How do you deal with all the Splitter Scraps

[cat-face timber]

How do you deal with all the scraps/bark/chips that pile around your splitter after you split for a while?
I have been burning the small pieces and keeping the bigger pieces for shoulder/cool weather wood.

I noticed that if you put off the cleanup you will have a big mess on your hands before long.

 

[pigpen60]

I have a pile of scrap/crap wood and chunks I use for my outdoor fire ring. as for the bark I've been known to run the mower through to chop it, keeps the mud down.

 

[chucker]

I also do about the same with splitter scrap's.. the bigger pieces I do give them to a disabled neighbor that has trouble gathering his own wood. the rest I usually burn in the family fire pit or use the smaller chunks for smoking fish....

 

[Joesell]

I leave some for mud control, some to burn out stumps, the rest goes in the burn pit.

 

[cantoo]

I have a burn pile at the back of my 10 acres. I also have a leaf compost pile that is about 40'x 60' and 10' high so smaller stuff goes there sometimes. I also have a big OWB so anything that is decent enough gets shovelled into a cardboard box and stuffed in there. I'm burning year around. I keep a shovel, leaf rake and steel rake beside the splitter so it's gets cleaned up fairly often. Cleaning up and driving to the back gives me a break from splitting. This was an old building and a year worth of crap, I usually don't have that big of a fire but we were surrounded with wheat that year so no fire all spring and summer. Would have heated my place for a year likely. When I was hauling from a few miles away I used to load the crap up in my truck and dump it back in low spots in the bush.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I gather them up in buckets, they are a perfect size for my wood cook stove,

To cook my supper,

And then, there's desert too,

Nice for starting fires in my wood furnace too...

SR

 

[ppkgmsy]

I gather them up in buckets, they are a perfect size for my wood cook stove,

To cook my supper,

And then, there's desert too,

Nice for starting fires in my wood furnace too...

SR

Nice looking chow. What time is supper?!

 

[sunfish]

I pick up the bigger stuff for kindling and spread the rest out for mulch. Helps keep the weeds down. I have noticed the Super Split make about 1/10 the scraps as a hydro...

 

[Whitespider]

I normally split at the cuttin' site... pay them no attention at all.
If I am splittin' in the yard I'll fill the trailer, unload/ stack, and then before splittin' the next load I rake up the mess and use a grain shovel to toss it in the trailer... one or two scoops usually does it. Normally the trailer needs sweepin' out after each load anyway, so it's perfect timing... then I just pull it out into the woodlot and sweep them out. Evey time I start a new trailer load of splits... I'm working in a clean area.
'Course, that's easy for me... I can roll the splitter out'a the way for clean-up using one finger.
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[Xjcacher]

My dog uses them as chew toys.

 

[MGoBlue]

I have about 5-6 5 gallon buckets full for starting fires, rest gets burned in our fire pit.

 

[Fred Wright]

I've been raking the stuff up and storing it in trash cans we don't use. It's great kindling and starter wood. The SheWolf loves it because it makes fires easy to start.

Currently we have 3 large cans full, waiting for the cold weather to set in.

 

[HD2010]

I usually put them back where they came from. The woods.

 

[zogger]

Coincidence. I just last night finished up splitting my oak mountain I have been splitting on all year. Larger uglies went into the stacks, this wheelbarrow was the last from the splitting area, the splitter trash. These smaller oddballs will go into plastic produce crates I have, although I have toyed with the idea of stuffing onion bags with them and the even smaller scraps.

I will mow over the splitting area now with the bush hog and start over.

Bonus pic, as I have run out of oak to split, had to go start getting more today! Went to some I have had down for near two years, way inside a picker/bramble and snakevine patch. Tromped down a path, noodled some to a size I could carry and started getting them out. Quantity is..uhh...a pulped up and ranked standing face rick! A full one! Bunch more still in there and a big piece of trunk left to cut. It is really buried in weeds and vines though, but still seems worth getting.

 

[dancan]

Zog , what are you doing with a curling broom in Georgia ???

 

[zogger]

Zog , what are you doing with a curling broom in Georgia ???

I am a cheapska...frugal! I sweep out that box with that broom remnant.

BWAHAHAHAHAH! ya, it does look funny but still functions as a broom. Well kinda sorta...gets the big chunks....

What, you never heard of mud curling? big sport here...we wear mud pontoons on our feet....

running out of excuses to not get another three dollar broom..
hmmm...

 

[jcl]

My father comes over with trash cans and picks them up for kinlen for him during the winter for me the saw dust is my biggest problem to deal with. When you cut 100 cords a year it builds up!

 

[jwade]

good kindling. i also take a potato sack to folks i sell too. they like them to start with also

 

[Whitespider]

I use an accelerant and a Bic lighter....
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[1project2many]

I gather them up in buckets, they are a perfect size for my wood cook stove,

To cook my supper,

And then, there's desert too,

Nice for starting fires in my wood furnace too...

SR

Ahhh... Nothing like a good meal and the open range.

Har!

I save the larger pieces for kindling. I stuff them into gaps in the wood pile so they're available as I pull wood out in the middle of winter. The smaller ones go into a growing pile of chips that seems to be accumulating in a low spot on the property.