Although apparently some yukky chemicals maybe...
The ones with HT branded on one of the blocks are OK. They are heat treated to remove the nasties rather than covered in chemicals.
Great for kindling.
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Log burner advice..........thank you
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Posted 7 months ago #
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interesting geoff, thanks for that.. yup the slats are great for kindling... the blocks burn really well for longer stuff...
Will check out the ones we have here and see what i'm taking home today as i need to knock up some kindling actually.
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how do you do that? Can you go direct to the loggers?
Yup. A standard load is 25 tonnes, usually in 2.4m lengths. Expect to pay about £50 a tonne delivered for hardwood and a bit less for softwood.Then you can get one of these
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdXzaGFkWfUor this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1HZztie5ac
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how do you do that? Can you go direct to the loggers?
There's usually someone offering full lorries of wood for delivery on Arbtalk, I think it's about 20 tonnes so you need space to put it.Posted 7 months ago # -
Rather than pellets on the stove you can burn brickettes this is a good price delivered Verdo briquettes.
I've just got a ton of them and you can snap them really easily if you want.
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Arbtalk eh?
I could easily take delivery of, store and dry 25tonnes....
cant see youtoob vids here, will catch them later though.
Posted 7 months ago # -
how do you do that? Can you go direct to the loggers?
Or direct to the landowner Stoner?
That's what I do, I offer to cut up any wood they want down for free, in return for a split of the wood.
Logged 3 huge Ash Trees on an island yesterday with a mate, still got another 40 to 50 to go!
Stoner were you the guy on here planning to farm Willow, if so I would like to know more about that if you have time?
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Yup. A standard load is 25 tonnes, usually in 2.4m lengths
Ahhh, OK 25 tonnes. Still tempted. Plus I've got mates nearby with stoves and we could split it between us.Posted 7 months ago # -
ski - yep, Im due to plant some short rotation coppicing next month.
Im getting the willow whips from a guy in Hartpury, Glos. I went to visit him the other day to talk over varieties and harvesting techniques. Ive plumped for a bout 500 whips 50:50 Viminalis and Q83 hybrid.
The viminalis grows as a fairly straight pole with little side-branching. Should yield a 2.4m cord of about 3" diameter every 4-5 years (and obviously once the stool has developed maybe 4 or 5 cords per plant) The Q83 he showed me seemed to mass up even faster, into 3" over about 4yrs, but wasnt quite so straight.
Its not going to do much more than about a quarter to a third of my annual use, but it provides a bit of screening and will be interesting to see develop. I might yield about £100 worth of wood a year after the initial 3-4 years.
Planted at 1m grid, Im only using a 15m x 30m section of the field, with another 2m x 30m section on the other fence line.
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Arbtalk eh?
Think of it like a low(er) rent version of this place.
The spelling and punctuation is enough to have you shouting at the computer.
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To the person who wants to paint the area around the stove a light colour - think carefully. Ours is a pale biscuit colour (ooh get me with my interior design skills) and it shows up all the dirt from the logs, stove and bits of ash etc.
I'd stick with natural brick or if painted choose a darker colour.Posted 7 months ago #
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