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Title: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Domestique on 17 August, 2013, 06:23:32 pm
Well we bit the bullet and have a stove on order, fitting after the bank holiday. Now we are stocking up for next year.

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3729/9532523572_32e8cbd45a_z.jpg)

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3675/9529753023_6e7c38e3ab_z.jpg)

(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2867/9529739329_8d1dfde0b1_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Basil on 17 August, 2013, 09:09:44 pm
Looks good.

We have a three year stack system.
This year's that we are using now.

Next year's. 

Stuff I'm cutting now.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Domestique on 08 September, 2013, 02:19:07 pm
We have added this now for better protection and more space

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5442/10240648095_c287f54095_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Basil on 08 September, 2013, 06:57:47 pm
Looks good.

We have a three year stack system.
This year's that we are using now.

Next year's. 

Stuff I'm cutting now.

And of course, like any system of mine, it's failed already.  ::-)

Only a two pile system now.  >:(
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Domestique on 15 October, 2013, 06:14:26 am
New store built at the weekend total cost £40  8)

(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2874/10240639405_198c7e6011_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: PaulF on 21 November, 2013, 11:12:52 am
Before

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5521/10976450513_2188dd0daf_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_fulford/10976450513/)
Woodpile (http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_fulford/10976450513/) by paulfulford (http://www.flickr.com/people/paul_fulford/), on Flickr

and after

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3774/10976310076_fac3a40435_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_fulford/10976310076/)
Woodpile (http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_fulford/10976310076/) by paulfulford (http://www.flickr.com/people/paul_fulford/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Woofage on 21 November, 2013, 11:24:53 am
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3801/10976501214_4dfe396a51_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/38357939@N02/10976501214/)
P1000183.JPG (http://www.flickr.com/photos/38357939@N02/10976501214/) by pencyclist (http://www.flickr.com/people/38357939@N02/), on Flickr

This was a couple of years ago and the wood store has since moved to a different location but retains the same structure. It was made from our old chicken house which had previously been a large shed that we replaced when we moved to Woofage Towers. The workbench you see at the side is used as a sawing horse.

This weekend’s job will be sawing and splitting more wood. I have a pile of cuttings from a neighbour's tree ready to burn and 3 trees worth of wood to split and get dry :).
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Domestique on 21 November, 2013, 06:00:11 pm
Nice  :thumbsup:
The plan this year is to try and get through using as little of our timber logs as possible to give them time to season properly.
We have been burning quite a lot of pallet wood for the last week or so. I have been surprised just how well it burns, I had mistakenly thought it would be good for kindling.
Also have picked up a lot of timber joist and roofing timbers from a house renovation thats going on a few doors away, happy times  :)
So far all the timber we have has been free  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Woofage on 21 November, 2013, 06:05:27 pm
We still have a lot of our old roof timber. It's over 80 years old so as dry as a bone and burns beautifully, if rather quickly. It's perfect for getting the fire going.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Domestique on 21 November, 2013, 06:09:20 pm
De-nailing takes a bit of time  ::-)
But it burns well, if quick.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: pcolbeck on 21 November, 2013, 08:23:54 pm
Dont bother denailing it just run a magnet over the ashes afterwards.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Basil on 21 November, 2013, 08:32:30 pm
No, I don't bother de-nailing scrap wood either.  I just remove them from the ash as I come across them.  I don't even particularly search for them.  Some stay in there for days.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: T42 on 21 November, 2013, 10:00:40 pm
Oh well...
(http://www.pbase.com/image/153474911.jpg) (http://www.pbase.com/image/153474911)

Enough for the winter.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Auntie Helen on 21 November, 2013, 10:09:06 pm
Our woodpile

(https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1378153_10151644864341786_371965802_n.jpg)

Our woodburner (two videos)

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151043878976786&l=3618456185823583187

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151307066281786&l=5250486195088007209
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Jurek on 21 November, 2013, 10:33:00 pm
I live in a different world... I flick a switch and shortly thereafter I am warm.
I've an open fire in the front room.
The woman I bought the house from left me a couple of bags of coal to feed it.
I'm not convinced that I am sufficiently responsible to bring an open flame into my house.
Where's Jasper and his much sought after advice, when you need him?
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: T42 on 22 November, 2013, 09:32:56 am
I live in a different world... I flick a switch and shortly thereafter I am warm.
I've an open fire in the front room.
The woman I bought the house from left me a couple of bags of coal to feed it.
I'm not convinced that I am sufficiently responsible to bring an open flame into my house.
Where's Jasper and his much sought after advice, when you need him?

