About Our Logs

The logs are 100% harvested form diseased ash trees at our Wrington Hill Woodland during the winter, when the wood is dormant.

Deliberate restriction of production is designed to ensure that the trees are gradually felled, and the affected areas restocked with the minimum of disruption to the woodland’s wildlife.

The logs are split and air dried under cover during the summer to a maximum moisture content of 20% ensuring they meet the legal standards.

Logging Information

Many producers of firewood forcibly kiln dry the logs using fossil fuels to dry what should be a near carbon neutral source of fuel.

Our logs, once dry, are cut to 25cm in length making them ideal for wood burners, fire pits and open fires.

Burning logs with a moisture content of more than 20% not only causes early failure of wood burning stoves and chimneys through the build-up of pitch, wet wood as fuel is also the primary cause of chimney fires and the source of harmful particles released into the atmosphere.

Many logs currently sold are not compliant with Ofgem standards or are harvested from ancient woodlands many miles away decimated by heavy mechanical harvesting machinery brutally clearing large areas of diseased ash trees.

Barley Wood Logs is fully accredited with Ofgem for the sale of both Ready to Burn Firewood and the supply of biomass fuel.