[Closed] Got Wood! - but whassit worth?..

On a similar theme.. spent the whole of yesterday neatly stacking a similar amount of wood up in a nice pile.. only to wake up this morning and find it all mysteriously scattered about the garden again.. weird.

Heres a pic mid stacking..

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needs held at either end, no? posts or a wall. They won't stack unbraced as it were.

Anything from £50 to £100 per cubic metre, depending on the mix of species and how long it's been seasoned. Work it out from there.

needs held at either end, no? posts or a wall. They won't stack unbraced as it were.

There are poles at either end hammered into the ground and with rope bracing them too. You can just about make it out in the pics.

(thanks for the tip though 🙂 )

4' cord word is around £40 a ton.

Seasoned chopped and split wood is around £90 for a pickup bed full, which by my reckoning is somewhere in the order of 3/4 a ton.

Seasoned wood is approx 700Kg/m3 so a pallet @ 750mm high would be around 1/2 a ton or so.

So you might have around 4 tons if seasoned (<20%, pref <15% moisture) which would be about £500 worth.

Agg bags stuffed to the gills with oak timber off cuts went for around £50-65 at the local surveyor's auction a few weeks ago. An agg bag would probably be about 1/2 ton.

noob Q - how do you gauge moisture content?

ah, I see. thought that was just to keep it all level and neat, like 🙂

perhaps animals have disturbed it, I never got round stuff to stack very high; needed to be split and then you got the rough edges for it all to lock together. Wonder if a single pole would be sufficient anyway, could rotate around the pole possibly.

Just a little movement will pull the whole thing out, have had wood tumble down for no obvious reason after weeks, as it dries out I guess it changes.

If you split it before stacking it gives a chance to air and season a bit better too I'd say - and I believe it's (counter intuitive) easier to split when green than dried and locked solid.

cheap moisture meter from HK on eBay. <£10

very useful.

I like this page and link to it quite often

http://www.cosi.co.uk/HeatingAndChimneys/LOGSBioFuelPriceComparisons.html

To burn wood properly you should dry it to at least 25% moisture, preferably 20% but better still 10-15% to increase the efficiency and reduce pollution.

Wood at 15% moisture has 50% more energy than fresh cut logs.

moisture meter, purchased!

they are very useful things.
I have this one - cost me £11 I think
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/230788074852

They are just as accurate as the £200 pro ones in my experience. Have checked one with a commercial version and been +/- 1-2% and consistent as well.

Was just about to calculate this graph, but someone has already done it
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Lucky bugger ... wish I had a log burner ...

how much for 16-24 individual chunks of wood for me to use as part of the handmade/natural themed table decorations at our weddingy thing?

I always like a wood pile thread, there can never be too many of them.

The price is whatever you can get for it. If you could guarantee low moister content and you would be willing to deliver, and there is little competition in your area then you may get £90 per load.
If you really want to maximise profit from it, bag it up in nets and punt them to your local independent shop or petrol station in the winter.

Log burners are brilliant 😀 Got about 5'Dx12'Lx5'H of dry wood, and probably half that again outside, needs moving somewhere dry after a long dry spell outside, otherwise it'll never dry.

I always like a wood pile thread, there can never be too many of them.

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Riding through a local private wood at 1am, like yer do, I spotted a failed attempt at burning the off cuts from a load of stakes.
Back the next day to catch the forestry guys and they were mine for the taking.
Not the best firewood, but free and 5 miles from home, so it'll do. 😀

MTG Firewooding and Land Rovering in the same breath, that's what I call a day out!