The Proof
Loads out the door, every week
Seasoned Ash Hardwood · Delivered Across Devon · Plymouth to Exeter
“Buy right, or buy twice.”
Ash is the king of firewood — dense, clean-burning hardwood with high heat output and low smoke. Nearly every load we deliver is 100% ash, seasoned and ready to burn the day it lands on your drive.
Ash has one of the lowest natural moisture contents of any British hardwood, which is why it seasons faster and burns hotter than oak, beech or the mixed loads most suppliers shift. Long, steady burn. Proper heat. Minimal ash left in the grate and far less tar in your flue.
Every load is cut, split and seasoned before delivery — no green wood, no part-dried mixes, no filler species hidden in the middle of the load. If a log isn't ready to burn, it doesn't go on the truck. Other varieties are available on request, but larger loads are currently all ash.
Wide stove or small burner, roaring open fire or slow overnight burn — tell us the length and how chunky you want the splits, and the load is cut to suit your fire, not the other way round.
Chunkiness split to your preference on every order — just say when you book.
Wet wood is the biggest con in this trade. Burn logs above 20% moisture and a huge share of your heat is wasted boiling water instead of warming the room — while the smoke coats your flue in tar, blackens the stove glass and builds towards a chimney fire.
That's why 20% is the threshold behind the UK's Ready to Burn standard — and why every load we deliver is seasoned below it and checked with a moisture meter before it leaves the yard. Ash starts life drier than any other British hardwood, which is exactly why we built the business on it.
Pull any log off your load — your pick, not ours — and split it open.
Put a moisture meter on the fresh-split face. The inside is where the truth lives — the surface of any log dries first.
Read under 20%. Because if it didn't, it wouldn't have left the yard.
Meter checks are welcome on every single delivery. We'd rather you tested it than took our word for it.
Straight prices, no games. Every price includes free delivery within 10 miles of Newton Abbot, and every load is stacked loose and honest — measured in true cubic metres.
approx. 1 cubic metre — bag included
loose load, tipped or barrowed
loose load, tipped or barrowed
largest single delivery — save £25
Repeat customers get 7% off every order, for good. Order once, and you're one of ours.
Every load of 2 cube and above comes with a free sack of kindling. Consider it a gesture of goodwill.
Filling a barn, a big store, or splitting a load with the neighbours? Bulk is where the real value is. Loads above 3.5 cube are priced at £90–£100 per cubic metre depending on log length and load size — and the rate drops as the load grows.
Every extra cube you take knocks £7.50 off the per-cube rate. The bigger the load, the cheaper the wood. Ring for an exact price on your load — it takes two minutes to lock in.
one bag, one winter — sorted
or 10 sacks for £70
or 10 sacks for £67.50
A rough guide from delivering across Devon every week of the season. Every home burns differently — if you're not sure, ring and describe your fire, and we'll size the load for you.
Evenings and weekends, lit for the pleasure of it. A stove that's a treat, not the heating.
Lit most nights from November to March. The room everyone gravitates to all winter.
The stove does the heavy lifting for the whole house, or you're feeding more than one fire.
Based in Newton Abbot, delivering across 99% of the towns and villages along the corridor. Delivery is free within 10 miles of Newton Abbot — the glowing ring on the map. Outside the ring, a small £5–£10 charge covers the extra miles.
Within 10 miles of Newton Abbot, delivery costs you nothing. Torquay, Paignton, Totnes, Teignmouth, Bovey Tracey, Ashburton and more — all free.
Exeter, Plymouth and the towns along the way carry a small £5–£10 charge depending on distance. Still delivered to your door, still stacked where you want it.
Further afield? Give us a ring — longer runs are priced fairly by distance and we'll always tell you the cost up front.
Loads are tipped from the truck or barrowed to your store where access allows — just mention steps, gates or gravel when you book, and it's handled.
Dry wood stays dry when it's stored right. Every log store is built by hand, by us — sized to your space, your load and your garden, from a neat single-bay store to something that swallows 10 cube whole.
“Tell me what you're picturing — a sketch on the back of an envelope is enough. I'll tell you what it needs, what it'll hold, and what it'll cost. No obligation, no pressure.”
— Jacob, The Logfather
We deliver it dry — a few simple habits keep it that way until the last log goes on the fire.
Pallets, bearers or a proper store base. Damp climbs up from the earth faster than rain falls on it.
Airflow is what keeps wood dry. Wrap a stack in tarp on all sides and you'll trap moisture in, not out.
Stack with the split faces towards the sun and prevailing wind — that's the surface that breathes.
A basket's worth indoors a few days before burning takes the last chill and surface damp off the logs.
“Paste the customer's exact words here — how the wood burned, the delivery, whatever they said.”
“Second customer quote here.”
“Third customer quote here.”
No. Kiln-dried and seasoned are just two routes to the same destination: moisture below 20%. A kiln gets there with a gas burner and a premium price tag; proper seasoning gets there with time, airflow and knowing your wood. Ash's naturally low moisture is exactly why it seasons so well — you get the same burn without paying for the kiln.
Test it. Split any log off your load and put a moisture meter on the fresh face — we welcome the check on every delivery. Dry ash also tells on itself: it's light for its size, the bark comes away easily, and the ends show cracks running from the centre.
We sell in honest loose cubic metres — the dumpy bag is roughly a cube, and a 2 cube load is genuinely 2 cube of logs, not a crate with a clever false floor. If a load ever looks light to you, say so on the doorstep and we'll sort it there and then.
No. Most of our regulars are at work when we deliver — tell us where to tip or stack, and settle up by bank transfer. You'll get a message when it's done, usually with a photo of the load where you asked for it.
Anywhere a truck or trailer can reach, we tip. Where it can't — steps, narrow gates, rear gardens — we barrow the load to your store. Just mention the access when you book so the right amount of time gets set aside.
Before everyone else does. From late September the phone doesn't stop, and lead times stretch with it. Order in spring or summer and you get first pick of the driest wood, the easiest delivery slots, and a full store before the first cold snap.
Bank transfer or cash on delivery — whichever suits you. Bulk loads and log stores are confirmed with a simple quote up front, so there are never surprises on the day.
Order once and you're in. Every order after your first is 7% off, automatically — no codes, no reminders needed. Just mention you've bought from us before and it's applied.
Always available to talk. Call any time to order, ask about the wood, check a delivery date or get a bulk or log store quote.
If I don't pick up, leave a message — I'm probably out on a delivery, and I'll be straight back to you.
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