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Loving my wood burner. Where to get wood in bulk from?

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    #21
    Originally posted by WTFH View Post

    How big a chainsaw do I need to bring to get the tree down?
    Should be ok with a 16 inch, after a night with NLyUK I don't usually bother with anything smaller.
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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      #22

      Close to the same size as this one (Which The WifeTM got as a birthday present):
      https://www.mowers2go.co.uk/machines...rdless-pruner/ (She was happy with 4")


      Others I have include:
      https://www.terriertools.co.uk/stihl...er_41822000160 (12")

      And this one:
      https://www.hughiewillett.co.uk/prod...81-chainsaw-16 (16")


      Also have a couple of electric ones.
      …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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        #23
        That baby one looks like a supermarket scanner I've got the 14" version of yours but I almost exclusively use my electric MSA 200 since buying that. Wonderful, and uses the same battery as my polesaw and trimmer (HTA/HLA 85) which are also wonderful. Glad to be shot of petrol engines
        Originally posted by MaryPoppins
        I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
        Originally posted by vetran
        Urine is quite nourishing

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          #24
          Surely you just tell your outdoors staff to go and coppice one of your woods? AYCOTBAC?

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            #25
            Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
            Surely you just tell your outdoors staff to go and coppice one of your woods? AYCOTBAC?
            I choose to do it. Like the queen doing the dishes.
            Originally posted by MaryPoppins
            I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
            Originally posted by vetran
            Urine is quite nourishing

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              #26
              Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
              Surely you just tell your outdoors staff to go and coppice one of your woods? AYCOTBAC?
              Now is not the time to coppice woods, since the birds will be nesting. Even my chimney sweep knows that, and he’s 8.
              …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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                #27
                Originally posted by WTFH View Post


                Close to the same size as this one (Which The WifeTM got as a birthday present):
                https://www.mowers2go.co.uk/machines...rdless-pruner/ (She was happy with 4")


                Others I have include:
                https://www.terriertools.co.uk/stihl...er_41822000160 (12")

                And this one:
                https://www.hughiewillett.co.uk/prod...81-chainsaw-16 (16")


                Also have a couple of electric ones.
                the wife is just being polite no women is happy with 4 inches, ask Warty!
                Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                  #28
                  Originally posted by d000hg View Post

                  I choose to do it. Like the queen doing the dishes.
                  Mmmm....

                  I don't see your brand of chain saw for purchase.

                  The Queen has her own brand of washing up liquid - https://metro.co.uk/2022/03/21/queen...-pop-16315558/
                  "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by WTFH View Post

                    Now is not the time to coppice woods, since the birds will be nesting. Even my chimney sweep knows that, and he’s 8.
                    Bit early isn't it? We're still in winter here which is prime time for tree work. I was just laying some hawthornes the other week. Although the pigeons seem to be nesting year-round, nothing else is.
                    Originally posted by MaryPoppins
                    I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
                    Originally posted by vetran
                    Urine is quite nourishing

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                      #30
                      Originally posted by d000hg View Post
                      There are national companies who supply in dumpy (builders) bags, about a cubic meter per bag. Going rate 80-100 quid.

                      Similarly local suppliers which to be fair aren't always that easy to find, but if you search on Google Maps you can find them.

                      Finding your local arborist/tree-surgeon firm can be a good option. You used to be able to buy fresh-cut logs from them for very little and season them yourself for a year but I think that's illegal now (not 100% certain who can sell 'green' logs now).

                      I've bought logs by the lorry load before but now we are self-supplied from our own trees that I keep chopping down.
                      This is what I was looking for.... But I can't seem to locate them locally.

                      Also doesn't seem to be coming in at that price:

                      https://www.google.com/search?q=burn...&bih=896&dpr=1


                      How is this:
                      https://www.pelletkings.com/product-...d-silver-birch
                      Last edited by NorthWestPerm2Contr; 4 April 2022, 12:20.

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