I may need an intervention! I just can't refuse free kindling! (Picture)

[Bubbavh]

Hello my name is Bubba and today I had a moment of weakness! I have a place by me that makes trusses and other prefab items. They always have big bins filled with cut offs and I can not drive by without filling up!
Maybe next time I will show the strength to drive by!
This is about my 10th load this summer!

 

[ramonbow]

No intervention needed. If I knew of a place like that where i could load up on cutoffs i would be making excuses to drive by! When you start leaving a glove behind on purpose so you can go back and get another load we will talk more about interventions.

 

[KennyG]

I tend to agree with Ramon Bow, but you did say it was your '10th' trip. You are heading into a gray area, but at least you will be warm.

 

[billb3]

nice and dry and clean - what's to not like
except maybe needing so many of them.

I've been known to clean out construction dumpsters of perfectly good wood.
Except they're using less and less wood to build a house these days.

 

[vvvv]

grab all. u can stack or mix with green so to not burn so hot, lucky guy

 

[Chargerman]

I have a place like that as well. Loaded up two pickup loads last year from the cutoff bins. Unfortunately, the economy has slowed their production so it is hit and miss when the bins have anything in them.

 

[Danno77]

man, that stuff would have been awesome to find as a kid. We were always scrounging for scraps of every building material we could for whatever project of the day we had going.

 

[Chargerman]

man, that stuff would have been awesome to find as a kid. We were always scrounging for scraps of every building material we could for whatever project of the day we had going.

Works for adults too. I built the liner ovalizer for my insert out of it last year.

 

[n3pro]

I have been know to raid the neighbors trash more then once for scrap lumber. Right now I'm using some good oak furniture scraps from my neighbor from his "wood working days" 20 years ago. He was cleaning out the garage and saw me picking through his trash - he said I got more if you want it - I said bring it on.

Around he kindling is important as for one day it will be 65 durning the day and 45 at night, the next it's 80 during the day and 60's at night.

Good and free what's not to like.

 

[Ratman]

Hello my name is Bubba and today I had a moment of weakness! I have a place by me that makes trusses and other prefab items. They always have big bins filled with cut offs and I can not drive by without filling up!
Maybe next time I will show the strength to drive by!
This is about my 10th load this summer!

My name is Bubba and I am a kilnaholic.
Welcome to the group Bubba, BLIMP will be your sponsor.

 

[leaddog]

Hello my name is Bubba and today I had a moment of weakness! I have a place by me that makes trusses and other prefab items. They always have big bins filled with cut offs and I can not drive by without filling up!
Maybe next time I will show the strength to drive by!
This is about my 10th load this summer!

HOLY SMOKES that stuff is PINE. stay away from that as it is bad for your health. It's not even cut into exact 16in lenghts so it won't stack in nice even stacks. You really need help. Maybe if you tell other people where those bins are located they will help you with your PROBLEM so you won't find any more of that bad stuff.
leaddog

 

[Backwoods Savage]

You do not have to use all that as kindling. Just put a little bit in the stove during daylight hours and save the splits for night burning. Of course, you can also mix. Just keep on hauling.

I enjoy making kindling using the hydraulic splitter. Last year a fellow came to ask for some kindling and I had enough on hand to load his truck like that. He just shook his head as he was expecting about 1/10th of what he got. lol The fellow I have already supplied with this winter's wood also could hardly believe it when on his last load I threw a big bunch of kindling in for him. btw, we use soft maple for kindling as it dries fast, easy to split, easy to light and burns hot. One can't ask for much more than that.

 

[wsorg]

Free cut kindling is hard to beat for sure.

 

[Bubbavh]

I have plenty of good dry 3+ yo hardwood (mostly Oak) and lots of pitch pine (that I normally use for kindling and shoulder season). I figure this stuff will save me the kindling making for this year. I supply my old man with kindling for the winter too, so this should cut my workload way down. All the scraps are under 24" so no need to cut any of it.

My wife is starting to think I have a problem! She asked if I was going to completely fill the garage with it? I sure would like to try! (28'x38'x10'= 83 cords)
She only seems to complain about all the wood in the summer. When winter blows in she sure does like the warmth it brings!

I have been stacking some of the longer boards off to the side for projects.
You gotta love how tight you can stack dimensional lumber!

Bubba

 

[firefighterjake]

No problem and no intervention needed . . . I am of the mindset that you can never have too much kindling . . . I would rather have too much and not need it that year than to need more kindling to get a stubborn fire going and not have any.

And so I understand completely . . . I have kindling squirreled everywhere . . . I have it stashed in my stacks in the woodshed (usually in the cross ends between the larger splits), a woodshed with nearly an entire wall full of split cedar kindling, a pile of old boards that I occasionally pull nails, cut up and split and even a stash above my garage in case I find I need more kindling in an emergency . . . and even now I find myself wandering around the woods around my house gathering up pine cones and pine branches and stuffing them in boxes . . . heck, this past weekend I even took the time to make some wax fire starters with some wood shavings and old candles.

 

[maplewood]

Craig's List add soon to come:
For sale: de-barked kiln dried kindling, cut to stove length, $100/face cord.

Make some money at it!

We lived near a saw mill when I was a kid, and got a pickup load of mill ends for $2 if we just threw it in, or $3 if we stacked it (we always stacked it).
We used a lot our selves, and sold it for $20/pickup load, delivered. Cash for the pocket!

 

[BrotherBart]

Good stuff to have. If like you they want you to take it. Forty years ago I was loading construction scraps off the curb in front of a building site one night on the way home from work and the next thing I know headlights were behind me and I was hearing "You have the right to remain silent..."

Seems they had a lot of site theft and had hired an off duty cop to bird dog their sites. And didn't tell him that the crap at the curb was trash they would have to pay to have hauled off. Took three hours to get in touch with the foreman for him to say it was alright and to let me go.

That said, I gave Super Cedars a first try last year and this year for the first time ever there isn't a stick of kindling on the place going into the burning season.