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Green Man Conservation Delivered Firewood Logs Organic Mulch & Charcoal in Herts & Essex
Logs Mulch and Charcoal delivered in Herts and Essex
Green Man deliver quality seasoned hardwood logs, sustainably produced English Charcoal, and seasoned organic woodchip mulch suitable for weed suppression around plants, or for use in paths and borders and children's play areas. Order Online for Winter, we do run out of logs, mulch and charcoal so order early if possible
Burning firewood uses the shortest carbon cycle of all fuels, and as such is the best alternative to coal, oil or gas, plus far more enjoyable! Wood is one of the most environmentally friendly materials, being renewable, biodegradable, non-toxic, energy efficient and greenhouse gas friendly
Logs, Mulch and Charcoal Prices
1.5 Cubic Metres Firewood Logs per Loose Load - £85
(Around 350 seasoned logs split and tipped)
1000 Litres Seasoned Organic Mulch for gardens, paths, borders and children's play areas - Loose Load - £65
(Equivalent to 1 Cubic metre, or 1000 litres, plus it is recycled, locally sourced, organic and delivered to your door)
3kg Bag English Sustainable Charcoal (only available with Log or Mulch order, maximum order 10 bags) - £5.50
(Fourth generation coppice workers produce from Berkshire. Quality charcoal that requires no firelighters, burns long, slow and hot and is entirely from renewable English woodlands)
Click here to arrange a delivery online for Green Man hardwood seasoned logs and seasoned organic woodchip mulch.
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Logs to Burn - an anonymous poem describing the characteristics of some of our wood
© Green Man Conservation 2008
Beech-wood fires burn bright
and clear,
If the logs are kept a year:
Store your Beech for Christmastide,
With new cut Holly laid beside.
Chestnut's only good, they say,
If for years 'tis stored away;
Birch and Fir-wood burn too fast,
Blaze too bright and do not last;
Flames from Larch will shoot up high,
Dangerously the sparks will fly.
But Ash-wood green and Ash-wood
brown
Are fit for a Queen with golden crown.
Oaken logs, if dry and old,
Keep away the winters cold,
Poplar gives a bitter smoke,
Fills your eyes and makes you choke;
Elm-wood burns like churchyard mould,
E'en the very flames are cold.
Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread -
So it is in Ireland said;
Apple-wood will scent the room,
Pear-wood smells like flowers in bloom,
But Ash-wood wet and Ash-wood
dry
A King may warm his slippers by
Anonymous
Green Man Conservation Logs & Organic Mulch
Carbon Cycle
“The problem in reality is that carbon emissions from burned oil, gas or coal cannot be considered as equal to the same amount of biological carbon in a tree. Why not? Because there exists naturally an active carbon pool with carbon freely moving between forests, oceans and air. The fossil carbon pool, in contrast, is inert. But once out of the ground, fossil carbon joins the active carbon pool for millennia. Releasing fossil carbon increases the active carbon pool, and this is the crucial difference between fossil and biological carbon”. Jutta Kill, Climate Change Campaign Co-ordinator for FERN
Burning logs is seen by some as ‘dirty’, and standing next to a large bonfire or seeing smoke emitted from a row of chimneys it is easy to see why. However the reality is that emissions are simply visible locally, and the emissions from well seasoned firewood are cleaner than the alternative electric, gas or oil fired central heating for which emissions are discharged away from the point of use, and thus do not impinge on us as much. Aside not being at the mercy of volatile global fuel prices, or the politics of involvement in oil extraction, or piping of gas from countries with perhaps obverse ethical standards to ours, burning seasoned logs is a way of supporting continued management of woodland locally, and utilising a by-product of the tree surgery industry that would otherwise often go to waste.
© Green Man Conservation 2008
In a 1979 issue of The Northern Engineer (a quarterly publication of the Geophysical Institute) Stan Parkerson and Kent Severns point out that our earliest fuel is one of the most complicated:
‘Wood burns in three stages. First, the water which it contains must be evaporated. Because certain kinds of wood may contain as much as 230 gallons of water per cord (a cord is the equivalent of a four-foot high stack of 4'x8' plywood), it is easy to understand the importance of air-drying stove wood for a year or more before it is used. Otherwise, a large percentage of the energy that could be used for heat goes into turning all that water into steam. A further detrimental effect of burning unseasoned wood is that it results in a higher rate of creosote build up in the chimney. This is not because green wood contains more creosote-forming materials, but that it produces a cooler fire. This permits the excess moisture, along with the dissolved volatile gases and tars, to condense more readily on the inner walls of the chimney. The mixture then runs back down the chimney until the moisture is evaporated again, leaving behind solid, flammable creosote which creates a chimney fire hazard.
The second burning stage is when the volatile gases are distilled out of the wood and ignited. This stage produces approximately half the total energy available in wood.
The third and final phase of combustion is the charcoal stage containing the remaining half of the heat energy in wood. This stage is clean-burning and the most efficient. Wood, therefore, burns as two types of fuels - gas and solid. Each type has different burning characteristics, making it difficult to maintain controlled and efficient combustion in even well-designed stoves.
Highly efficient airtight stoves are a must for anyone with a serious intent to heat with wood. Open fireplaces or barrel stoves are nice for effect, but they are washouts when it comes to fuel efficiency. Unless one has an unlimited supply of wood on hand, they are not a good solution to the heating problem.
