Well, the proverbial, "fall in a pile of $hit and come out smelling like a rose". I have a past student (he graduated in 1989) and he has been bugging me about letting him drop some construction cut offs. I have resisted for a couple of years. We agreed to burn cutoffs from a pallet factory about 13 years ago, they delivered them and they were in gaylord boxes and they wanted the boxes back. Talk about a mess, full of sawdust, paper, soda cans, nails, staples, we used up the first two and never asked for any more to be returned. This is the history behind me not accepting this construction cutoff deal. Well, he got me and dropped off one load. For the life of me I cannot remember the size of the dumpster, thinking 42 cubic yard? Anyway, comes from a high end house company that builds the houses in a building, not a modular home. Anyway, he told no nails no paper no plywood. So I relented. What I got? All kiln dried, 2x4, 2x6, 2x8, 2x10, 2x12 any where from 1-2 inches long up to a 2x12 that was 10' long!! Many many 2x4's 6-8' long! Majority of everything is 3' or less long. Pile is about 5' tall, on average 4' tall. 8' wide and about 30' long! It has to be longer than 30', that is a 10x20 tarp covering it! I'll see if I can get the pictures to load.
Thats great. I used to love raiding construction dumpsters for framing scrap. Will you repurpose the better stuff or turn it all into firewood/kindling?
Well, the wife has dug out boards for signs, both daughters, their husbands and kids have dug through and pulled many, many useable boards for projects. Past student told me he has occasionally found a bunk of rejects in the load! I wouldn't mind a bunk of any kind! Useable will find a new purpose, rest, being burnt. So far, it is burning better than the slab wood we used to get.
What species? Is it douglas fir, hem fir or some type of "white wood" utility framing lumber? I couldnt get the pics to load.
I am working on a way to pile it. Then I have asked for a minimum of 5 more loads before winter. Find somewhere on this 40 acres. Actually where it is dumped I will probably pile and then buy a HUGE tarp. Would be nice if it could be kept under a roof but I am not that fortunate. Yeah, pretty excited about it myself. It is beautiful campfire wood.
that will be good shoulder season wood just stack it in the stove tight. Boy the Boy Scouts could make a lot of bird houses out of that
I had a story last year similar to your pallet clean up. Ugh. Not worth it and never doing it again. This makes up for quite a bit of that!
That's a great score! I can just imagine my 4 year old's eyes if she were to see that pile of "blocks"!!! Oh the things she could build!
I have thrown it in as we heat our hot water all summer, it has held better than slab wood. That is a great idea, I will have to get with the scouts and if they want to come "shop" for birdhouse wood I will make it available! My past student that dropped this off says he has four other families with wood boilers that heat exclusively with this all winter. Two are elderly and appreciate the size of the wood. And campfires, it is so clean and pretty fire, little smoke, have had a friend take some for that reason. Oh my youngest grandson digs through and takes wood home for his "shack". He is a hoot. The other grandson looks for wide boards for shelves in their barn. It is fun to let them dig and take.
I thought of that, I used to have two woodturners in the house, this would be so nice, clean, easy to stack, etc.
They are to small. Takes two wheel barrow loads to fill the boiler 1/2 full. Going to load the farm truck and park it tarped by the stove with the bed tipped up to make easy transition then load the truck on the weekends with the loader tractor. I have a bad back and bending it makes it unhappy. So keeping things at waist level and just an easy move will be helpful. As I create the situation will post pictures of it.
