Council should sell some of it i reckon.

Not seen any oak or ash out round here on Anglesey, its being very wet windy & cold recently. I think ash is going to beat the oak though from looking & the buds so it looks like more of the current SOAK maybe

I was/im thinking about buying some also so have bookmarked a few links I found from around N.Wales. Corwen Forestry Forestry & Woodland Direct Clifford Jones Timber Group of Companies Red Rock Forestry Links I don't think wood can really season much in cords, it needs to be split & stacked to season...

How bout beech or hornbeam not evergreen but keep leaves on all winter, virtually till the new ones grow. I think a 2000 leylandi/laurel etc windbreak hedge would be a massive eyesore on the landscape

lol i'd take the lot if anyone EVER offered me that round here

Why would the biomass market ever fail in future? I can only see it getting more pricey. Euc has no dual use? Im no big euc fan or anything but from that study it seems impressive for biomass & profit is what will count in the end if they make a decision to plant rather than wildlife value same as conifer plantations?

I though 60kw sounded like a commercial scale & that it would qualify for non domestic RHI. System seems abit confusing goverment keeps delaying/ messing it up Go-live details | RH Incentive Non-domestic systems | RH Incentive I think someone on this forum siad they are going to get the non domestic RHI as they have a cottage seperate from there main dwelling so that makes it non domestic if the cottage is rented etc?

Yeah bit of an exaggeration Thats 5.5 yrs old from the link posted though, pretty amazing really

Will you get the RHI payment of 7.9p per KW I noticed the rate is for 15% of output time then in drops to 2.0p per kW So is must be possible to work out an approxiamate yrly cost or even profit say is you burn say 100m3 in one yr & you know how much the wood costs.. With this 25kw system they reckon uses 40m3 per yr so would a 60kw one need over 100m3? Sustainable heating using wood fuel at Coed Cae B&B, North Wales Thtas going to be one massive wood pile

If you were planting a new platation for firewood? It has about the highest btu of any wood & grows very fast... Downside is frost tolerance, oils maybe could tar up flue?,does it take very long time too season like other high btu woods i.e oak?, also not native so people are against it but neither are the softwoods and there accepted. Company thinks frost-resistant eucalyptus can thrive in southern Alabama | al.com Urm?! magic trees!

You could tip here for free if you like as anything over 2 inch I burn for firewood Trouble is im in north wales I also wanted to buy woodchip for a landscaping job but the cheapest place I could find was B&Q so didn't bother : I priced Bulk builders bags or loads woodchip & they cost more per ltr than B&Q!

Is a Bulk bag a 1m3 or a 0.512m3 builders one?

Hi looking for some seasoned firewood on or near Anglesey. Just bought some recently but got stung really as forgot the moisture meter & it turned out the "well seasoned stuff" was around 35% moisture content. After say 2 or 3m3 & can collect if its not too distant.

Were can you ones like theese in the UK Danbar Plastics - Forestry Products, Nursery Tree Tubes and Crates, Forestry Tubes and Crates Tall & narrow I can't find them

This is nothing I reckon but what will the price be like in a few yrs or from now @ the current rate of increases in oil price. Its only going one way could be transport will be a luxury for the rich again like when cars first came out maybe the rest will have to can walk to work pushing a handcart etc or horse and carriage resurgence for the slighty better off Also won't people start limiting work too closer to were they live or have to move to live next to there work. The term " to hell in a hardcart" might have some truth in it

Still looking everthing is a rip of round here. One place was advertizing bark turned out it was woodchip with green in it.

So place local is selling popular for £45 per 1m3

Trying to souce some for landscaping Local place is quoting £45 per 0.6m3 dumpy bag for bark & £60 for the same of wood chip :blushing I think they are trying to say dumpy builders bags are 1 ton or 1m3 but its not is it? Stuff I had before was free but its run out now Can anyone around Anglesey or Bangor sell a van load for say a fiver!? Can collect & load locally etc

pollard it

I've used cardboard with chipped leylandi on top, Cardboard alone blows away From reading an article someone posted up on here chip with green leaf is better than chip thats all wood as has a more balanced C:N ratio I got aldi to give me several van loads of cardboard for free, now just need to get hold of a load more chip.

Thats the good stuff as has a more balanced C:N ratio for mulching/composting. Less good for burning though I suppose

I'll take any chip for free chip & can collect van loads locally. I'm after mulch for round trees