I probably should just buy a bag a try them but does anyone know if they are hardwood? It doesn’t say on the bag.

They are probably silver birch and oak, we have bought a pallet of kiln-dried from a local supplier; they come from eastern Europe and smell gorgeous having been cooked in an oven. We pay £160 for a big pallet-load, looks about a cubic metre. Expensive but we ran out of seasoned wood.

Who cares your fire doesn’t.

Like wise Eastern European wood. What’s the carbon footprint on that ?

depends if you drop the ashes cleaning out the burner…

The Aldi stuff deffo isn’t birch hence my question. It looks decidedly larch like or some other form of soft wood. The logs from Home Bargains are birch from Latvia and burn hot and fast. I just need a few bags to see off the season. I did recently buy a tonne sack of kiln dried ash from a local company for £95, it’s good stuff. I really ought to get a chainsaw and start foraging the local woods.

No need to scavenge the woods, just work from home with the windows open and listen for chainsaws 😁

Got two car loads this week, had to give one load to a mate to keep the peace at home.

” I really ought to get a chainsaw and start foraging the local woods.”
or maybe not

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2004/mar/25/research.highereducation

https://treesforlife.org.uk/forest/dead-wood/

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/advice/gardening-for-wildlife/dead-wood-for-wildlife/

https://www.gamekeeperstrust.org.uk/media/uploads/cat-264/st-dead-wood.pdf

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature

http://theconversation.com/what-happens-to-the-natural-world-if-all-the-insects-disappear-111886

And yet it would still be ecologically better than importing from Eastern Europe….