Teddy Leas

Yes, always split and measured from a fresh face. Luckily we have some dry birch and Sycamore to see us through this year, so hopefully the Ash will benefit from another 9 months of air drying (hope so, have 9 IBCs full of it)! I'm in the process of building a solar kiln (more for fun and an experiment, than anything else), so will give it a good roast in there in the spring and if it still doesn't burn well i'll be able to build lots of log piles for nature 😆

Thanks both - yes, I was expecting it to burn well this winter... In terms of storage, it's a mixture of a covered, but open sided wood store and IBCs (with lids on), so I think fairly good drying conditions. In terms of the moisture metre, I'm a Building Surveyor, so I double checked my firewood one using my calibrated work one, and it was within a couple of %.

Sorry for the thread bump, but just wondering how, longer term, people are finding burning logs from trees with ash dieback? We have had a number of large ash trees down over the last couple of years (due to proximity to road), all of which have had some ash dieback symptoms, but only really badly to the upper limbs, with the majority of the wood appearing reasonably healthy. However, even the stuff that was felled and split 12-18 months ago is proving slow to dry and even when less that 20% moisture content, not great to burn (it kinda burns like its still wet...). Just wondering what others experience is?

Thanks very much to all - will contact both tomorrow.

Can anyone recommend any alternatives to NFU for insurance (including road use) for a compact tractor? It's for domestic use only (i.e. maintaining our land), not commercial.