Firewood

Firewood is sold by volume rather than weight because the best quality logs are dry and therefore lighter.

Logs will be cut to a nominal 10” length unless otherwise requested.

A “load” is about 150 cubic feet (a smidge over 4 cubic metres), part loads by negotiation.

We sell firewood as:

Logs – cut to carryable sizes, and delivered direct from a treework job. Cost varies depending on species. Please contact us for details of availability and prices.

Super Logs – cut to length and split. Please contact us for further details and prices.

Super Duper Logs –Super Duper Logs - cut to length, split and stored under cover with a through draught so they are ready to burn. Cost (in 2007) £165 + 5% VAT per load for local deliveries. For non-local deliveries, please contact us for a quotation.

Little Known Facts about Firewood

Green (ie. fresh) firewood will actually burn but so much energy is taken to evaporate the water that very little heat is produced to warm your house.
Green firewood burns at such a low temperature that much of the combustable (burnable) part does not burn but is deposited as tar in your chimney.
Years of burning green timber will put enough tar into the bricks and mortar of your chimney stack to produce a chimney fire that could cause structural damage to your house. (For this reason it is always wise to have a steel liner fitted in your chimney.
Dry firewood will produce far fewer jumping sparks than green firewood.
Ash, the “Queen of Firewoods” has such a low moisture content, even in a live tree, that it counts as dry firewood on the day it is felled. Even when very dry, ash still burns steadily for a long time with a small flame and lots of heat.

Stoves or Open Fire?

An open fire looks very attractive.
Burning firewood on an open fire produces a lot of heat – 75% of it goes up the chimney in flue gasses.
Burning firewood on an enclosed wood-burner or multi-fuel stove causes 75% of the heat to warm your house (only 25% up the chimney).
By controlling the air flow, a stove will allow your fuel to burn for much longer than on an open fire.
A good stove will allow the fire to stay in all night on wood alone – no coal necessary!
A good fire is better to watch than television.

Firewood Storage

Where most people go wrong in burning wood is in how they process and store it before it is burned.

There are “rules” about leaving certain species on the ground for 12 months before cutting and splitting; I am not aware of any benefit in any of these rules.
In our experience, firewood should be cut to length and split as soon as possible after felling
After splitting firewood should be stored under cover and with a through draught for at least a summer

Therefore:

Unless you are buying dry firewood, you need to have proper woodsheds with a roof and at least one open side (a tarpauline over a pile of logs on the ground will allow the wood to rot but not dry properly).
You should have at least two and preferably three compartments to your woodshed: 1) being filled 2) drying 3) in use.
If you only have enclosed storage space then you need to buy firewood that is already dry.

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