City Firewood Supplies

[The Reibz]

If anyone in the Auckland area is still needing firewood for the winter DO NOT (R) DO NOT use these cunts.

Mrs got a top up load from them off grab one, and the shit is so wet it might as well have been dragged out of the sea. If anyone has a order in with them cancel it now and look elsewhere.
Just wasted 2 hours of my life stacking the shit after they dropped it off 50m down the drive. Ah well good for the fitness and it looks like I will be sussed for wood next year.

Anyone else had dealings with these clowns?

[nzspokes]

Ive got some kindling, probably a solid trailer load. Free to good home...

[Swoop]

I get the firewood in during February. Stack it up and for some weird reason it is all dry for winter.

People who leave it until the last moment will always get wet firewood, from any source, at this time of winter.

[Virago]

I get the firewood in during February. Stack it up and for some weird reason it is all dry for winter.

People who leave it until the last moment will always get wet firewood, from any source, at this time of winter.

It never ceases to amaze me that people buy their firewood mid-winter, and bleat that it's not bone-dry. As always, it's the supplier's fault.

[The Reibz]

It never ceases to amaze me that people buy their firewood mid-winter, and bleat that it's not bone-dry. As always, it's the supplier's fault.

It is there fault. The advert said good quality "dry" firewood. The Mrs brought home a moisture meter from her work and all but one piece we tested came up with over 28% moisture content.

[Woodman]

It never ceases to amaze me that people buy their firewood mid-winter, and bleat that it's not bone-dry. As always, it's the supplier's fault.

Never a truer word spoken. i'm about half through my dry wood now and have re ordered for next winter. Can't guarantee dry wood this time of year no matter what the wood guys ads say.

[Road kill]

It is there fault. The advert said good quality "dry" firewood. The Mrs brought home a moisture meter from her work and all but one piece we tested came up with over 28% moisture content.

I was going to say,,I bet you live on the north fucking shore,,,but then,,oh well.:laugh:

[AllanB]

Leave him alone ya sad saps.

I loaded up pre xmas but due to my fucked earthquake damaged house you may as well have a conveyor belt feeding wood in to the log burner in an attempt to keep the house warm. Burn 40% more wood than pre fucked house (that's a technical term now in CHCH) so I also end up topping up the wood pile mid winter.

But it does actually get cold down here ........

[Gremlin]

But it does actually get cold down here ........
It's got into single digits up here now too! 9.9 degrees... Do you think I'll make it through the night? :confused:

[unstuck]

Im already cutting trees down for 2016. The stuff I will be splitting this summer was dropped in 2011. But then I have a forest.:msn-wink:

[imdying]

Leave him alone ya sad saps.

I loaded up pre xmas but due to my fucked earthquake damaged house you may as well have a conveyor belt feeding wood in to the log burner in an attempt to keep the house warm. Burn 40% more wood than pre fucked house (that's a technical term now in CHCH) so I also end up topping up the wood pile mid winter.

But it does actually get cold down here ........

Heh yeah... having no doors that close properly does not do the power/gas bill much good :laugh: :(

[george formby]

Leave him alone ya sad saps.

I loaded up pre xmas but due to my fucked earthquake damaged house you may as well have a conveyor belt feeding wood in to the log burner in an attempt to keep the house warm. Burn 40% more wood than pre fucked house (that's a technical term now in CHCH) so I also end up topping up the wood pile mid winter.

But it does actually get cold down here ........

I hear ya. I'm going through a mtr3 every 10 days or so, the fire has not been out for a month. All in an attempt to stop mushrooms growing on the walls. It's working, though.

[Swoop]

I cringe every winter. The retards who live out the back of Mum's place get a cube delivered but only in the middle of winter. It gets dumped on their driveway and there it stays... out in the open. When these retards need a log for the fire, one of the MENSA candidates comes out to get a log. A (singular) log, which is wetter than a fishes tail, and takes it inside.
I bet they lose more heat than they generate, each time the retards leave the door open to go outside.

Where is Mr Darwin when you really need him?

[bogan]

Maybe the dude doesn't have adequate dry storage for a whole winter's worth, so expects to pay a firewood co to store his second half and sell dry wood if it is advertised as such.

Selling wet firewood as dry is like selling a watertight boat which has a few leaks, or like selling susan boyle as a hooker, either way you're gonna be wet, cold, and unsatisfied.

[unstuck]

It's got into single digits up here now too! 9.9 degrees... Do you think I'll make it through the night? :confused:

Thats our high for the day Im guessing, supposed to reach 11, but I wont be counting on it.:lol:

[The Reibz]

Fark sounds like quite a few of us live in drafty houses. Mines EX-State, got good insulation but the windows might as well be open all the time and the landlord aint gonna replace them.
A box of those compressed saw dust logs usually lasts me 2 nights, those things burn forever. Anyone still burn coal?


