Local truss company dumps all their scrap end cuts in big piles out by the road. Free for the taking kiln dried pine. The Hardy OWB ain't a picky eater, so I grabbed a little.
Good stuff! We have a glass processing factory nearby that I've gotten a load or two of nice 2x4 and 2x6 cutoffs from, as well as all my large pallets. My wood hauling buddy just started burning this year and has been cutting in a ton of the stuff with what cordwood I can give him to heat his house this winter. Free is free, and it's hard to argue with kiln dried freebies!
It can, but I just grabbed stuff hand sized and up. If I had a front end loader I'd grad a few scoops and just shovel in the Hardy.
Nice but a little full of saw dust. Found a local guy on Craigslist last year that delivered a dump trailer load 6x12x4. Only had a 5 gallon pail of sawdust. Some of these pieces where 4ft+ long. Use the triangles for kindling on a reload. It's nice to have the stuff on hand.
That's good stuff. Truss wood is southern yellow pine which is much denser than a typical spruce 2x4.
There is a lot of sawdust there but I'd be taking lots of those cutoffs. I love them for daytime burning not just for spring and fall either.
I could run my stove easily with that little stuff in early season or late season. A whole lot of short cycling but still.
Nice, take a bobcat, and load it into the trailer. If you have a grated floor like I do in my trailer, then the saw dust will stay at the plant's lot, ( or on the road for the next 2 miles lol).
Another point I thought about today is to not abuse the privilege. I would compare it to the dumpster divers on the dumpsters at my job site. If I put it in the dumpster it is fair game for anyone to take. What really ticks me off is some of the scrapping rookies that toss a ton of stuff out of the dumpster to get at some copper, aluminum, etc. Then I gotta spend half hour running up and down the street picking up all that the rookies tossed out and didn't put it back. I found two morons doing that and I called St. Paul police. The cops made the morons pick up all the trash in the entire alley otherwise they were going downtown and going to be charged. The St. Paul cops were great. But, don't abuse the privilege.
I do the same, there is a company 2 factory's up the road from work that makes trusses. There off cuts are thrown in a stillage and moved out the front for the public to take away for firewood. It's hard to get in winter, people queue up in there cars waiting for the forklift to bring out the BTU's. I get mine in summer, at knock off time I drive up the road and fill the back of my ute. (Aussie pickup) I store the off cuts in some totes I made out of used shipping pallets and a roof from one of my IBC's. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
There are at least two truss companies within 20 miles of me, one south of Ottawa, and another to the west of me in Merrickville. However, like pretty well everything around here, the cutoffs are not free. Cheapish but certainly not free. However, it is another source of heat if one was willing to go and get them. I tried a couple bundles (can't remember how much they charged but it wasn't too outrageous). Now, I get hardwood cutoffs from my son who is a hardwood flooring installer. That stuff burns like gas.
