Oak pallet from work

5.5"×2.5", looks like oak and the shop wood stove will like it.

 

I burn a lot of those too, usually the 4x4 runners on 8' skids. A neighboring business throws a lot of them out, and most of what I've taken I just use the 4x4's for stacking wood, but they do burn nice and long too

 

Nice BTU’s. Moisture content?

 

Yeah, that is nice stuff. Wish I had a place like that here.

 

What did ya cut it with? Those cut marks look gnarley.

 

Nice wood there. That will pack a stove full. I get pallet frames and other boards from pallets too.

 

I work at a sawmill here in N GA and we have a pallet shop...we only cut hardwood, and supply oak and poplar for them. They have off-cuts that are sold as firewood (green, so you have to season them) and most of the pcs are 3.5" X 6-9" and are sold by the pound. Have seen a van come in and get stuffed to the gills!

 

A good source of cheap oak. Good for firewood but sometimes you can even find large enough pieces for woodworking projects. A lot cheaper than buying large pieces of oak at the store. Just sand off the first layer and it can be beautiful wood underneath....as long as it doesn’t have toxic schmootz spilled all over it.

 

Cut it with my MS250.

 

How can you tell if it's chemical treated? I picked up a few pallets several winters ago and ended up not burning them because it wasn't clear what wasn't treated.

 

Yes that's what Unicorn1 has here, mostly oak with some poplar. I've scored dimensional lumber like that from temporary scaffolding used in road work and bridge maintenance highway projects. Mostly what I find discarded by road crews are spruce with some oak.

 

Maybe the sign of a loose chain as well?

 

This was the first thing that came to my mind.

 

That's cool, you ought to come down to the mid state sometime.

 

i recieved a skid of stainless steel the other day we use in restaurants. The entire pallet was made from cherry and maple...SUPER SCORE for me -=)

 

If you can’t tell visually cut it and smell it. It will either smell like natural wood or chemical. The nose knows.

 

Often they have stamps and other markings on them to indicate how they were made. If you see ‘HT’ it means the pallet was heat treated and not made from chemically treated wood. There are other letters that show if the pallet was chemically treated. If you google ‘pallet HT’ you will find a wealth of reading material.

 

Thanks!