Due to a 40% rise nationally in the sale of multi fuel stoves, as well as the rising prices of gas and electricity there is a greater demand for quality logs.
Quality logs are well seasoned, hand split and sized to suit.
Seasoning can take anything up to three years for some hard woods.
At the moment we are supplying in loads and half loads. We soon plan to deliver in large barrow bags.
A full load is two and a half cubic metres in volume.
What’s Available now?
Well seasoned spruce - burns fast and hot.
£110 Full load
£ 60 Half load
A limited supply of well seasoned birch - burns hot and longer than the spruce.
£160 Full load
£ 85 Half load
A good supply of green birch - birch will burn green although not as well as seasoned, however a good summer out in the sun and wind should be enough for it to burn well this winter.
£160 Full load
£ 85 Half load
The Landy Tipper
All our loads, half loads and soon bags will be delivered in our very reliable Landrover Tipper.
It has four wheel drive with diff lock and high and low box so there aren’t many places that we can’t get too!
The Landrover is an ex-utilty vehicle and we had the tipper body specially fabricated and it conforms to european standards.
Kids love it and if they are around when we deliver they can press the tipper button on the remote to tip the logs.
Log News
We are always on the lookout for timber suitable for logs.
If you have trees that you want removed or woods that want thinning we will take into account the value of the timber to us when we price for the job.
Sometimes the work can be done in exchange for the timber. An example of this is our work for the Strathspey Steam Railway, pictured opposite.
We manage all their tree works and mostly this work is done for the value of the wood, so they pay nothing!
We have a growing supply of un-seasoned hard woods available. If you have the space you could buy now to avoid dissapointment in the winter.
What to burn and why
Old wives tales and myth seem to surround these subjects. So we will try to unravel some of these for you.
The main thing with any log is that it is well seasoned.
That is that it has been left to dry out long enough for the moisture content to be below 25%.
If wood is not properly seasoned you will be using heat energy to dry out the wood as well as burn it. This tends to make the wood smoulder which is when the softer woods will deposit a residue on the sides of the flu that can cause chimney fires.
Hard wood or soft wood? The basic difference is burn time. Hardwood will tend to burn 50% longer than soft wood.
For open fires people seem to prefer the hard woods whereas for stoves it doesn’t make much difference apart from the volume of wood you need to burn. As for the new wood boilers I have heard that soft wood is preferred.
Personally we think you cant beat a mixed load. A bit of soft wood to get the fire going and then hard wood to keep it in.
4.5 KW Stove
Burning Ash logs
