Yes, it is surprising how much air there is in a trailer load of firewood.
Especially if you buy it in. Then fire wood seems to be measured in reputed
tonnes, rather like the old "reputed pint" of beer.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
On 18/08/2012, at 12:56 PM, brian fleming <> wrote:
> On 17/08/2012 7:52 PM, David & Liz Parker wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>> It can be said that it is interesting times for the environment in any State
>> of Australia at the moment. The following link provides information relating
>> to the (Victorian) Forests Amendment Bill 2012
>> http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/forests/firewood/forests-amendment-bill-2012 .
>>
>>
>> This Bill seeks to make changes which will formally make way to abolish the
>> need for a domestic firewood permit in Victoria amongst a number of others,
>> but it also sets a maximum of 16 cubic metres of firewood per financial year
>> per household. A total of 16 cubic metres sounds bad enough, but converting
>> this to tonnes this equates to 22.5 tonnes (for River Red Gum volumes) per
>> financial year. In visual terms this is about a semi-trailers worth!!
> There is an error here - 22.5 tonnes per cubic metre suggests a density of
> 1.4 for SOLID red gum compared to the CSIRO value of 1.2 for GREEN timber and
> 0.8 for dry. Collected timber will be mainly dry, and will be "loose" in the
> trailer. I would not expect a cubic metre of collected firewood to weigh much
> more than half a tonne.
>
> Despite this, I deplore the amendment.
>
> Brian Fleming.
>
> Melbourne
>
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