Even the bark helps keep me warm!

3 years ago when I went into town to register my vehicles, both town clerks asked me if I wanted some wood. I love small towns! Holly had a Beech tree down, and Gail had a massive Sugar Maple she paid to have cut down and they left it in her front dooryard. 40" diameter. You can probably guess my response. Anyways, the bark that came off of the Sugar Maple is like a one inch hardwood board, every little bit helps. Each piece weighs a pound or two. I got three and half truck loads of wood for going to the town hall. Good deal!

 

Why not burn it. Get all the BTUs you can out of that tree!

 

Ya might not be able to fight town hall, but getting leads on wood sure eases the battle!

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Goooooooal! I mean, scoooooooooooore!

 

Bark makes good potting soil, too

anyone hoarding dried feces/excreta ?
sheep poo ?

 

I sometimes burn it by the bucket rather than go dump it down the hill in spring.

 

Naa-aaaaa

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Great score!

Any burls or tiger maple pieces in there?

 

I hoard biomass and organics. Wood chips, leaves, compost, horse manure, grass clippings. I compost all of my own and collect from others as well. The Town has found that I will take chips as well as wood, and they dump a few loads a year at my house. What doesn't get spread in the gardens gets composted or used in permaculture beds.

 

The more I talk wood when I am out, the more people I find that are into firewood. When I visit the dentist, the dentist and 2 of his assistance are into firewood. The conversation usually turns to wood.

Not hoarding it, but sheep manure doesn't need to be aged before putting it on the garden. Sheep manure is not strong and we would always take it directly to the garden when cleaning the barn. Haven't raised sheep in almost 20 years.

 

hoarding for forum relevant heating

 

Ok. Maybe went over my head. Cow patties are much larger to hoard and dry for heat. I have had a few of those around here also.

 

Burn em if ya got em.

Wife wanted a natural fence on the side of our house that has a neighbor, so we planted a row of lilac bushes. We also planted one out front and one outside the bathroom window on the other side of the house, just cause we like em. After several near death experiences with the weedwhacker, I decided mulch was in order.. Being the frugal Yankee that I am, I used sheets of bark that had been dropping off of the pine and willow I was processing to cover the whole area, and besides being brutally simple, it also took down the pile of crap in my processing area and does a great job of keeping the weeds and grass away from the young bushes. Most importantly, Mrs Papi likes how it looks.

 

The old saying is don't buck city hall. Unless your bucking their wood then its a win win situation. Good score!!

 

In Kenya, dried poop briquettes are serving as a clean cooking fuel
In Kenya, selling human waste could revolutionize sanitation
there's all kind of grant monies and related projects being thrown at problems/solutions there
Sewer sludge gets used as fertilizer here but it can have heavy metals, flame retardants, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, pharmaceuticals, phthalates, dioxins, and a host of other chemicals and organisms mixed in. Great mineral sources for flowers , food however - there are understandable concerns, and of course, denials.
I hope the research comes up with some viable safe uses.

 

Sadly no, I wish there was.

 

The bark just came off during splitting, and they were so big and heavy, I figured why not burn em' during the warmer day fire with some smaller splits. I only had 20 or 30 pieces of bark,why waste them.

 

When/if you burn bark-on slabs you're essentially doing the same thing. Supposedly the bark has the same BTU as the wood, which I never believed until I read scientific studies that proved it does and then I figured because of my sloppy storage of slabs I was probably burning a bit of rain water due to bark being a bit more porous. I did get a lot more ashes burning bark-on slabs. So what.