Here at Oakwood we have a large wood burning stove as our main source of heating which is brilliant, I love walking to the house after a day working on the estate and seeing smoke rising from the chimney on a cold winters afternoon but boy does it get through some wood!
Since we arrived some 4 years ago we have been burning all the dead wood, where the woodland section has been un-kept for over 100 years but now we have exhausted this supply and I have been busy logging wood for the next two years as it needs to season before being burnt.
Where we had been so busy getting the lake ready for commercial fishing we hadn’t built any cover to keep our wood dry instead struggling trying to keep tarpaulin over it in the winter north westerly winds, which only resulted in damp wood!
Well money was tight last year and I had no money for building materials so I constructed a framework from trees that I felled from the land, used a bag of cement for the foundations and used tarpaulin I had sitting around for a roof. It did the job fantastic all the wood stayed dry which was a first and this year I might have the money to replace the tarpaulin roof for a nice modern metal one similar to what’s on the cabin.
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