My part time firewood helper gets free Uglies for his Solo. Filled his F250 longbed up last year and still have around a cord of them left.
Mine too. I can’t say I mind them other than storage. Burn great and easy loading. I almost miss them when they are gone.
I kndof make uglies on purpose. I get a lot of them because I will cut out crotches and bad knots from my rounds, but still split those pieces. I keep a pile of them by a fire pit in case the material needs a little help to burn well.
I find myself making more shorts and uglies also. Seems the farther ahead I get, the fussier I have become about split quality and neat stacks.
Truth. My main criteria for what i scrounge. Plenty of crap wood to go around. With my surge of nuggets sales i may find myself making more of them on purpose. One thing i recently started doing is cutting uglies into shorts rather than try and stack them.
I split and bundle some of the shorts. I have a few regular customers that pick them up at the stand.
Any idea of the bag volume? buzz-saw has some mesh bags he bought to fill with smoker wood and ive thought of selling solo stove bags.
I bundle the same as my campfire bundles -with wrap. They're just smaller. Well under .5 cubic feet. 9 splits approximately 12" long. Also split smaller so they fit a few different stove sizes. Sent from my motorola edge plus 5G UW (2022) using Tapatalk
Framing lumber i saved from the dumpster. There was more but, i bring enough crap home! I figure make them smaller and bag for sale? The longer ones without knots ill split for kindling. The other day i filled some boxes with cedar kindling (milling scraps) and like the shorter length vs 16".
Probably about 1/4 of my sales are to Solo stove fire pit customers. Hardwoods such as white oak and hickory is what they want. Solo's eat soft wood big time, so hard woods are the bomb.
I provide about six cords of firewood to my parents every year. Chunks, cookies, uglies is what goes into their wood stove that provides 90% of their heat. I have a lot of this stuff over their needs and wondering how to price it. This stuff actually takes more time to cut, spit, handle and load. Think it is excellent firewood for Solo stoves and fire pits. Will try to sell in March-May when outside burning is in full swing.
Have a Solo burner in Franklin, TN that orders four face cords a year solely for his Solo stove. He only wants white oak. Since he is a big time cigarette smoker, he lives on his back patio. Think his wife doesn't allow smoking in the house.
We have a Bonfire and it’s a great outdoor stove. I joined a FB group for Solo Stove owners. Many aren’t regular wood burners and do a lot of trial and error. Some burn pellets for the convenience. I’d say sell somewhat shorter splits that are well seasoned. With good dry wood, they burn amazingly well.
Guess about 10-15% of my business is to Solo burners, which is a lot of firewood. The larger Yukon model is most prevalent. My small to medium 16" splits seems to be what they like. I have seen my firewood in action in these things and they are pretty awesome burning devices. They eat wood like crazy with oak and hickory being my main two selling firewoods. Soft firewoods burn up quickly in these things and will bankrupt the owner.
