I burn my uglies on days when I'm going to be home to deal with it or mild weather. I can usually only get two at a time in the KS. They have to be fugly to go to the fire pit.
Uglies meet band saw , then they all fit. Dribbles and left overs get consumed when home on weekends, no btu's go to waste.
I keep and burn all my uglies and if I have one that I can't get split down enough I give it to my neighbor that has a much bigger stove....
I put all the shorts cutoffs and uglies in a big bin, usually burn those in the summer fires in the pit. But if I don't burn them all up they go into the stove during shoulder season. I don't stack any of them in with the good splits.
It is rare that an ugly gets thrown out here. Most times we burn them in the fall but even today, I was putting some wood in the porch rack and some were almost uglies. That is, a few with bigger knots than normal. But, they burn good in the daytime.
We know you don't get uglies Dennis, you have those wonderful tree's grown nice and straight in the woods. I need to find me someone local with a wood lot that they want cleaned up/maintained. When I get those 30"+ yard bird silver maples from the tree service guys I end up with bunches and bunches of uglies. No way to stack them and they won't season worth a darn in a heap so they get burned in the pit or put to the curb.
Not too many rdust. That is one benefit of cutting inside the woods line rather than the edge or fencerows. If you can't find a local I think I know somewhere where you might be able to cut some.
This summer I sent a pick up load of uglies out to our home schoolers' group campsite in my 17yo's Dodge Ram 50. They camp out there occasionally on weekends during the summer and usually do one full week of camping at some point each summer so all my kids know how to "ruff it." We also have campfire night on Friday or Saturday evenings throughout summer and fall. They go through a heckuva lot of firewood but its a great group of kids and it keeps them out of trouble.
Splitting that ugly in the original post won't necessarily be easy or pretty, but should result in a couple of smaller pieces. I've been splitting somewhat small lately, but some wood is resistant to that, and some isn't. The real shorties and fuglies I've just been putting in a pile and burn them up first in the fall, also using plastic garbage cans wheeled around on a hand truck. Would like to make a bin for them. I'm trying to limit the number of shorties by looking, like, 5 cuts or so ahead and sizing the rounds a little smaller so that there's nothing left over. Last tri axle load I think I had a quarter cord of shorties.
