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Eureka

Eureka

Feeling the Heat
Feb 4, 2018
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NW Wisconsin
I always end up with lots of cookies, knobs, and unsplittables from processing. I burn everything, but it’s tough to stack. I made a few pallet cages to store them.

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Anybody else do anything to use up these misfits? Or just any pictures of your twisted, ugly, knotted stuff that doesn’t make it to the normal stacks?
 
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Most of mine end up in the garbage or bonfire, I get too sick of looking at crappy chunks for the couple years it takes to season them
 
Mine get thrown into a bin for seasoning .
Then they are used in the fire pit . Anything left
gets tossed in the basement with the rest of the wood
taken out when stacked and put in a holding crate
Used just like any other hard wood my furnace is not to picky
what it looks like and it is all BTUs
 
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This is a good chunk of 2018’s uglies. Boxelder, basswood, poplar, pine, willow and cedar mostly. All junk wood minus a couple pieces of hardwood. I’m home all weekend so figured I’d fill up the wood burner shed for some serious cold days coming up. Should go most of a week on this heating two buildings, negatives for highs, so one man’s trash can be another’s treasure ;)
 
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My rule of thumb is, "It'll burn" makes good shoulder season fodder. Nothing goes to waste, I sure as heck wouldn't throw them out.
 
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I have some uglies that are 5-6 years seasoned, Ill take a pic tomorrow but this thread reminds me of the good wood I have, oak, hickory that's not in nice split form.
 
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I don't have pics but I usually start every season burning off my uglies, I saw a few people post the idea of taking heavy gauge wire fencing and making a cylinder on top of a pallet to toss there uglies in so they look neat and dry out, I'm gona do that when I start splitting again. I'll take pics.
 
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kennyp2339 said:
I don't have pics but I usually start every season burning off my uglies, I saw a few people post the idea of taking heavy gauge wire fencing and making a cylinder on top of a pallet to toss there uglies in so they look neat and dry out, I'm gona do that when I start splitting again. I'll take pics.
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That's what I do. Works great. I have 2 big ones stuffed with oak, one small one stuffed with birch.

One tip- bend the cut ends out, rather than in, when joining the ends.

Getting the wood in is easy, getting it back out can be more complicated if you can't unhook the cut ends that hold the hoop together. I'm sure you can figure out how I know this.
 
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I save my nice splits for the BK, all the uglies are cut short and thrown in the wood cooker. If cut short enough (10 inches for me) almost everything can be split.
 
I save some of the uglies that can be wiggled into the stack somewhere. The real short and small stuff I toss in a lawn and garden trailer and take it to my neighbors. He burns anything.

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kennyp2339 said:
I don't have pics but I usually start every season burning off my uglies, I saw a few people post the idea of taking heavy gauge wire fencing and making a cylinder on top of a pallet to toss there uglies in so they look neat and dry out, I'm gona do that when I start splitting again. I'll take pics.
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I made a box out of pallets and threw them in the box, I put a pallet on top and a tarp to keep the weather out, I've been saving them for a cold snap but other than a night here or there haven't got one yet.
 
No pic . . . but I toss the punks, chunks and uglies on top of the stacks. When I move the wood into the shed I take the P, C and Us and toss them aside . . . generally they are the first to be burned in the fall when I'm not needing to max the BTUs in the woodstove.
 
Alpine1 said:
I save my nice splits for the BK, all the uglies are cut short and thrown in the wood cooker. If cut short enough (10 inches for me) almost everything can be split.
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What kind of wood cook stove do you have?
 
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I don’t know about UL listing, but I’m sure that they are sold in USA. Maybe the EU testing is not accepted though...
 
Alpine1 said:
I don’t know about UL listing, but I’m sure that they are sold in USA. Maybe the EU testing is not accepted though...
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They are sold here, but the EU testing is not accepted by home insurance companies. It's not an issue if you are self insured.
 
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I understand... funny that something considered safe here is unsafe on the other side of the Atlantic and vice versa. Are they EPA approved, just for knowledge sake?
 
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Alpine1 said:
I understand... funny that something considered safe here is unsafe on the other side of the Atlantic and vice versa. Are they EPA approved, just for knowledge sake?
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Cook Stoves are exempt from EPA testing, but some manufacturers have passed. I don't think LA Nordica stoves have been tested.
 
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