Manna Gum - Firewood Melbourne Eastern Suburbs

We can deliver within 10kms of Ferntree Gully. Please see our Contact Us page for a list of areas and postcodes. If you live out of our usual delivery zones, we may still be able to help. Give us a call to find out delivery fees and if we can help.

We deliver the firewood to your home in one of our trucks. Firewood is heavy and takes up a lot of room. To get a couple of cubic meters of firewood delivered to your home will save you an awful lot of work and protect your vehicle.If you have a Ute or big trailer though, feel free to come down to our site at 1170 Burwood Highway, Upper Ferntree Gully and pick up as much as you wish.

Redgum is immensely popular in Australia for use in the fireplace, wood stove, pizza oven, when camping and for cooking in firepits because of the heat it generates and the length of the burn. The high temperature and heat output make redgum firewood a favourite and produce far less smoke than many other types of hardwood. It can also be a popular hardwood for cooking, producing excellent coals. Blue Gum, another type of eucalyptus, is also popular to burn while cooking, also known for producing excellent coals and having an aromatic scent. Ironbark and Red Gum wood are also known for their lower ash output, making them an ideal choice for an indoor fire during winter in Melbourne.

If you are getting ready for the colder months and looking to purchase firewood in advance for an indoor fireplace, we usually recommend around 3 to 9 cubic metres of ready-to-burn firewood. How much you need will depend on how long you keep your fire going and if you have multiple fireplaces in your home. Larger pieces of redgum firewood are ideal in this scenario. If you are unsure how much wood you will need to burn, or are taking a camping trip or using the wood for cooking in the yard, give us a call, and we can advise how much will be suitable. If you are cooking and looking for something ready to burn that will produce a specific scent or is capable of producing excellent coals.

Yes, you should buy kindling! Well unless you have large trees dropping lots and lots of 1cm plus twigs into your yard. You need good kindling to make the fire set. We recommend 1-2 bags of Kindling with every tonne of Firewood ordered. There is a time in the fires cycle that the paper and twigs you use to start the fire have lost their energy. At this point, if the fire was built correctly, your kindling will be alight and providing strong flame and heat. This “in-between” sized wood is what sets the logs or larger pieces of wood on fire. Skipping the kindling will only result in the fire not getting to heat in the right amount of time and therefor not setting the larger pieces properly alight. For best results scrunch up some newspaper or fire lighters and place 3 handfuls of small twigs on top of that then several pieces of Kindling over the top of the twigs, finally add 1 or 2 smaller logs standing against kindling in a pyramid shape. With this technique, you should be able to start fires effortlessly, in a few minutes EVERY TIME .

When purchasing firewood for sale you need to make sure that the business is following the State Laws governing firewood. It is a crime to collect firewood from a State Forrest unless you go on a day that is sanctioned by the Government. These days are normally at the beginning of Autumn. You are not allowed to sell this wood as a business or enterprise. So make sure that your supplier is getting their wood from a appropriate supplier. At Manna Gum Building And Garden Supplies we use a set of farmers who follow all the Environmental Laws for producing firewood and have their wood delivered to our yard in Ferntree Gully.