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Thread ID: 126169	2012-08-11 23:05:00	Firewood-whats the best for a Metro Woodburner	smurf (6545)	PC World Chat

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1294167	2012-08-13 00:04:00	hahahaha....good one Billy......now i have to find a supply :)	smurf (6545)
1294168	2012-08-13 01:21:00	Ti-tree. In fact any hard wood. Soft wood like pine burns like paper - poof, and it's gone. Most of the hard wood is also expensive though. We used to settle on Macrocarpa instead. Ut sparks, but with woodburners, who cares.	pctek (84)
1294169	2012-08-13 05:05:00	True:)	smurf (6545)
1294170	2012-08-13 09:02:00	The best is a combination of density and dryness. Saying that I use Alnus, as I have them for shelter belts. Every year about 10% get trimmed to about waist height to allow for regrowth. Makes great firewood large amount of heat after a year drying, and it burns very clean, no tar and little ash. A heaped wheelbarrowful keeps our whole house cosy for two days. We usually have the fire just ticking over during the day	PPp (9511)
1294171	2012-08-13 09:06:00	Cheapest firewood is old pallets! They are given away free, so we collect them in summer when nobody else wants them, and they are dry, then cut them up into usable pieces with a chainsaw (avoiding all nails). You mainly get softwood, but there a reasonable number of hardwood pallets about. It doesn't much matter anyway, you can burn as much as you like because it is all free. We have not paid for firewood in many years. From time to time I pull the nails out of the (cold) ashes using a few old ferrite speaker magnets inside a plastic bag and they go off in the recyle bin. Cheers Scrooge McBilly 8-{) :help: (How else can I afford to maintain Mrs T in the manner to which she would like to become accustomed?)Yep, we stack our old pallets out side at work and they are gone as soon as you put them out	plod (107)
1294172	2012-08-13 11:59:00	In fact any hard wood. Soft wood like pine burns like paper - poof, and it's gone. Funnily enough, pallets are not made of soft wood, or at least they are certainly not sapwood. They have to carry some significant weights and get a lot of abuse so I find that they burn quite slowly if you keep the airflow limited. You usually get three 4x3 size runners and quite thick top and bottom planks, so they do last in the fire. Another benefit is that they stack very compactly so you can get two winter's supply into quite a small space. Another place near us puts out 8cm x 1.5cm dressed pine in lengths up to 3m but you have to be quick to get it. I use it for kindling. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
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