Those of you who process at home know what I'm talking about. Wherever I park my splitter I end up with a pile of bark and shreds. It can get quite deep. In my ongoing efforts to convert waste into fuel, I decided to attack these piles. Since California banned single-use plastic grocery bags, paper bags are making a comeback. I recommend placing them on a good bed of coals. It is necessary to stir the the pile once or twice to get complete burning. Cleaning my property while heating my house, that's a win-win.
We put a tarp down and save them for kindling. I put them in 50 pound chicken feed bags and old boxes
I wedge my wheel barrow under the beam (when I split horizontally) and it all falls in, plus i have a handy table to hold the other half of splits. Once I'm done, I sort out the pieces and keep the kindling in a laundry basket that stays on the wood pile.
I bought a couple of 27 gallon totes and use them for kindling as well. Or toss them on top of the stacks to grab for kindling as well as I restock wood.
For sure it can be used and laying a tarp down before the splitting will save a lot of work and then you'll only get the splitter trash and no grass or even dirt.
I use a tarp and use them in the outdoor fire pit or for fire starter in the stove. I ran a bunch through the shredder one time but turned out it was a waste of time. Made good fire starter but was just more work. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Hey, we can send you some Walmart bags in an unmarked box....just send 39.95 for postage......I started saving some this year for kindling.
I have picked out the bigger pieces of solid wood at times but it's a lot easier to rake/sweep it all up and toss them in the woods . Course, I have woods to toss them into. A form of "giving back" if you will. I've tossed it all in a compost pile too but an awful lot of it ends up getting screened out, especially oak, so we don't do that any more.
We got a couple metal garbage cans that we put the bigger pieces in. The bark we sometimes through it in the fire pit. We own property across the street and it is all down hill and not maintained. Do it gets dumped there.
I had a bunch and they were a huge pile, like I resorted to burning them in my burn pile couple years ago because I was just fed up with how wet they got. Should have some kinda tote cage for that. Keeps them drained and dry enough...looking for something that use. Not the ibc totes but more mesh like with half inch holes.
For the most part i leave wood crumbs in my processing area to keep mud down. Ill save better bark chunks for the fire pit...maybe a bigger shard/sliver on occasion. As long as dry you have a great idea. Mom used to double up the paper bags and collect sticks and twigs for kindling.
Mine go in one of a couple plastic 55 gallon drums. I always have one with dried out noodles and usually 2 with splitter scraps. Trouble free fire starter! Handful or two of each.
