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basically the drying will be more even over the entire stack vs your heaped pile ass in a pile those not getting enough air wont dry as much as those near the top. for best drying on FRESHLY cut woods its seems the advice is to let it AIR dry outside for a few months after splitting and then a few months (think end august) bring inside for the burning season.

i was gunna say chippings.

HAD SOME STUDENTS IN ON A COURSE WHO WERE CROSS CUTTING - eeks caps oops... guidance was 9in ... they even had a nice guide stick to judge by - and weell i guess the guys were the ones over compensating - quite a few foot lengths - and the girsl ones were all shorter - but perfectly square.

sorry to derail a bit but as a novice when it comes to the work your doing there - the AA t+C's where would i find them?

dear lord the ivy - even on a straight fell it adds 30+ mins to the job...

its a 4 bladed pair of wheels that spin in counter rotation think big chipper. and i want one... all those 3in branches just begging to bed turned into smaller logs but are just too much ball ache to do another way.

yes i concur with you there egg. and i fully agree bar raised land why would anyone be daft enough to build domestic housing on a flood plain is beyond me - take Ruthin last year as an example - the dosey residents were up in arms - yet they paid lower prices for a poorly;y placed house which all the locals still wont touch as its smack bang in the middle of the flood plain.

should do a local calender shots of him - sell them to the bored housewives - at £10 er a pop should make for some drinking funds for your crew.

Egg - i believe you may have missed the point somewhat we are not saying it would have stopped the flooding - we are however saying that HAD the dredging and ditch clearance happened that the flooding would have been far less of an issue - prior to Christmas there was flooding - this minimal flooding would have very likely not happened had the maintenance occurred, the water would have moved off the levels at a faster rate. - and thus the current flooding which all of the recent rainfall has compounded on top of the pre-Christmas lot would be a fair amount lower in height - and we would'nt see so many farms land and houses being innundated. as an aside - a farmer who re-instated a ditch running along side a 500 year old woodland track was fined for clearing said ditch - that's when the EA has gone nuts - its akin to the binmen when they go on strike - the rubbish builds up and gets in the way and causes issues. clear it on a schedule and all works well. (ok not the greatest example)

depends on the type and when felled to some degree but most seem to work on 2/3 CUBIC meters of logs per ton =- an average builders bag ranges just above 1/2 cube. correct me if i am in error - those of a more learned persuasion.

as long as you run you woods with extras (camping/wildlife/archery/paintball/etc) alongside but then wood is the 2nd venture.

plenty of places around shrews/north wales for you chill.

personally after doing the house measuring ive been doing all mine 9in with some 12 inches on special woods and then for the wood burner some 18in soft.

as much as the diet coke moments go by the sounds of it you guys are more like the fray bentos adverts.

yeah where from and to.

Arthur - i know that bridge well - i remember mwrog (sp?) street flooding too - duh actaully has a stream running down the center in a pipe now. they've done alot of work on the banks up at ours in LL D.C yeah its very heart wrenching to watch especially the farming aspect - it always seems to me that the good councils in upland areas do their part aswell as the local land owners - then somewhere in the middle it all goes up the creek and the man at the bottom gets the **** storm.

exactly like open said ... wood by ton really comes down to 2 things Type - Oak, Ash, Pine, etc. Age - Fresh cut, Down for a few weeks, etc. part of tree comes into it for end product - branches will obv have more bark than step bits and again with the stacking side. a cord of logs stacked takes up more room than a cord of rounds - but a ton of wood is vastly different when wet and green and dry and fully seasoned. even up to a whole cord when you start talking larger amounts.

owners lawnmower silly^^

run a lawn mower over lawn 2 days prior - no dog poo and then keep dogs off it/pooper scoopered.

why thank you - twas an inspired guess - mainly due to lifting rounds all day and manually splitting them -- I shall treasure the prize you have given me and put it up on the shelf as for the loaded lorry - i predict a 12.3 t

scot - if you have your tickets - tis worth checking out any local estates - as 9/10 times they have some small coops that need thinning and are more hassle than they are worth when it comes to paying a regular contractor to do it - worht asking and then they get the job done and you get the wood. a 75 -25 split is a good one assuming you split all the logs - and 60-40 if you do not.

478kg as a stab

surely as cut/split/stacked you would be more lighter,greying and with slight cracks... rather than green ;P

very tidy job 0- what did you line the bottoms with ? gravel and/or pallets?

Talking creosote - been reading alot on american firewood forums - and they claim that air dried pine cut split and stacked for 2+years hardly gives any creosote - which is good to know and really kicks the teeth of the DO NOT BURN SOFTWOOD mentality which we have been fed with. to OP - cut and restack in a dry location - if its staying in the barn rig up som tarps above with plenty of air gaps above the stacks AND slant it tent style off the sides as they will sweat some whilst drying off.