I was going to say,,I bet you live on the north fucking shore,,,but then,,oh well.
Care to share where you live ay fuckstick? What the fuck is up with all those commas in your shit? End yourself...

[george formby]

Just pulled out the old Champion coal range. Chimney is knackered. Shame really, I've just heard rumour they may be re-opening the mines just up the road.

If their are any others reading this who are less than proficient with a chainsaw & axe or who just have soft hands & a low pain threshold have a look at these. The girlfriend put me onto them. I was very skeptical until they turned up. Takes less than 30 mins to do a good mtr3 of wood ready to burn without breaking sweat. Impressed I am. Not a plug just putting it out there. Soz for the hijack too. The splitter even goes through knotty, hard old Ti Tree stumps.

http://youtu.be/72KlK4h7HJ8

http://youtu.be/qZbMbxUImbI

[Jantar]

We got in 8m of wood in early April, and I only just finished stacking it yesterday. We may need to start on it next week as last years wood is down to about 1/2 m.

As usual the wood we bought this year was not dry when delivered, but having been outside for 2 months before I even started stacking it it is now well weathered, and the part that was stacked under cover 6 weeks ago is now well and truely dry.

Wood may be advertised as dry firewood, but it seldom is.

[jasonu]

http://youtu.be/72KlK4h7HJ8

http://youtu.be/qZbMbxUImbI

Na those are for queers.

This is a log splitter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQjR0wypHGU

and a chainsaw.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Tamp2fHhg

[unstuck]

This is the only splitter I have left, I sold my good one a couple of years ago. I made the one on the back of the old fiat about 15yrs ago and it is still going strong. Gotta have firewood down here, most of the trees in this pic are gone now though, but still have 63 acres of pines and eucalytpts to go, so shouldnt run out.:banana::banana:

[Maha]

Gas is bliss.

[unstuck]

Gas is bliss.

Until you cant get your bottles filled because of powercuts or natural disasters.:innocent:

[nzspokes]

This is the only splitter I have left, I sold my good one a couple of years ago. I made the one on the back of the old fiat about 15yrs ago and it is still going strong. Gotta have firewood down here, most of the trees in this pic are gone now though, but still have 63 acres of pines and eucalytpts to go, so shouldnt run out.:banana::banana:

Your younger than you sound going by the pic.....

[Maha]

Until you cant get your bottles filled because of powercuts or natural disasters.:innocent:

Happened only once, three day's without power here about 5-6 years ago, we had a gas bottle heater and the, the hob still worked, just the heater wont work without the fan, some safety bullshit :corn:
Mains supply, not bottle. And not living in the lower north or upper south island helps with the natural disaster thing. May get the odd bit of flooding but we are up high so once again...:motu: to natural disaster.

I do not miss stacking and chopping fricken wood.....at all.
Select the setting and click, 24° in 15 mins.

[unstuck]

Your younger than you sound going by the pic.....

I wish, thats my daughter about 10/11 years ago.:devil2:

It,s coming maha. Wait until all those volcanos that you live on start letting go.:niceone: I love doing firewood, great exercise, and it keeps you warm while your cutting it, and some extra pocket money at times too.:banana::banana:

[Maha]

It,s coming maha. Wait until all those volcanos that you live on start letting go.:niceone: I love doing firewood, great exercise, and it keeps you warm while your cutting it, and some extra pocket money at times too.:banana::banana:

....then watch the arse fall out of the property market in Auckland..I still wouldn't buy there :oi-grr:
Had a Kent fire in Rotorua back in the day...never got a delivery of dry wood, even though that is what was paid for, it was always a mix of rata/pine wet'n dry :lol:

[unstuck]

Not a lot of people selling dry wood these days unless it comes from a sawmill. Bit of a difference between a cubic meter and a thrown meter too, so thats another thing I would be looking at if you are buying wood. I can get 60mtr for pine/ mac mix down here, but 120mtr up the road in queenstown.,:Punk::Punk:

[Berries]

Gas is bliss.
Kai coal works for me. No splinters, no earmuffs, no digital amputation. I have to go to Kai once in a while though so it evens up.

[unstuck]

Kai coal works for me. No splinters, no earmuffs, no digital amputation. I have to go to Kai once in a while though so it evens up.

Fuck me, going to Kai, thats more dangerous than any past time I could think of.:lol::lol:

[Berries]

Odd isn't it? All that coal available yet they set fire to the houses instead.

[unstuck]

Odd isn't it? All that coal available yet they set fire to the houses instead.

