What do you do with bark?

[MinivanFan]

I was wondering, what does everyone do with tree bark that comes off while splitting wood? We just dump out in the woods.

 

[Gts4tw]

Burn it all, either outside in the pit, or as kindling in the stove.

 

[woodbooga]

The bigger pieces are tossed in the kindling pile.

Shorter pieces are dumped out back where we're trying to level off some depressions. Some of it helps keep the weeds down in the veggie patch.

 

[Slatecreek]

Its ends up in the closest brush pile, as we don't normally split anywhere close to the OWB to just throw it in there.

 

[tibikedad]

I use it to as kindling to start the fire

 

[Boike]

toss it in the woods if I am out splitting, if it falls off when I am loading the wheel barrow it get tossed to the side. I don't see much reason to burn it with the limited heat value, and amount of ash it produces.

 

[Adkpk]

I burn it in the wood stove. Seems to me it burns pretty hot.

 

[Kate Butler]

Kindling, if I need it: otherwise I run it through a small-screen chipper and use it as mulch in the nursery.

 

[Wood Doctor]

Dry Bark Burns OK.

Burn it all, either outside in the pit, or as kindling in the stove.

+1. I never seem to have enough kindling (also called tinder).

 

[olyman]

Burn it all, either outside in the pit, or as kindling in the stove.

x's 2

 

[bore_pig]

Rake it up in the spring and have a good old bonfire!

 

[darren_nh]

Bark and saw dust scraped up with the loader and dumped on the yearly brush pile.

 

[TJ-Bill]

This year I used the shaving, chips and bark from where I cut and split to fill holes in the trail outback.

 

[nixon]

The saw dust is raked up and put in the compost heap . The splitter trash is put in the burn pile .

 

[Buckethead]

All of our scraps (bark, chips, sawdust & small pieces) gets hauled to the neighbors compost pile. He collects it from various sources, composts it for a year or so then runs it through a tub grinder and makes some awesome loam.

 

[Cambium]

Bigger then your hand = kindling. Anything smaller I chop with lawn mower.

 

[Hickorynut]

Wood chips

I happen to have a catalyst stove so i cannot use any fire starters.....So I use some as kindling...and most of it I use to put on the trails in the woods as erosion control

 

[aokpops]

turn it to charcoal .great stuff to cook with.

 

[brownie525]

rake it up and throw it in the woods, it drives me nuts walking on that crap all the time.

 

[SLVRTRC]

I burn it in the wood stove. Seems to me it burns pretty hot.

thats what i do... only when im around to watch it... seems to get really hot really fast