If you do decide to use it, have the chimney swept first.  You don't know what condition it was in when you bought and you don't know what's got in there since (birds' nests, birds, Santa Claus, surveillance cameras...).
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Woofage on 22 November, 2013, 09:40:12 am
Oh well...
(http://www.pbase.com/image/153474911.jpg) (http://www.pbase.com/image/153474911)

Enough for the winter.

T42 wins the thread :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: T42 on 22 November, 2013, 09:55:15 am
Tar muchely, but "win" is relative.  Hauling that lot and feeding the monsters is a horrible chore. Here's one of the monsters:

(http://www.pbase.com/image/153480080.jpg)

This warms our lounge and the bedroom above. There's an ordinary enclosed hearth in the kitchen that does the same for the other half of the house.

I wouldn't mind feeding in that carving of mutated dolphins, but a dear friend gave it too us and she visits every so often.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Auntie Helen on 22 November, 2013, 09:59:35 am
That looks like one of the common German stoves that you see a lot over there.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: spindrift on 22 November, 2013, 10:48:30 am
Yeah, you see them a lot in Poland. Nice tiling.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Domestique on 22 November, 2013, 12:24:33 pm
Woodburning heaven  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: urban_biker on 22 November, 2013, 12:34:55 pm
I am feeling inadequate. my woodburner is being installed next week. I don't yet have a wood pile/storage area. I can't build it until after the install as it will block easy access to where the twin-wall flue will be installed.

I do have piles of old pallets though - but I suspect that they won't last long once we get going.

Now I just need to find a local source of well seasoned hardwood ( or softwood will do ). In future I'll season it myself but for the first year I'll have to buy seasoned stuff. 
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: T42 on 22 November, 2013, 01:00:54 pm
That looks like one of the common German stoves that you see a lot over there.

It is German, built in the 80s. Probably not so efficient as the more recent models.  I'd prefer to have a self-feeding one in the cellar, but the cost would be astronomical and the disruption intolerable.

Still, wood has its compensations: when the 1999 hurricane took our power out for three days, we had heat and cooked our meals on the kitchen hearth while the oil-fired brigade huddled over tins of sardines.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: pcolbeck on 22 November, 2013, 02:14:38 pm
I have a woodburner but am screwed if the electricity goes out as it has a back boiler with a pumped flow across the attic rather than a gravity loop :(
I am working on a cunning plan involving battery backup just for the central heating pumps.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Domestique on 22 November, 2013, 04:30:11 pm
Here is ours, was installed at the end of August. Not sure why we didn't do it sooner.
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3764/9696513625_c603ff4752_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: urban_biker on 22 November, 2013, 05:42:40 pm
Here is ours, was installed at the end of August. Not sure why we didn't do it sooner.
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3764/9696513625_c603ff4752_z.jpg)

You have our mirror
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: David Martin on 22 November, 2013, 05:56:53 pm
I have a woodburner but am screwed if the electricity goes out as it has a back boiler with a pumped flow across the attic rather than a gravity loop :(
I am working on a cunning plan involving battery backup just for the central heating pumps.
Fit a therrmopile power source to the back burner? Then it will generate the power for the pump as needed.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Kim on 22 November, 2013, 07:57:12 pm
I have a woodburner but am screwed if the electricity goes out as it has a back boiler with a pumped flow across the attic rather than a gravity loop :(
I am working on a cunning plan involving battery backup just for the central heating pumps.
Fit a therrmopile power source to the back burner? Then it will generate the power for the pump as needed.

Stirling engine.  :D
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: spindrift on 22 November, 2013, 08:24:34 pm
Someone down my road has one like Domestique's, chimney alcoves are floor to ceiling books and they watch telly with all other lights off so the room is lit by big crackling flames.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: pcolbeck on 24 November, 2013, 06:13:26 pm
Stirling engine.  :D

That would be brilliant. I wanted a stirling engine stove fan but the tick tick tick would drive Mrs Pcolbeck mad so I ended up with a peltier one instead.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: meddyg on 02 December, 2013, 10:13:22 am
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3709/11090894716_b426a29d82.jpg)

I can nearly trump T42's Alsatian pile!
Alas, this obsessionally tidy pile  is not mine, but spotted on a summer visit to Finland.
(I worked on a farm there as a teenager, and went back to see my old boss there
in July in Kerimaki; they have a similar stove-you-can-sleep-on!)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Domestique on 25 January, 2014, 05:23:52 pm
Been doing a bit of work at the field today, there is a second wood pile growing there.
 
