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That's why I love these briquettes. There's no guesswork. As long as they're dry stored, they're good, & not tarring up the stove or such. You know you've a guaranteed clean burn.
Got my stove running again tonight. I'm getting the flat nice & cosy with the stove.
The electric radiator keeps the chill off, but the stove warms the room better.
Magnox cans cut into short lengths, should provide good residual warmth, for a number of years.
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That depends on many factors. Split logs dry more quickly than long lengths stacked as they have a bigger surface area. Airflow / wind through the log store. Time of year cut. Also the type of wood, Ash for example, can be burned straight from the tree, silver birch takes years.
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Split logs, quite a lot of ash, not really sure on the mix but have seen a bit of birch
Good airflow, and wind, we get ALL the wind
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Compressed logs are ok, but proper wood lasts loads longer.
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Birch is good, if its dry. There are multiple species, one very wet as it grows in really wet ground.
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I seem to be seeing the opposite. Bearing in mind I don't have this stove going all the time, I appear to be going through less briquettes than I did logs. Type of wood log would obviously play a part in working burn time out.
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Maybe your stove shuts down better than mine.
At the moment we are burning a consignment of hardwood. It was from a yacht club jetty that was built on Canvey about 25 years ago at a cost of 80k.
The clubs lease expired & the developers moved in & the club closed down. The redundant launching jetty became a bit of a hazard with kids tombstoning off it. Recently seawall works led to the jetty being demolished & our yacht club managed to blag all the timber. It took 4 large plant trailer loads to move it.
I then salvaged anything usable but 40% ended up as firewood. Terrible really but its all in our wood store now.
Its tropical hardwood, Kapur, keruing & similar, Some of it has gribble & shipworm in it but its been drying for a year so keeping us warm!
The clubs lease expired & the developers moved in & the club closed down. The redundant launching jetty became a bit of a hazard with kids tombstoning off it. Recently seawall works led to the jetty being demolished & our yacht club managed to blag all the timber. It took 4 large plant trailer loads to move it.
I then salvaged anything usable but 40% ended up as firewood. Terrible really but its all in our wood store now.
Its tropical hardwood, Kapur, keruing & similar, Some of it has gribble & shipworm in it but its been drying for a year so keeping us warm!
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Birch or Sweet Chestnut are common favourites.
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Gribble are a tiny isopod, about the size of a grain of rice, Sort of marine woodlice they burrow into exposed timbers in tidal waters & tunnel just under the surface which breaks away, eventually large sections of timber can be eaten away. Shipworm are a mollusc & much bigger leaving holes up to 8mm dia or bigger in the tropics.
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Yet another learning day, thanks
