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Just a quick thanks for Tom - quick delivery and a good price, and firelighters that work well.

Get more drums?!

I'd have thought it would be better chipped in the woods. Then you can leave any rubbish there, and take a more efficient trailer load (fewer air gaps in chip than in logs, and only good chippings as the rubbish has been left behind) to the burner. Also, if they're going to store it for any length of time before burning I guess it would dry quicker in chip form than as whole logs? (As long as someone stirs the chip pile from time to time!) I should mention that I've never chipped any wood, so don't rely on anything I say here!

Cheers gents. Nothing there sounds too bad - and I wouldn't want to extract lots of timber or anything. (Just enough for a log burner or two). I'm happy to put in a few days of hard graft now and then (I'd enjoy it!) but I'd rather it was on my terms and at a time that suits me. Just got to find the money for a woodland now!

Lovely working environment. Beats being sat in front of a computer screen - at least until the rain starts!

Hi all Posted this elsewhere, but come to think of it, this may be a better place for it. Can anyone recommend a good tree identification app? (UK species). I'm not a professional arbist at all, and it would be nice to be more certain about which woods I'm putting in my log burner. At the moment, I've got an app from the FC which works quite well and was free , but it only covers about 25 species of tree. I've done a fair bit of googling but mainly come up with apps tailored to US species, so not ideal for me. Oh, and I'm on an Android OS. Can anyone recommend another good app (ideally free) to look at? Many thanks.

Hi all Like the title says - how much work really NEEDS to be done to keep on top of a small woodland? I'd like a small woodland (5- 10 acres maybe) one day, finances etc. permitting. And I'd like to be able to take a bit of firewood, do a bit of coppicing, make a glade or two, manage it for wildlife, a bit of camping, a bit of shooting and general enjoyment. What I don't want to do is to feel that I have to go there everyday (in the pouring rain) to weedkill, strim, clear, fell, prune etc. I assume that I can leave it wild-ish, and just do a bit every so often (once a month to once a week or so) and still have a pleasant, healthy woodland? (Depending of course on what it's like at the start!) I wouldn't be planning on doing any clear-felling, and would hopefully just get regrowth (on a small scale) from natural regeneration - so shouldn't need to do intensive felling, or large scale tree planting, weeding etc. Am I missing anything? I want it to be a pleasure to go there, not a chore / necessity all the time... Cheers.

Thanks, but that seems to be Apple only. Forgot to say, I'm Android, and try my best to avoid iTunes like the plague!

Hi all Not really sure if this is the right place, but I couldn't find a more appropriate forum. (And it is kind of firewood related!) Can anyone recommend a good tree identification app? (UK species). I'm not a professional arbist at all, and it would be nice to be more certain about which woods I'm putting in my log burner. At the moment, I've got an app from the FC which works quite well and was free , but it only covers about 25 species of tree. I've done a fair bit of googling but mainly come up with apps tailored to US species, so not ideal for me. Can anyone recommend another good app (ideally free) to look at? Many thanks.

Cheers gents. Nice old-school tractor, anyways...

Any progress here, Paul? Or any more pics? I'm pretty jealous...

Nice little tractor. Can I ask what it is?

Now that's a proper book. Thought the saltpetre was to blow it up for a second!

This is a good read: http://www.woodlands.co.uk/owning-a-wood/badgers-beeches-and-blisters/badgers-beeches-and-blisters.pdf A mere 144 pages, and lots of advice. And, it's free!

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

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!

I went to Treefest at Westonbirt last weekend - there were a few firewood suppliers there, plus lots of other stuff. Good day out!

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!

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?!

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!

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...?

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.

Neat and tidy job, but would it be strong enough? My sawhorse is metal and I only cut one log at a time anyway!