Firewood in Vic Help Please

With tongue in cheek...I would say that easiest solution is to chuck the wood heater out and put a GAS one in....cheeeaaper ..cleeeaaaner...lots less work ...and I am not a greeny...and it is not cutting down our trees...cheers

Agree in essence with Bruce....but,

I do like a fire (don't have one at home at present) because of its soothing effect.

You can pick up a decent trailer for 5 or 6 hundred. A little chainsaw for 2 hundred.

The little trailer should hold about half a cubic metre (more if you stack it high and rope it down). Do this every three or four weeks and you should be fine.

Just a lovely day out in the bush; take a picnic lunch and some friends. Combine work with pleasure. We camp a lot and one of our favourie activities is heading out to collect wood. If you find this a chore, Gas is probably the go.

Cheers,

Jim.

if you have a few neighbours with wood heaters, get together and get a semi tipper delivered, about 20 tonnes, and the prices are very reasonable, but you usually need to get it a season ahead because its still a bit green. You can get it from the sleeper cutters up on the murray or from most of the sawmills as offcuts.

If you find a sawmill close that has kiln dried offcuts then you are really on a winner.

Jimbo - i dunno mate, i've spent a lifetime cutting wood for heating (even the wood stove / water heater hell combo at the old farm) and it aint no picnic for me, just a chore to get out of the way.

Dont forget for most areas you have to have a firewood permit to gather from the state forests, and these can be fairly pricey on their own.

Scope out the ads in the weekly times for bulk deliveries.

jodi,

just got a whole bunch of cheap firewood this morning. Took 2 cubic metres for now and will get more when needed. Mostly red-gum but some sugar-gum mixed in aswell as some split old power poles. Do you know where The Honda factory is in Tullamarine, Sharps Road? Across the road from there, theres a couple of blokes splittin wodd and charging $20 per 6x4 trailer or $50 per cubic metre.

Hoped it helped, tell your friends but save some for me,

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