Thread: knotty twisted stringy garbadge wood pile?

what do you guys do with the leftover twisted up big knots and awkward shaped garbage wood thats sometimes comes out of your splitter from crotches etc.? Its impossible to stack. I think im just keeping it for the fire pit but im getting quite a bit of it.

I throw it on top of the stacks of toss it in a pile off to the side. I burn +- 9 cord a year so I use it whed I am going to be around to feed the beast. My stacks are never pretty enough or live long enough to be of much concern.

I'll usually put it somewhere to use for kindling. If it's big enough, just put in on the top layer of your pile.

You could use a wood chipper to knock it down even more like the guy in a recent thread.

I throw the shorts, end-cuts, twisted-gnarlies, odds and ends in a pile on top of pallets... normally burn 'em in the fire pit.
Last winter I tossed 'em all down the basement, piled them in the corner and burned them in the furnace, they were just fine for the mild year we had. Mostly oak, they were Just enough "extra" heat for the cooler nights. Really, they're near perfect for fire pit burnin'... and a fella' always seems to have plenty of 'em.
...And, they don't need to be perfectly seasoned for the fire pit.

Here in Central Texas most of what I can get is bent, knotty, misshapen. Just stack it for seasoning and burn it as part of the rotation of the pile.

Hal

I use those oddball chunks to hold the plastic top cover down on top of the stacks. They then get used for "all nighter" pieces in the stove.

Shorts, chunks, twisty, stringy, knotty, crotches it all gets worked down to a size that will go in the stove - that includes noodling stuff that won't split down to that size.

I calls it my "ugly pile' and usually carry buckets of it in and burn at the start of the season, sometimes that pile will carry my almost through the first month.

Harry K

I stack usually four rows deep. I leave space in the center (between the front two rows and back two rows) for a pile of unstackable pieces. I make them small enough between the splitter and saws that they will fit through the door of the stove. Through the winter I bring in a wheelbarrow load at a time.

I feel that if I go through the trouble to drag it home then I am going to burn it for heat. That means bark and splitter trash too. I will even rake up noodles and bag them if the ground isn't too wet.

I rake up all the noodles and shavings and chips and put them in a 55 gallon barrel. I do the same to the garbage wood too.

Not familiar with the term 'garbage wood". If I expend energy to make it I'm dam sure gonna burn it! I guess I do have some garbage wood; the junk that gets mixed in with the dirt when cleaning up a splitting area with the skid loader is the only garbage wood I know of. Usually bark and saw chips, occasionally some really small splinters from the splitter. Otherwise I burn everything!

I put them on top of my stacks and while my kid loads the garage with a weeks worth of wood, I bring them in for weekend burning while laying around watching football.

It is wood... It gets burned....

I haven't found anything my splitter won't split, so it all goes in the stove. The pile I used to have before I got a splitter got burned this past season after I got my wood splitter.

I took a picture of my maul on my phone and every time I think of a negative about splitting wood I look at that picture on my phone and smile and think how easy it is with a mechanical splitter

I threw it in the OWB and heated my house with the uglies until the first week of January. Since purchasing the OWB, if it looks like its going to come out f'd up I just toss it in the ugly pile. If it fits in the door (which is about 16"x13") and is under 30 inches in length it will be eaten up.

I stack three rows deep on pallets, all the shorts and uglys go into the middle row, it doesn't have to be stable as the outer rows hold everything together and I probably get more air circulation with a less densly stacked middle row.