[Closed] It's not too late in the year for one last log pile installment, is it?

Bah Humbug...

My store is empty and will be until 20th Jan when I get paid again, so just coal for us until then.

Just lit mine for the evening.

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Rioja, cheese and crap telly. Bring it on!

Happy New Year!

just bought myself a shiny new maul to tidy my woodpile up.

Am slowly making progress through the first Coup of Stoner's Coppice.
This is about 1/6 of what will come out of 1/6 of the whole coppice (coppicing in 6yr rotation. There's a pile at in the distance cant be seen very well). Wont be burning this for two years though.

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For next season I have this lot to split early next year:
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the wood store is about 1/3rd full now. This from warmer times 🙂
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I'm currently laying my last log of 2012 as I type, and quite a pile it is too. I think it's gonna be a double flusher.

Time for a hydraulic splitter Stoner?

the wood store is about 1/3rd full now.

Did you build it with partitions or do you just build the logs in yearly piles?

EDIT Oh there's a pic.

I just alternate sides. I might build an extension to the pile next year, probably just a 6' one, and maybe separate the 12' one into two bays.

With the poplar the idea is to split with one cleave anything over 3-4" in diameter, anything less, when dry, is fine on the furnace. There's nothing being felled over 6-7" so only the one cleave needed and no real need for a hydraulic one as poplar splits so easily with a dropped maul.

Oh, and HNY mcm!

What's the average install cost for these? Mrs Oath and I are looking at replacing one of our gas fires with a log burner at some point.

MC you must have enough wood now stored to see you warm for a fair few years. My five wood stores are looking a bit empty after helping out a flooded friend with a means of heating his property, found a bottle of Talisker On my doorstep yesterday with a thank you note so tonight I will have wood and Whisky to keep me warm.

Looking forward to another year of tree felling and chopping.

STW stovists have a warm and social new year 😉

What's the average install cost for these? Mrs Oath and I are looking at replacing one of our gas fires with a log burner at some point.

you won't get a lot of change out of £2k if done properly.

Allow £900-£1,300 depending on complexity of flue and/or building fabric changes (i.e. heat proof plasterboard, hearth etc) to cover flue pipes, register plates, mounting brackets, floor and ceiling boxes and storm collars & bends etc.

then add on the price of the stove - from £500 to £5,000.

Ski, I have a lot, but use a lot (a lot less with the new stoves). Whenever there's a space that's empty I'll try and replenish it. This stuff will take a couple of years to dry.

This was my first shed, I regret not building it with more open sides. It's really a long wide tunnel. The stuff in the middle is bone dry, but then it's been stored for five years. My new shed is narrower and open and accessible from both sides, so I could use and replace stock a bay at a time.

Stoner, my sister stays in France and nearly all their firewood is coppiced. Renewable with a capital R. I wish I had the space to grow and harvest my own timber. I used to cut pet when I stayed in Orkney, the rejuvenation cycle was much longer.

Show us the frame/trssle(?) things you lot use to hold wood for chainsawing please.

box - see those vertical scaffold poles in my 2nd pic?

they will take upto 20x 12' cords = 240 logs in about 20minutes loaded, cut and thrown in the store. Very efficient.

As you can see it's designed to take the cords I cut and store in the coppice - all in 12' lengths. Rule #1: keep wood as long as you can for as long as you can 🙂 makes it easier to manhandle and transport.

Another photo, in use with some junk cord my dad dropped round.
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I built this a few years ago to do long large cords and still use it occasionally
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Set of 'Log Splitters' the lot of you! (Jealous) 😥

Ah - I see it. No good for us plebby scavengers though......

Show us the frame/trssle(?) things you lot use to hold wood for chainsawing please.

Mine is just made from scrap 4x3s. Space the bearers to suit the firebox of your stove. If I was making another, I'd countersink the threaded rod nuts so I wouldn't catch the saw on them. It's only happened once or twice, but its avoidable by countersinking.

