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If your planning on burning logs, first thing you need is a log store..with good air flow....and as said the idea is great but is quite labour intensive.
I can get a logging waggon in for about 800 quid, lots of logs, usually about a year to 18 months since being cut down. Still need about 4 to 6 months from being cut and split in the barn to be properly dry. A load lasted us about 3 years because the house is very well insulated. And we have an oil boiler too. But its far far easier to have someone else cut and split them. Free pallets etc are great for kindling.
Currently burning ash, but cutting that up nearly killed meand im not finished yet. I did cut some up left it out as i had no space, its now wetter than newly cut spruce. And will need a year or so in the barn if it doesnt rot first.
You will need a chainsaw and a log splitter, an axe feels good, but after a few hours it wears a bit thin.
This is one of the reasons country living is healthy, you get excercise cutting, splitting and stacking logs.
Note if building a log store, make sure access is good to it or you will end up handballing logs into it, rather than having them tipped at the door.
Oh and when you buy first thing to do get the chimneys swept, if they have been burning wet logs or green wood there could be heavy soot or tar build up.
I can get a logging waggon in for about 800 quid, lots of logs, usually about a year to 18 months since being cut down. Still need about 4 to 6 months from being cut and split in the barn to be properly dry. A load lasted us about 3 years because the house is very well insulated. And we have an oil boiler too. But its far far easier to have someone else cut and split them. Free pallets etc are great for kindling.
Currently burning ash, but cutting that up nearly killed meand im not finished yet. I did cut some up left it out as i had no space, its now wetter than newly cut spruce. And will need a year or so in the barn if it doesnt rot first.
You will need a chainsaw and a log splitter, an axe feels good, but after a few hours it wears a bit thin.
This is one of the reasons country living is healthy, you get excercise cutting, splitting and stacking logs.
Note if building a log store, make sure access is good to it or you will end up handballing logs into it, rather than having them tipped at the door.
Oh and when you buy first thing to do get the chimneys swept, if they have been burning wet logs or green wood there could be heavy soot or tar build up.