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1/1546263_10152189953964855_1103470105_n.jpg)

There is an oak tree which has been looking quite bad for the last few years so we have decided to take it down.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1/935535_10152189682314855_1184597301_n.jpg)

Then we brought this back home for processing.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1/1017560_10152190070829855_1708408292_n.jpg)

In the meantime as a bit of tree replacement we have planted 10 Alder trees, with a further 10 hornbeam trees on order.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/1512453_10152189881634855_666357657_n.jpg)

2_Flat_Erics in action

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1/10772_10152189713209855_626071208_n.jpg)

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1/1623773_10152190070984855_1764358335_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: delthebike on 25 January, 2014, 07:20:14 pm
I hope you've got some better tools, not just a hand saw, to deal with those oak logs.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Domestique on 26 January, 2014, 11:28:46 am
Yep, it was all hand (hard) work whilst at the field.
We have an elcetric chainsaw at home which takes care of things  :smug:
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: pcolbeck on 26 January, 2014, 11:36:34 am
My log grenade is stuck in a round of well seasoned apple and I have lost my sledge hammer :(
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Domestique on 26 January, 2014, 12:36:18 pm
Never had much sucess with the grenade. Just seems to bed itself into the wood  :-\
We have got a 2.7Kg maul which really does split most things with minimal effort.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: pcolbeck on 26 January, 2014, 12:49:39 pm
I have a nice splitting maul but it just bounces off seasoned apple ....
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Domestique on 26 January, 2014, 01:46:55 pm
So far I have learnt in my wood burning days always split wood when its green if you want the easy life. We have some seasoned oak rounds that are quite simply indestructable and have resisted all efforts so far  :hand:
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: pcolbeck on 26 January, 2014, 03:10:00 pm
I know. Unfortunately I didn't know that four years ago when we chopped the apple tree down ....
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 26 January, 2014, 08:53:36 pm
Yep, it was all hand (hard) work whilst at the field.
We have an elcetric chainsaw at home which takes care of things  :smug:
An eclectic chainsaw must be one which cuts a wide range of wood. Sounds like the best type to have.  :)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: delthebike on 01 February, 2014, 02:41:59 pm
Our (rather pathetic) log pile this winter was mainly softwood from our demolished conservatory and out of date scaffold boards plus assorted softwood from a builder pal.
We had two metre3 bags at the start plus a pallet of scaff boards. Now all that's left is the scaff boards.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-_S7q1hSXkLs/Uu0FZzIPS9I/AAAAAAAAIIc/Il4Wp4XvAdg/s640/p2010084.jpg)

This is scaff kindling. It is super knotty stuff and hard to get decent splits. I bought a Roughneck kindling splitting axe and it's doing a good job.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nop7xWdwD0o/Uu0Far-HpAI/AAAAAAAAIIg/V3kWBfF92cg/s640/p2010085.jpg)

Going to order a metre of logs next week and in the spring more scaff boards, which are free to us, and a couple more bulk log buys.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: delthebike on 15 February, 2014, 09:35:44 am
Two hundred cut logs collected this morning and stored in the store. They're a bit wet, no surprise, but the store, which is half greenhouse, will dry them before next winter. They are on a slatted floor so air can circulate and they get a fair bit of sun through the day.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-A2V-vQVNUEk/Uv8zqnpeq4I/AAAAAAAAIL4/UBlfd8SBbBQ/s640/p2150124.jpg)

We still have plenty of softwood too and a few more scaff boards in the work shed to cut down.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e_745LMjEdo/Uv8zqn9lBdI/AAAAAAAAIL0/rH1JCCH-AGg/s512/p2150125.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 February, 2014, 10:56:24 pm
Today we went relative-visiting.

(https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1/1922456_10152157365966839_1873026001_n.jpg)

EldestCub got to split a couple of hours-worth of logs.  Using an AXE, under the supervision of my uncle, whilst I was loitering obliviously in the house drinking coffee.  When I was informed of this I asked if he'd been sensible and listened and done as he was told and yes, indeed he had.  "Good," said I, "that's what I'd have expected but it's nice to be right about it."  Meanwhile my aunt was practically having kittens and looking at her husband in a "You let him do _what_?!?!?!" manner :D
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: woollypigs on 20 February, 2014, 04:55:17 pm
Ah, an ecofan or the like, I'm thinking about building one. I think parts runs in at under £20 - even cheaper if you make the fan yourself and have an old heatsink from an old PC laying about - not near the £85-120 I see them going for online.

