besides use them to weight down the covering to your stack? Ideas please. I am starting to get get a big stack of uglies. (Crouch wood that doesn't split well and buggy stuff) I was thinking about offering them up, at good price, on CL as campfire wood.
If they fit in the stove, I burn 'em........in the stove. I've not only burned ugly firewood, I've also burned some fugly firewood....which is worse than your basic ugly firewood.
It's spring time in Iowa. Cold, rainy and windy. My stove has 4 or 5 uglies in right now. Farwood is kinda like wimminz. It aint all about the wrapping but more about the innards. As for the critters, well, that just goes with the territory when it comes to wood, and whatever.
Goes in the stove mostly in the shoulder seasons. If they really big I will mash it up any way possible, splitter, chain saw, band saw, or a combination of same. Toss in one of those 300 gallon totes and let them dry out same as rest of material.
That is were they are going at the present, but they are getting ahead of me. Gave some to my Wood Fairy for his camper last year.
I asked this question and folks got a little antsy. Burn them. I try to keep my uglies that are so mismatched i can split them very well. Too knotty and curled. Depending on what your pieces are, you could end up using them For your bbq. Mind you this isnt pine or such. Stay with the fruit woods like apple or cherry or hickory or oak for this but making them into charcoal is what im getting at or just use them on a bed of coals
If they fit in the stove they get burned, usually on days or evenings when I am around and can tend to the stove more. If they won't fit I cut or split them till they do. The fire pit likes them too. Sent from my Z832 using Tapatalk
Like Henry Fonda said in the movie: "Burn it! Burn it all!" How and where you burn it depends on your ability to make little ones outta biggens
I cut them with a saw to an appropriate size to fit in my stove and then burn them on Saturday afternoon. Or any other time deemed suitable for disposal .
Not to sound uummmm stupid . But I've heard the term shoulder season on here quite a bit. If you would kind sir , please enlighten me
Spring and Fall ( or Fall and Spring in the anti-hemisphere ) As with those periods between peak and off-peak.
Shoulder season is an old term and I think as has been said its both seasons on each side of the full on head of winter. Sent from my Z832 using Tapatalk
I was in the same boat but realistically its shoulder season temps here from october to April in Washington state on the western side. Very mild in terms of keeping warm so no wonder we have pine here that seasons quickly since its either wet or dry here. Spring is the time to get to cutting and splitting, sometimes I pick a dry day in Jan on the fly and its crisp but not bone jarring cold at all. Rare but we do get teens. I just thought that shoulder season is a huddle shoulder to shoulder next to the fire and hold fast through the blizzard. The term was new to me but always saw it mentioned as folks referred to softer woods for it rather than the heavy weights. I wouldn't doubt anyone who has burned their house weight in wood and then some if they build fires for those crazy winters. Im cold even at 45 degrees here in WA but Im more tired of using my electricity than anything.
Here shoulder season can be sept-nov and march-may. Or just any day you only need a little bit of heat to knock the chill off. Especially with our wild temp swings here. I worked in 16 degrees one morning this week and today it was 70's Oh, and there's no stupid questions here! We are all here to learn.
