Orlan Super 25Kw + Akvaterm 2000 litre installation blog

[dhaslam]

Why not burn the wood without chopping?      I used to be supplied with the knots from trees that couldn't be split  for other customers, they were just cut into squares with  the saw.    There had to be some small pieces to keep the fire going but generally it worked OK.       

[sunandwindy]

Be assured I don't chop more than required, so as they go through the 17" x 12" door hole, that's all that matters! 

[Fiddlers]

I'm only splitting so small right now to try and maximise the seasoning. Sure, next year we'll probably just split in half or maybe quarters for the largest logs we have. Splitting is by far the most tedious and time consuming bit of the operation so I'm not going to miss that! (for an hours work pulling logs out and chainsawing down to roughly 0.5m lengths it then takes 3-4 hours to split to the current smallish size).

We'll still split some small for the stove in the living room but that's a pretty small task.