I used to work in construction and routinely burned things like this:
I burned pretty much every piece of wood I ripped off of old houses during the demolition process - tongue and groove fir flooring, solid pine wall sheathing, partially rotted/worn cedar shingles, old growth Douglas Fir true 2x4's, framing members from old decks, etc. Basically anything that didn't have glue or chemicals, I burned. The vast majority of it was from old homes, which there are many of over here on the north shore of Massachusetts, so there wasn't much plywood or PT, just a lot of good old solid heartwood. I also live a couple hundred feet from the ocean, so any pieces of driftwood I saw lying around I'd bring back and throw in the fire. Every bit counts, I say.
What about you guys, what do you burn that isn't typical straight-from-the-tree split and stacked firewood? No PT I hope
I burned pretty much every piece of wood I ripped off of old houses during the demolition process - tongue and groove fir flooring, solid pine wall sheathing, partially rotted/worn cedar shingles, old growth Douglas Fir true 2x4's, framing members from old decks, etc. Basically anything that didn't have glue or chemicals, I burned. The vast majority of it was from old homes, which there are many of over here on the north shore of Massachusetts, so there wasn't much plywood or PT, just a lot of good old solid heartwood. I also live a couple hundred feet from the ocean, so any pieces of driftwood I saw lying around I'd bring back and throw in the fire. Every bit counts, I say.
What about you guys, what do you burn that isn't typical straight-from-the-tree split and stacked firewood? No PT I hope
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