Log Fires - the future?

[dobbslc]

In answer to the title of this thread.
Yes.


Just got home from a weekend away and it's a bit chilly, so on with the fire
Most of this year's wood has been collected, chopped and split by my wife and I so basically free.
I just wish I had fitted a back boiler type log burner when we put this one in

 

[Cobbler]

I expect the cockroaches will take over.
Never trusted 'em.

It was said that in the case of a nuclear ”event” the one thing that would survive would be cockroaches. No idea whether it’s true & I hope we never find out.

 

[Shox Dr]

Drax is going solar and getting a 150MW battery, not sure how long it will be burning wood but I would be measuring it in months

Wont need to light the fire for a month

Seriously though. How? Got a linky

 

[MattF]

No idea whether it’s true & I hope we never find out.

We'd never find out anyhow, if they're the only thing that'd survive.

 

[Kayos]

Wont need to light the fire for a month

Seriously though. How? Got a linky

Not much out in public, mentions Ferrybridge but that's just part of it, the whole Drax, Ferrybridge, Eggborough, Salt End and some in NE Lincolnshire are part of a huge project getting underway

Projects | SSE Renewables

www.sserenewables.com

 

[fizzy]

Epic is size, not as in amazingly awesome (although they are a sight to behold, good or bad) maybe I should have used vast or enormous instead…
That lignite stuff is horrible, I can’t believe they still burn it…

Their so called Greens are just the anti nuclear lobby under a new hat. They obviously don't care or they wouldn't burn the stuff.

 

[magnet]

There is sea coal a foot deep on our local beach.........Free for the taking. Works great in my allday and onions coal forge and just as good on the open fire in the front room.
We had a big sea with that recent storm so there'll be a bonanza in a day or two. Carrying it off the beach is savage amusement mind

 

[AVI_8]

I haven’t read through all 5 pages of this thread but, I’ve had a log burner for the past 7 years, saves me a fortune as I only need the central heating turned up to 18 degrees this year, last year it was 17 due to the price of gas. The stove means the living room is toasty the rest of the house reasonably comfortable.
The first couple of years I was a wood slave, sourcing, chopping, seasoning about 15 cubic metres of wood, now I use a combination of smokeless fuel with a log chucked on top, the wood I get for free, easy when you have a trailer, a ton of smokeless fuel is about £630 and will last more or less a winter, reduced wood consumption by about 2/3rds, this year I also got a half ton of peat, it’s ok, but leaves a lot of ash after it’s burned.
The money I spend sounds like a lot but last winter my gas and electric was over £700 per month so a grand on smokeless fuel and peat over the winter is a significant saving on what it would cost by not having the stove and turning the heating up another 3-4 degrees.
I looked at coal but it was no cheaper than the smokeless fuel which I think comes from South America, so it has a carbon footprint just to get it here

 

[addjunkie]

I haven’t read through all 5 pages of this thread but, I’ve had a log burner for the past 7 years, saves me a fortune as I only need the central heating turned up to 18 degrees this year, last year it was 17 due to the price of gas. The stove means the living room is toasty the rest of the house reasonably comfortable.
The first couple of years I was a wood slave, sourcing, chopping, seasoning about 15 cubic metres of wood, now I use a combination of smokeless fuel with a log chucked on top, the wood I get for free, easy when you have a trailer, a ton of smokeless fuel is about £630 and will last more or less a winter, reduced wood consumption by about 2/3rds, this year I also got a half ton of peat, it’s ok, but leaves a lot of ash after it’s burned.
The money I spend sounds like a lot but last winter my gas and electric was over £700 per month so a grand on smokeless fuel and peat over the winter is a significant saving on what it would cost by not having the stove and turning the heating up another 3-4 degrees.
I looked at coal but it was no cheaper than the smokeless fuel which I think comes from South America, so it has a carbon footprint just to get it here

We burn a mix of logs and those ovaloid coal replacement things. Its a boiler stove soheats the whole house when its on, also adding enough heat during the burn to sustain the UFH most of the following* day unless it's baltic

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

The money I spend sounds like a lot but last winter my gas and electric was over £700 per month

Is that a typo....or do you live in a castle?

 

[AVI_8]

We burn a mix of logs and those ovaloid coal replacement things. Its a boiler stove soheats the whole house when its on, also adding enough heat during the burn to sustain the UFH most of the following* day unless it's baltic

Yes with hindsight when I installed the stove I’d have it plumbed into the CH, I did look into it but the process seemed a bit complicated at the time and it’s not my area of expertise

 

[AVI_8]

Is that a typo....or do you live in a castle?

No it’s not a castle or a typo, house is detached, exposed and Edwardian so not insulated like a modern house.

 

[JimmyS]

weve got a fair few crappy sitka spruce trees that were planted in the 1940s that I'm using as firewood. It's crap firewood and burns away to nothing but it's free and the trees are in my way. Doesn't split very well either. I'm going to have to get someone in to take down some of the big ones as I'm not sure I'd manage to do it safely. Probably end up in local paper, idiot blocks road with tree or something. Some of the must be 70 or 80 feet high and are over 40 inches dia.

 

[redlig]

It was said that in the case of a nuclear ”event” the one thing that would survive would be cockroaches. No idea whether it’s true & I hope we never find out.

As most of the country is run by them I don't expect we will notice the change presuming we also survive.

 

[AVI_8]

weve got a fair few crappy sitka spruce trees that were planted in the 1940s that I'm using as firewood. It's crap firewood and burns away to nothing but it's free and the trees are in my way. Doesn't split very well either. I'm going to have to get someone in to take down some of the big ones as I'm not sure I'd manage to do it safely. Probably end up in local paper, idiot blocks road with tree or something. Some of the must be 70 or 80 feet high and are over 40 inches dia.

Yes spruce needs to be well seasoned, once chopped into logs and stacked I’d say 12 months, pine can be like that also, lots of sap which needs to be dried off

 

[minimutly]

Yes spruce needs to be well seasoned, once chopped into logs and stacked I’d say 12 months, pine can be like that also, lots of sap which needs to be dried off

Yes, leave it out in the rain one winter at least before drying.

 

[Shox Dr]

Not much out in public, mentions Ferrybridge but that's just part of it, the whole Drax, Ferrybridge, Eggborough, Salt End and some in NE Lincolnshire are part of a huge project getting underway

Projects | SSE Renewables

www.sserenewables.com

If they build the bog roll factory there will be a Prototype Fusion power station next to it

Five sites shortlisted for UK fusion energy plant

The STEP programme will pave the way to commercial fusion and a virtually limitless supply of low-carbon energy

www.gov.uk

 

[AVI_8]

Yes, leave it out in the rain one winter at least before drying.

Better than nothing but a log store would be better

 

[mtt.tr]

If I was selling wood at today's prices when I had my tree business I would be laughing.

Used to be £80 for a small load now closer to £150-200.
Biomass wood chip is viable to have collected and not just mulched or tipped

It's crazy the amount of trees felled daily by tree surgeons without any hope of replanting, It is justify able to burn wood so long as you replant.

 

[keithski122]

We have an open fire which we used at weekends for many years but have decided its such a pain in the butt to use that we just stick with the central heating now.