My new firewood source

[mutti_wilson]

I've got a friend who works as a sawyer at a company who cuts decorative timbers and their waste piles up faster than they can get rid of it so I've started hauling the sizeable waste to my place for fire wood. It's all Douglas Fir and the cost of free.99 is just fine with me. Other than the large cutoffs in my bed the rest is 15-20ft length so there is a lot of wood to be had. Nothing has the aroma like fresh cut fir. I built a mantle for my wood stove area from one of the chunks as well.

 

[begreen]

That's a pretty sweet deal. I'm jealous.

 

[mutti_wilson]

That's a pretty sweet deal. I'm jealous.

He calls me when he's got a good pile built up and I swing in and pick it up. I'm pretty happy about the whole deal. They are happy too to have a place to get rid of their scrap. All the small stuff and sawdust they burn on a slash pile.

 

[begreen]

All the small stuff and sawdust they burn on a slash pile.

That part is too bad. That could be a source of building heat, power and produce something like biochar for local gardeners and farmers. In the least it could be chipped and made into wood chips for mulch and compost.

 

[kennyp2339]

So let me ask the question, how are you stacking the more dimensional stuff? leave in lengths for a year cribbed stacked then cut up? or cut up, stacked in cribs (cris crossed) ?

 

[Woody5506]

I'm surprised some of that is scrap.

 

[mutti_wilson]

That part is too bad. That could be a source of building heat, power and produce something like biochar for local gardeners and farmers. In the least it could be chipped and made into wood chips for mulch and compost.

The owner has tried multiple things to deal with the waste but it ends up in a situation where current employees can't keep up with their own jobs and do the extra tasks as well. He'd need to hire help and then it doesn't pay.

So let me ask the question, how are you stacking the more dimensional stuff? leave in lengths for a year cribbed stacked then cut up? or cut up, stacked in cribs (cris crossed) ?

It's on some PT beams so nothing is sitting on the ground. It's all loosely dumped on the piles so there is decent air movement. I have a plan to move the storage area to another spot on my property where I'll have more flexibility on stacking and much more room but I need to get my dozer and excavator up to my place to level the area out and move a large pile of boulders that I've been keeping for some other unknown project. It'll be roughly 100'x30' and out of site from the house. I like to keep the "junk" out of view if possible.

I'm surprised some of that is scrap.

I am too, but keep in mind they are not a sawmill. They mill large timbers for decorative/structural purposes and nothing is small. The stuff you see in my bed is typical sized.

 

[weatherguy]

Nice score. There was a craigslist ad a couple weeks ago in my area. A guy had a dumpster full of 4x4 oak cut offs in varying lengths, I contacted him the day he put the ad up and it was gone. Lucky you have a contact.

 

[Todd67]

That's a great source of firewood there!

 

[AlbergSteve]

May have to dust off my passport and buy a bigger truck...