I was splitting some wood today and some of the rounds had carpenter ants . and my normal way of ridding the wood of them is dump a little gas on the wood . Well today I had a brain fart , I went and got the torch and made some crispy ants
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Been doing the same since I first started gathering wood. Actually, I use a combination method. If I know the wood is buggy before starting to split, I'll tarp the whole pile for at least a week of hot weather and cook 'em out before starting. Unless the weather is cloudy and/or cool throughout the period, that does a good job.
If I don't really need the wood, or it's really buggy and thus pretty punky too, I'll just throw 'em in the firepit over the course of a weekend and keep a good fire going until all the buggy stuff is gone. Man, you should see those things piling out as some of those rounds start getting smoked and/or hot inside! Only to fall straight into the coals...
If it's just a few rounds and I feel like playing, I'll torch the rounds to start and then might attack again after splitting if needed. They curl up with just a hint of the quickest pass of the flame!
Mostly though, I leave the buggy stuff behind to let the critters all do their thing to finish recycling what's left. Unless I really, really want that wood. I brought home about a cord of shag bark hickory a couple of years ago and ended up tossing over half of it in the firepit while splitting it. Man, I hated to see that burn up outside during the summer, but NO BUGS allowed!
