FIREWOOD

Low moisture content (20% or lower) seasoned hardwood credited under the Woodsure Ready to Burn scheme. Mostly cut and / or split into 18 - 28cm in length (7 - 11 inches) lengths.

Timber making up this mix may include: Ash, Alder, Beech, Cherry, Elm, Hawthorn, Maple, Oak, Silver Birch and Sycamore.

Per cubic metre

Low moisture content (20% or lower) seasoned hardwood credited under the Woodsure Ready to Burn scheme. Mostly cut and/or split into 18 - 28cm in length (7 - 11 inches) lengths.

Timber making up this mix may include: Cedar, Cupressus, Larch, Pine, Poplar, Thuja and Willow.

Per cubic metre

Low moisture content (20% or lower) seasoned hardwood credited under the Woodsure Ready to Burn scheme. Mostly cut and/or split into 18 - 28cm in length (7 - 11 inches) lengths.

Timber making up this mix may include: Ash, Alder, Beech, Cherry, Elm, Hawthorn, Maple, Oak, Silver Birch and Sycamore as well as Cedar, Cupressus, Larch, Pine, Poplar, Thuja and Willow.

Per cubic metre

Only delivered with any order of 1 or more cubic metre of firewood.

Nets measure approximately 65cm x 35cm, weigh on average around 6kg per net. Nets contain both hardwood and softwood cleavings, to be used as kindling.

The kindling is collected after producing our firewood. It is then netted and stored under cover for at least 9 months. The kindling is used in conjunction with either a fire lighter, or several pieces of screwed up newspaper, to start your fire.

The following is an extract from the Firewood Buyers Guide

WHY YOU SHOULD ONLY BURN DRY WOOD

It is important that you only ever burn dry wood. Burning wood with a high moisture content causes pollution, will quickly build up flammable resins in your chimney and is very inefficient. Unseasoned wood may well be cheaper to buy than seasoned wood but it will require you to store it for a year or more before it is ready to burn. When burnt efficiently wood produces virtually no smoke and is carbon neutral which means it does not add to the greenhouse gases, which are associated with global warming. If harvested from sustainable sources, wood is a completely renewable source of energy.

IS ALL WOOD THE SAME?

You can spend hours reading the considered thoughts of the pros and cons of different species of wood and their characteristics when burnt on an open fire or stove but be aware that when fully seasoned, the calorific value of all wood types is very similar by weight. You could thus argue that there is no such thing as bad wood - it is just that you will need far more logs from some species compared to others to achieve the same heat output.

BUYING FIREWOOD - QUANTITIES, THINGS TO REMEMBER

One of the biggest issues firewood buyers face is understanding what the quantities of wood that are actually being offered for sale by firewood suppliers.

There are so many variables in the wood supplied that makes it particularly difficult to achieve a description or measurement that is both practical and meaningful for both the supplier and customer. Firewood logs are meant to be measured by volume, usually cubic meters. Wood is rarely sold by weight as the weight will vary dramatically depending on the species of the logs in the pile.

BUILDERS BAG / TON BAG / DUMPY BAG OF LOGS

Remember that a builders bag is not a ton of wood and it is not a cubic meter of wood (probably around 0.6 m3) and don't let anyone tell you any different! Again, it is likely that the logs inside the bag have been loosely loaded so expect the volume of your purchase to reduce if you make a nice stack of the firewood. Be aware that only dry, seasoned wood should be stored in a builders bag; as there is little opportunity for air circulation damp or wet wood will quickly develop mould if left in the bag.

HOW DO WE PRODUCE SEASONED FIREWOOD?

With the increase in demand for more sustainable green energy, the popularity of firewood has increased greatly over the last 5 years. We have found that more and more people are having log burners installed and more clients are keeping timber from the jobs to burn for themselves. As a result and not that we would want to, we literally can't cut down enough trees to supply the demand for firewood!

A few years ago I will always remember a customer getting quite upset because we couldn't supply them with seasoned firewood...their words were " That's ridiculous, that's like a pub running out of beer!" as harsh as that sounds, they were right and I think this has inspired us. We now also work with a local woodland management company, they are able to supply us with locally sourced, sustainable hardwood timber, coming mainly from estate thinning's. This enables us to provide our clients with high quality seasoned hardwood logs all year round.

The remaining timber comes from our tree work operations, primarily from condemned tree. After the tree has been felled and cut up into manageable sections, it is transported to our firewood processing yard. Once there, it is left outside for around 12 months to season, the site we currently operate on is superb for this, as its both sunny and windy, perfect for drying out timber. In the Spring and through the Summer months, using our firewood processing machines, we cut and split firewood into logs averaging 18 - 28cm in length (7 - 11 inches), we store them on recycled pallets to further improve the air circulation in our dry and airy weather proof barn. Now our firewood is waiting to be delivered, ready for your fire. This process ensures that the wood is burnt to its full potential with minimum smoke and maximum heat.

(*Minimum order 1 cubic metre)