sandspider
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I'm in this area too. I know that Tyntesfield had a green woodwork course on recently. Maybe not quite what you're after, but in the right area anyway! Also, this cooperative might be worth a look: Forest of Avon Wood Products | Forest of Avon - Wood Products
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value of 9 acre woodland
sandspider replied to David Riding's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I've been looking at woodland in this area, and that would be pretty cheap! (Depending on species, age etc.) -
Do you mean 48 packs (i.e. 1152 lighters!) for £8 posted?! Or do you mean 48 lighters for £8 posted?! If it's the former, I'll take 48 packs!
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I went to Treefest at Westonbirt last weekend - there were a few firewood suppliers there, plus lots of other stuff. Good day out!
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Yeah, it's for my log burner only. As long as they've still got enough dry mass when they go in the stove - I won't dry them till next year then!
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Cheers all. The mould is blueish / blackish, in small circles. The wood isn't in the shed, it's leaning against it (under an overhanging roof) as I thought that would be better for air movement. (I did wonder if moving it into the shed would be better, but it seems like that wouldn't help). And I live in a fairly windy valley, so I think there's plenty of air movement - the wood is off the ground on pallets, in two rows with an air gap between them and a gap behind so the logs don't lean on the shed directly. Oddly enough, I had a load of sycamore in the same place last year and no mould at all. (And that was a wetter colder year) Bugger. Oh well, I suppose if I burn them this year it won't have time to get too much worse... Serendipity - when you say the issue will resolve itself do you mean the mould will go away? Or stop getting worse? Or I just won't see it once they're in the stove?!
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Looks good, holds a fair bit. You clearly process more wood than I do! Maybe I should start cutting my logs more than one at a time!
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I could possibly make space and move them into the shed, but if they're already mouldy I assume they'll get worse without air flow...?
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Hi all I've got some silver birch logs chopped to length, split and stacked outside to dry. They're under a projecting shed roof, so dry at the back and from directly above, but open to the elements a bit from either side and open at the front. They were cut early this year and have been drying ever since. However, I noticed some spots of mould forming, on the exposed ends (which get dripped on / blowing rain occasionally) but also on the inner ends and a bit of the top surfaces. Considering the weather has been fairly dry, I wasn't expecting this - is there anything I can do about it? Tarpaulins or similar? Though I guess that would probably make them worse by sealing the moisture in and stopping the breeze getting through... Burn them sooner?! Don't want to get serious mould in all of them when the weather gets wetter... Cheers.
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Neat and tidy job, but would it be strong enough? My sawhorse is metal and I only cut one log at a time anyway!
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Cheers. There's a lot of stuff I want to read, shame work gets in the way!
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Not gone through the whole topic so this might have been mentioned before - but did people see Ben Law's wooden house build on Grand Designs? That looked damn good, and all from his own wood. Proper electricity and toilets would be a bonus though.
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Hi all Newbie here from the Bristol region. Not a professional in any wood related way, but I have a wood burning stove and a chainsaw and like to process my own firewood. (Cheap, fun and satisfying) Eventually I'd like to get a bit of woodland of my own for shooting, firewood, camping, fires, carving etc. but woodland is pricey round here. Maybe one day... In the meantime, this looks a good forum to scratch my wood itch. (That sounds dodge, but you know what I mean!) Cheers.
