For Wood Burners: Kindling Cracker

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I remember driving up to my farm, I had to go by my grandpas house, he was 91 years old and swinging a maul splitting wood like a kid in his teens

Stopped to say hi, and noticed a fairly new log splitter, asked him where it came from?
He said Bob my uncle brought it over for him to use.

I asked why are you not using it?
He replied I can split the wood faster by hand.
Old guys are tough, and he was splitting oak, everybody knows how twisted and tough that stuff is to split.
 
I use my circular saw to cut the top slats off of pallets from work. Flip it over and do the same to the bottom. Being careful of the nails, cut the three remaining frame pieces and you have a lot of dry wood that will start as fast as anything. And its free from most businesses.
 
fratzog lover said:
I use my circular saw to cut the top slats off of pallets from work. Flip it over and do the same to the bottom. Being careful of the nails, cut the three remaining frame pieces and you have a lot of dry wood that will start as fast as anything. And its free from most businesses.
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But what has been on those pallets, they are recycled, how much chemicals are you burning?
 
Don't know that info. Don't use many pallets as my fires burn for days until I have considerable ash and finally let the fire burn out.
 
Back in Missouri those 38 years there I burned wood for my heat, that was it... wood. My cheapest source was sawmills that did oak. I could buy slabwood for $10-15 a bundle, a bundle was about 3/4 of a cord or better. OK slab wood is the sides they cutoff a log to make it square. We know lumber is cut from square logs! I peeled off the bark and it made greater wood after it dried.
 
For splitting kindling i wrap a chain around the round block, keep it snug with a bungee cord and go at it with my axe. Takes a few seconds and i have all i need to light a fire. And no playing pickup sticks.
 
They used to burn pallets down at the beach fire pits, illegal now too much chemicals in them. Man they would stack 5-6 onto a round pit and light it and it would flare up about 15 feet before it died down. Then some joker burned a mattress and the law came down and made anything but cut firewood illegal.

<< I burned a 2 foot piece of telephone pole that I chain sawed into pieces. Wont do that again! Cough cough! Glad there was no wind that night or my neighbors house would have to have been evacuated. Creosote and tar make for some nasty fumes..... :BangHead:>>>
 
barbee6043 said:
Back in Missouri those 38 years there I burned wood for my heat, that was it... wood. My cheapest source was sawmills that did oak. I could buy slabwood for $10-15 a bundle, a bundle was about 3/4 of a cord or better. OK slab wood is the sides they cutoff a log to make it square. We know lumber is cut from square logs! I peeled off the bark and it made greater wood after it dried.
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And I also have all the small 1-2 inch branches from the Norway Maples that drop all summer. What chemicals do the pallets have?
 
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