Logs

We supply top quality seasoned hardwood logs from sustainably managed woodlands in South East England. We have been supplying logs for more than 10 years and offer a friendly and reliable service. Delivery only. We deliver to South London, North Surrey and North West Kent. We do not currently deliver to North London. The load size is 1.5 cubic metres (approximately 3/4 ton or 600-700 logs).
Delivered Price:  £120 Stacking service:  £30 If you live in a smoke controlled area you should only burn logs in an exempt appliance. For deliveries and enquiries, please contact us.
The log story There is a surprising amount of work that goes in to getting logs from the forest to your home. In fact by the time you put a log on your fire it will have already been handled at least 5 times!  Felling the tree: All our logs come from trees felled in sustainably managed woodlands in the South East of England Forwarding: Once the selected trees have been felled, the wood can be collected by a tractor, driven to the woodland edge (“forwarded”) and unloaded again where the stack will begin seasoning and await collection. Transporting: A timber lorry can then collect the wood from the woodland edge and transport it to our yard where it will be stacked again and await processing. Processing: The timber can then be cut into logs and left to continue drying in our barn. Delivering: Your order is received and the logs are loaded onto our vehicle for delivery to your home.

environmental benefits

Many of the woodlands that exist in the UK today do so partly because in the past they were used by people to make a wide range of products - The woodlands therefore had a high value to their owners. For hundreds, possibly thousands of years, woodlands were managed using mainly coppice techniques, to provide fuel, building materials and other products.    

The eco-systems that exist in these often ancient woods today depend on continuing management for their survival. They require changing patterns of light and shade, with a healthy understory of shrubs and young trees as well as mature trees. Many of these woodlands, especially the smaller ones, are no longer managed because they no longer provide any economic benefit to their owners.    

Neglect however, is not a good option for these woodlands, and if left alone, their structural and biological diversity will continue to decline. Woodlands require ongoing management if they are to be valuable bio-diverse habitats, and if managed sustainably they are a source of renewable carbon neutral energy*.

So using wood as a fuel has a number of benefits.  Buying and burning locally sourced logs and timber products are ways to help woodland management and conservation continue, because there is some economic return for the work done. You are also reducing the amount of fossil carbon you are releasing in to the atmosphere by heating your home with logs, so reducing your carbon footprint.

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 *Burning wood as a fuel is considered carbon neutral because trees take in carbon dioxide from the air as they grow, which is released again when they die, or if they are burnt as logs. This is a relatively short process of between roughly 10 – 100 years. This can only be applied if the logs are from a sustainable source i.e. the woodland that the logs come from remains as woodland - the stumps are allowed to re-grow (“coppice”) and/or re-planting is done. The new trees will continue the cycle by absorbing carbon dioxide from the air again.

Burning fossil fuels on the other hand i.e. coal and gas, releases carbon dioxide in to the air that has been “locked up” in the ground for millions of years. This is carbon that is outside the cycle - it would not otherwise have been released in to the atmosphere in human lifetimes.