Our stove should be ready to play with tomorrow, can't wait to play with it :-)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: David Martin on 21 February, 2014, 09:50:25 pm
How old is eldest cub? Certainly old enough to be using an axe under supervision.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: pcolbeck on 26 February, 2014, 05:39:54 pm
Ah, an ecofan or the like, I'm thinking about building one. I think parts runs in at under £20 - even cheaper if you make the fan yourself and have an old heatsink from an old PC laying about - not near the £85-120 I see them going for online.

Our stove should be ready to play with tomorrow, can't wait to play with it :-)

An ecofan bought or home made is brilliant if the stove is in a recess. Mrs Pcolbeck was very dubious when I bought ours but now she has it pointed at her place on the sofa ! They really do move the hot air about enough to make a difference. You ant feel the breeze from them with your hand but you can see the air stream if you put a taper or such like behind them and watch the smoke get blown out across the room. I want a stirling engine one next.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Domestique on 27 February, 2014, 01:07:14 pm
Ah, an ecofan or the like, I'm thinking about building one. I think parts runs in at under £20 - even cheaper if you make the fan yourself and have an old heatsink from an old PC laying about - not near the £85-120 I see them going for online.

Our stove should be ready to play with tomorrow, can't wait to play with it :-)

Are you playing  :)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: cyclone on 27 February, 2014, 01:29:57 pm
Sorry no photos today but this year we've battled through 8 cubic meters of chestnut and acacia, last year 120 miles away 16 !!!
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: woollypigs on 27 February, 2014, 01:34:15 pm
Ah, an ecofan or the like, I'm thinking about building one. I think parts runs in at under £20 - even cheaper if you make the fan yourself and have an old heatsink from an old PC laying about - not near the £85-120 I see them going for online.

Our stove should be ready to play with tomorrow, can't wait to play with it :-)

Are you playing  :)
Just had our first burn, boy does a new stove stink on first burn. Need to do 3-4 more at low heat to harden the stove paint and remove the smell. Which sadly can hang about for a while yet.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Charlotte on 27 February, 2014, 01:38:50 pm
How old is eldest cub? Certainly old enough to be using an axe under supervision.

Absolutely.  Besides, splitting axes tend to be pretty blunt anyway.

When you want him to learn how to use a razor sharp carving axe, let me know  :D
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 February, 2014, 07:34:33 pm
He's 12.  And so long as the dangerous-if-not-respected tools are flagged to him as dangerous if not respected, pretty sensible about that kind of thing :)

Charlotte - he still hasn't forgotten that he realised (possibly at Edwardstone?) that you might be able to teach him all sorts of Exciting Stuffs one day when he was a bit older.  The EldestCub, like an elephant, never forgets.  Some things, at least.  Every once in a while he'll suddenly remember, usually at a completely unconnected moment when you're in the middle of something, and say "you know your friend? When will we see them?" or words to that effect.  It can take a while to decipher the musings of an EC but a bit of quizzing frequently clarifies that he means the "London person who does fire and archery and guns and sharp things".  I think we can all guess who that is....

Apparently the fan-doobery upthread was indeed a Stirling Engine doobery.  Very effective indeed. 
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: spindrift on 28 February, 2014, 02:56:17 pm
(http://www.inspirationgreen.com/assets/images/Wood/Firewood/firewood%20tower%202.jpg)


From:

http://www.inspirationgreen.com/firewood-as-art.html
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: pcolbeck on 28 February, 2014, 02:59:59 pm
Our log man ran out of hardwood last week luckily we have enough for now. Apparently the popularity of wood stoves has made a lot of the estates that used to supply them with firewood grade trees decide to go either go into business for themselves providing firewood or sell it to larger suppliers.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: woollypigs on 28 February, 2014, 03:45:24 pm
Picture off firewood tower

From:

http://www.inspirationgreen.com/firewood-as-art.html
Oh my inner pyro would love to sneak a match to this :)

Our Squirrel is ticking away behind me after its second not so smelly burn, still hot after not being fed for an hour and a half. The dog is happy drying off after her little run in our local beck in front of it.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Basil on 28 February, 2014, 03:47:51 pm
Yes, and it's getting harder to find decent stuff at a competetive price now.  Plenty of chancers have started up around but their wood is crap.
Light scrumping in the woodlands, although not legal, was sort of tolerated as long as you didn't take the piss and were a local.  That's beginning to change now as well.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: woollypigs on 02 March, 2014, 04:07:42 pm
(http://woofy.woollypigs.com/snaps/Tilley_the_fire_dog.JPG)

Well our woof likes the fire, now I just need to get the hang of it and some proper wood. I put our trangia kettle on it with two cups of water and it boiled in 12 min :)

