Firewood

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Mike

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Following on from the Tree thread, and Bruceys pics of his firewood, do many of you sell firewood?
Do many of you use firewood to heat the house?
Do any of you buy firewood?
 
I heat my house with firewood AND OIL. Up to now i have just turned on the oil for 1 hour in the evening as it has not been that cold but going to lite up the wood burning mulberry back boiler stove tomorrow. Use my own firewood. Would guess i have enough beech and ash timber sawn up and blocked to last me the next 10 years. I store it in 0.5 ton old corn seed and meal bags and stack three high in a farm shed. When i need a bag i bring it up to my garage on a pallet and drop inside the door.
 
Use it in stove here cut a load of leylandii last year theres a lot stacked up in the shed but I was to lazy to cut it up so I bought a dried load off the tree surgeon it filled 3 one ton bags good timber cost €120.

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Have a stove here, non boiler. Left provision in our garage to put a boiler in, which could be doing this winter?? . We insulated the house very well which saves us a lot on fuel.
Sell a bit of seasoned firewood here, started last year and have sold a few bits this year already.
 
Non boiler stove my own timber and turf.wood pellet boiler heats rads.
Chainsaw is flat out at moment
 
Open fires here and I get through quiet a bit of timber. Farm here is covered in big trees that always lose a lot of big branches and the odd one falls in storms so I've more timber then I can burn usually. Luckily or I'd be broke buying firing with the amount of it I get through.
 
Oil for the central heating but would have the open fire or non boiler stove going regularly, hard to beat a real fire tbh. Don't sell any firewood but plenty to get through, would rarely use coal even.

The house is pretty well insulated which helps a lot on the heating bill too.
 
The father has three or fours years turf and timber piled up in sheds here.

I think he could have a fetish for solid fuel:D:D
 
Mine has 5 years at least and has a man coming to knock a few trees that are starting to overhang the road a bit too much in the coming weeks.

He's 73 and I think is planning to live for a lot longer but not planning on running a saw for many more years so he's building up a serious stockpile!
 
Mf240 said:
The father has three or fours years turf and timber piled up in sheds here.

I think he could have a fetish for solid fuel:D:D
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I can vouch for the first point, not sure on the second, but you could be right :001:001_smile:. His twin is here aged 85.

We have a neighbour whose 86th birthday is in the next week or so. He still saves 3 plots of turf every year, "just in case im not fit to save it next year, but was still alive to burn it !", so he is building up a stock pile of the stuff, could have a 3 span shed of it ahead of him now.
 
diesel power said:
Open fires here and I get through quiet a bit of timber. Farm here is covered in big trees that always lose a lot of big branches and the odd one falls in storms so I've more timber then I can burn usually. Luckily or I'd be broke buying firing with the amount of it I get through.
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You should put in a non boiler stove, be amazed at how much timber you will save and more heat in the room.

First year here with a stove and actually have to open the door of the room at times, the heat is that much!
 
I've been in a t shirt since I lit the stove at half seven and I've about 1 1/5 10l buckets of timber burnt. maybe 2. could burn that in an hour and a bit in the open fire.
 
Agri Power said:
Suppose to be a good job alright. i hope to get one in this week.
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Have a non boiler stove 2 years now great job. Just take a look at an open fire and how much heat goes up the chimney. I do think stoves should be placed in the open if possible as the heat is given off from its surface like a radiator. The insert stoves imv heat up a lot of the surrounding material and some people find them disappointing in them cases. My room requires a 6kw stove but went for the 8kw. The 6kw would have looked too small in the room.

You can burn anything in a stove like pallets or even old fencing posts and because you can close the door that makes them safe.
 
Pippa said:
Have a non boiler stove 2 years now great job. Just take a look at an open fire and how much heat goes up the chimney. I do think stoves should be placed in the open if possible as the heat is given off from its surface like a radiator. The insert stoves imv heat up a lot of the surrounding material and some people find them disappointing in them cases. My room requires a 6kw stove but went for the 8kw. The 6kw would have looked too small in the room.

You can burn anything in a stove like pallets or even old fencing posts and because you can close the door that makes them safe.
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Firmly agree with this as well, you'd really notice the difference in a before and after case.

On materials, the one here has burnt everything from ash to pallets, to thick gorse stems to old fencing stakes and Apple trees and no bother to it.

