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The bags may be a pain in the 4rse (or back) but they are great for customers that don't want a large quantity in one go. Ether because of lack of space or lack of money. I have found that I can sell more firewood as smaller loads than larger ones. But everyone is different. Horses for courses, whatever your market is.

I've got tons of ash logs and I'm going to keep hold of every one of them. In a couple of years ash will be so rare they will be worth a fortune. Like an expensive old classic car that only gets driven once a year, ash will become a classic firewood to be enjoyed only by the rich and famous. And I will become the official supplier to her majesty the queen and will be knighted for my services to the firewood industry.

Splitting a small amount of wood for your own consumption or as a small sideline to make a couple of quid - the axe wins every time. Splitting wood commercially as a full/part time business - the splitter wins every time.

No need to start a new thread - I explained it in my previous post. Another way of looking at it is this... Imagine our "1kg log" dries from 25% to 16% and loses 90g of water. If you replace that 90g of water with 90g of wood (at 16%mc) it now weighs 1kg and you would arrive at the figure of 15MJ per Kg.

Your calculations are based on water making up the whole weight of the log,when in reality 25% moisture content means that water only makes up 25% of the weight i.e. 250g 16% moisture content means water makes up 16% of the weight i.e. 160g This 90g is the weight that is lost through drying. The amount of wood remains the same but is now in a higher proportion to water. Which is why the log releases more energy per unit weight. To suggest that drier wood releases less energy when burned is nonsense.

Nice trailer. But delivering loose loads is so last year. I'm out.

I only sell mixed loads of hard and softwood. I have found it is the only way to get rid of the tons of conifer I have. Although sometimes reluctant at first, with a little educating and encouragement customers go for it and come back for more once they realise that dry conifer will burn better than damp hardwood which they many may have been used to. As mentioned many times on here many people have been told to avoid conifer but once they try a quality, seasoned product they are happy.

Has anyone been affected by the wind and rain? On the one hand i've got nowhere to work under cover so all the wood that needs cutting and splitting has not been done so am falling behind. and the wind blew of the roof of one of my log stores and about 20 cube that was drying nicely for the last 6 months is now soaking wet. (might not be a lot to some of you but is to me) But on the other hand, have picked up loads of "free" trees that have blown over. swings and roundabouts i suppose. anyone else got any weather related stories?

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As title. Can anyone supply and deliver?

Thanks for the replies. I understand the grinding effect of mud or moss but am I right thinking that would only happen over a period of time. It wouldn't blunt the chain the first time you did it.

Forgive me if this is a silly question, but it will settle an argument between me and my mate... does cutting trees which are covered in moss or mud blunt or damage a chainsaw chain?

Thanks. So far I have been using old candles. The problem is it takes a surprisingly large amount of wax and you would never be able to use all the shavings in this way. It's just something I've been playing around with in my spare time.