What a waste

[fespo]

I seen this today when I was getting off the toll road today. I stop and asked if I could take some. The loader said sure but don't tell his boss. Everything you see is waste. They have a mill on site. I was only able to load the mini van just a little. I was not ready for this today. I will be calling them Monday asking if I can load up. I know salesman at the main company. (broken image removed)

 

[gzecc]

It all looks like pita pieces. Too short, too long, crotches etc.....

 

[FTG-05]

I'd be back with a pickup and a trailer if I could....

 

[fespo]

I just want the milled pieces for the wood furnace for the greenhouse

 

[GENECOP]

I hate seeing all that waste...

 

[PA. Woodsman]

So what are they going to do with it, just let it rot there?

 

[GENECOP]

So what are they going to do with it, just let it rot there?

Don't know about that pile, but I can tell you around my neck of the woods Piles much larger than that get left to rot all the time .....all i see are BTU's......everyone else sees garbage, I dont get it....

 

[Plow Boy]

What a shame. That looks like a lot of btu's.

 

[fespo]

A lot gets turned into mulch

 

[Stelcom66]

I don't mind small pieces, I sometimes have a 5 gallon bucket with them, not as convenient but I can't see wasting it.

 

[BrotherBart]

Fully half of what I am burning this season is what Fire Fighter Jake calls "chunks and uglies". Tree service took down monster oaks on my neighbor's property three years ago and just left the huge short rounds.

Keeps me warm.

 

[firefighterjake]

Fuel is fuel ... my fuel doesn't have to look pretty to keep me warm. Always have said that it's not how pretty your stacks are or hoe pretty your wood looks ... it's about how dry the wood is ... that's what keeps you warm.

 

[Knots]

Sure - I love straight uniform splits, but at a certain point, the ugly stuff just gets reduced to a size that fits in the stove. No matter how weird the shape. I call it "splitting by burning". They usually get stacked on the top and burned first.

Are those blocks hardwood? If so I would be picking through those like a hungry man in a blueberry patch.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

I had some pieces like that that I burned earlier in the season, small little chunks, uglies whatever you want to call them, and I actually enjoyed doing it! We had talked on here awhile ago about how to store them, and there were really nice designs that fellas made using pallets to build a "holding crib" to put them in. If you get access to that pile and get the okay to take wood from it in the future, it might be worthwhile building one of them if there is going to be a steady supply of the little pieces. Like someone said earlier, they usually get put on top of the piles and burned first, but if I knew that I would have steady access to them I'd build a holding crib.

Like the others said "it all burns" and keeps you warm, so why not use them?

 

[saskwoodburner]

I'd be all over that!

 

[fespo]

All hardwoods

 

[jeffesonm]

 

[Knots]

 

[bobdog2o02]

all the concrete and dirt would be hell on a chain though.

 

[Knots]

all the concrete and dirt would be hell on a chain though.

Good point. But all those blocks...

Edit: that looks like sawdust they're sitting in...

 

[fespo]

No concrete, just saw dust and scrap blocks of wood from their mill. Who wants to cut when I could burn along time with those harwood blocks of Oak,ash,

 

[Wood Duck]

I think I could get some great burns with those smaller rectangular and cube pieces, and I see some pretty decent larger pieces in there too. You need some sort of bin or box to store the cut pieces. If you have a dry place to store them, cardboard boxes might work well.

 

[BrotherBart]

I have had such good luck with the recs and cubes this year that I am gonna make some more from now on. For morning and evening burns they are great.

 

[bboulier]

I would be happy to pick up some of that.

 

[Ashful]

Fuel is fuel ... my fuel doesn't have to look pretty to keep me warm.

I used to think that way, but having really struggled to get 3 years ahead with my burn rate has changed my mind on this. When I started leaving all crotches, shorts, and gnarly stuff in the woods, production rate went way up. Stacking is also neater, faster, and more stable, when every split is 20" long and straight as a pin.