Small uglies and chunks when you don't require much heat, or don't mind babysitting the stove. Take the big uglies and chainsaw them into football size chunks and burn them one or two at a time on a bed of coals with more air than usual.
I cut or split them however I can, and burn them early in the season (if they are dey) just to get them out of the way.
If you are talking wood, I make it fit into the stove somehow. If you are talking women, that is singer story.
I try to do most of my splitting when my boiler is going, I throw all the bark, uglies, shavings, everything that isn't good wood, into the stove. I usually end up having to burn that for a couple days afterwards. When the stove is shut off I usually put them next to the fire pit for campfires, or take them to a buddy down the road that burns during the summer for his hot water and he burns them.
Thats not a bad idea at all. Hearing about these woodburners for outdoors seems like you can load it with just about anything and its toast
If I was closer, I'd take them off your hand, noodle/split them to fit, and burn them in my stove. Uglies still have BTUs. Sent from my XT1030 using Tapatalk
Got a bunch of uglies right now that I am saving for the firepit and camping this summer. What's left will go in the stove in October to get them out of the way.
Hope the "dump" means it gets burned. Haha It burns but I have to guess that some uglies are just that gnarly. Got some black locust out there thats got root parts in it. I know Im going to burn that in a few years but definitely need to clean it as rocks and dirt embed the whole thing.
That being said, id like to get to the point where I have a couple 300 gallon water tank cages to put them in so they can actually season a year or so, but for now I don't have that much patience to stack them or deal with it so in the boiler they go. Not encouraging anyone to burn all wet wood here
It's a sin but no unfortunately not. When I bring yard waste to the dump the unstackables go too once the cage/bin is full. I used to save them for a lady I work with. She and her husband were in a jam with no wood last year so I brought a load of my seasoned wood over when I saw her buying duraflame logs. Then I dropped off a bunch of uglies and shorts. All in all about 2/3 of a cord. When I had a bunch of shorts and uglies in the spring I told her about them and she kept telling me she would pick them up. She almost drives last my house on her way home. A few weeks went into a month and she kept making excuses why she didn't stop. I try to keep my front yard nice so after about 6 weeks I took them to the dump. I tried...shrug
Not everyone can get that opportunity but hey if you haven't done so, maybe craigslist them? People actually like to have something in a clean bin to use. Unless that situations been exhausted youve done all you can.
