Wood fuel

We are members of the Woodsure Ready to Burn scheme, which means you can be confident that our seasoned fire wood is 20% moisture content or less.

Each bag of firewood that we sell holds 0.68 cubic metres in volume. Where firewood is seasoned (20% moisture content or below) we sell it by the dumpy bag. Where it is unseasoned (above 20% for seasoning by the customer) we supply a minimum of 2 cubic meters – which is 3 dumpy bags.

For our current prices please email enquiries@devontimber.co.uk

As the log goes through the sawmill we are constantly looking at our cutting list and looking to saw what we can out of it that will meet customers’ requirements.

Where the portions that are left have too much sapwood, knots, splits or other defects in them, these are the most likely candidates to become firewood. As the following illustration of a log with radial shake defects below shows:

The offcuts are processed into manageable sizes of firewood, cross-cut up to 30cm in length, and split. The use of the netted bags allows for good airflow for the wood to season in our barn.

The Ready to Burn website has good information for customers on storing, drying and using wood fuel to maximise its potential to burn efficiently, minimising the negative impacts on air quality and on your wood fuel stove and chimney. Please see the link below.

https://www.readytoburn.org/consumers/

If you have an open fire and chimney flue you might want to consider investing in a wood burning stove which is 60% more efficient in converting wood into heat and with far fewer particulates being released into the atmosphere. Elaine’s Stoves & Flues in Okehampton offer a great service and showroom to view a range of stove options as do Rangemoors at Winkleigh. Devon based manufacturers of Wood burning stoves “Woodwarm” and “Dean Forge” have also come highly recommended.

The joy and merit of all our products is that they are from a renewable living resource which takes CO₂ out of the atmosphere. No tree has ever been cut down just simply for firewood by our business. It is always put to a number of uses as the quality and condition of wood in the saw logs it yields, dictate. The net gain is that much of the carbon sequestered from the atmosphere is permanently stored in timber beams and structures whilst the firewood is carbon neutral. So, overall a beneficial outcome in helping to reduce the impact of climate change by CO₂ as a greenhouse gas.

After fossil fuels, wood is one of the largest traded commodities, by weight and volume, in the world. Its importance globally as a carbon neutral heat fuel source is huge. If trading in fossil fuels was ever to cease in the future wood will become one of the, if not the biggest renewable fuel source (certainly by weight).

However, not all of our wood in the UK is only fit for burning, as we have hopefully shown here with our website showing off our products. It has uses for structural timber, interior and exterior furniture as well as more aesthetic and natural values.

*NB All prices shown for firewood include a statutory 5% VAT payable on all heating fuel.

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