Strike that - 5min a bit later for our first cuppa from the stove :)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: pcolbeck on 10 March, 2014, 10:19:16 am
A little tip passed on to me at the weekend by our local hardware shop (that sells wood burners and uses one to heat the entire shop). Lay a bed of smokeless fuel and put your logs on that. Makes burning bigger logs easier and will help the fire stay in longer. Do NOT use coal as it burns too hot.
Bought a bag as an experiment and tried it. It works really well. You don't need much smokeless fuel for this. I but a few pieces on before I went to bed as well and topped up with logs. When we got up in the morning the eco fan was still wizzing around !
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Krad on 10 March, 2014, 11:16:50 am
My Scottish burner.

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-6e46lSabI5I/UjVv2-ogauI/AAAAAAAAHqQ/TjLTeB0nFoQ/w958-h540-no/IMAG0868.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: tonyh on 12 March, 2014, 08:33:21 am
Somewhat off-topic:

My fire-rope seal round the door, replaced about a year ago, has worked fine until it decided to part company from the door, and showed itself to be disintegrating. What did I do wrong? Ideas welcome!

(Picture of woodpile to follow...)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: clarion on 03 April, 2014, 01:41:33 pm
None of these are our woodpile, as we live in that Londonton, but this is a friend's:

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3741/13589400833_4a32619296_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/mGReqn)

My parents':

(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2854/13589935084_d0d338c930_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/mGTYeA)

In a forest near Bridgnorth:

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7302/13589633993_c706f026b7_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/mGSqJn)

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3811/13589621045_311610bda7_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/mGSmT8)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Riggers on 22 April, 2014, 11:19:34 am
Not a lot to show for 2.5 hours work, but it was one of those "Job's done!" moment.

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Kindling_zps6c5b263c.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Riggers_1956/media/Kindling_zps6c5b263c.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: delthebike on 25 April, 2014, 06:49:28 pm
Another load of free wood arrived today, lots of previously loved 2x4 from an extension remodelling and a pallet.  :thumbsup: Tomorrow were collecting another 200 logs from a local supplier. This will give us 2.5 - 3m3 to burn.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: delthebike on 26 April, 2014, 09:26:10 am
Wood pile is about 5' high, 6' deep and 4' wide.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-BgQBZYYQQYE/U1tsWSmnN7I/AAAAAAAAIXA/TLqN1LgdQv0/s640/p4260272.jpg)

This load needs cutting and there is half again in the shed at the back.
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-hZPjhh5Ffjo/U1tscIYZiGI/AAAAAAAAIXQ/nvUihgBQSi8/s640/p4260274.jpg)

Indi had a whale of a time following me out to the front, watch me load the bins, and follows me back through the house carrying the bins of logs.
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-kOsKMnJeDcY/U1tsfZm0UOI/AAAAAAAAIXY/TUt1wj4wRHc/s640/p4260275.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Riggers on 29 April, 2014, 01:31:02 pm
That last pic would make a very weird postcard. Perhaps from: Swindon welcomes you! as the title.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 April, 2014, 03:26:07 pm
Oi! That's Saarfend that is!
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: delthebike on 29 April, 2014, 03:27:17 pm
That last pic would make a very weird postcard. Perhaps from: Swindon welcomes you! as the title.
You takin' the piss out of my dog? Bet you spilled my pint too! GIT! Oh yeh yer Mum dresses you funny!
Is that Swindon enough?   ;)

Cut the longer logs to fit the stove. There are others but they're in the pile and I'll do them as they turn up.
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-FkT_0GaJgu0/U1-1xmnAWYI/AAAAAAAAIYI/i9F_r3Rz_Xs/s640/p4290286.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Riggers on 29 April, 2014, 03:59:00 pm
Have you cut your dog's other legs off. I can only see one now.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: delthebike on 29 April, 2014, 04:11:02 pm
Have you cut your dog's other legs off. I can only see one now.
He used to be called Tripod but he answers to Hoppy now.  ::-)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: LEE on 29 April, 2014, 08:54:47 pm
My wood pile is currently a big Horse-bucket full of sawn-up floor joists until I organise a delivery.

Here's the new Wood burner though, fitted today and just bedding in (I think I've finally fanned the room clear of smoke and fumes now).

Burley Debdale.

