What to do?

I just mix this stuff in with my large splits and rounds. Makes for great shoulder season wood, and also for morning starts etc. Btus are Btus right. Would not fill my stove with them. If you spend the time to cut it, might as well get a little heat from it

 

They disallowed open burning around here a few years ago or that would most likely have been my solution to get rid of the stuff. Looking back it went fairly quickly and now that I'm done I'm glad I have it.

 

Pete! What's shakin"?

 

Smoothing out the rough edges?

 

Niiice! What did you get, vehicle and beer-wise?

 

Except for the old truck going down, nice on both counts. Off hand given the life choice I would guess that there aren't any other kinds of monks. And yeah, at 7% ABV two's a good limit for a Sunday!

 

I burn everything those small rounds are great for shoulder fires and for filling in a full load for an over night burn. The small twigs I use as kindling

 

I'm having the same kind of conundrum, as I'm take down small and medium trees around the house. Very high leaves/brush to firewood-ratio....

 

It generally depends on the species, but for decent hardwoods I save everything down to about 2" diameter. The rest stays in the woods or gets run through a chipper.

 

I used loppers to process the tops of everything I thought was worth keeping which was down to maybe 1/2". What I wanted was to create the longest straight pieces I could.

Then I took the lengths by bunches, placed them in my cutting stand and sawed them up. An electric chainsaw is perfect for this. I sometimes used a rope to pull everything tight together to make cutting easier. After it was all sawed up I had quite a pile and not enough garbage cans. That's when I hit on the bag idea.

 

Starting this year I've gone to the 2" /20" rule after my collection of 40" plus wood I acquired So then I chip the branches for use around the place
And try to stay away from the big stuff.... bbbuuutttt when it just falls down you just can't leave it sit there

 

That be ug-ly! Sugar maple?

 

Looks like Sugar Maple.

 

I'll keep stuff down to a couple inches if it's good hardwood, the rest gets piled, chomped down tight and left for game habitat or burned.
Chasing loggers and cleaning up tops in big woodlots gets the "habitat" treatment.
Fence rows in agricultural areas gets the "burning brush pile" treatment.