Discussing All Things Firewood

Softwood

In our seasoned softwood there is a mixture of any of the following:

Larch, Pine & Spruce.

Seasoned softwood is sold in loose cubic metres (£120)

Available in the standard 9-10inch log size.

Hardwood

Our timber is processed in a couple of ways into the firewood logs we deliver. Before the timber is processed we leave it in the stacks you can see below for 12-18 months to help with the seasoning process (and reduce the risk of us running out of stock which has never happened so far in our 33 years).

When delivered the timber lengths will be stacked into sections with timber small enough to go straight through the processor stacked together and the larger timber stacked together so it can be further split before it is ready to go trough the processor or cut into rings for our little splitter (whom Jake calls triggers brush if you know you know, there are not many orginal parts left on the little thor splitter).

Once the timber fit to go straight through our Posch 375 processor has been adequately seasoned in its…

Woodsure is a not-for-profit organisation wholly owned and subsidised by HETAS.

DEFRA appointed HETAS & Woodsure to run the 'ready to burn' fuel certification scheme.

To be awarded a Woodsure certification a suppliers firewood has to be under 20% moisture content.

This includes annual inspections with pin metre readings at time of inspection alongside firewood samples that are taken away and oven tested in a lab environment to check the Wet basis moisture content.

The Air Quality (Domestic Solid Fuels Standards) (England) Regulations stop small quantities (under 2 cubic metres) of firewood from being supplied where the moisture content is above 20%.

For more information please go to the Woodsure website.

The moisture content of a piece of wood is defined in two ways:

Wet basis which is a measure of the water in a log, expressed as the weight of water as a percentage of the wet/unseasoned log. (i.e. wood and water) Dry basis which is a measure of the water in a log, expressed as the weight of water as a percentage of the completely dry log. (i.e. just the wood)

Firewood is measured on a wet basis and although the new law does not mention what basis is used it is relating to fuel so it can be assumed the moisture content should be 20% wet basis.