Posted on 10/01/2022 2:06:37 AM PDT by dennisw
Retail giant Toolstation revealed that sales have rocketed by a third recently The news comes as people have been finding cheaper ways to heat their homes Experts warn the rise in woodburning could lead to higher pollution levels
The energy crisis is leading cash-strapped Britons to explore new ways to generate heat.
First, sales of woodburning stoves soared by 40 per cent. Now, it has emerged that chainsaws have seen a surge in demand – to cut wood for the stoves.
Retail giant Toolstation yesterday revealed that sales have rocketed by a third in recent weeks. The firm believes the increase is driven by customers using them to cut logs up for woodburners.
A spokesman for the firm, which has more than 500 UK stores, said: ‘During the last few weeks we’ve seen sales of chainsaws increase by a third.
‘We suspect the demand is being driven by customers firing up their chainsaws to cut logs and timber for woodburners as many try to soften the impact of energy hikes.’
The rush to buy chainsaws comes as families face the prospect of energy bills hitting record highs despite the new £2,500 price cap for a typical household. Woodburning stove sales leapt by 40 per cent between April to June to over 35,000 compared to 25,000 for the same period last year.
The Stove Industry Alliance said the trend ‘clearly indicates that consumers are taking action to help cushion themselves against spiralling home heating bills’.
The rush to buy chainsaws comes as people across the country have been exploring cheaper alternatives to gas to heat their homes following an announcement by UK watchdog Ofgem that it would increase the energy price cap.
Energy bills were set to rise to £3,549 from tomorrow for the typical household,
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They have 500 stores in the UK.
Good time to be a chimney sweep.
The U.K. produces enough natural gas to meet domestic needs and to export some to the E.U.
The issue is cost of natural gas for the U.K. households.
People in the U.K. are not going to freeze.
Thank you for your input.
I hope that was just a personal note for general interest, not intended to argue against the point I made.
Last time I was there. Told was illegal to cut any hardwood tree without special permission...even if it was blown down.
Aside from that, lots of the lands are owned by the nobility or controlled by the government.
They still delivered peat and coal...at least in Scotland. Coal came in about 100 pound bags.
Remember Jackie Stewart the race car driver? He owns the Island of Bute. Also receives all the royalties for coal production nation wide.
The Kintyre Peninsula is/was controlled by one of the Beetles. Dont remember which one.
The land is leased and you can build on it. But you own nothing but the building. That is why if anyone decides to purchase land over there, you must find out if it is “free hold” or not.
They’ll need access to a drying kiln in order to burn green wood cut today.
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Currently wood burning is rated “carbon neutral” by Eurocrats.
Greta is campaigning to change it though.
My cousins burn tree trunks and debris in a wood burning house furnace with a heat exchanger and underground pipes to what used to be oil fired boiler radiators system.
Zero cost to them.
The neighbor said that their furnace emits the equivalent of 6000 gas forced air systems.
Uncle Gene says he throws a tire in there every now and then to remind the neighbors what pollution really looks like. He’s a redneck.
A pair of saw chaps is a very wise purchase.
Somebody saw a bonanza, and sent his assembly line into extra production.
The Sheriff of Nottingham has just warned the peons and serfs that Sherwood Forest is now on permanent lockdown.
I have a well USED one; as well as 5-6 worn-out(?) ones that I grew frustrated when they finally failed to start for the umpteenth time and bought a new one.
Oh, yeah. It's lots cheaper than an emergency room visit.
Took down some trees last year and that wood's nice and seasoned now. Laid in four extra cords in August (when it was cheap) and the barn is now literally stuffed. There's nothing like wood heat, especially when the snow is falling.
With the cutting down of all the trees in Europe, the CO2 problem is going to get much worse. Damn fools.
My mom bought an old house in the 50s that had a basement furnace that burned coal. It heated water for the radiators in every room. What a mess to haul ashes up the narrow basement steps out to the alley!
In the early 60’s she had it converted to oil by using a conversion kit.
In mid 60’s she signed the house over to me and my wife.
I removed the oil tank from the basement and had a gas conversion kit installed.
The whole mess finally gave up the ghost in 2005.
Sold it and the new owners have installed nat. gas with air ducts and airconditioning.
GOD delivers me firewood, but HE doesn’t cut, split, or stack it.
I cut, the wife runs the splitter, and I stack.
The fireplace insert is SO much more efficient than just the open fireplace, but it isn’t nearly as cozy.
(Wife is 69)
...ninety-five million people desperate for fuel will destroy a city.
--from NYT
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