Wet Logs Banned

[trevskoda]

One thing is for certain.......the price for seasoned logs will go up!

And many trees will be cut down.

 

[campervanannie]

This will be annie knackered

Well I think this is payback for celebrating Guy Fawkes it’s only taken the 415 years still what goes around comes around eventually

 

[campervanannie]

If Guido Fawkes had done a proper job we would not have needed an annual bonfire to celebrate his demise wet wood tree branches old pallets a few tyres etc, what will happen to that lot now?

Landfill.

 

[groyne]

Who uses fire lighters? My method for lighting the stove is to put smaller logs along the back and sides, scrunched up newspapers in the middle and kindling on top of that. All controls fully open, light the paper in several places, leave the door ajar and watch it go. When the kindling is fully alight, another small log on top, once up to temp, shut the door, adjust the controls, feed as necessary.

 

[trevskoda]

They used to use sugar and dripping to light a fire here.

 

[campervanannie]

They used to use sugar and dripping to light a fire here.

yes we did and potato peelings to damp it down at night.

 

[n brown]

my mother would burn anything to get the fire going , cooking oil, boot polish , sugar etc , then hold a newspaper page across the fireplace to create a draught . many's the time this caught fire , resulting in a strange sweary fire dance you wouldn't dare laugh at
in the house we had in Provence we had a choice of open fire that used 2 days of chainsawing up the woods to feed,or a small woodburner. i found enough flue pipe in the old sheds to go across the living room,up, and across the bedroom. workked ok ,but we'd have loved CH

 

[caledonia]

Could not be ar-ed with wood or coal,who cleans it and fills it,oil easy just set the temp stat and it takes care of its self leaving me to come and go as i please,two oil fills a year.

Never use wet logs on a wood burner, only well seasoned. I cut, leave in the open for a year then under cover for at least another year before using.
if anybody has read the excellent book “Norwegian Wood“ there is a chapter devoted to the top down method of lighting a wood burner to prevent pollution and it has been proven to work. Apparently the Norwegian Government were so concerned about high levels of log burner pollution that they initiated a campaign on teaching folk how to light their stoves - pollution levels dropped dramatically.

I have a Worcester Greenstar Heatslave oil combi boiler which takes care of the hot water only because being rural we don’t have mains gas.

 

[witzend]

my mother would burn anything to get the fire going ,then hold a newspaper page across the fireplace to create a draught . many's the time this caught fire , resulting in a strange sweary fire dance you wouldn't dare laugh at

That just got me laughing seen the same dance many times we mainly used old oil filters always had a supply in a bucket when they started changing to canisters lost our supply

 

[Nabsim]

We always used the newspaper to draw the fire, was the way I was taught to do it. You get quite adept at screwing the newspaper up and getting it in the fire without it going up the chimney. Mind you I would probably torch myself and everything around me now lol

 

[caledonia]

 

[antiquesam]

my mother would burn anything to get the fire going , cooking oil, boot polish , sugar etc , then hold a newspaper page across the fireplace to create a draught . many's the time this caught fire , resulting in a strange sweary fire dance you wouldn't dare laugh at
in the house we had in Provence we had a choice of open fire that used 2 days of chainsawing up the woods to feed,or a small woodburner. i found enough flue pipe in the old sheds to go across the living room,up, and across the bedroom. workked ok ,but we'd have loved CH

We must have been posh. We had a metal sheet with a handle to hold in front of the fire.

 

[Deleted member 5816]

We must have been posh. We had a metal sheet with a handle to hold in front of the fire.

Yea a Draw Tin

Alf

 

[trevskoda]

I have a Worcester Greenstar Heatslave oil combi boiler which takes care of the hot water only because being rural we don’t have mains gas.

The oil heating does that if put in right,many are bodge jobs.

 

[n brown]

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reminds me of standing in a similar position wearing Levi jeans . it was only when you moved that you appreciated just how hot those copper rivets could get without scorching the material !

 

[maingate]

We must have been posh. We had a metal sheet with a handle to hold in front of the fire.

Know as a bleezer in the North East.

 

[peter palance]

Logs made of coffee,boy you lot are very strange.

trev if you are feeling strange, please have a look in the mirror, ooooh is the pretty est,? of them all, ok take another look, not bad eh , ok. pj p.s. i wear glasses .

 

[antiquesam]

Know as a bleezer in the North East.

I never knew that and me a Sand dancer.

 

[peter palance]

Trouble is if you burn the politicians they are even wetter …...………...

oh no.half wet eh, ok.pj.

 

[Toffeecat]

So old engine oil and tyres are ok! Few, thats ok then. But on a serious note i use smokeless fuel and dry logs on my fire. But then i look up and see a jet flying overhead and think the gov has its priorities in the wrong place.