Wood burners

[Agentgonzo]

A box of hard wood has gone up to 420 now. I took a pic October time last year. I’d get through one of these in under 2 months easy.

Thankfully I’ve got good stocks an a few trees to come down.

Wowzers... a bag of logs that size used to cost £90 down here (edge of the New Forest). I just checked their website and it still says £90, but I suspect it's out of date given it says contacts us now for delivery by Christmas.

 

[Leon103]

A box of hard wood has gone up to 420 now. I took a pic October time last year. I’d get through one of these in under 2 months easy.

Thankfully I’ve got good stocks an a few trees to come down.

How much wood is that? Guess you are paying for it being nicely stacked

 

[Agentgonzo]

How much wood is that? Guess you are paying for it being nicely stacked

I suppose you get a lot more neatly stacked in that volume rather than just chucked in a industrial bag like we get.

 

[Leon103]

I suppose you get a lot more neatly stacked in that volume rather than just chucked in a industrial bag like we get.

They look small pieces to me, get through them quickly. The price I paid recently went up by £5. Now paying £55 for a van load of hardwood of my choice and £45 for softwood.

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

They look small pieces to me, get through them quickly. The price I paid recently went up by £5. Now paying £55 for a van load of hardwood of my choice and £45 for softwood.

Is where you go national, because my wood supplier has stopped trading and I'm looking for a new one.

 

[Leon103]

Is where you go national, because my wood supplier has stopped trading and I'm looking for a new one.

No. Never heard of a national unless you are buying lorry loads of unchopped wood. And then I don't know of national providers

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

ah well, worth asking.

 

[Clint]

Is where you go national, because my wood supplier has stopped trading and I'm looking for a new one.

Look on your local FB marketplace..there will be a supplier on there..probably.

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

Will do Clint.

 

[Clint]

My big apple tree has just had its winter prune. Lots of the long thin water shoots needed removing and a few crossed over branches,nothing too severe.
I've chopped the lot into "log size" pieces ,netted it up and put it in the green house to dry out for next winters kindling.

 

[Druncan]

We have just been hauling in our summer stashes of flotsam. Thankfully well hidden from the tourists. The good thing is most of the Toledo worms have dried out. Still not something you want to keep in the room,,,, definite whiff of rotten fish but, burns well and it's free

 

[Clint]

From the apple tree I've filled five of the large nets my kindling comes in with at least two bags worth left.

 

[Leon103]

My big apple tree has just had its winter prune. Lots of the long thin water shoots needed removing and a few crossed over branches,nothing too severe.
I've chopped the lot into "log size" pieces ,netted it up and put it in the green house to dry out for next winters kindling.

Funny enough I started the annual pruning of trees yesterday. Still a few days work left though. Will then cut the beat bits for kindling and have a bonfire for the rest.

 

[Clint]

Supplies for next winter...a friend who is a gardener dropped this lot yesterday. Some of it was about a foot thick! I've smashed it all up with hammer and wedges and put what I could through the kindling smasher. I think it's cherry wood...most importantly..it is free wood!

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Wood burners in the news again it seems they are being blamed for lung damage my question is can you burn smokeless coal as surely they cannot ban them if you use this fuel.

 

[Clint]

They're not being banned. Any new installations after a week last Monday have to meet DEFRA emissions of under 3g of smoke per hour.

 

[Cwrw666]

The EU changed its requirements for woodburners to have an afterburner capacity so that smoke gets a second burning before it leaves the woodburner. We get the same woodburners as they do. Side effect is so much more heat from your woodburner for the same amount of fuel.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Nicky Campbell on 5 live had a phone in today about wood burners worth a listen to the podcast if you are considering getting one.

A guy phones in and said -

The Stove industry alliance which represents 80% of the UK stove market have pointed to open fires as causing the problems but the fact is wood burning stoves cause 3/4 of all PM2.5 emissions (cars only 10%) i assume because you haven't been able to burn coal on open fires for a while so we are all burning smokeless fuel.

He also gave figures stating in April to June 2022 35,000 wood burners were sold this jumped to 57,000 in June/July of the same year.

 

[Clint]

It's people who haven't got one being jealous...that's what it is..nothing more. Wood burners are great. Ask my cat. I'm off to play with my chopper...

 

[Sandimas]

Love my woodburner too. Just chopped down 16 trees so that's the fuel for next winter, or the one after. Often go foraging up the local green lane, wind brings down dead trees which go into my woodstore.

Plenty of smoke sources other than woodburners e.g. bonfires, lit one recently than burned for 4 days.