My ChunkHausen

My only 2 bins. I'd guess I generate 1/2 bin a year.

I'll toss in some chunks being used for top cover, while those chunks are still viable as firewood. I'll replace the top cover chunks with newer wood.

 

Lucky you! Ive got around seven cords of nuggets and shorts!

 

?You mean on the left? That's about 8' high.

 

I’m going to start burning some in a fire pit while I’m cutting and splitting this winter. I’ve got nuggets and uglies everywhere. I still stack some, but they just end up being in the way because I can’t give 20 nuggets to a customer. Use them as tarp weights, but when the racks get emptied they are just in the way. I’ve given them away before, but I don’t like randos coming to my place. That’s just asking for trouble imo.

 

I think there’s a company that still makes them in Vermont if I’m not mistaken. Is that the one you have?

 

I'll have to check. I believe there's still some faded labeling still on it.

 

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Thanks!

 

Here's the company that has the yard cart that I have.

Large Gardener's Supply Cart | Gardener's Supply

 

Thanks Mike!

 

Your other right!! LOL

 

I suppose Barkhausen also applies.





As I pull from stacks of 4yr+ CSS red oak, I'm taking the time to pop off whatever bark is poppable. It keeps some of the mess out in the woodyard and away from the house.

There's only one layer of chunks under the bark. It'll make for a nice campfire to toss handfuls of bark onto hot coals.

 

Good firepit fodder for sure. Oak and sugar maple bark are my favorites. Sometimes ill do the same if convenient. Lots of times its mud control or compost.

 

I don't want to stock bark here, but instead of hauling it off, I've put it in with the cordwood. There are days or times when a load of bark in the stove replaces SS wood.

Nice Hauzen's Mike!

 

That is how I do it. Screw or tie another pallet on the front for filling up, and take it off when unloading.

 

I save all the bark that comes off my splits when I toss them into the indoor bin. Fill up a box and have a bark fire. I have had 3 or 4 hour burns with a copy paper box full of sugar maple, red oak and black locust bark. It beats dragging it back outside.

 

No sense in dragging it back out! Burn it!

 

Time to reap the benefits of chunk storage.


Load 'em up, move 'em out
Into a storage bin on the house deck.


During full burning season, additional kindling is kept in there.

I hope to burn one complete wire bin. I have plenty to refill with.

 

Been burning nice ash chunks, from a scrounge a few years ago, as well as some that felt like balsa wood chunks.

I already emptied and refilled the one on the right. Working through the left one.

 

I stumbled upon this thread. It's interesting to see what people do with the odd pieces of firewood. We burn them, hate to throw away those BTUs. Many go in a couple big garbage cans etc. , some go in a mini-shed; the Gnome Home