Only thing you need to be careful of is the front glass not to stain it, best bet is to use well seasoned timber preferably at least 18 months.
[MENTION=4722]Agri Power[/MENTION], are you short of power on the trailer!
 
nashmach said:
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Only thing you need to be careful of is the front glass not to stain it, best bet is to use well seasoned timber preferably at least 18 months.
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I had a stove for nearly 16 years burn any timber I can get. During the boom I used to get scrap timber from the sites
Now I have a years supply split and stacked in the shed and at least two years stacked in the yard.

I don't sell timber as it wouldn't pay with the amount of labour involved to cut haul, split and store it, not to mind delivering it.


As for the glass in the door burn the odd piece of aluminium, drink can or foil will help clean the door.
 
We have a boiler stove, its a Boru 30 KW, we have a Stanley oil cooker as well but its rarely on now, Have a good supply of timber. It will eat wood alright but I find once you light it and fill it full so its really blazing and then fill it again with some bigger logs and turn it down it doesn't take much to keep it going the rest of the evening. Its nice not having to fork out for oil and the house is warmer as well,
 
nashmach said:
Firmly agree with this as well, you'd really notice the difference in a before and after case.

On materials, the one here has burnt everything from ash to pallets, to thick gorse stems to old fencing stakes and Apple trees and no bother to it.

Only thing you need to be careful of is the front glass not to stain it, best bet is to use well seasoned timber preferably at least 18 months.
[MENTION=4722]Agri Power[/MENTION], are you short of power on the trailer!
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Windowlene and a Brillo pad every time ya clean it
 
Pippa said:
Have a non boiler stove 2 years now great job. Just take a look at an open fire and how much heat goes up the chimney. I do think stoves should be placed in the open if possible as the heat is given off from its surface like a radiator. The insert stoves imv heat up a lot of the surrounding material and some people find them disappointing in them cases. My room requires a 6kw stove but went for the 8kw. The 6kw would have looked too small in the room.



You can burn anything in a stove like pallets or even old fencing posts and because you can close the door that makes them safe.
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just dont throw in an e flow tag. lad down the road did a few years ago and the glass at front of stove blew out over his face
 
greenhorn said:
just dont throw in an e flow tag. lad down the road did a few years ago and the glass at front of stove blew out over his face
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Put a deodorant can in there last week by jaysus there was a bang old lad went mental it was genuine mistake.
 
nick said:
Put a deodorant can in there last week by jaysus there was a bang old lad went mental it was genuine mistake.
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Wont have to get your old lad heart checked this year, if he survived the fright of that then he has a few more years left in him yet.
 
thefarminglad said:
Wont have to get your old lad heart checked this year, if he survived the fright of that then he has a few more years left in him yet.
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Ah he good for a years yet he a bypass last Feb he's like a young lad again.

It wasn't the bang he was given out that I could have broke the glass.

I had to clean it out today I've told him not to be burning rubbish in it.

Re glass cleaning the one we have is self cleaning it cleans when there's a hot fire in it.
 
We have a wood burner in the living room, put it in oh 4-5 year ago?? Top bit o kit, you can soon get the bad boy going fairish, and it chucks out loads of heat, we/I burn any sort of wood in it, from ld pallets, MDF type stuff, to proper fire wood,
I can lay my hands on plenty of "free" timber as in the course of my work I'm well about a few farms, most are happy to let me pop in and tidy up the odd tree, branch etc i just limb it up, and stack it up in our horse paddock, get up there every so often with the chain saw and the Keltec Log spliter, jobs a good in, the FIL has a bit of wood as well when he wants it,
 
Big Vern said:
We have a wood burner in the living room, put it in oh 4-5 year ago?? Top bit o kit, you can soon get the bad boy going fairish, and it chucks out loads of heat, we/I burn any sort of wood in it, from ld pallets, MDF type stuff, to proper fire wood,
I can lay my hands on plenty of "free" timber as in the course of my work I'm well about a few farms, most are happy to let me pop in and tidy up the odd tree, branch etc i just limb it up, and stack it up in our horse paddock, get up there every so often with the chain saw and the Keltec Log spliter, jobs a good in, the FIL has a bit of wood as well when he wants it,
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What's the keltec log splitter like?
 
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