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We're splitting the firewood for this year and there's a lot of bark felt out from the logs. What will we do with the bark? Do you season and burn them like firewood? Or what else will you do?
As I split and stack the wood... Every so often I pick up handfuls of bark/wood chips (on the ground from splitting) and throw it on the stacked wood pile. It mixes in with the stacked wood.
Then in the winter when I remove the wood for burning (I use a garbage car on wheels), I grab the pieces of wood and the bark/wood chips. Then have a can full of both!
Paid to have a large tree chopped down in my small front yard of old house.
Needed pros as wires went through it 3 different places
Anyway, i told them I wanted to take some wood.
They said... take all you want, but I'll be honest with you its all free for me and I dont take it
The effort of chopping to size, splitting and then waiting a year or longer... well, you can find someone on craigslist who is willing to tear up their body doing all the work for next to nothing.
So I got a 1/2 cord of seasoned and split oak from a nice older couple for $85.. Delivered to my house.
found from a craigslist ad.
We are simply summertime firepit burning, so maybe I'd think differently if heating house with it.. but this seemed like a perfect option considering my needs.
We have woodburning stove and it really helps to reduce the electric bill in the winter, and we can get the free firewood (we haul) or buy the logs at the local tree guy cheap, then we split (with log splitter) and season it .
If we buy the split firewood ($170-$240/cord), it seems more expensive than we use the electric heat only, and sometimes the firewood is not seasoned well, soft wood, pine mixed, not a full cord ...
My 2cents
We have woodburning stove and it really helps to reduce the electric bill in the winter, and we can get the free firewood (we haul) or buy the logs at the local tree guy cheap, then we split (with log splitter) and season it .
If we buy the split firewood ($170-$240/cord), it seems more expensive than we use the electric heat only, and sometimes the firewood is not seasoned well, soft wood, pine mixed, not a full cord ...
My 2cents
The trick to the seasoning issue is get to a place where you buy (or obtain however) a year ahead of time.
The wood I bought last October will be burnt this year while the load I get this Fall will be next year. Wood really needs to sit at least 6 months to season and a year is better.
It took me a couple years of schedule norming to do that.
As far as bark goes, depending on thickness I use it for either tinder or kindling if it's at the "falling of the log" stage.
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