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What logs for a log burner?

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Great! They arrive in a tipper pickup and just dump it out on the drive so its a workout to put it away but the wood burns well! I bought 1m3 last summer and we're about a third through it.


 
Posted : 10/09/2024 4:40 pm
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If you've got significant amounts of timber to split then hire in a splitter.

For small amounts I have a fiskars xl27, it's a weapon but I wouldn't contemplate using it for more than an hour

Grenades are rubbish. If the fiskars won't do it a grenade won't. I have a proper forged wedge that is handy and far superior, they are worth having although you rarely see them. You'll curse when it's balls deep and going nowhere though.

If you must split by hand, pick your battles. It's generally obvious what won't split so don't bother doing yourself in over it.

Firewood processing for yourself is a serious pastime. Start now for next winter.

if you must buy in don't trust anyone to deliver properly dried timber. I see several suppliers locally, none of them store logs in a way that will season well.

In short, hire a splitter


 
Posted : 10/09/2024 6:42 pm
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I get to move & stack them myself.

Honestly, this doesn't take as long as you might think. We get two builders dumpy bags of logs* delivered at a time (at £100 each FWIW, but we're up north), I always think "ugh, I've got to shift all that" but half an hour later, done.

*and I don't know what they are - they're wood, I store them under cover for at least a year so they're dry, I stack them next to the stove for a while so they're really dry, they burn.


 
Posted : 10/09/2024 9:28 pm
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Firewood processing for yourself is a serious pastime. Start now for next winter.

As they say over here, firewood warms you several times.

Felling, cutting, splitting, stacking, moving and burning...


 
Posted : 10/09/2024 9:55 pm
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this doesn’t take as long as you might think

They're dumping them on the road, but, my house isn't on the road and includes a short sharp stint up one of the steepest lanes across a garden and then down two set of steps, and I'm still producing a faint line on today's COVID test...

It'll be reet.


 
Posted : 10/09/2024 10:11 pm
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@qwerty with that description I don't think you'll find anyone that will deliver to your door.

As for everyone complaining about moving less than a cubic m (builders bags are .64 to .8 of a cube) I used to hand fill the trailer due to shed location and then hand unload due to it not tipping, could be moving 25+ cube some days.


 
Posted : 10/09/2024 10:45 pm
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When we have to - seasoned red gum. It’s super dense and burns cleanly for hours. I mix this with anything else I get free. In reality thou - there is no natural gas where we are and the air pollution on still winter nights bits unbelievable. One of our kids has asthma so we’ve increased our solar and battery storage and run the heat pump flat out. Massive difference in her condition as a result.


 
Posted : 10/09/2024 11:18 pm
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When we have to – seasoned red gum.

Probably tricky to get where the OP lives 😉

Likewise, mine is homegrown Blackbutt, Gympie Messmate, Tallowwood, Turpentine, Bloodwood. Biggest risk is that the termites eat it before I get to burning it!


 
Posted : 11/09/2024 12:49 am
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