Yippie, another cold night!(load pics)

Yeah, the smile is on the inside.
Awoke to -25 this a.m., and house was down to 62 @ 5:15.
Reload got us back into the upper 60's in fairly short order.
I'll be taking a nap later.

 

No fun over here either, woke up to -18/-35 with a wind chill. I have half a skid loader bucket of ready to burn wood left. Rest of my stacks are close but not ready to burn yet. 6 cords stuffed through the fireview this season. Started in October and has been lit all of except for when I cleaned the chimney.

 

Only went down to 2 here last night. Had the stove stuffed full of locust and red oak.

 

I've been burning pretty much all white ash lately, too much snow to deal with to dig out the white oak/black locust. Of course if I run out of my seasoned ash I'll be burning the "good" stuff for the shoulder season. Yep, I'm done with this winter!

 

I used to get the (I'm guessing this is what you have) rail road tie end cuts as well, GOOD fire wood and sooooo easy to stuff the stuff to the hilt. I like your load pic!

 

The stuff in the stove is good old fashioned cord wood(ash) split into blocks. I have some rectangle cut 4x6 stuff that will be ready in a few years that's used when transporting new tractors. I can't wait to pack the stove with those!

 

Oh, how embarrassing lol. I was getting stuff that came from the ends of the railroad ties they cut off right before creosoting them. The stuff was WICKED good firewood and at the time was cheap. Now sadly, if you can even find it they want something insane like $450 a cord around here.

Either way, nice load

 

Buddy of mine picked up a load of oak skids from a shipping company and said he would share some of it.

I am going to cut one and probe it with a moisture meter on Monday.

Anyone have any experience with these? I asked the local sawmill if there is any treatment that is put on these and he said that generally there isn't.

 

Looks like Pete's doing a road trip to MN.

 

If the pallets have to potential to be used in international shipping, they may have been heat treated to prevent the movement of pests.. You can tell if there is a stamp on the side indicating that it was treated. HT or heat treating will at least take some of the moisture out of the pallet.. Someone had previously posted a pic of a pallet buster which might help in breaking down large quantities of pallets.. Nothing better than free BTU's.

 

Good info Stuckinthemuck.

The wood is those 4x4 oak skids about 5 feet long used for semi truck shipping.

I calculated the pounds of wood burned so far this season:

30,000 lbs of firewood.

7,000 lbs of pellets.

= 37,000 pounds to date.