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_i-SA5sFzDXxEOqQ9D24ypm7Hsvw2mybdDKpHWQM7dw=w1298-h865-no)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: rogerzilla on 30 April, 2014, 05:37:50 pm
Had 700kg of pre-cut, kiln-dried ash logs delivered today, 70 nets (which makes handling them very easy - just cut open one net as required and decant into log basket).  Should be good for a winter and a half based on likely use.  Some is in the conservatory and the rest stacked on a pallet in the yard with a tarp on top.  They came on a large pallet with 10 in each layer, 7 layers tall.  It doesn't look like too much now it's divided and restacked.

Picture of wood burner when it's been installed on Friday or Saturday and not just parked on the carpet.  It's not in a fireplace; it just sits 200mm from the wall on a granite hearth, with a gert black fluepipe* coming out of the top and then going through the wall at 45 degrees.  On the outside there is an affair that looks like the stack on a Chinese takeaway.  It's a 5kW Morso Badger 3112.

*this gives out a ton of heat as well and is single walled until it actually has to pass through the wall, at which poin t it has to change to double-wall.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Woofage on 30 April, 2014, 05:45:08 pm
The wood store:

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7036/13888164597_e0424b50a9_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nafttK)P1020484.JPG (https://flic.kr/p/nafttK) by pencyclist (https://www.flickr.com/people/38357939@N02/), on Flickr

More logs to process (in the background), closely guarded by Alice:
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7182/14051683066_2871a77006_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/npGxPG)P1020483.JPG (https://flic.kr/p/npGxPG) by pencyclist (https://www.flickr.com/people/38357939@N02/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Domestique on 24 May, 2014, 04:44:10 pm
We have added a green roof to one of our woodstores  :smug:
(https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1.0-9/10273455_10152409279419855_4755977276620362596_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: delthebike on 24 May, 2014, 04:55:08 pm
We have added a green roof to one of our woodstores  :smug:
(https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1.0-9/10273455_10152409279419855_4755977276620362596_n.jpg)
Nice touch! Do you want a noose for the gallows instead of the bird feeder?  ;)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: LEE on 11 June, 2014, 10:28:35 am
My wood pile is currently a big Horse-bucket full of sawn-up floor joists until I organise a delivery.

Here's the new Wood burner though, fitted today and just bedding in (I think I've finally fanned the room clear of smoke and fumes now).

Burley Debdale.

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_i-SA5sFzDXxEOqQ9D24ypm7Hsvw2mybdDKpHWQM7dw=w1298-h865-no)

Just took delivery of a woodstore.  Just waiting for an initial delivery of logs from local supplier (as it looks a bit pathetic with my remnants in there)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-YK6Q_BukHGY/U5ggoi4NuiI/AAAAAAAADLs/Z1y_OJbEJFE/w1298-h865-no/EOS-2014-06-11-1234.CR2)

Once that arrives and I chuck it all in there then my work is done until winter.  I see the Log Burner as a way of turning the negative of cold/wet winter evenings into positive cozy evenings by the fire.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: LEE on 19 June, 2014, 06:45:41 pm
1 cubic metre of logs later..

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-HyDjsRbQfUI/U6MgYxtP4eI/AAAAAAAADRQ/oaBqsv5tBO8/w1298-h865-no/Log+Store.jpg)

.. and I have a bone fida wood pile.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Tewdric on 19 June, 2014, 06:56:42 pm
Looks nice but I'd get through that in less than a month!
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: LEE on 19 June, 2014, 07:18:40 pm
Looks nice but I'd get through that in less than a month!

The fire is mostly ornamental (unless Russia cut off the Gas supply) so I expect that will last until this time next year. 

I've noticed (on Lifestyle property programs) that everyone seems to want a woodburner now.  It was one factor in having one fitted, to hopefully increase the chances of selling the house in a couple of years.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Basil on 19 June, 2014, 07:45:13 pm
I've noticed (on Lifestyle property programs) that everyone seems to want a woodburner now.

Yes, and the price of logs has gone up to SILLY in the last year.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Auntie Helen on 24 June, 2014, 07:08:25 am
That's odd - our last load of logs was the same price as before.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Tewdric on 24 June, 2014, 07:33:21 am
It's possibly an urban thing where there are lots of on-trend people with their newly installed stoves who don't know how much wood costs, so the suppliers are cashing in on their naivety.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: RJ on 19 September, 2014, 09:30:33 pm
We seem to have a log store a bit like LEE's:

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5578/15087359635_4bfc6a0f53_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oZdEog)
Winter fuel (https://flic.kr/p/oZdEog) by rjevans6 (https://www.flickr.com/people/7194134@N06/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: closetleftie on 20 September, 2014, 05:12:56 pm
It's possibly an urban thing where there are lots of on-trend people with their newly installed stoves who don't know how much wood costs, so the suppliers are cashing in on their naivety.

