Gav73

Agreed, people don’t appreciate that’s it need some assistance from the, so called, less desirable woods to get going

ALL of my firewood comes from arb waste. I have 5 local tree surgeons who drop it off for me on a regular basis. I think it helps that I will take any chip that’s on the van as well so they can just tip the lot out which is quicker for them and I don’t mind what wood I get. Being flexible with what I take has definitely helped because the local tree surgeons have appreciated it and always contact me when they have some of the “good” stuff

I’ve used rotatech chains for a while, only issue I’ve had was one where a tooth was on back to front - I just filed it down. Yes there has been a bit of stretch, but I would say no more than any other chain. I’ve not had any issues in sharpening them. I’ll continue to buy them

We get a lot of rain, but I leave my stacks uncovered when I know there’s not going to be rain and throw a tarp over the top when rain is forecast. My tarps have cord all the way round and I use several 6” offcuts of fence posts with hooks in them to hang on the cord to hold the tarp down. I find this method works well with getting the airflow through as the tarps act a bit like a parachute in the wind, but don’t come off

Would these smell of cheese on toast after you wear them? Or would your feet smell of fresh shot baked bread?

You missed - plastic free, so good for the planet

Interesting reading. Supply and demand will have an impact on the price. The big suppliers in my area are all roughly the same price for a .9 cube builders bag at £125 for kiln dried mixed hardwoods. And the prices go up if you want something more exotic like oak. I’m lucky that I don’t buy any logs as I process all my own from arb waste, but I know that there’s a waiting list for deliveries so someone is buying them at that price!

Is there anyone on here supplying kindling? Central Scotland area?

Maybe it’s like the US gallon to imperial gallon? 🤷

If it was close to me it’s go and ask for a fiver….to cover the fuel for wasting my time [emoji23]

I was actually given one of these by a friend who found it in a house clearance. It took a lot of tweaking to get it idling correctly, once that was sorted it ran well - BUT and it’s a big BUT, the fumes off it were horrible, the chain tensioner was held by plastic and would break pretty quickly, filling it was a nightmare with the handle in the way, the exhaust would have burnt toast at ten yards and it wasn’t very comfortable to hold

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I sell quite a bit of lime as outdoor burning wood for campfires and fire pits. Everyone seems to like it and comes back for more - I like it because it’s easy to split and dries nice and quickly

Personally I only use the vertical if I can’t lift the round up and onto the splitter and that doesn’t happen that often to me. That being said, it has been very useful to split some massive rounds

If you want to have a chat about the pros and cons of the 1m length compared to the 22 ton venom, just send me a message [emoji1303]

I had a look at the mignon range, after I searched and found the website for Davies Implements - adding a picture and not a link seemed a bit strange. I did a comparison between the Thor trailed Petrol multiuse log splitter and my Rock 22, there’s a huge difference. Lots of fiddling about with settings, moving parts etc on the Thor and a huge deficit of 5 tons of force as well as the diameter restrictions. The Rock splitter is just fired up and ready to go. Do you know if they are still supplying splitters as the link to the price list was dated 2019 and doesn’t work anymore?

I started off on an electric splitter. It was good, but I did find it a little slow and limiting for the arb waste I get - the lack of power was the biggest issue. Fine if the grain was straight, but any knotty stuff slowed me right down, with arb waste you can’t be picky - and knotty stuff makes damn good firewood! To put it into context, I can do at least a cube an hour with my current splitter and nothing stops it.

Just to throw my thoughts in here. I saw the comment about selling the same log splitters as Rock and I thought I would have a look as it’s always good to have more than one option when it comes to spares etc. I had a look at the link thinking it would show me log splitters, but there are no splitters only professors. Even the video clip of the processor doesn’t show it working, just running. Basically I expected one thing and what I saw didn’t meet my expectations. Now this isn’t a dig at you in the slightest, but for the OP who is looking for a log splitter and suggestions/advice, getting a link to expensive processors wasn’t what the thread was about. Can we get the thread back on track and help the OP?

Because my firewood is from arb waste, it tends to be lengths that can be handballed by the guys taking the trees down. My stove also takes a 2’ log - which happens to be the distance to the first bolt on the splitter table, so anything up to that bolt goes in one pile for my stove and anything larger goes into another pile. I then stack the two piles separately, anything oversize is easier and quicker to stack than the smaller bits and once’s it’s seasoned I just load a bunch onto a bulk saw horse and cut them to the lengths I want.

I have two rock venom splitters - the 20m which will split anything up to a metre in length. It’s actually easier to split longer lengths and then cut the split pieces to the length you want. It goes vertically and horizontally so no piece of wood is too much for it. I’ve split dry beech over a metre in diameter on it without any issues. It’s a big piece of kit at over 3 metres long though. My second one is the 22 ton road towable one. I bought this second hand (it was too good a deal to turn down). I would say this is probably the better of the two for everyday work. What you should get depends on what source of wood you have. I get all mine from arb waste, so there’s a mix of sizes, all the gnarly bits too. But I would recommend the towable 22 ton as a good general splitter that will cope with anything thrown at it. The four way splitting wedge is only good for straight grain and then only freshly felled stuff - if you try splitting something that’s been laid around for a while expect some of it to shoot off. I’ve used a dual way splitter and to be honest I wasn’t that impressed - as someone said earlier you need two people to reap the benefits.

Fair comment!

Move the splitter to the logs? 🤷

I was about to ask the same thing! Also looking at the pieces you’ve split and stacked in the picture - I would suggest you do some a little bit smaller too. I was once told 12 months per inch thickness to season. It’s not going to be the case on all firewood as species, air flow, sun and weather will all play a part, but as this is your first self sufficient load it’s worth splitting some smaller to make sure you’re not caught out come winter with the firewood not being seasoned

Chow mein

Where do people get rid of old fuel? Ethically and environmentally speaking I’ve not found anywhere local to me that will take it!