Types of firewood

[h12rpo]

;D 45 kilo? Fek me, thats an axe !

[dougclay]

Is the axe attached to big dave or is there a decimal point missing here ;-) that's 100lbs

[faz]

I just came across this website which also has a guide to wood types and also some basic information on seasoning etc. : www.wildeye.co.uk/trees/firewood.html

Below is cut and pasted from that page.



Apple and pear – burning slowly and steadily with little flame but good heat. The scent is also pleasing.

Ash – the best burning wood providing plenty of heat (will also burn green but you should not need to do this!)

Beech and hornbeam – good when well seasoned

Birch – good heat and a bright flame – burns quickly.

Blackthorn and hawthorn – very good – burn slowly but with good heat

Cherry – also burns slowly with good heat and a pleasant scent.

Cypress – burns well but fast when seasoned, and may spit

Hazel – good, but hazel has so many other uses hopefully you won’t have to burn it!

Holly – good when well seasoned

Horse Chestnut – good flame and heating power but spits a lot.

Larch – fairly good for heat but crackles and spits

Maple – good.

Oak – very old dry seasoned oak is excellent, burning slowly with a good heat

Pine – burns well with a bright flame but crackles and spits

Poplar – avoid all poplar wood – it burns very slowly with little heat – which is why poplar is used to make matchsticks.

Willow – very good – in fact there is growing interest in biomass production of coppiced willow as a fuel.

[moorsy]

Here's an interesting link to a site recommending an efficient way to season firewood. www.thechimneysweep.ca/6seasoningwood.html

[dougclay]

Sept 17, 2012 11:50:23 GMT moorsy said:

Here's an interesting link to a site recommending an efficient way to season firewood.
www.thechimneysweep.ca/6seasoningwood.html

Now that would keep the kids busy... :-)

[nick]

Hi Dougclay

Stupid builders forgot the door and windows ;D

Cheers

Nick

[conic]

I have been working in London for the last three weeks and regularly driving the road from Ealing common to the M4 and for for the last 3 weeks and on the central reservation of the A406 at exactly W3 8LB there have been some fine fine logs and I am amazed nobody has had them.
Check out the photo, this is not the only pile, there is more.

I cant take them as I am too far from home and no van or trailer but it would be a shame if they were left to rot. I recon there is enough here to heat a big house for 3 years
some somebody with some balls, best get here about 6 am on a sunday morning and load them up.

Conic

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[Fat Bob]

Doesn't look that many to me - may last a winter...

[conic]

there are loads more along the road

Conic

[Fat Bob]

OK - I may make the 600 mile trip...

[dougclay]

Nov 24, 2012 11:37:19 GMT conic said:

I have been working in London for the last three weeks and regularly driving the road from Ealing common to the M4 and for for the last 3 weeks and on the central reservation of the A406 at exactly W3 8LB there have been some fine fine logs and I am amazed nobody has had them.
Check out the photo, this is not the only pile, there is more.

I cant take them as I am too far from home and no van or trailer but it would be a shame if they were left to rot. I recon there is enough here to heat a big house for 3 years
some somebody with some balls, best get here about 6 am on a sunday morning and load them up.

Conic

What do you need a van for? don't you have a boot? If you are driving past every day, then pop one in each day ;-)
That's why the make folding seats in the back of the car :-)

This said, if I had one of those american style pickups to drive to the office in I'd probably be able to pick up a ton a week... as it is the vectra helps keep my oven fuelled :-)

dougclay

[conic]

My car is full of work stuff mate and I have tons of the stuff at home.
They are still there, there now moutains of logs all around ealing common for the taking.

Conic

[DuncanM]

What's the legality of taking of taking the wood should you get stopped by the rozzers?

[h12rpo]

It has been 'abandoned', and that it has is a valid defence to a charge of theft. The fact that it has been there for some time in a public place without any form of securement would be evidence of abandonment

[bookemdanno]

I expect they thought people would take it!
The felling company usually takes it to sell on as firewood, but they probably got such a good price for the job, as it was for a council, they just packed up and went on holidays!