.jpg)
Apparently the pieces of wood are mechanically pressed together with no additives or glue and you end up with your very own recycled wood logs. I have read there are some of these wood products that are made abroad and contain glue to hold them together?
I think it is good way of recycling wood and they give off good heat.
The instructions on the plastic packaging tells you to break the log into 3 and place a firelighter under them and light them.
Anyone tried them? Any good? Much heat? I think they are ok. I used my last bag of logs that I bought at a carboot sale recently. A manure (fertilizer) bag for for 5 Euros.
It's another wash out weekend here so we won't be going car booting this weekend. At least we have our German supermarket, garden centre and beer providers to supply us with wood to keep us warm.
We don't have street lights or pavements or public transport in the country side next to the sea. But we do not have to live in a smokeless zone and we can have a lit stove or open fire.
Have you used these recycled wood logs. How do you keep warm? Are there any good cheap electric heaters you recommend? Oil is very expensive to fill a tank.
I love alot fire in a stove. I can day dream and watch the dancing flames. The door is shut and it's safe to go to bed with it still lit unlike an open fire. Although we usually let it die down before retiring for the evening.
Remember this?
We had an open coal fire in our childhood home, it was brilliant, had a back boiler so it heated our water as well. Here we only have radiators, and a fake electric log-burner, which we only ever turn the glow light on. Our bungalow is almost 100 years old, it's a lovely house to keep warm.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your childhood home coal fire memories Marlene. Back in the days when we didn't have plastic packaging and everything including our fish and chips was wrapped in paper that you could burn on the fire. I often wonder how much we all spend on heating our front rooms and houses during the Autumn and Winter. Thanks for your comment.
ReplyDeleteWe heated solely with wood when we lived in the woods, and that wood came from our own fallen trees cut to length with a chain saw, loaded up on the truck and brought back up to the house to be split. We had a woodshed, and in the later years, we had a log splitter. Now we are in the city and heat with natural gas. We have a wood pile for a woodstove insert for the fireplace in the library. When we make our move to the new house, we have our own producing gas well for free heat. We also have a small cast iron stove that will ultimately wind up on the sunporch for cool nights. We can buy slab wood from nearly any body.
ReplyDeleteOh...and the best firestarter I know is toilet paper tubes stuffed with dryer lint.
ReplyDeleteWow Debby. Your life in the woods sounds amazing. You should write about it. In England during the Industrial Revolution people built factories and mills next to powerful rivers and coalfields to harness natural resources like water and coal and timber to work their machinery. Imagine having your own natural gas supply? Here in Bantry. There was a water powered water wheel at a wool factory (Bantry Library site) in the 1930s and they powered the stree t lights from it.
ReplyDeleteThat was actually why my husband bought the property: Because of that gas well.
DeleteWhat a clever husband. You are going to save lots of money. I know someone who harnesses a local river to power their engineering company and they even sell it to the electricity company.
DeleteI have used recycled wood logs although not the particular make you show here. The coffee logs are very good and the eco logs and some heat logs I think the name is have always been excellent. I buy my logs by the trailer load now and have a local company who deliver and generally are good to me with summer prices. The recycled logs were always good when I didn't have a delivery company and used to tied me over when I couldn't get a load of logs from anywhere else.
ReplyDeleteA lot of the cheap fire lighters contain little paraffin. Great toilet paper tip. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThanks Rachel. There are different prices for softwood, hardwood and kiln dried logs here. Do you buy coal or smokeless fuel when it gets really cold? The government here have just risen the carbon tax on a bag by 80 Cents this week. I hope we don't have a heavy snow winter like 2010. It's bucketing it down here today. I think I will be lighting the stove soon. Might make some potato and leek soup? I will have to put on my waterproofs to dig up a leek.😊
ReplyDeleteI buy kiln dried logs and they are very heat efficient. I don't buy anything but these logs. I have back up oil heating as well but I am trying to not turn it on until at least November or even later. I filled my tank in the summer before the Middle East sent the oil price up when things escalated last week. It is dry and sunny here again today. I wear many layers in the house including hat to save heat.
DeleteThanks Rachel for telling us about your winter fuel arrangements. We are also trying to delay putting on the oil until at least November. It's horribly wet here and flooding. I sometimes wear my jumper in bed to keep warm. Physical work like mucking out and gardening keep me warm. Hot drinks also help.
DeleteOur old house had an open fire with a back boiler for the hot water . We had plenty of wood to burn, mainly from old pallets and fallen trees plus the odd bag of coal. Now we have oil central heating which is quite efficient but costly.
ReplyDeleteWe do have a back up electric heater, one of those oscillating ones but haven't needed to use it much.
Keep warm!
Thanks JayCee. We put in a Stanley solid fuel range when we built here about twenty years ago. We bought bags of coal and I made logs and I even collected driftwood and I bought bags of turf or peat. We never had a bill but it blew back sometimes during gale season. So we bought an oil fired Aga range and now it's costly to buy oil. We are just lighting the stove in the front room at the moment and buying logs.
ReplyDeleteGreat blog
ReplyDeleteHi again Rajani. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of these. We burn olive wood, trimmings after last year's harvest. Eucalyptus is very good too. There's lots of pine wood but the resin blocks the chimney and can cause fires.
ReplyDeleteConifers are full of oil and resins Linda. Driftwood is worth collecting and drying out before burning.
ReplyDeleteWe haven't tried those, but our dogs are expert at picking up branches - beech, silver birch, oak, rhododendron - in the woods and keep us well supplied with kindling. We still have logs seasoning from several years ago and we use smokeless coal as well.
ReplyDeleteYou sound very fuel wise and organised Jabblog. We buy smokeless 20kg bags of smokeless fuel and it gets more expensive every year with the carbon tax applied.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you know that so-called Welsh anthracite is imported from Columbia, following the Welsh governments' decision to stop all mining! Crazy! 🙃🙃
DeleteI did not know that. I have read there are at least 200 years of coal under the ground over there.
ReplyDeleteWear the right clothes indoors throughout the winter and you will be as warm as toast. All you need to do is research what Inuits wear on hunting expeditions.
ReplyDeleteThey put us old folk out to fish when we get old. There is a takeaway in Bantry called Eskimo. Small world. I said do you de liver. They said only "lamb".
ReplyDeleteThey should be selling seals and harpooned fish fresh from the sea.
DeleteThey should sell kayaks after yesterdays rain.
ReplyDelete