fao greyman

[DIDO.1 22,844]

2 minutes ago, Chaff said:

Looks well seasoned wont much more smoke than a joss stick lol

The top ones are all kiln dried hard wood. They really give some heat out. I don't let the Mrs burn them if I'm not home as anything more than a tiny hint of air flow and they overheat the stove so much the thermometer goes into the red and falls off the stove pipe . I do the pest control for a big wood yard and £500's worth is part of his payment. I drive past the yard everyday so it's no hardship doing it and I see em as free.... even though I pay for em in a sense. 

I'm bringing a few pieces of ash, holly and hawthorn home every time I go up the shoot. Not massive amounts but a few logs. If I do that 3 times a week then I'll get through the winter without worrying about how much I use. I buy 250 kg of smokeless as well and maybe a couple of bags extra if I run out 

[Chaff 3,622]

27 minutes ago, DIDO.1 said:

The top ones are all kiln dried hard wood. They really give some heat out. I don't let the Mrs burn them if I'm not home as anything more than a tiny hint of air flow and they overheat the stove so much the thermometer goes into the red and falls off the stove pipe . I do the pest control for a big wood yard and £500's worth is part of his payment. I drive past the yard everyday so it's no hardship doing it and I see em as free.... even though I pay for em in a sense. 

I'm bringing a few pieces of ash, holly and hawthorn home every time I go up the shoot. Not massive amounts but a few logs. If I do that 3 times a week then I'll get through the winter without worrying about how much I use. I buy 250 kg of smokeless as well and maybe a couple of bags extra if I run out 

Perfect set up you have going on there Dido, i was given what must be 250kg of smokeless coal today as Auntie Nicely as the kids call her has has moved away from it due to old age. She will keep log burner for backup, we are only 5 minutes up the road so she wont get cold.

I remember your posts fitting your burner plastering came out tidy mate

[mel b 2,525]

f**k em. I'm a wood slag , I'll do anything for a log .

I've also got about a ton of new 18mm plywood to burn . It breaks my heart to burn it , but you can only find so many DIY projects to use it on .

[dytkos 17,804]

I still hate it around me, there's fallen wood all over the place. When I lived over the road I spent many, many hours harvesting the "free" wood.  Where I am now I've got gas heating and the conversion to open fire/log burner would be uneconomical, especially as my collecting/processing/storage situation is inconvenient nowadays

Cheers, D.

[Greyman 28,662]

7 minutes ago, dytkos said:

I still hate it around me, there's fallen wood all over the place. When I lived over the road I spent many, many hours harvesting the "free" wood.  Where I am now I've got gas heating and the conversion to open fire/log burner would be uneconomical, especially as my collecting/processing/storage situation is inconvenient nowadays

Cheers, D.

Just core drill a 6”hole through the wall and run a flu up the outside of the house quick and easy probably save what it cost to do in one winter 

[dytkos 17,804]

56 minutes ago, Greyman said:

Just core drill a 6”hole through the wall and run a flu up the outside of the house quick and easy probably save what it cost to do in one winter 

Ain't possible mate, like I said, logistics don't add up, maybe if I had a life expectancy of 25 years  

Cheers, D.

[Greyman 28,662]

Little hack for the winter fire users, the old alcohol hand gel is everywhere after covid we have pallet loads here at work, the 70% alcohol one is a great fire lighter couple of squirts in the fire before ignition and away she goes no more firefighters required