Hi all, I wanted to share this, we have a wood shop on our property with a small handful of employees, we build solid wood furniture and I get to burn all of the offcuts! This material is all kiln dried down to 6%, white oak, walnut, maples, ash etc. When we rip boards, we have tons of thin strips that go into the OWB that heats the shop, alongside regular firewood that I shared in another thread. And then we have small pieces that go in the garbage, but starting from today, I’m putting that into yard waste bags and I plan to throw them straight into my wood boiler like that. Probably a good couple hours of heat from each bag mid-winter. When we’re busy, we produce just about enough waste each day to heat the house during the winter, although I did stockpile some this summer so I’m not so on the edge of my seat like I was last year, that was my first year burning. The stove in the house is rated for 950 sq ft but with wood fuel like this, it heats the 2400 sq ft house comfortably. The house is ICF construction, so well insulated for a start. (And yes, I want to burn those ornamental logs everytime I look at them lol). Then these totes contain all the offcuts that are not worth cutting up to 16” to fit in the stove, so I save these for the boiler, they burn fast but very hot. Anybody else use their shop waste to heat their shop or house? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Welcome to the forum Nice looking setup you have, too. I don’t burn a ton of dimensional lumber scraps but a little every year, depending on how many projects I work on. I know there’s l a few guys on here that burn scraps on a regular basis though. There’s a pallet manufacturer a couple towns over from me that puts a large hopper to the road every few weeks, which gets picked through rather quickly. So far I haven’t been by there at the right time. In a pinch that’s a great resource to have available.
Great wood. Dry and usually just the right size. I work in education and I have a connection with our teacher who teaches the woods class. I have been getting boxes and boxes of cut offs for years. Not enough to heat the house, but great for getting fires started or getting some quick heat.
Nice to generate you own firewood and smart move bagging the strips. As long as there is room to store them why not.
Bloody fine way to get seasoned oak, maple, etc. At 6% that stove load of oak should put out a ton or 2 of heat and burn quite a while. Welcome to the land of woodenheads. Lots of good folks here who are willing to share their knowledge with anyone willing to listen. Glad you have you joined the family.
Back in the day when I had a wood furnace and wood working shop in the basement, along with all the firewood for one season. Many things got stuffed in that furnace. Sometimes firewood became a wood working project, sometimes wood working projects became firewood. Burned lots of paper shopping bags full of bark chips. Easier than carrying them outside. Never burn fine sawdust tho. Learned my lesson on that one.
Local truss company dumps their cut off out in a big pile. I'll there a few time a burn season and grab some pieces that I'll throw in my Hardy OWB to augment my regular wood.
Just picked up 4 dump truck loads of cut offs also from a truss company, kinda nice that they're 3 miles from home
When dad and I ran his furniture shop, he had the papa bear Fisher stove. We burned scraps and firewood in it all the time.
There is a chimney sweep site, in the PNW, has a lot of thoughts about not burning mill ends. I found this in "the sweeps library" a few years ago....hosted by the "other" wood burning site. His thoughts of the stuff added to wood: Lube from the milling process Salt from water the logs may have been transported in PEG 1000 fungicides And more. Sweep's Library - Should you burn mill ends in your wood stove? Sca
Good point, any processed wood that you purchase for construction that's not locally-milled and sourced should be suspect when considering burning it in a wood stove. That being said, stuff that you yourself have milled or that you bought from a local mill that doesn't use those stabilizers, chemicals and preservatives in, I'd say you'd be fine to burn that stuff.
