Firewood from Morghew
TWO INNOVATIVE WAYS TO BUY YOUR FIREWOOD LOGS THIS WINTER
THE CONVENIENT WAY
There are a number of problems with the way that firewood logs are currently sold to homeowners with open fires and woodburning stoves. The market is well-served with folk who advertise in publications such as the Wealden Advertiser and will happily deliver a substantial load of logs with a Land Rover or tractor and trailer.
However, the economics of delivery are such that it can be very difficult to get a small delivery made to your home. For many homeowners, the only way to purchase logs in small quantities is to buy them in plastic nets from petrol station forecourts, where they can be both expensive and of variable quality.
Morghew Park already has an honesty stall selling potatoes as well as wheat for poultry, and we’ve decided to extend this principle to firewood logs. Our Potato Shop stall now includes no less than three large boxes of different grades of firewood logs – budget logs, general purpose logs and small logs for small woodburners and coal grates. Sat next to these are a couple of sets of scales to weigh out 25kgs of logs. All our customers need to do is reverse their cars up to the appropriate box, weigh out any multiple of 25kgs of logs, and load them into the boot of their cars. Each £25kg load of budget logs costs £5, general purpose logs cost £6 and the smaller logs cost £7. Customers can pay for these in exactly the same way that they pay for potatoes – namely by putting the correct money or a cheque payable to ‘Morghew Park Estate’ into one of our transparent envelopes and posting it through the farm office door.
If you have any questions about our firewood sales, please feel free to email us on firewood@morghew.com or call us on (01580) 763158.
It’s easy to find us. Just go to the western end of Tenterden High Street – also known as the A28 – at the Rolvenden end of the town. At the traffic lights next to the William Caxton public house, take the B2082 signposted to Rye. After 1/3 of a mile, you’ll pass a supermarket on your left, and 200 yards further on the right, take a private road marked ‘Morghew’. Follow this for ¼ of a mile, and after you’ve passed over a second cattle grid, you’ll find the Potato Shop and our logs on your right.
Finally, please remember that logs can spit. ALWAYS USE A FIREGUARD.
THE SERIOUSLY AFFORDABLE WAY
Just before Christmas last year, one of our customers who buys split logs, 25kg at a time, had this to say to us:
‘Do you know anyone who could deliver a trailer load of seasoned firewood in longer lengths. I could get the whole family to help sawing this up with a bowsaw, and presumably we’d save a fortune in the process?’
Well, the answer was ‘yes’, and they will save a fortune. From autumn 2011, the Estate will be able to deliver seasoned but uncut and unsplit firewood, in lengths of up to 8 foot, in an Ifor Williams tipping trailer behind a 4x4. We can tip this on your drive, or at any accessible location in your garden.
THIS WOOD WILL INCLUDE ASH, HORNBEAM, CHESTNUT AND PINE. AS THE LATTER TWO VARIETIES CAN SPIT, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THIS WOOD IS BURNT IN A CLOSED WOODBURNER OR BEHIND A FIREGUARD AT ALL TIMES.
We’re not able to calculate the exact weight or volume of one of these loads, but the internal dimensions of the trailer are 8’ long by 4’10” wide by 3’ high, and we will cram as much uncut wood as we can into each load.
The cost of each load will be £100 plus £1 per mile to your address (one way). I hope the images below will give you an idea of the quantity you can expect to receive in each delivery. The first image shows a full trailer-load of uncut wood, and the second and third show the same wood cut into 8” lengths.
To place an order, please send an email to
firewood@morghew.com or call us on (01580) 763 158. We take payment by credit card over the phone, and can usually deliver within 48 hours for orders placed on Mondays – Thursdays.