While doing my regular dump scrounge I found a pile of these rounds. They looked mostly rotten and weighed a TON! I took one home to see if it was worth it. What do you think it is? it seems plenty burnable to me. My wedge just bounced out of it several times before I could get it to split.
Kinda looks like the ash grain I’ve seen at Backwoods Savage ’s & walt ’s GTG’s... Otherwise, once dried out, I see firewood
DO NOT burn it indoors or out. Its a creosote/asphalt impregnated or coated utility pole (probably some type of soft wood) that was below grade. Thats why it was so saturated. Does it have any odor...asphalty/driveway coating type smell?
Does it smell like a utility pole? Probably not best even for the pit if it has those chemicals going on.
If it is a pentachlorophenol treated pole you probably should be handling it with rubber gloves being careful not to get any of that black stuff on you. Taking it back to the dump sounds like a very good idea.
Often just called 'Penta' or PCP or what they use where creosote and Penta have not been banned. Or creosote has but Penta hasn't. although PCP can be "angel dust" in some circles and probably doesn't do much to save poles ( and that PCP is really hard to spell ). All are nasty stuff.
That's familiar to me. You have a bunch of ash rounds that have been sitting for a while. Probably 3-5 years from the looks of them. Get it split, dry and covered. Not great due to age, but serviceable firewood. Treated utility poles will be uniformly brown and black inside and out, and will have a very obvious and distinct chemical smell to them. They would not have some of that nice bright white color inside the splits, which yours do.
That’ll work. In my experience tulip is good for creating a lot of heat fast. You just gotta keep shoving it in though.
