pallet wood

[lanber]

Hi gents brought some pallet wood home from work today,its hardwood and smells like sweaty socks or something cheesey but burns superb with no smell when burning , any ideas.

[Lorn Logs]

Pallets can be dodgy, they treated with preservative some of which contains heavy metals like arsenic. I used to work in a sawmills and we pressure treated sawn timebr with arsenic based preservatice especially for the pallet wood industry- was a few years ago so maybe they use less damaging preservatives, but I'd be wary burning pallet wood

[lanber]

Cheers m8

[Farmer Tom]

lanber,

If the pallets are marked as HT, or HT DB they'll be fine.

These are Heat Treated, and/or De-Barked.

 

The ones marked MB shouldn't be burnt as they've been treated with Methyl Bromide, nasty stuff. Mind you these make good log stores.

[doobin]

I know the smell you refer to. We use a dozen old tile crates as shelving in our yard, and the smell for the first few weeks was awful!

[s.varty]

Pallets can be dodgy, they treated with preservative some of which contains heavy metals like arsenic. I used to work in a sawmills and we pressure treated sawn timebr with arsenic based preservatice especially for the pallet wood industry- was a few years ago so maybe they use less damaging preservatives, but I'd be wary burning pallet wood

 

As a kid my old man burnt nothing but pallet wood , this may explain a lot:laugh1:

[Lorn Logs]

Apparently arsenic causes extra fingers and toes to grow and in some rare cases an additional eye.

[s.varty]

Apparently arsenic causes extra fingers and toes to grow and in some rare cases an additional eye.

 

Thats it! now i know why i can never get a pair of gloves & glasses to fit:laugh1:

[Lorn Logs]

In my own case, it caused the appearance, overnight, of a handlebar moustache. Which was alarming at 14

[s.varty]

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In my own case, it caused the appearance, overnight, of a handlebar moustache. Which was alarming at 14

 

:laugh1: