Discussing All Things Firewood 🪵

Log suppliers in the UK are not permitted to sell logs based on weight due to the nature of wood and it’s inconsistencies.

Different hardwood/Softwood species vary greatly in weight naturally due to the tightness of the grain, the time taken for the tree to grow, moisture content along with many other variables.

For example - if you had the same size logs with the same moisture content - one ash log and one oak log - the oak log would weigh substantially more due to its tight grain than the ash log which has a looser grain.

So a cubic metre bag of ash logs would weigh a lot less than a cubic metre bag of oak logs HOWEVER the volume of logs would be the same ie both cubic metre bags would be full of logs despite having a different weight.

(Please note we only used separate…