Well the summer temperatures have finally started. But we are busy getting ready for winter. We have found a number of stores that will give away skids/pallets for free, they make great firewood.
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Fri, Aug 10, 2012
Well the summer temperatures have finally started. But we are busy getting ready for winter. We have found a number of stores that will give away skids/pallets for free, they make great firewood.
August 10th, 2012 at 5:25 pm
that is the good thing about having 1500 acres of trees on your propety
August 10th, 2012 at 5:55 pm
That’s all part of the pastoral idealization. Pluses and minuses pluses and minuses. I used to cut my firewood recreationally with friends. Just a few single-bit axes, one double-bit, a file, and a venerable live oak. Good way to spend a day.
August 10th, 2012 at 6:45 pm
You don’t worry about chemicals when burning them indoors? I burn them on the beach, but…closed quarters? No thanks.
August 10th, 2012 at 6:47 pm
Nice video, i know the feeling of paying back those electric heater bills, fires are always a better option. I know Canada is massive but do you know if there are a lot of logging jobs going in BC?
August 10th, 2012 at 6:56 pm
YEAH THATS WHAT i THOUGHT… HE MENTIONE THAT HERE IN THE US WE NEED THE SKIDS TO BE SPRAYED FOR INSECTS.. SO IS HE SAYING HE IS BURNING THE INSECT SPRAYED SKIDS?
August 10th, 2012 at 7:36 pm
what do you mean safe? if you like to breathe stuff like mercury and arsenic … sure, it’s safe.
Generally, you treat wood with stuff that kills organisms like bacteria and worms and insects. Poisons like heavy metals or stuff like creosote (creosote is a known carcinogen). The same stuff is poisonous to humans.
Saving a few bucks on wood and risking your health and your life … it’s your decision.
August 10th, 2012 at 8:20 pm
is it safe to use/ burn the chemically treated ones? what about stuff like pine? dont you have to clean the chimney out more with all the creosote from burning soft , sappy wood?
August 10th, 2012 at 8:55 pm
Great Video!
August 10th, 2012 at 9:37 pm
It doesnt get as bad here in the uk as it does for you guys but the past 2 years ive been collecting free pallets and wood from building sites and taking it out of skips as ive passed and i can honestly say ive never paid for firewood since and i even know of tree cutters who have too much and give it away so got myself a chainsaw with my savings and cut the bigger stuff up and still dont spend my hard earned money after comparing the costs
August 10th, 2012 at 10:08 pm
Now that I’m in rurality, I have no end of wood. Just need to cut it up, and get it home
August 10th, 2012 at 10:29 pm
Water heater dealerships tend to toss the packaging the tanks come in away.. The 2x4s were just right, and the 1x whatevers needed to be cut in two, but I took the edge off the gas bill for essentially free with the Franklin stove I had in the house back when. Just another source.
August 10th, 2012 at 11:01 pm
The only annoying thing about nails is you have to clean out more often because they take up volume in the stove, I sieve them out because I recycle the pot ash for the hens dust bath…they love it in a cardboard box……a small price to pay for free wood.
August 10th, 2012 at 11:07 pm
Yes, the pallets I burn are smaller kiln dried soft wood and burn fast and very hot, but not as hot as coal, most stoves are multi-fuel (fossil and wood) so heat isn’t a problem though Barbas stoves advise against white hot glowing and to restrict airflow when you see it.
August 10th, 2012 at 11:47 pm
agreed! make a little shop with them things!
August 11th, 2012 at 12:14 am
@meandkg:
No, but catch them out with a magneto when cleaning the fireplace and put them in a bin to collect the metal-garbage
August 11th, 2012 at 12:21 am
i did the pallet thing one winter works good now how go at the beach collect drift wood lot easyer lol thanks for vid
August 11th, 2012 at 1:12 am
Pallets burn extremely hot, what do you burn them in? Can the wood stove/fireplace take the heat?
August 11th, 2012 at 1:40 am
FREE: FIREWOOD
August 11th, 2012 at 1:58 am
You had me, dude, until the fateful line “I like Stephen Harper, though”. May all your pallets be wet and painted!
August 11th, 2012 at 2:39 am
You should be on Trailer Park Boys, you’re to fire wood what Bubbles is to carts. Nice video dude ha ha.
August 11th, 2012 at 3:03 am
I didn’t know ‘get another load of wood’ is code for ‘get another case of Olympia beer’!
August 11th, 2012 at 3:58 am
good vid. Those pallets burn so fast, though.
August 11th, 2012 at 4:00 am
Just a question for you……………..would’nt you be a bit warmer if you also had a moustache?
August 11th, 2012 at 4:25 am
its not good to burn those slabs because of the glue used in them – very poisonous chemicals come out of that.