Burning uglies

[Kevin Dolan]

I am getting down on this years wood and so have gone to my discarded pile of ugly pieces that I don't want to burn. They are crotches and pieces that I couldn't split and end up chainsawing them into a shape I can fit into the stove. They have probably been sitting around for 4-6 years and are really dry. They burn beautifully, wish I had more. Anyone else burn uglies??

 

[BCC_Burner]

I burn wood to heat my home, I don't care what it looks like.

 

[clarksvilleal]

I burn them every year. There's a lot of BTUs in those uglies. Some of them are much denser than most of the splits.

I've already gotten at least a week's worth of heating from the "uglies" and shorts and other odds and ends just from last year's splitting. And I'm still not done with them.

 

[northwinds]

I have lots of uglies, but they get mixed in with the more handsome pieces throughout the year.

 

[GENECOP]

Yea I mix the uglies in......

 

[realstihl]

I know a guy down the road that sells wood. Every piece is perfect length and all are split around 4 to 5 inches. All the splits are almost identical. You know he's got an ugly pile somewhere. Trees aren't that perfect.

 

[razerface]

i like uglies. I use them when I am going to be home and don't need to stack the stove full.

I see a big pile of coals,,, I throw a big ugly misshaped, twisted, nasty piece of wood on top. Then there is the fun of watching the flame jump up 8 inches to whatever twisted part sticks up in the air. They are just fun to burn!

 

[BurnIt13]

I burn chunks and uglies exclusively during shoulder season. Usually get a few weeks out of them.

 

[logger]

I always have a pile of short, stubby uglies and actually look forward to burning them. They pack the stove nice and tight and put out some great heat w all that surface area burning. Anyone who tosses them aside and doesn't burn them is missing out.

 

[Chimney Smoke]

I burn all mine during fall when the stove first gets started.

 

[MaintenanceMan]

I toss all the uglies and odds and ends that don't stack well in the back of my old pickup while I'm splitting. There is an older less fortunate man not far from me that burns an old smoke dragon. When i get a load I give them to him and he is glad to get them. Typically I have little room to pile them up and have been well ahead on wood. He's probably gotten close to two cords of wood from me in the past two years. Typically he ends up at a local saw mill buying wood and stacking it in the trunk of his car one load at a time...This is free wood for him and more room for me. Win-win...

 

[tarzan]

I burn the uglies down to the notch I cut out to fall the tree. As mentioned earlier, there usually tight grained and put out some good heat.

 

[brenndatomu]

Uglies are great! They burn longer/hotter because they are often times from crotches, and that is denser wood

 

[weatherguy]

I burn them in the shoulder seasons and keep the nicely cut splits so I can fill the stove better when its cold. Usually I'm burning shorties and uglies by now but it's been colder than normal so I haven't got to them yet this year.

 

[remkel]

"Every log is sacred, every log is good"

 

[Warm_in_NH]

The other day I broke my pencil at work. The broken halves ended up in my pocket and ultimately in my stove that night. Frugality to the extreme...

If it's wood, it gets burned. The stove doesn't discriminate and either do I.

 

[Dix]

I always have a pile of uglies around. Or 2, or 3, or 4

Burn 'em when I'm home. Saves the good stuff for when I need more power

 

[BrotherBart]

I have a rack that is just for shorts and uglies. In the late afternoon I pull up a beer and lawn chair and look at that rack and go back to my bar hopping days. With every beer those chunks start looking better and better.

 

[Kevin Dolan]

I burn wood to heat my home, I don't care what it looks like.

You are sick, uglies are good

 

[Kevin Dolan]

Yea I mix the uglies in......

How do you mix them in?

 

[tfdchief]

I love uglies, hat \e stacking them and don't anymore, throw them in a separate pile on the landscaping rock on the south side of my house where they get lots of wine and sun. Then in the spring summer and fall when I want a fire in the outside burner, in they go. And when winter starts, and being what they are, small, short, ugly, and where I put them, they are usually ready to burn, so they get used up before the next cutting, splitting season. Oh, and when my son-in-law, who doesn't burn wood in the house, wants wood for his outside burner, guess what he gets

 

[smokedragon]

Every hunk of wood I have ever burned looked the same the next morning. If it fits, it goes in the stove.

I have picked up wood many times from landscape guys who cut it 24", I cut all mine 16" (so that three rows makes a cord). With 24's I just cut them in half. Looks funny (and can make stacking a challenge) but who cares.

I have had double hearts and stuff that were just unsplittable (because I split by hand). Just chainsaw, add to the pile, and when I get to it, in it goes.

 

[Charles1981]

Me and my stove love uglies. I bring em home, it eats em up. Both of us stay warm.

 

[Stella]

I love uglies, hat \e stacking them and don't anymore, throw them in a separate pile on the landscaping rock on the south side of my house where they get lots of wine and sun.

I've heard of wine resinated in oak barrels but actually pouring the wine over the wood, that's new one!

 

[firefighterjake]

Yes. Usually the uglies get burned in the shoulder seasons or when I'm just kicking around the house and don't need or want to really pack in the stove for a long burn.