Chainsaw mill scraps

[Chas0218]

So I acquired a chainsaw mill from my Grandfather, everything I need to get started. Anyone have any experience with one and are the scraps worth keeping to burn? My plan is to use it for some Ash planks maybe some wormy maple and pine.

I was thinking that it I should just make a bin and cut them to 16" and burn them. I'm betting they will season quick.

 

[blades]

yes season fast, although the items with bark create a lot of ash. burn fast if just tossed in, but if tightly stacked works ok. great kindling as well.

 

[creek chub]

I’d say they are worth burning. A guy near the farm has a mill and gives them away at times. The next time he has them available I’m gonna grab some

 

[BIGChrisNH]

I have a massive pile of lumber scraps from clearing property in maine, then hiring a guy with a mill to come in a create lumber from the logs. I'm definitely planning on keeping the scraps. They're thinner than logs, some very thin, so I'm sure they'll dry fast. Next winter I will have a ton of scraps ready to burn. Provided you have the space, I definitely think they're worth keeping. I keep all my splitter scraps from processing each year and find the following year they make excellent kindling.

 

[Chas0218]

I have a massive pile of lumber scraps from clearing property in maine, then hiring a guy with a mill to come in a create lumber from the logs. I'm definitely planning on keeping the scraps. They're thinner than logs, some very thin, so I'm sure they'll dry fast. Next winter I will have a ton of scraps ready to burn. Provided you have the space, I definitely think they're worth keeping. I keep all my splitter scraps from processing each year and find the following year they make excellent kindling.

I didn't think about the splitter scraps.

 

[BIGChrisNH]

Yeah I just have two rubbermaid barrels by the splitter and toss small oddball pieces in there as I split each season, by the end of splitting 4-5 cords it's pretty easy to fill both of them up. I leave them outside with the cover on by the fire pit where they serve as summer kindling, then I move one into the basement for winter use. Works good for me as long as you don't mind having a few extra barrels around the yard.

 

[Chas0218]

Yeah I just have two rubbermaid barrels by the splitter and toss small oddball pieces in there as I split each season, by the end of splitting 4-5 cords it's pretty easy to fill both of them up. I leave them outside with the cover on by the fire pit where they serve as summer kindling, then I move one into the basement for winter use. Works good for me as long as you don't mind having a few extra barrels around the yard.

Haha If you saw my yard right now with all the pallets, Sanford and son firewood houses, and house remodel scraps. The barrels would fit right in. For my uglies I have have a lean-to bin I made from some pallets and a sheet of tin roofing.

 

[BIGChrisNH]

Haha, sounds like my kind of place Chas

 

[WiscWoody]

I have a massive pile of lumber scraps from clearing property in maine, then hiring a guy with a mill to come in a create lumber from the logs. I'm definitely planning on keeping the scraps. They're thinner than logs, some very thin, so I'm sure they'll dry fast. Next winter I will have a ton of scraps ready to burn. Provided you have the space, I definitely think they're worth keeping. I keep all my splitter scraps from processing each year and find the following year they make excellent kindling.

I keep the splitter scraps too and I put them in bins for kindling and I have a cheap miter saw that I keep covered outside except when I use it to cut up oddball lumber or branches for kindling too. Nice stuff to have handy when I want to get the stove going or if the cord wood isn’t sparking up with no bed of coals going. I throw some of the chop in and it takes off nicely.

 

[Adabiviak]

...wonder how common this is? I also have two Rubbermaid bins that I keep the little bits and pieces that are still burnable but would otherwise ruin an actual wood stack. Fill them up with breakage from splitting and keep them by the house for burning.

 

[WiscWoody]

...wonder how common this is? I also have two Rubbermaid bins that I keep the little bits and pieces that are still burnable but would otherwise ruin an actual wood stack. Fill them up with breakage from splitting and keep them by the house for burning.

I’d think many do pick up the scraps for kindling but I remember a neighbor raked his up and discarded them by his woods so I asked him if I could scarf them up and he said sure so I took them home too.

 

[BIGChrisNH]

It's nice to feel like you're not wasting anything too. Good to make use of all the wood, even the scraps

 

[salecker]

It's nice to feel like you're not wasting anything too. Good to make use of all the wood, even the scraps

It's all BTU's as far as i am concerned.If it's in the yard,it's headed for the boiler once it's seasoned.

 

[BIGChrisNH]

Totally, it's wood and it'll burn. We have an ugly pile under a tarp that's a couple years old, that's our back-up if we run through the 4 cords we have set aside.

 

[Jan Pijpelink]

I have a massive pile of lumber scraps from clearing property in maine, then hiring a guy with a mill to come in a create lumber from the logs. I'm definitely planning on keeping the scraps. They're thinner than logs, some very thin, so I'm sure they'll dry fast. Next winter I will have a ton of scraps ready to burn. Provided you have the space, I definitely think they're worth keeping. I keep all my splitter scraps from processing each year and find the following year they make excellent kindling.

I have 4 large garbage cans full of splitter scraps waiting to be burned.