For interest's sake: what do you all pay for your wood? (oo-er Matron)

Locally the going rate for mixed (mostly hardwood) is about £60-70 per cubic metre of logs.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: tonyh on 20 September, 2014, 05:48:30 pm
About £140/ton, hardwood, cut to specified length and delivered.

A ton being around 2 cubic metres? But might be more, or less?
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: closetleftie on 21 September, 2014, 04:28:53 pm
A "ton" could mean, round here anyway, either a ton in weight or a builder's bag full, which I think is a cubic metre and so holds a ton of water?  ???

Besides, how does one weigh the load of wood just dumped on't drive?
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: pcolbeck on 21 September, 2014, 05:13:06 pm
£70 a pickup full (I'm not convinced that's a proper SI unit but hey ho). That usually fills up my log store which claimed to be be able to hold 2 cubic metres when I bought it.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Basil on 21 September, 2014, 06:43:10 pm
Over the last two long weekends, I have sawn, chopped and split well over half a ton, judging by the space it now takes up.  All free and a good start to the ton and a quarter needed.
Unfortunately, that's for winter 15/16.  It won't be ready for this year.
I've had a look at this winter's stock and it seems that I wasn't so energetic last year.  Even with the left over from last year's mild winter I'm about half a ton short.  I'm going to have to call in the man with the pick up or even treat myself with some of that kiln dried hardwood from an on line supplier.  Expensive  but good stuff that can be used immediately.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: pcolbeck on 23 September, 2014, 04:49:32 pm
I usually get through six to eight tons a year but that's because we have a back boiler on the stove. It takes the load off the oil boiler. I need to get some solar panels as well really.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: LEE on 01 October, 2014, 08:47:00 am
I don't know how true this is but I found it on the home page of a local firewood supplier:

Quote
Beechwood fires are bright and clear
If the logs are kept a year,
Chestnut's only good they say,
If for logs 'tis laid away.
Make a fire of Elder tree,
Death within your house will be;
But ash new or ash old,
Is fit for a queen with crown of gold

Birch and fir logs burn too fast
Blaze up bright and do not last,
it is by the Irish said
Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread.
Elm wood burns like churchyard mould,
E'en the very flames are cold
But ash green or ash brown
Is fPoplar gives a bitter smoke,
Fills your eyes and makes you choke,
Apple wood will scent your room
Pear wood smells like flowers in bloom
Oaken logs, if dry and old
keep away the winter's cold
But ash wet or ash dry
a king shall warm his slippers by.it for a queen with golden crown
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Andrew on 01 October, 2014, 02:37:05 pm
You do realise of course that here in rural France a wood stack is somewhat of a penis extension. So if some old codger in a tabac asks if you want to check out his wood stack then beware.... or not, depending on your preferences.

 Seriously though, there are some seriously large wood stacks around. Maybe I'll take a few photos next time I'm out for a walk and post them. If I have nothing better to do.

Our first few years here, I was well into chainsawing logs, splitting and stacking. Good exercise on a cold autumn day. But fires and logs are a messy old business and cleaning up soon looses its novelty value. We've just installed a pellet burner for our heating and hot water. So I can post a picture of a silo filled with 5 tonne worth of pellets if anyone's interested...
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: woollypigs on 01 October, 2014, 02:44:24 pm
So I can post a picture of a silo filled with 5 tonne worth of pellets if anyone's interested...
You dirty old ... :-)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: LEE on 01 October, 2014, 07:24:29 pm
You do realise of course that here in rural France a wood stack is somewhat of a penis extension.

Not like here at all then, oh no.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Tewdric on 01 October, 2014, 08:19:17 pm
£70 a pickup full (I'm not convinced that's a proper SI unit but hey ho). That usually fills up my log store which claimed to be be able to hold 2 cubic metres when I bought it.

It's about the same here for properly seasoned hardwood.  I haven't paid for wood for years having said that..
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: tom_e on 01 October, 2014, 09:44:47 pm
Quote from: Andrew link=topic=75153.msg1747257#msg1747257
So I can post a picture of a silo filled with 5 tonne worth of pellets if anyone's interested...

G'wan, gwan give it to us...
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Wobbly John on 28 January, 2015, 11:07:13 am
My woodpile is half empty now. It's not worth photographing as it is constantly changing with use and incoming kindling off-cuts from work and branches lopped.

