Log Fires - the future?

[Bornfree]

My mate is a kitchen fitter and he brings me old kitchen units and worktops for free. I cut them up on a circular saw so basically free wood for the last 17 years. Three 45 gallon barrels full heat the house for a week.

 

[roofman]

Sh*t. Does that mean we're not supposed to in general?

Just go where your heart takes you sweetpea

 

[Shox Dr]

You wont have a choice, your Mrs will either love it, or hate it!

I bought the Stove we have from a bloke who had only fitted it the week before. The misses didnt like it. Got a brand new (£2800) stove for 750quid

 

[Blobber]

My mate is a kitchen fitter and he brings me old kitchen units and worktops for free. I cut them up on a circular saw so basically free wood for the last 17 years. Three 45 gallon barrels full heat the house for a week.

I'll burn most stuff but that's got to be nasty stuff to burn

 

[Barking Mat]

Log fires, they'll never catch on.

 

[8ob]

You guys are missing out again, currently clearing 30 acres of scrub and Birch regen, its a rake and burn job. Tidy few tons of Birch in there, most of it between six and nine inches in diameter, we just dont have the time on the job to extract/process it.

Bob

 

[reb78]

You guys are missing out again, currently clearing 30 acres of scrub and Birch regen, its a rake and burn job. Tidy few tons of Birch in there, most of it between six and nine inches in diameter, we just dont have the time on the job to extract/process it.

Bob

Wish I was closer to you....!

 

[AVI_8]

My mate is a kitchen fitter and he brings me old kitchen units and worktops for free. I cut them up on a circular saw so basically free wood for the last 17 years. Three 45 gallon barrels full heat the house for a week.

Is that not chipboard?

 

[Bornfree]

Is that not chipboard?

Yes it burn's really well

 

[redlig]

Yes it burn's really well

Not surprising considering what it contains .

 

[Barking Mat]

Not surprising considering what it contains .

Doesn't chipboard contain really nasty glues ?

Plywood too.

 

[sako243]

23?

Mine has 6.

Don't make me count ours...

I think there are 35 on the ground floor, I gave up and let the plumber carry on counting them.

 

[AVI_8]

Doesn't chipboard contain really nasty glues ?

Plywood too.

Yes

 

[roofman]

Wish I was closer to you....!

And me

 

[Kerelise]

My mate is a kitchen fitter and he brings me old kitchen units and worktops for free. I cut them up on a circular saw so basically free wood for the last 17 years. Three 45 gallon barrels full heat the house for a week.

I often wonder, is it better to dump the units in landfill, and have all the constituent nasties leach into the groundwater etc; or better to incinerate it? Better to incinerate it I reckon ! A well ventilated, hot fire will do a nice job.

 

[prepman]

Do "Y'all" have wood pellets "over there" ?

Yessum.

 

[8ob]

I often wonder, is it better to dump the units in landfill, and have all the constituent nasties leach into the groundwater etc; or better to incinerate it? Better to incinerate it I reckon ! A well ventilated, hot fire will do a nice job.

Quite a lot of what we think of as acceptable"logwood"can give off toxins, not sure that the amounts used in log burners represent a significant threat to the environment. Log burners pale into insignificance when you take into consideration the natural forest fires which historically burned through entire continents, not saying they help the situation but in the overall picture its almost a witch hunt.

Bob

 

[Morris]

The idiot across the road burns chipboard and the like. The smell is horrible and gets in every where. It is nothing like timber and is an irritant.
He has had several complaints made about it, he stops for a while then off we go again.

 

[Gareth J]

I often wonder, is it better to dump the units in landfill, and have all the constituent nasties leach into the groundwater etc; or better to incinerate it? Better to incinerate it I reckon ! A well ventilated, hot fire will do a nice job.

A modern, regulated landfill should mitigate against leachate. I'd rather it was there. Or recycled into some other bit of tat.

 

[mtt.tr]

Quite a lot of what we think of as acceptable"logwood"can give off toxins, not sure that the amounts used in log burners represent a significant threat to the environment. Log burners pale into insignificance when you take into consideration the natural forest fires which historically burned through entire continents, not saying they help the situation but in the overall picture its almost a witch hunt.

Bob

Especially if the timber is managed and regrown. .

It's still cabron positive but better balances the books than burning fossil fuels.