A crate of kiln dried logs is the simplest way to buy firewood in bulk: the logs arrive stacked in a wooden crate, so nothing has to be tipped out or restacked. Every crate holds dense hardwood dried to under 20% moisture, ready to burn on the day it arrives. Choose a half crate for a lighter season or a full crate to be stocked until spring.
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A crate is a wooden frame on a pallet, filled with split logs stacked by hand rather than tipped in loose. Stacking matters more than it sounds: you can see exactly what you are buying, the logs travel without breaking up, and air keeps moving through the stack so the wood stays dry between delivery and your fire. Everything in our crates comes from the same kiln dried logs range, dried to under 20% moisture. If you want to know what that figure actually means for your stove, read the kiln dried logs buying guide.
A half crate suits a stove used a few evenings a week, or a first order if you are still working out how much you burn. A full crate is the lower price per log and covers an average household for most of a heating season. Crates, loads, bags and cubic metres are all measured differently by different sellers in the UK, which makes price comparison harder than it should be, so this piece on UK firewood volumes is worth two minutes before you decide. If you would rather not have a crate on the drive at all, log nets are the smaller alternative.
Oak logs give the longest, slowest burn and suit a long evening or an overnight burn. Ash logs light the easiest and burn bright, which makes them the safest all rounder. Beech and hornbeam logs sit between the two and throw a lot of heat, so they are the choice for a pizza oven or a hot tub. All three are hardwood logs, so a crate of any of them holds more energy per log than a softwood equivalent. Still choosing? Start with the best firewood to burn.
Crates travel on a pallet network and are delivered kerbside, with a slot booked with you in advance. Full timescales are on our delivery page. Once it arrives, keep the crate off wet ground and under cover with the sides open, or move the logs into a log store. Our guide on how to store firewood covers what pushes the moisture content back up, which is usually a sealed shed or a wrapped pallet rather than the rain.
For a stove or a fireplace, yes. Kiln dried logs sit under 20% moisture, so they light in minutes and give heat straight away. Air dried or freshly felled wood can hold 30% to 60% water, which has to boil off first, and that is what causes a smoky fire, black glass and tar in the flue.
Compare on price per cubic metre rather than price per crate or bag, because sellers use different units. A full crate is always cheaper per log than a half crate, and both are cheaper per log than buying log nets.
Weight is a poor measure for firewood, because dry wood weighs less than wet wood for the same amount of heat. That is why we sell by crate and by cubic metre, and why the same tonnage can mean very different amounts of usable fuel. UK firewood volumes explains the difference.
A full crate lasts an average household most of a heating season with a stove used a few evenings a week. Daily use through the winter is closer to one and a half crates.
Stacked by hand. You can see what you are buying, and the logs arrive whole rather than broken up in transit.
Yes. Kiln drying has already done the seasoning, so they can go on the fire the day they arrive.
