All my wood comes from trees on my property. The neighbor tells me there's a mountain of cut-offs at the pallet company free for the taking. If they didn't need wood, I wouldn't have bothered. So, hooked up the trailer and off we went. After about ten minutes of chucking blocks of wood in the trailer, here comes a giant loader with a fu ll bucket of cut-offs ! Driver was nice enough to dump it in my trailer and off we went. Think I'll make a few more trips. Looks mostly like oak.
Our first year of burning wood this is what we burned. Sometime they had longer pieces that I had to cut down but mostly it was 4x4 squares. It wasn't fun but they kept us warm!
I'm grabbing pallet chunks to this year as I have a good close source. I've hardly even dented the stacks of seasoned splits. They work well, but not as long as a burn time. Here is my jenga pile. I replenish as needed.
there used to be a pallet maker near me that would just dump there cut offs near a burn pile, eventually they'd all be burnt, but if you got there right after they dumped them, you could load up as many as you could, they've closed up several years ago, so no more free bees from there anymore, but it was nice while it lasted..........
Hey I'd even pay a lil something for loads of that. And you're getting it for your time - gotta call that a super sweet deal. Been burning uglies and chunks since the beginning of burn season and they do just swell. Good on ya for providing your neighbor all that home heating stuff.
It was the going out in subzero temps to collect it in buckets and dumping them into the back seat and trunk (boot) of my car that was the pain. Before we had a truck.
A gift from the wood gods! If that were in my area, I'd be driving by and filling up my trunk as often as possible. Any of that you burn just allows the wood in your stacks to season longer before you burn it. Good deal!
I just wanted to comment that the blocks I get are 15 - 20% MC. They are not bone dry like kiln-dried hardwood cutoffs. I have not had any burns get out of hand. If anything, being pretty smooth, they take a good coal bed to light off on reloads.