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the cantilever one is good for scavenged stuff as it will take wonky bits and you dont have to move it once its jammed in the jaws - you can work down it with the saw.

mc'two horses'moonter

Still reckon Stoner & McMooter should have a TV programme 😀

One man and his log?

They already have.

Little Chop of Horrors?
Beverly Hills Copse?

mc'two horses'moonter

I had enough scrap wood to build two, my two woodpiles are a bit apart, it saved me dragging one up and down the hill. Though they must ave been together when I took the picture.

I think they might be dating each other mcm.

that one's got wood....

Mines roaring like a good un.
And yesterday i built a wee log store to dry out all that apple wood that's not been under cover, ever!

I shan't be having a drink though as i seem to have been giving away all that whiskey i've got here. I've only got the 5 litres out of the 13 that were left by the previous apple man, and have homes for the rest to go to. So just a cuppa and an early night for me. I'm all peopled out and fancy solitude and quiet.

This is my log holder, just need to get the dimensions right so the last cut results in logs the right size.
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McMoonter - that's what me dad used to have. Stoner - the cantilever one looks ideal. Tool time tomorrow......
Richmars - yours, but with scaffold poles, I reckon. Got me some scrap sleepers from doing front garden. Now to appropriate a scaffold pole.
Is it wrong to fell genuinely excited at this??????????
I've got a bough....... (twiglet....)

boxelder, problem with scaffold poles is that I need to carry mine around, and if you hit a pole with a chain saw it may get messy.

Been burning some sycamore since about 11 this morning, it is like the bloody Sahara in here now. Sycamore was also 'liberated' from the local council wood. 😀

Best of luck for 2013 for all the STW wood burners, happy chopping!.

I forgot to mention McMoonter, I planted over 100 snowdrop bulbs last year, hoping to have a show soon. Won't of course be anything like yours 🙂

Amatuers...
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That is about 1/30th of the wood.
Most started as logs this size...
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Shame it is all for work as our landlord won't allow a woodburner to be fitted (yet has three himself 🙄 )
Oh, and this is how it starts...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/matt_outandabout/7177900694/

Who wants to know the whereabouts of ~12 tonnes of poplar? Can't see the EA doing anything with it, 6'dbh and 80' tall, responsible for flooding a chunk of the midlands.

Stupid logpile question: does it matter much if there's no roof? Haven't managed to organise a wood store yet (though this is on the cards for the New Year) so the woodpile is stacked against the fence...

Andy

does it matter much if there's no roof?

Not IME although it's worth trying to get them undercover for a week or so before burning them.

Mine seem to be going down at an alarming rate - luckily I've identified a load of fly tipped beech that needs 'tidying up'.

Not IME although it's worth trying to get them undercover for a week or so before burning them.

Thanks - that's what I'd assumed - the local wood yard just has a big pile out in the open; I also assume the most important thing is trying to get the bottom layer off the ground so air can circulate?

Mine seem to be going down at an alarming rate

Funny you should say that; we're going through what looked like a lot of wood (builder's bag) surprisingly fast too. May have to arrange a bigger delivery next time.

6'dbh

how bloody thick?!??! 😯

do you mean 6"DBH?

the most important thing is trying to get the bottom layer off the ground so air can circulate?

Stacking them on pallets works for me.

Timber - are you talking about some wood that wants salvaging? If so I am keen to know more!

I forgot to mention McMoonter, I planted over 100 snowdrop bulbs last year, hoping to have a show soon.

Bunnyhop, if you wait a couple of years you can split your 100 bulbs which will have mulitplied into 200 or more, it doesn't before they spread and look natural.

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Stoner - no mis-type, six foot dbh, took 2 big tractors with hydraulic winches to pull it out.
Apparently it took out a bridge on it's way down stream.

Jamest - you'd need some pretty big kit to salvage it. Most timber wagons would struggle to lift it.

'kin 'ell.

"We're going to need a bigger bar"

Edit - in Herefordshire is it?