Should I burn this wood?

[Rage_Perry]

Hi, newbie here-

I have some slabs from my parent's place from several years ago. They came from the bed of an military truck for hauling....whatever they hauled.

Just for "edutainment" tonight I put a couple of pieces in my WS22 and left the air supply wide open. Initially, as expected, I had smoke out the stack but after about 30 minutes the amount of smoke drastically dropped. The smoke smelled like a good seasoned hard wood, but I don't know what it is or if I should burn it. My guess is that if it were chemically treated at some point that after 3 or 4 years of being cut to 20" lengths and sitting in their back yard in the open wood rack that the chemicals would have been washed away by now.

I left for 2 1/2 hours and when I came back the fire was still going very nicely with the secondaries seeming to do their job and at no time did I see any coloured flames that would suggest any chemicals burning.

Take a look at the pics and tell me if I am OK to keep burning these (occasionally AND mixed with other known good wood) or if I should find another use for them.

Thanks All!

 

[bogydave]

If you don't have to worry about a catalytic & chemical contamination from what ever variety of stuff got spilled on the wood.
I'd pass on it but I have a catalytic.
You could use them to lay under the pallets to stack on, help keep the weeds down & more air circulation.

 

[gzecc]

Old lumber like that would have to be pretty bad for me to burn it, especially if I thought it had a preservative on it. If the gov't ordered it, it will probably last a lifetime without rotting. Cut it open see what type of wood it is. Maybe something can be made from it.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

I too would not burn it. Just use your own judgement though as to if you should or shouldn't. And welcome to the forum.