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I've been buying 8kg nets from the local shop for too long. Just placed a bulk order for 1 1/2 tonnes from the UK mainland, which works out at about a third of the price, but I was wondering where you all get your firewood from normally?

 

There's an old red post box in Lerwick centre that's stuffed full of logs, I don't know if that's an advert or a private store!

 

Seems I'm burning peat until the delivery gets here. It smells great, but I can hear environmentalists screaming every time I throw another piece on the fire :D

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I've been buying 8kg nets from the local shop for too long. Just placed a bulk order for 1 1/2 tonnes from the UK mainland, which works out at about a third of the price, but I was wondering where you all get your firewood from normally?

 

There's an old red post box in Lerwick centre that's stuffed full of logs, I don't know if that's an advert or a private store!

 

Seems I'm burning peat until the delivery gets here. It smells great, but I can hear environmentalists screaming every time I throw another piece on the fire :D

Be interested in the costs involved Lupine
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Saw this and it is an old red telephone kiosk box full with wooden logs and the wall further back is covered with logs too, wonder why it is open for the public to see though, with its wide opening,  as two people were talking photographs of this when I saw this and I had to laugh, until I saw this I thought it was not true.

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It's such a nice red box!

 

I got 2x https://www.firewoodcentre.co.uk/kiln-dried-logs/72-nets-firewood/delivered. They're supposed to charge £60 extra for delivery but it seems they forgot to for me.

 

Not cheap, but definitely cheaper than electric heating. And since I'm in the middle of a power cut right now (hooray UPSes), I think I can strongly prefer wood for availability reasons too!

 

A neighbour seems to be of the "collect wood all year" mentality, but I'm not sure I have the patience for it.

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A neighbour seems to be of the "collect wood all year" mentality, but I'm not sure I have the patience for it.

 

Either you got it, or you ain't.

 

Maybe its just a Shetland thing, ingrained in the genes over the generations of living in the land where the tree don't grow.

 

Wid ert!......Wrack!.....There is no time of year not right for it.

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We were trained as bairns (many moons ago admittedly) to fill our pockets with even the smallest pieces of wood to bring back home when we played on the beach, climbing the rocks & doing all that stuff you're not supposed to let your kids go off & do these days! It all contributed to keeping fires heating the house & a Rayburn or similar boiling a kettle or cooking the dinner. Eco friendly before the phrase was even coined I think. After all if you left it on the beach it would just go to waste. Of course never mess with someone else's wood pile above the tide line, that's a hanging offence!

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