As title looking to buy some logs for my Dad's log burner, anyone know where i can get some from without taking an axe next time i ride 🙂
Where are you based?
Paisley?
Seasoned for 500 years apparantly
Look local I dont know try the yellow pages under say Logs? Wood? Tree surgeons...the last of these will know someone who does anyway.
Why would you want logs with salt and pepper on them?
I just buy mine from a nearby(ish) coal merchant.
Yellow pages sounds a good bet.
Yellow Pages or fleabay even. Check out local papers for adds. Be VERY fussy about quality. Your looking seasoned wood sub 20% moisture content so ask how long the wood has been lying and/or where it came from. Hardwood dries at about an inch per year as a guide.
Timber lorries generally do no take half loads of wood so you may even get lucky talking to the local forester - most times you will not be allowed to process wood with a chainsaw on private/state land.
Wood like ash and birch will burn fairly green but too much wet wood and you'll have a chimney of tar!
I'll sell you some homemade ones if you want, made with my own particular type of seasoning. The moisture content is probably about 70% though.
IGMC
your local log man . mine in leeds is a tree surgeon he sells 1 year seasoned logs for £45 for a builers bag full about 1 sq meter (i think). two bags cover us for the winter.he delivers to the pavement we then spend an hour filling our log shed.
higher moisture content is slightly less of a concern with enclosed log burning stoves but you still want fairly dry stuff or a mix.
You want to live near the New forest and own a Landy with a mate who has a chainsaw. Free fuel forever!
IGMC....
Local papers are your best bet there is no spare wood on the side of the road nowadays
But what I did was collect last summer chop / split and air ready for this winter
The Crown Estate used to sell them and delivered a trailer load.
Also would be worth asking the Countryside Service of your local Council. Mine used to sell them, they were ones that had fallen down/had to be chopped down throughout the Borough but they were not split. But they were very cheap!
Saladdodger got it right get it now and store it for next year (i know it's no good if you need it now) If your local council is like mine they use contractors for all tree works who keep then sell the wood.
Me!
Be very picky, lot of our customers have stories of blokes with tippers delivering logs so green the sap is still pumping. Our stuff spends 1-3 years stacked in length before spending at least 9 months split in an aired, but water tight shed - lovely, old fence posts do give the most rewarding roar though.
Which bit of the country are you in?
timber
Which bit of the country are you in?
They sound good, i am after a load, where are you ?
Hey timber, have you found increased demand over the past 12 - 18 months as more people are returning to open fires or installing woodburners due to the costs of central heating? This is the case round our way (Glos. / Hereford borders) and, as a result, seasoned hardwood stocks have been deplenished meaning more green wood being supplied.
Thanks for the tips and ideas guys. Managed to get sorted from somewhere online selling logs.
careful about 'borrowing' wood piles left by the side of the road. A mate got prosecuted for theft after taking some wood that he thought was dumped
Where online si_progressivebikes ?
Having our multifuel stove fitted on Monday.. so excited 🙂 Obviously will have to invest in a chainsaw too 🙂
Heh Timber
Where abouts in Wales are you?
cheers
Certainly more demand over the past couple of years. For us it is just a sideline using up the bendy bits that don't make it into timber sales or hedging stakes. Even been adverts in the trade for lorry loads of cord wood wanted. A lot of wood is also ending up chipped and sold into biomass systems which is dubiously a 'green' option. Last winter was the first the sheds were emptied, so we a built another one last winter. Someone even tried to steal some of our 4' dia. oak, think it killed their garden saw as they didn't get any.
If you can store 25 ton of cordwood/logs, timber prices are crap at the moment.
tankslapper - I'm based in the Brecon Beacons
Hi Timber
I'm up here in Welshpool - managed forests for years now in waste management, still 'dabble' tho'. Just been chosen by FC to become a Better Woodland for Wales Management Planner
Certainly an increasing demand for firewood! Peeps round here are selling dozens of log burners
You got anything in Oak 8" x 6" for a mantle piece?! Just thought I'd ask 😉
No,but I know a man. Search for Fraser and Small, Brecon - Martin there does most of our milling and buys a lot of our oak. Has his own kiln for drying too. Should find them through GLASU or small woods or something.
FC have just moved a lot to Welshpool or Ruthin I think. Got a whole valley in BWW at the moment, 11 miles of fencing! The online thing is a nightmare for us and our dial up connection.
Cheers Timber - I know GLASU well. Will look them up. Heard that about the BWW online forms. Can't believe Brecon is still on dial-up (but there again! 😆 )
Brecon is on broadband, but our yard down a dead end valley is that wee bit too far and the satellite link only works when its not raining, so thats not very often.
Or Coed Cymru, they're often at there stand at Royal Welsh.