The main goal was cleanup but now that I've got this stuff I'll stack it someway somehow and use it. Should be handy for small fires and burning down coals. I heated my house for an entire weekend last year with small stuff dead fall that I collected off the lawn. Took a lot of tending but was kind of fun and felt extra free.
I'm burning 6 or 7 of those little 1" and 2" sticks now. Saving the big stuff, temps up to 36 and the sun is shining.
Agreed. If you already cut them up and spent the money in gas and your time, use it for kindling or a quick fire to take the chill off etc. When its Mid January, and there is 3 ft of snow on the ground, a large box full of kindling is a welcome site at least for me
So I figured out a plan to deal with all this stuff. Maybe 3 years ago I had purchased some kiln dried wood to mix in with some marginal wood so I could finish out the season. It was a 1/4 cord and I saved the bags (15) and put them away. So long story short I filled these bags (13) and still have 4 full garbage cans. I'll dry the stuff for a year. I'll probably bring the bags into the basement since the bags should keep any bugs or mess that hitched a ride from making a mess. The cans will have to stay outside under cover. Some will be chiminea wood. There's plenty of 2.5-3" wood for heat and lot's of small stuff for kindling too. Waste not want not.
Nice move jatoxico But how dry is the stuff? Mite mold up if there's warmth and moisture in the basement. Then again, man it might be no issue
Tinking about that myself. The basement has the hot water heater and furnace and is pretty dry. The bags do breath. Hopefully they breath enough! The wood was from storm damaged tops from early August. Definitely not dry but not fresh cut either.
The tops of my wood piles are covered with all the odd balls like that and we burn them on extra cold days and nights. Smaller pieces like that put out a good size burst of heat.
Yes they do! Once I had the stuff all cut it was too good to waste just needed a plan. Some of the wood in each bag is stack worthy but stacking the real small stuff wouldn't work, hopefully this does.
Just a followup on this thread. As you see above I bagged up a bunch of branch wood from tops (storm fall) as a solution to store and dry it so I could make some use of it. So I cut them up, bagged the wood and stuck them in the shed for a year. Got chilly the other night so I grabbed a bag to make the first fire of the season. Opened the bag and all was clean, dry and mold free. Burned nicely with no sizzling. Used about a quarter bag over 3 hrs or so. So this should be excellent for short hot shoulder season fires, kindling or for times when I'm right there to feed the stove. The bag contains all the mess and is really convenient. All in all this turned out to be a good solution and made use of wood that would normally have gotten chipped or tied up and put to the curb.
Doin' good Eric. Getting to be that time of year. How you making out? You were laid up I think last I recall. On the mend I hope?
Moving along, better than when I blew my back out in May- the going/doing part has been kinda slow. But, I'm above the dirt, so I'm thankful.
wow, I am different, I start a brush pile fire whenever I take down a tree 3 inches and above I keep at the start... by the end.. lots of branches going in... but I cut a lot of tree lines on farmers field. go back next day to finish clean up.. farmer doesn't want to break big money equip.. when done brush hog edge back... he doesn't have time I get good wood?.