Edit: OK then - timber under cover is 3 logs deep:

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/wobblyjohn/woodpile_zpslxan2ebw.jpg)
<end edit>

However, I just spotted the following, which is something for contributors to this thread to aspire to:

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10610872_841764035887000_8689744826824117369_n.jpg?oh=323f50c4d1e7b6a4741af34e07967b30&oe=555B05DE&__gda__=1431484759_e4cd2e86c2dfcbdfce714363ca50d60f)

 :D
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Domestique on 30 January, 2015, 03:59:41 pm
Next years wood

(https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10406358_10153070576804855_3359259479435803558_n.jpg?oh=ce6656ac27b6752171963b467599f4f5&oe=554FD08A)

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10404414_10153070577444855_8875008599386128501_n.jpg?oh=523f409953be60397bb20a94f4254fe1&oe=55578527&__gda__=1432395569_73aee9f138e9126407efde03ed71f8e3)


Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Basil on 30 January, 2015, 05:44:53 pm
Good effort!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Wobbly John on 31 January, 2015, 09:20:25 pm
Next years wood

(https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10406358_10153070576804855_3359259479435803558_n.jpg?oh=ce6656ac27b6752171963b467599f4f5&oe=554FD08A)


Apple?

I love the scent of apple wood burning.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Domestique on 01 February, 2015, 08:00:04 pm
Yep, there is apple in there, and a few others  ;D
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Torslanda on 02 February, 2015, 05:34:15 pm
#1 son with my mate's woodpile en France

(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d55/shedbike/WP_000027.jpg)

Three chords' worth.

(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d55/shedbike/WP_000016.jpg)

AND he got to ride in the tractor.

(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d55/shedbike/WP_000028.jpg)

He slept that night . . .
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: delthebike on 21 March, 2015, 10:19:02 am
Our woodpile for winter 2015-16 is starting to take shape.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-egGqm1wxF98/VQ1EY2ojImI/AAAAAAAAJkw/_mE9ON6I9sc/s720/p3211588.jpg)

220 logs and there will be another 600 to go, plus the odd pallet and scrap scaffold boards.
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-wR31GNRzMQY/VQ1EZpEm6vI/AAAAAAAAJk4/df1U-cpaE9Q/s720/p3211590.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 February, 2016, 05:43:50 pm
There's not enough stove photos pr0n on here...
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 February, 2016, 05:46:41 pm
Apropos of nothing, here's a lesson in elf and safety - why hire a scaffold when you could just bung a pile of pallets on top of a bin store and then stick a stepladder on top?

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1596/25056520061_50efd8f5b1_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Ebadsz)IMG_6315_01 (https://flic.kr/p/Ebadsz) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Moose57 on 02 March, 2016, 04:42:58 pm
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-0/q85/p526x296/12540638_10153863164778399_3940899901349740928_n.jpg?oh=b78dfdd732ea5788658fec90923afdff&oe=5758CE3E)

Logs, store. Jump.
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: LEE on 09 March, 2016, 05:11:51 pm
What Copper Sulphate infused pine cones look like on my >>> Log Burner (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmI8HdpcQtA) <<<
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 March, 2016, 06:38:22 pm
What Copper Sulphate infused pine cones look like on my >>> Log Burner (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmI8HdpcQtA) <<<

Kewl! Chemistry in action!
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 August, 2016, 03:35:19 pm
It's not much, but it was free, and it's mine. And I made a big bag of kindling this morning :)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8350/28410627560_fa14fd239f_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KhxTLd)IMG_20160801_115804 (https://flic.kr/p/KhxTLd) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Andrij on 28 August, 2016, 06:35:16 pm
Not mine; seen online.

(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14102533_751438448332639_5047374665328076457_n.jpg?oh=f15fa1f576e46d926002ae9299d60016&oe=58862BF5)
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: Jaded on 24 May, 2017, 12:11:00 am
So... moisture meters, amy recommendations?
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: PaulF on 23 November, 2019, 09:58:08 am
Had a load of wood delivered yesterday:

(https://i.postimg.cc/4dMXhzjs/0-E96348-B-C94-E-4-E3-B-9-B06-60-D75631-D00-C.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/CBj33fFQ)

Now it looks like this:

(https://i.postimg.cc/C1dF1vPc/A4-CC257-D-DE42-4-C3-F-A617-F48-E7-A8-F4-AB7.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/WFLRY7PZ)

Just the leaves to clear now
Title: Re: Show us your wood pile (wood burners)
Post by: meddyg on 04 December, 2020, 08:58:30 pm
 a cubic metre from Crickhowell this morning : about 200 kg the van man said.
(some is indoors !)

(https://images2.imgbox.com/0e/57/Ch62minS_o.jpg)

I can skip the gym today ....