Firewood

John1 · Post by **John1** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:08 pm

Hi, Just a bit of information to pass on to all those who live in CVO area:
If you need firewood and dont want to get ripped off try going to the garden maintenance firm on the left hand side past Vale Centeanes beach opposite the Pedra Grande development.
I tried both of the old Portuguese guys on the road out of CVO before xmas and they charged me initially 5euros for a wicker laundry basket full then they charged 10 euros for the same basket load a week later. But if you go to the one mentioned above the lad who works there speaks good english and he will fill the boot of your car for 5 euros or 10 euros if you have a big car.

Michael Crane · Post by **Michael Crane** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:11 pm

Which one mentioned above

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:15 pm

The one at the Garden maintenance firm past Vale Centeanes beach on the left hand side opposite Pedra Grande.Sorry I dont know the name of the firm.

Michael Crane · Post by **Michael Crane** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:17 pm

Ta. I'm not sure where this place is. What direction from the village is it in?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:31 pm

think its just up the road from Julios, and Rocha Brava?

Michael Crane · Post by **Michael Crane** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:52 pm

I'll find it if I need it. Is it cold enough at night for a fire in April?

norbri · Post by **norbri** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 10:09 pm

In defence of Logs 'r' us, the big log pile on the right when heading back from CVO to lagoa, when we visited this time last year he weighed off a rake of logs that filled a Fiesta boot up to the lid for Euro10. Maybe it was cos I weigh in at 19 stone and was feeling cold and grumpy. ?Took me 4 evenings to burn 'em. Compared with purchase prices of beer, wine and apartments thats hardly expensive ! Also he don't sell too many in June.
It's made to go round you know.

paramonte · Post by **paramonte** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 3:38 pm

The prices were I live (Lisbon Area/south bank) goes like this:

Azinho wood: 0.135 Euro/Kilo

Sobro wood : 0.11 Euro/ Kilo

I bought of 1.5 tons or Azinho back in October/2004 and still have some, burning every day evenings (I have a heat stove/recycler). They gave me a bonus of handy small logs to iniiate the fires, but pine cones are much better.

I got much cheaper quotations in Cercal (Alentejo) and near Rogil (Algarve) but they would not deliver to Lisbon. They would deliver to Algarve though.
So my advice is: Go to the country side and look for the real producer, not the middle-man-with-a-van. Than buy a lot (if you have the space to store it of course).
Azihno wood is better takes longer to burn but Sobro is not bad as well. Pine wood burns faster and should be cheaper.

Paramonte

cowboy · Post by **cowboy** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 4:41 pm

Pine wood burns faster and should be cheaper.

I spent a year with some friends in Tennessee, and they used wood for cooking and heating year round.

The told me to never burn Pine (or soft woods in general) in a stove or fireplace..

The reason being that resinous wood burns too hot for fireplaces and could explode. Also, burning pine wood leaves a coating in fireplace flues, causing a potential hazard (flue fires).

norbri · Post by **norbri** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:13 pm

Cowboy says:-
The reason being that resinous wood burns too hot for fireplaces and could explode. Also, burning pine wood leaves a coating in fireplace flues, causing a potential hazard (flue fires).
Regards the heat of burn and flammable deposits you are spot on, can be quite a hazard burnt in stoves. Nice in a Chimenea, keeps the midges away and produces a not unpleasant smoke aroma. We "processed" the remains of several Leylandii [ a hideous European weed of a hybrid tree] which has high resin content, through two consecutive Chimenea and it baked 'em both to death. Piece of info, backwoods men and trail campers will sometimes collect the globules of resin that form on trees of that type and use them to help in getting the camp fire started.

cowboy · Post by **cowboy** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:05 pm

Piece of info, backwoods men and trail campers will sometimes collect the globules of resin that form on trees of that type and use them to help in getting the camp fire started.

The lint from your clothes dryer works works well also.

elle · Post by **elle** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:08 pm

How could you Norbri?

Re: Leylandii..
I have a beautiful Golden Leylandii Cypress hedge to the back of my garden..it provides not only colour all through the year and has a nice piney perfume but home/habitat for birds...
I also have another mixed green& gold hedge to front ..which provides privacy..shelter(from the winds that often batter us here) and again nesting place for birds..we have wrens/blackbirds there..and recently another song thrush..
Please trim hedges between now and early March before birds start nesting!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:51 pm

Agree with you Ellie - golden leylandii if trimmed regularly can be beautiful and a home for the birds....but they shouldnt be allowed in the suburbs or on housing estates. These trees cause lots of problems with drains and foundations of houses because a lot of people cant be bothered to trim them...not to mention blocking out light for neighbours who have to suffer these things.
I'm afraid I would love to get a chainsaw to them and would relish a bonfire.

eco/spider · Post by **eco/spider** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 8:11 pm

Anonymous wrote:Agree with you Ellie - golden leylandii if trimmed regularly can be beautiful and a home for the birds....but they shouldnt be allowed in the suburbs or on housing estates. These trees cause lots of problems with drains and foundations of houses because a lot of people cant be bothered to trim them...not to mention blocking out light for neighbours who have to suffer these things.
I'm afraid I would love to get a chainsaw to them and would relish a bonfire.

that prblems now been solved .councils limit now is 7foot and can demand they be trimmed.Norbri you sound a bit of a barclays banker mate.Do yu enjoy cremating trees?

cowboy · Post by **cowboy** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 8:16 pm

Don't burn it in your fireplace.