Ash scrounge and question about shorts & ugliest

[hiites]

The temps have finally warmed enough to melt the snow off of some ash I scrounged early this winter so this is the first opportunity I've had to cut it to length, split and stack it. Since it was scrounged, it was cut to some random lengths from16-24". I'm cutting it down to 16-18" lengths to fit my stove but this leaves me with a lot of shorts and uglies. My question is, how do you stack or store your shorts and uglies? I'd prefer to not just have a pile and I've considered making a bin out of pallets to toss them into. How do you guys do it?

 

[paul bunion]

Depending on quantity just mound them up on top of your standard length splits.

 

[red oak]

Stack with your other splits on top, or you can stack them separately. I stack them right beside my fire pit and usually burn them there. What I don't burn there I throw in the stove in the fall. Nice pics!

 

[tigeroak]

This is what I put them in and my wife burns them during the day, shorts . That are 12 inch or less the rest gets stacked. I now have 2 of them. 4x4x5

 

[STIHLY DAN]

I made this wire bin 5X8X5 works great but now I need another one. This one is full to the top of the cap now.

 

[lindnova]

I had a bunch of those last fall. I made a lot into kindling and burned the rest up first. I would stack them on top of your piles.

 

[weatherguy]

I made a pallet box similar to what Tiger did. It's easier just to toss them into a box than stack them, unless you only have a few, I ended up filling up two pallet boxes I made.

 

[Auzzie Gumtree]

I leave a gap in between 2 stacks and fill this with my uglies. You cant see them but they are between the 2 stacks.

 

[hiites]

Thanks for the ideas guys.

 

[BobUrban]

x2 on fill gap stacks and toss on top

 

[Beer Belly]

I put shorties between the stacks, and some on a separate pallet.....the uglies go on top of the stacks

 

[Applesister]

I was tossing them in a shed until I realized I was throwing green oak chunks on top of seasoned birch.
So I changed plans, last year I took wire fence and cut off a piece and cable tied it into a circular bin. Piled all chunks in the bin on a pallet.
This last fall I threw them in between the stacks on pallets.
I never burn them so they are accumulating.

 

[smokedragon]

I leave a gap in between 2 stacks and fill this with my uglies. You cant see them but they are between the 2 stacks.

Stack with your other splits on top

I made a lot into kindling

These are my three methods, depending on how many I have and how I can fit them in. It is a fact of life when you scrounge. To many people decide "let me help you by cutting this into firewood length" which to them is 24 - 26".

 

[Auzzie Gumtree]

To many people decide "let me help you by cutting this into firewood length" which to them is 24 - 26".

In my case its anywhere from 10" - 32" - but its 'free'.

 

[smokedragon]

Same here......Good wood is still good wood.

But that is what makes a lot of shorts and uglies