Brian,
You are correct that green timber weighs more than dry, however 1.4 is the
standard used Australia wide (including Forests NSW) for dry River Red Gum
(as I indicated in the email). It's probably why River Red Gum is the
preferred source of firewood for many wood fire owners.
Cheers
David
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From:
On Behalf Of brian fleming
Sent: Saturday, 18 August 2012 12:56 PM
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Subject: Firewood collection in Victoria
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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