Show us: your log burners and open fires

[randynewmanscat]

This is near five weeks of supply, five metre cube stacked volume, the pieces (buches) are 50cm long. That stack is 5M long and 2M tall so 5M3 stacked. The gates lead to a penal lifetimes worth of outdoor servitude known as a garden.

Edit for being a plank and typing 5M2 and not 5M3.

 

[dodgy]

This is near five weeks of supply, five metre cube stacked volume, the pieces (buches) are 50cm long. That stack is 5M long and 2M tall so 5M2 stacked. The gates lead to a penal lifetimes worth of outdoor servitude known as a garden.
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That's a familiar site in France (or at least the bits I know)! Quite often you see people stacking their wood supply against their house walls to act as an additional layer of insulation.

 

[The Crofted Crest]

How much wood you all get through for a winter? How much you pay for it?
Average for me is 19M3 stacked (about 15.2M3 after subtracting the air spaces) between late October and late March, mostly two year seasoned Oak, Hornbeam and Chestnut, costs me €50 a stere delivered not stacked.

Had two cube delivered this morning. One oak and one ash, four year seasoned and dumped at the bottom of the drive. €170 including delivery but not wheelbarrowing to the woodshed and stacking. Ash more expensive than oak but I can't remember how much more. It will last the winter and spring.

 

[Globalti]

We can't get hardwood here in Scotland, it's pine or larch only and we hate larch.

This is the stove in our poxy mouse-infested cottage. 98 percent of the heat goes straight up the flue, it's garbage.

 

[Reynard]

We can't get hardwood here in Scotland, it's pine or larch only and we hate larch.

This is the stove in our poxy mouse-infested cottage. 98 percent of the heat goes straight up the flue, it's garbage.

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The cat seems to like it...

 

[Houthakker]

This is the stove in our poxy mouse-infested cottage. 98 percent of the heat goes straight up the flue, it's garbage

Looks like the cat might beg to differ on that point.

 

[randynewmanscat]

That's a familiar site in France (or at least the bits I know)! Quite often you see people stacking their wood supply against their house walls to act as an additional layer of insulation.

Yes you do. I have a reserve pile behind the barn that just appears in the photo, that is against the wall with a corrugated zinc steel "roof". The barn is heated but that wall is always warmer.

 

[randynewmanscat]

mouse-infested cottage

. I see a cat which by most peoples reckoning is the most ruthless and assiduous mouse hunter. I take it the beast is as useless as my cats. As my Dutch neighbour says, "perhaps you are feeding them too much".

 

[randynewmanscat]

We can't get hardwood here in Scotland, it's pine or larch only and we hate larch.

This is the stove in our poxy mouse-infested cottage. 98 percent of the heat goes straight up the flue, it's garbage.

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Is that hearth a piece of Savernake slate?

 

[oldwheels]

Would you care to explain that one-word post?

A very low tripod could be a trivet for putting a kettle on to keep it hot without boiling?

 

[raleighnut]

We can't get hardwood here in Scotland, it's pine or larch only and we hate larch.

This is the stove in our poxy mouse-infested cottage. 98 percent of the heat goes straight up the flue, it's garbage.

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That's not really a Stove though is it, more of an open fire with windows, I'd try opening it

 

[MrGrumpy]

We can't get hardwood here in Scotland, it's pine or larch only and we hate larch.

This is the stove in our poxy mouse-infested cottage. 98 percent of the heat goes straight up the flue, it's garbage.

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I live in Gods country and I can certainly get hardwood round these parts ? In fact a choice of soft or hard wood. My last order during lockdown was super, mixture of beech and oak. It burnt well ! I just cannot remember where we ordered from now

 

[newts]

I lit the stove tonight for the first time this autumn, annual maintainence required new batteries for the remote.

 

[randynewmanscat]

Had two cube delivered this morning. One oak and one ash, four year seasoned and dumped at the bottom of the drive. €170 including delivery but not wheelbarrowing to the woodshed and stacking. Ash more expensive than oak but I can't remember how much more. It will last the winter and spring.

I haven't been to my place in England for years but it was expensive last time for a winter worth of wood, the only reason its cheap here is that I live between two big forests. Its pretty expensive just down the road in Poitier or up the road in Tours, about €80 a cube.

 

[The Crofted Crest]

I haven't been to my place in England for years but it was expensive last time for a winter worth of wood, the only reason its cheap here is that I live between two big forests. Its pretty expensive just down the road in Poitier or up the road in Tours, about €80 a cube.

My place in "England" is actually in Holland. The wood comes from somewhere in Germany.