They are a strange breed in Kai for sure. I quite often deal with a tribe from there and am amazed at how dysfunctional they are, they make my fucked up family look like saints.:lol::lol:

[Brett]

Maybe the dude doesn't have adequate dry storage for a whole winter's worth, so expects to pay a firewood co to store his second half and sell dry wood if it is advertised as such.

Selling wet firewood as dry is like selling a watertight boat which has a few leaks, or like selling susan boyle as a hooker, either way you're gonna be wet, cold, and unsatisfied.

Yeah...that's my problem too. we have space for about 4-5m3 but inevitably end up burning it all! Already running out. Will have to suss more out this week.

[jafar]

Yeah...that's my problem too. we have space for about 4-5m3 but inevitably end up burning it all! Already running out. Will have to suss more out this week.

Buy what you need a year in advance, saves a lot of grief in the long run

[unstuck]

Buy what you need a year in advance, saves a lot of grief in the long run

Can be hard for some people to do if they only have storage for say 5mtrs, and they burn 10mtrs a year. Best to search out a good wood merchant that has ample storage for dry wood, and support them, instead of some moonlighter that is out to make a few extra bucks and can give you cheaper deals, and can afford to sell people below standard wood.
I had a great firewood business years ago, but had to increase prices because of the rise in fuel and oil, and lost a lot of clients due to the increase, as they were going to cowboys who were hoping to make some easy money. They found the wood they were getting was crap, and came back to me, but unfortunatley at the time I had to sell of a lot of gear to survive and could not replace it.
When still in auckland over 20years ago, I used to sell firewood in the weekends and made $1000 most weekends, but the prices down here are a lot less for wood, so harder to recover the price of getting the stuff cut, stored and delivered.:2thumbsup

[mansell]

Can be hard for some people to do if they only have storage for say 5mtrs, and they burn 10mtrs a year. Best to search out a good wood merchant that has ample storage for dry wood, and support them, instead of some moonlighter that is out to make a few extra bucks and can give you cheaper deals, and can afford to sell people below standard wood.
I had a great firewood business years ago, but had to increase prices because of the rise in fuel and oil, and lost a lot of clients due to the increase, as they were going to cowboys who were hoping to make some easy money. They found the wood they were getting was crap, and came back to me, but unfortunatley at the time I had to sell of a lot of gear to survive and could not replace it.
When still in auckland over 20years ago, I used to sell firewood in the weekends and made $1000 most weekends, but the prices down here are a lot less for wood, so harder to recover the price of getting the stuff cut, stored and delivered.:2thumbsup

Have to agree here, when we first bought our house down here it had a gas fire that was about as useful as tits on a bull so we replaced that witha wood burner. We woukd burn about 10-12 metres a year but really only have room for 6 (9 at a pinch) so I have to order wood mid winter every year and our merchant always supplies the stuff dry. He also offers us a choice of woods (burning Oregon at the moment). We ran out on a friday a couple of weeks ago and by monday had another 6 metres and the house back up to temperature.

[unstuck]

Have to agree here, when we first bought our house down here it had a gas fire that was about as useful as tits on a bull so we replaced that witha wood burner. We woukd burn about 10-12 metres a year but really only have room for 6 (9 at a pinch) so I have to order wood mid winter every year and our merchant always supplies the stuff dry. He also offers us a choice of woods (burning Oregon at the moment). We ran out on a friday a couple of weeks ago and by monday had another 6 metres and the house back up to temperature.

Good to hear.:2thumbsup I think if you find a good merchant, stick with them, even if you have to pay a little extra. Nothing worse than having wood that just sulks on the fire. Not to mention the damage burning wet wood does to your fire box. I always told my clients, if they are not happy with any thing they get from me then I will replace the lot for nothing.
Happy clients are paying clients.:yes:

[Brett]

Buy what you need a year in advance, saves a lot of grief in the long run

What...and build a whole new garage to store it all? It would have helped this year if we had bought some slower burning wood as well...never mind. No use crying over the issue now!

[Jantar]

What...and build a whole new garage to store it all? ....

No, just stack what you can under cover and leave the rest outside to weather. The wood left ouside will dry out as far as sap is concerned, but will absorb rain water. Over winter, as you start to use the stacked wood, replace it with wood that has been stored outside. Within a few weeks it will also be bone dry, and as long as you use the previously stored wood first, by the time you come to use the last of the wood stored outside it will also be dry.

We have almost finished using the wood we stacked inside last year, and will shortly start using wood we bought in March this year. Some of that has now been stacked under cover for 2 months, and the last of it (will be used next year) has only been under cover for a couple of weeks.