Sounds like a good idea to me. Get a couple holes in the plastic drums? I’ve got a couple but I’m lazy about it because I find so much other kindling at the same fabulous price!
I usually will rake them into a pile and toss them into the fire pit. Midwinter was filling lawn and leaf bags with splitter trash this summer while using my splitter. Not sure if she brought them to the dump, or stashed them away.
I have started raking up the splitter trash and putting it on the trails in the woods by exposed roots.
I've been doing that with a bunch of wood noodles that I've been generating. Also, in areas that get muddy.
I was in a hurry, so most of that went to the dump. Since then, I've saved some. I use skinny birch for most of my kindling needs, but a handful of chips and shards really gets a fire going. Basement storage space is at a premium though.
just an idea. I recently saw a whole bunch of dog crates for sale from a rescue place. I’m sure it’s rare to see a bunch at one time but they’d work well I bet. Holes are bigger than 1/2” tho,
Bark and little wood scraps go in the muddy trails. Won’t be long before it turns into more mud but,,,,,, when I was using the wood furnace in the basement I used the paper bag trick. Worked well on a bed of coals.
I rake the whole area with a tractor landscape rake on occasion then scoop it all up and dump it over a little cliff on an edge of our acreage.
The area in front of each of my wood sheds is covered in wood chips and bark mulch anyway, so most of it just stays there. I pick up bigger pieces and put them in plastic rope-handle totes, which gets used for fire starting or for Scout campouts.
My processing area is open and grassy so I mow it.. Debris is raked into kubota bucket and put in compost pile.
I gather for kindling and also leave where they are to keep mud down. I like the idea of the paper bag. I started to have the kids make"firestarter tamales." Basically taking newspaper and than making layers of noodles, bark, scraps, etc... length wise and than rolling it all up. They were excited to do it............ for about an hour.
