Thread: knotty twisted stringy garbadge wood pile?

I put all mine in 5 gallon bucket and they go into the firepit.

I just noodle until they are a size that fits in the woodstove for night blocks.
Anything the splitter has issues with gets noodled, then stacked on top of a row.

All day splitting though results in maybe 10 things to noodle.
It's all wood and took work to get so why waste.
Firepits seem to like busted wood pallets better anyway

I don't have the answer for sure yet, but I do have a lot of em to practice on from splitting up the box elder in the back yard. I should have probably put most of it in a hole in the ground, but I am frug...cheap, and if I cut it, I'm burnin it. I've probably got enough "normal" chunks to box in the uglies, that is my first idea.

Film of the carnage coming after work tonight. (It ain't pretty)

Don't look below if ugly chunks of wood give you nightmares!







































The worst of it is on the back end, at the bottom of what will be a full truck later (to easier go on top of the stacks), but it's mostly all ugly compared to the nice straight grained oak I've been stacking lately. It'll be a puzzle for sure when I try to stack it. Lots more to split tomorrow, if I get time. More pics of today's work in my "backyard box elder" thread.

thats the exact stuff im talkin about. hard to stack

That's one ugly pile of wood, bet it will burn real good!

I only keep shorties or un-stackables if they are premium woods like oak, locust, mulberry etc. Anything else gets left at the wood lot or if it does make it home it goes to the firepit. The premium wood uglys go into a plastic container (55g drum, or those 21 gallon storage bins) and go into my storage shed that gets nice and hot in the summer sun. At one time I had two "pallet boxes"
made up of 5 4'x4' pallets for the floor and sides and threw them in those.. worked well but looked a bit unsightly in my back yard.

As I refine my wood gathering skills I get more and more picky, my stacks at home must consist of 18" length splits that will make a neat stack. Looks nicer, more stable so I'm not restacking wood that fell over.

Toss 'em on top of stacked wood, sometimes.
as i am an enthusiastic wood burner and as i surely like to drink cold beer while standing around an open fire, i find most of the "uglies" are burnt while i stack my 'purty" wood between swills of cold frosties.
my good wife, who is a patient and kind woman, always has me a hot supper ready when i finally get in the house.

GD, that's where this stuff is going. Firepit city. I still want a somewhat neat stack of wood there if possible though.

I don't have a wife to cook for me while I'm burnin and imbibin, but I do have a charcoal grill out there that works for me. Just mowed the firepit area, it's ready to receive another stack of wood now, and let the fires begin!

Yep. Pert near every weekend in the summer I am at my outside firepit, cookin meat and partakin in the libation. That's where all mine gets used up.

I throw all mine in apple boxes. Store them out by the stacks most of the year, then move them one by one with the front end loader up to the house at the start of the season. Boxes as in 4'x4'x4'

Funny thing is those knoted twisted crotch wood parts are the hardest wood on the entire tree.
Sad to see so many of them end up on the firepit.

That really nasty wood that looks like a drunken ugly sailor makes for a great fire in the woodstove, better than the sexy model shaped wood.

Whitespider,

That must have took some very long days on the splitter to get that pile of ugly blocks.
I end up with maybe 10 blocks in an 8 hr splitting session.

I can imagine many many 8hr splitting sessions for that pile.

Originally Posted by Whitespider

Good looking pile of ugly wood..... If that makes sense. I stack up my "garbage wood" and burn it in my outside fire pit on the weekends.