Not only do uglies have heat in them, it’s basically all I burn, plus pine from time to time. This is my storage area for my OWB wood- all the uglies I produce from selling wood. Finally burned up what I had brought to my house back in the summer. This is all stored at my moms which is 10 minutes away. Still have roughly 10 cords sitting in the building. This load should hold me for a while.
Just chucked some knots and knuckles in the stove a few moments ago. If you're processing wood for sale or there is generally no shortage of them about.
Not only do uglies have heat, they often have more heat than "the pretty stuff" does...due to the dense/twisted grain n all...(which they often have)
Love me a stove full of uglies and little chunkies....Nothing goes to waste on my property. I even have a bark fire once in a while. Bark falls off the splits while filling my indoor bin, I toss in a box, and then stack it up in the stove every so often. Burns for a good hour or more, just alot of ashes.
I just dumped half a cord of them in my wood shed for the next week or two's worth of heat. The only downside is handling them. It's one or two at a time, takes longer to load the firebox.
I would strongly agree with that but in the process of creating 125-180 cords of clean looking sellable wood a year, a whole lot of uglies are created. I would need a ton of those totes and more storage space than I have
I love this notion. Having some weird oak splits with knotty branch ends makes these great to burn any time and often they are shorties or chunkies. They fill a bucket well and last a good while too.
That's funny! Haven't heard that in a while. Seems like, despite the fact that I have hundreds of feet of nice straight splits that I burn, that the handling and burning of uglies consumes a hugely disproportionate space in my mind and time. There's some lesson in that. I'm not sure what the lesson is, but I'm sure there is one!
Like most everyone, I too have my share of shorts and uglies. They haven't fallen over.....yet. I have some hardware cloth that I hope to fabricate some kind of a structure to dump them into. Maybe, a simple cylinder shape, on top of a pallet, that can be covered.
T.Jeff Veal uses old barrels, not everyone likes to use them but they dry the uglies pretty well he says!
