I've been burning softwood, (mixed species), for the last three years and on my log gas boiler it burns fine. I buy in usually three or four forwarder loads at a time from a forestry contractor I know. I ditched the idea of sawing and splitting myself I've got a hard enough job of work without more bl**y toil. So I get a local firewood supplier who has a large mobile splitter to come and split it, at his convenience. This I find is the most cost effective way to tackle a 24 ton load of logs. He, the firewood guy, usually spends a day of so chainsawing to length while I keep the tea and sandwiches rolling. When he has a huge pile he brings along the splitter and spends another day chucking the stuff in. That just leaves me with the job of hauling and stacking, which for me personally, is work enough. You may be lucky to get a couple of loads of hardwood but softwood burns fine in a fan assisted boiler.

Ah great minds think alike. Cordwood and Arbtalk.

Getting smaller loads is not necessarily easy. I have been trying to buy in smaller loads (18 T) and have failed but can get a full arctic load (28 T).

Not easy cutting and splitting these sorts of amounts without some machinery. Just ordered a mobile firewood processor for doing a bit of work for those that don't fancy doing it all with chainsaw and axe. If you don't fancy doing it all yourself give me a shout as I am also in Devon.

Where are You renewablejohn

I'm in Chester and will eventually need a supply

Arnyj

Beau
They are cutting down loads of deceased trees down here, closer to you actually. What happens to all of those. Has the timber been bought up to turn into chippings or pellets for industrial burners?

I wash my wellies and walking boots, but then I have been involved with farms recently and during the foot and mouth outbreak.
Not being a fan of any burning, I do hope that it is going to a power station rather than just an incinerator.

Depends if its classified as waste - get into all sorts of fun with waste transfer licences etc depending on how its been recorded !

Local sawmill to me has now started a pellet operation from their offcuts and brash - as its run as a separate company thought they have to do all the waste transfer paperwork !

On the subject of cutting and splitting 28t loads - the cost of the kit to do it yourself properly would be excessive as just handling a 300kg log would be difficult without machinery, then adding the cost of the splitter and the saws plus PPE, its not cheap

Cheers

Peter