Any body else use a little forced air to burn their bark and splitter trash? Definitely speeds up the process.
I've been collecting what leavings are practical to save for kindling. I usually take excess bark to the brush pile to burn.
That should warm it up. I use blowers quite a bit on the brush and debris piles. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I will get a few decent kindling pieces sometimes. This however was a dead American elm with some bark falling off and some taking quite a bit of effort to take off. Some pieces just crumbled instead of split, so they ended up in the barrel too. We don't do the brush pile anymore. It grew way to fast and was way to close to a cedar row that I didn't feel comfortable burning it. Ended up taking a 40 yard roll off dumpster and 4 7x14 dump trailer loads to get rid of it all.
I try to keep splitter leaving as well for kindling and mix it in with the stacks. I keep some bark but most gets tossed to the brush pile at Bunny's or low spots around her place.
We are only allowed a burn pile 4' by 4' and they actually fly a plane around to monitor it. As a result I can never get rid of all the branches and splitter trash before things get dry and burn days go away. I burn as much splitter trash as I can in the fire pit. I also have several brush piles throughout the property. I did buy a grapple for the tractor so I can more easily grab a bunch from a brush pile and drop it on the fire. Can't wait to see if this works this year.
Most of mine gets left for mud control or tossed into the woods. I will from time to time have an empty feed bag next to the splitter for wood shards.
I’ve only got two logs left from 3 16ft dump trailer loads of standing dead elm. There was quite a bit of bark and punky stuff. It is actually a little bit tricky walking and working around the splitter right now. I’ll sort through the debris and grab a bunch of decent kindling. The rest will get swept up with the grapple on the skid steer and hauled to the village tree dump in my recently purchased dump truck. Once in a while I’ll have a burn barrel going when I’m processing, and throw stuff in it but punky stuff is always wet. Easier for me to haul it off
I rake up everything and it goes into trash cans and then into the smoke dragon. Had a couple dry falls and a dry winter so the wood yard is clean sort of.
I'm at the opposite spectrum. I sometimes haul stuff to the burn pile that I could discard elsewhere just so I can have a fire. haha Currently picking up sticks building a nice pile on the river lot.
I can't seem to get it dry enough to want to burn it. Plus it makes a lot of ashes. Would it be easier to burn on a burn pile? Or is that not an option?
It dries good in a week without rain. Usually we have a fire ban all summer. As far as ash goes I might haul 3 steel buckets a year. The Douglas fir doesn’t leave much ash. Aspen on the other hand…..
I rake my scrap into a big pile and burn it in my solo stove. My boys roast marshmallows over it. The big chunks go into my Jotul wood stove. I don’t waste anything
I save my bark and it goes on the ground by my staging area. That area has been growing higher every year.
Burn the bark in the pit, some gets used to fill low spots etc, and a small amount gets used in the stove. As for brush some gets hauled to the pit and some I use to make piles for rabbits.
I have basically 'mulched' the area under my lower stacks with bark. I found it to be a great moisture barrier on the ground also and have it underneath stacks in the woods. Have a pile of it by the woods stacks just for that purpose. A lot of the red oak I process readily lets go of it's bark in sheets. Throw em on the ground where you need them (outer bark facing up) and stomp em flat.
