I have done the uglies bin made out of pallets works ok, but is ugly. I decided to incorporate an uglies bin into the wood shed I am building right now. Here is a pic, you can see a couple of the pallet bins and the wood shed bin starting to fill up.
I give them away, burn them with trash, campfires, etc. Had probably 6-7 cords of cookies/uglies last year.
Thats real nice Dave!! My problem is the "room" I think Swags hit the nail on the head for me, I'm on the hunt for those Galvanized bins. If I can't find some, I'll go with what you have
That's what I do here.Open burning (other than BBQ etc) is illegal inside city limits.So when I want to heat a piece of steel to shape it or for repair,even if I just want an outside fire sometime - I throw some scrap or small branches in the Weber kettle & light it off. What I don't get is why are the local homecenters (Menards,Lowes,Home Depot,Walmart etc) allowed to sell those smaller metal or clay firepits/chimneas inside city limits if open burning is illegal? How do they know that the buyer isn't gonna use that in the city instead of outside or in rural areas? Sister has one,she's barely a mile from me,she does what everyone else does around here - just keep a wrapper from a package of hot dogs close by in case some nosy neighbor calls the fire department..... Last I knew it was something like a $100 fine if they caught you. Friend of Dad some years ago had a small stubborn dead stump in backyard he was trying to get rid of...So he laid that grate across it,doused it with lighter fluid & set if off... No one said a thing about it
Piney, "YOU" know where I'm at!… I'm surprized they don't have a law down here for a dog who's hair is to long…. If I could get the appraised price MY "F…..N" taxes are, I'd be out of here in a minute…..
Instead of avoiding them while stacking try incorporating them into your stacks - I always end up with shorts and cross stack them every so often, load them N-S with my 20-22" regular stuff. It has to be really knarly to end up on the top of the pile or holding down the tin. Depending on the wood species you could also cut them down smaller, or if you get a twisted piece cookie it and split into nice 2-3in blocks hatchet them into wood for the cooker. They dry pretty quick in burlap sacks hanging in the trusses of the garage...provided you have an open loft, or spread out on a trailer deck in the sun
I hear ya brother. Taxes in this state are unreal! Im gonna take a walk around tomorrow and see if dad's got any crates/cages that might work for your uglies. He's got a little bit of everything in our woods
We're stacking them up out back around the old dug well head for use in the fire pit. I'm a scrounger so I get a bunch of uglies from stuff nobody else wants. Either their shorties or funky shaped from limbs and knots. I start a good fire with these and burn the bark and trimmings when I split. I'm getting so many now I might have to come up with a basket or tub of some kind. I might just fill a big box in the basement with them later this fall and burn them in the shoulders and/or for fillers. Either way we have enough that we enjoy regular little bonfires!!!
Please don't take this wrong but when you find yourself getting a lot of uglys, sometimes you need to pay closer attention to how the wood is being bucked up. Most of the time it is where limb meets trunk that causes the problems and it is how you make that cut that can determine how many uglys you get. Be as careful as you can and realize we all will have some but should not have an overabundance.
Dennis, I would "never" take anything wrong from you, thats experience speaking…. Your right, my problem is, I cannot pass on wood I know is usable…. I hate to see anything go to waste and it's maybe just an obsession. With my parents growing up through the depression and having it "pounded" in my head that "EVERYTHING" is useable, it has just stuck with me.
That's good Dave. Let it keep on sticking. My parents went through the depression too and I wasn't too far from it and we still lived like being in the depression as we were a very poor family. All my life I've been hollered at for keeping things. Yes, sometimes some seems like junk but many times that junk can be put to good use. Yes, many things are re-useable.
Same here.You should see my property. Though its very neat & organized I have 2 garages/shop full & backyard full of random building materials brought home from jobsite dumpster diving & other sources like remodeling/demolition over the past 20+ years.All usuable,some items would be very costly or unavailable to the general public and/or non commercial user.Several ton of limestone,granite & marble slabs,small structural steel,all kinds of construction lumber/plywood etc. I was taught at an early age not to waste anything if it was usuable in some form.Some of the stuff I even make extra money on by building/selling things made from those leftover finds.
I wish today's society had some of the things instilled in them that we have…. It is such a throw away country and all about the $$$ it sickens me. I can honestly say that I at least explained and showed my Daughter that life is much more than that, and really being green is not just buying starbucks coffee in a paper cup vs. foam…
Some of mine get put right in the stacks, some I cut to a more uniform size then stack, some end up in the fire pit. The rest of the uglies and chunky monkey's go in the wood crates I found on CL , for free, If your in the neighborhood let me know , I can tell you where to get them , maybe you can find some in your area, of course you could make your own crates/bins from pallets
You are absolutely right about about a throw away culture. The sad thing is sometimes its almost as cheap to buy a new product vs. repairs. Its funny when we were looking at the house we bought the realtor commented on both neighbors having a lot of "stuff" laying around. My wife said their his kind of people.
