Drying/Seasoning small stuff

[Logdaft]

I have a limited wood supply for my own use so use almost everything.

 

Snap!

[muldonach]

Hi,

 

I wondered if any members use small stuff, under say 2" diameter. We were just cleaning up some fallen branches and I've ended up with 5 wheelbarrow loads of that sort of size. At the moment I've just dumped it all in a pile on the floor of the barn, but wondered how others would stack it for drying.

 

Tony S

 

stack it on a pallet and leave it in the barn

[Stubby]

All the above . Don't waste it !

[Mortimer Firewood]

Chuck it under a hedge when it's-10 and your out of wood you will be glad of it

[aesmith]

... I have a limited wood supply for my own use so use almost everything.

Same here. Processing these broken branches we got around three barrow loads of chippings from the very smallest branches, two loads of sawn and split normal firewood size, and five loads of the "small stuff", small enough to cut with loppers but big enough to be worth keeping. No way I'm going to waste that much of the material. There'll be more as well as there are some branches that need to come off this winter.

 

I will try as suggested, and see how long it takes to dry. I find it too unstable to stack, so needs to just be jumbled up.

 

Thanks, Tony S

[caveman1]

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I want something like this.

Stack the bags up.

Get a shovel to feed the stove with.

[elfinwood saws]

That,s sort of stuff we save for our biomass boiler.

[Goaty]

If you stack it in a saw horse like the Oregon easycut sawhorse you can chop it up in minutes with a chainsaw. I don't waste anything either, burn it myself if now one wants it.

 

I'm interested in the sawdust burner for the poly tunnel John is it the barrel Type or a fancy auto feed design. Does the poly tunnel not lose heat rapidly?

[ben_inthewoods]

Branchlogger nuggets are fantastic for log boilers 2-4" diameter. A really hot burn stored in a thermal store. Quick to season and better than chipping.

[renewablejohn]

If you stack it in a saw horse like the Oregon easycut sawhorse you can chop it up in minutes with a chainsaw. I don't waste anything either, burn it myself if now one wants it.

 

I'm interested in the sawdust burner for the poly tunnel John is it the barrel Type or a fancy auto feed design. Does the poly tunnel not lose heat rapidly?

 

 

Stove is similar to this

 

 

But modified to burn sawdust by inserting half a dozen bricks into the lower barrel then inserting horizontally a commercial air cleaner from truck or compressor on top of the bricks to hold the sawdust. Obviously the paper filter is burnt out first leaving a metal gauze cylinder in which you can place the sawdust.

The polytunnel is 40 mtr long with a 1 mtr slope on the ridge so heater placed at the low end and by natural convection a heat barrier is created along the ridge of the polytunnel without the need for fans to provide frost protection.