I like the one about throw it over the fence to favorite neighbor. I might just do that.? maybe take it back to the woods the next time you go to get more wood for your basement?? ? you might not want to burn the bark if you don't know what's in it? for putting the bark in the trash, well, I just don't know about that?? then again you might use it for mulch in the wife's flower garden?? or you could make a spot for rover to do his/her job in and make it easier to hide with a rake?? or just throw it over the fence to your favorite neighbor?? it's really endless with what you can do with bark.... just don't let it get to loud after 10pm!
I get a lot more than that.Why not just toss it in the fire? ... I get maybe a dust pan full a week. Its not that much material
Me tooI sweep it up and sling it straight into the stove outta the dust pan.
pretty soon I might have enough for my own forest floor.I let it pile up nice and deep so it gives me the feeling of being in the woods when its to cold and crappy out.
Just kidding ... I would put it in the stove.
I sweep it up and sling it straight into the stove outta the dust pan.
I get a lot more than that.
Since I "stockpile" my whole winter's worth of firewood in the basement before heating season begins there's a lot of it as ya' pull from the stacks (especially when you finish a stack). I get a dust pan (or two) heaping full every few days... I fill a 5-gallon bucket in a couple weeks or so depending on how much we're burning (I can fill the bucket just cleaning up after finishing a stack). It smokes, stinks and makes a lot of ash... burning it means emptying the ash drawer more often, meaning handling it twice, and for little or no heating benefit.
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You might havea point with the smoke/stinks bit, I haven't noticed it. But not with the "handle it twice" You are handling it twice either way - once to put it in the barrel/bucket and once to throw it out. Or once to put it in the tove and then dispose of the ashes.
Just being nitpicky
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