Wood heater flues...

[MB]

Top job Mr Mark!
Now get your trailer over here and start clearing our old fence lines, I mean collecting some family wood to warm :-)

[mudski]

Thanks guys. Its amazing how this heater where it is can help the rest of the house stay warmer. It was 7degrees outside this morning and usually we'd wake up and run to turn the ducted heating on, which doesn't work real well being 30 years old. But this morning I got up, yeah it was cold, but only a little, I went down stairs where its usually an ice box on these mornings and it was luke warm in there. And I had left a window wide open too!

Top job Mr Mark!
Now get your trailer over here and start clearing our old fence lines, I mean collecting some family wood to warm :-)

Mate! Just say the word and I will be there! I bought a cube of mixed timbers yesterday and I can see this going rather quick. Plus I need to speak with your lovely wife about my daughter and her insane horse obsession. She wont shut up about it.

Next is to do the wall for my cellar/ cave and then insulate the underfloor or ceiling depending on which way you look at it, and get some gyprock sheets up. Then do the walls.

[mudski]

Its probably not news to most but to me its informative. I found a list of Australian fire wood species and there combustible properties...
firewood species.jpg

[gubigfish]

You're missing the best one Jarrah

[UncleFrosty]

+1 @gubigfish
What they're missing on that table is a column for ash production. Jarrah burns away to almost nothing. Makes the maintenance burden a little less...

[Winnie]

Its probably not news to most but to me its informative. I found a list of Australian fire wood species and there combustible properties...
firewood species.jpg

I just burn whatever I can get my hands on, a lot of it is messmate and red stringybark.
The bloke we bought our house from though left a couple of metres of redgum behind which I am still burning but nearly out of it. If you burn your heater 24/7 you will go through a LOT of firewood. I reckon I'll need about 6 or 7 8x5 tandem trailer loads a year. Best time to get it is in Spring so it has a good 9 months to dry out over summer.

[Cuppa]

Thanks for that firewood species list.

We used to burn a fair bit of Blackwood, had a lot of mature standing trees killed by radiant heat during the Black Saturday fires but not burned on our property. We also had shiploads of Cypress which was great for kindling, but that was all. Burns very hot & wrecks grates, as well as being the worst for depositing creosote in the flue. Local to where we lived Yellowbox & Mountain ash was the most common in the surrounding bush.

[mudski]

I just burn whatever I can get my hands on, a lot of it is messmate and red stringybark.
The bloke we bought our house from though left a couple of metres of redgum behind which I am still burning but nearly out of it. If you burn your heater 24/7 you will go through a LOT of firewood. I reckon I'll need about 6 or 7 8x5 tandem trailer loads a year. Best time to get it is in Spring so it has a good 9 months to dry out over summer.

Yeah I think this winter will be to just grab whatever I can. I bought one of those moisture test thingo's from Bunnings today. As the installer had one and showed me that the wood I had bought was way to wet to burn. He was right. So I had to buy bags of dry redgum to get me going and I just stacked the dryer pieces from the load I bought next to the fire to help dry them out.
This little tool it great as it can actually measure the moisture content of concrete and bricks too.

Thanks for that firewood species list.

We used to burn a fair bit of Blackwood, had a lot of mature standing trees killed by radiant heat during the Black Saturday fires but not burned on our property. We also had shiploads of Cypress which was great for kindling, but that was all. Burns very hot & wrecks grates, as well as being the worst for depositing creosote in the flue. Local to where we lived Yellowbox & Mountain ash was the most common in the surrounding bush.

While there is the choice timbers to burn, the installer said, hey if its wood, don't chuck it, burn it. He looked at the two massive pines we have that I am planning on lopping and I was going to get rid of the wood as I thought its crap for burning. The guy said to keep it and just mix it in with the better timbers. Its free wood and it will make your stock last longer.

So I guess collecting firewood is kinda like me having a wine collection. The older the stock is the better it is.

[Winnie]

Pretty much, it can get too old and rot though.
I'm the same as you, I didn't buy my chainsaw and trailer until well into autumn so am not burning great wood at the moment, next year we will be more prepared.

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[firm351]

Keep the pine for sure mate. I cut down 3 22 meter tall radiata pine trees last year at my place. It makes the best starting wood i reckon and good for getting a dead fire roaring again quickly. Mix it with my jarrah and its good as gold. Shame you dont have jarrah over there, i reckons you cant beat it for firewood, easy to split and burns really good with no ash.

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