Stove efficiency is a combination of two factors - heat transfer and combustion efficiency. Most airtight stoves are reasonably effective in transferring heat, so if the overall efficiency is to be improved, it is necessary to get more complete combustion of the volatile gases.
British Charcoal delivered in Herts & Essex
Sustainably Produced Charcoal from English Native Broadleaf Woodland
With well over 95 percent of charcoal consumed in the UK being imported from Scandinavia and Eastern Europe to Indonesia and beyond, the trend away from the ‘home-grown’ product has played an integral role in the drastic decline of a woodland industry once vital to both rural and urban communities.
Nationally, targets for coppice restoration have been set by organisations, such as English Nature, for wildlife and conservation benefits. The target for England is to return around 70,000 hectares to active coppice management, but without a market for this harvested wood, it is unlikely that any significant progress towards this target can be made. However, if the UK became self sufficient in its charcoal production, this would contribute 60% of this target.
“It’s only charcoal for goodness sake… so what?”
Well, the traditional production and management techniques employed for making charcoal in Britain have driven the healthy, holistic stewardship of the woodlands that generate the raw materials for the end product. The practices of coppice and pollard rotation that develop the necessary wood-crop also ensure constant reinvigoration of the woodland ecology and sustain the individual pollard-trees and coppice stools themselves to ancient maturity (as only the coppice-stool roots and pollard stem are allowed to age; the rest of the plant is constantly renewed, with ageless new growth).
With the move away from charcoal as a fuel of the British economy, both domestic and industrial, the commercial viability of managing woodlands has fallen to timber-producers, charities, enthusiastic individuals and a die-hard band of woodsmen keen to keep renewable, traditional and environmentally conscientious woodcraft alive.
We are now hugely proud to be able to supply charcoal sourced from a small family business of fourth generation coppice foresters working a manual charcoal kiln in Berkshire. Their woodland work is ensuring the survival of an area of ancient British native broadleaf coppice woods to the benefit of the flora and fauna dependant upon it, where at least two trees are planted for every one felled for the process.
This fine quality charcoal product requires no firelighters at all, unlike most foreign high street brands, burns long, slow and hot and is entirely from renewable English woodlands.
Individual 3 kilogram bags now available delivered in Herts and Essex with log and mulch orders for £5.50. For purely charcoal enquiries please contact us to discuss rates
(From the Royal Forestry Society)
"All other major construction materials are finite. One day they may run out. Trees can be cut down and replanted.
Timber can be recycled and when it reaches the end of its life it can be disposed of with minimal impact to the environment because of its non-toxic nature.
Timber is one of the best insulation materials. It is 5 times better as an insulator than concrete, 400 times better than steel and 1,770 times better than aluminium. That makes it an excellent material for use in construction to reduce energy bills for both households and business.
Timber is extremely versatile, beautiful and is one of the oldest and most natural construction materials known to man. Weight for weight, wood has probably the best engineering properties of any material. Many of its structural properties result from the microscopic layout of its cells and cell walls.
Wood is an extremely versatile structural material, ingeniously arranged to provide a living structure that combines both strength and flexibility".
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Green Man Conservation Firewood Logs and Organic Mulch Herts and Essex delivery range by town and village;
Albury, Allen's Green, Amwell, Anstey, Ardeley, Arkesden, Aspenden, Audley End, Baldock, Barkway, Barley, Barwick, Benington, Berden, Birchanger, Logs and Mulch Bishop's Stortford, Bishops Stortford, Braughing, Logs and Mulch Brent Pelham, Broxted, Buckland, Logs and Mulch Buntingford, Chapmore End, Cherry Green, Chipping, Chrishall, Church Langley, Clavering, Clothall, Cole Green, Colliers End, Cottered, Cromer, Dane End, Dassels, Debden, Debden Green, Duddenhoe End, Essendon, Farnham, Farnham Green, Felsted, Ford End, Logs and Mulch Furneux Pelham, Good Easter, Graveley, Great Amwell, Great Chishall, Great Dunmow, Great Hallingbury, Logs and Mulch Great Hormead, Great Munden, Green Tye, Logs and Mulch Hare Street, Harlow, Hatfield, Hatfield Broad Oak, Haultwick, Logs and Mulch Hay Street, Hertford, High Cross, High Easter, High Ongar, High Wych, Hitchin, Knebworth, Kimpton, Langley, Letchworth, Levens Green, Litlington, Littlebury, Littlebury Green, Little Dunmow, Little Hadham, Little Hallingbury, Logs and Mulch Little Hormead, Manuden, Matching Green, Meesden, Melbourn, Logs and Mulch Much Hadham, Nasty, Newport, Nuthampstead, Patmore Heath, Perry Green, Puckeridge, Quendon, Reed, Reed End, Rickling, Rickling Green, Royston, Logs and Mulch Saffron Walden, Sandon, Starling's Green, Stickling Green, Sawbridgeworth, Stebbing, Stevenage, Spellbrook, Standon, Stansted Abbotts, Stansted Mountfitchet, Logs and Mulch Stocking Pelham, Takeley, Thaxted, Therfield, Thorley, Throcking, Thundrige, Tye Green, Ugley, Ugley Green, Upper Green, Wadesmill, Walkern, Ware, Wareside, Watton at Stone, Wellpond Green, Welwyn Garden City, Wendens Ambo, Westmill, Weston, Wicken Bonhunt, Willian, Wimbish, Wyddial
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