Treasure From Trash

Keeping in mode to fit my self-imposed title of Executed Director of Firewood Reclamation for our own logging projects on the farm, I have been gifted a pile of splintered and broken bits of logs that had the unfortunate experience of a bad fall.

To most logging operations, this pile would be slash, discarded wood that would either end up in a heap to be burned in the winter time, piled up to rot under some trees, or as in the case of the tree farm we toured last weekend, ground up into pieces small enough to burn for power in a mill.

In my case the slash, the unwanted and un-useable pieces of log is destined to become kindling for my firewood project. Care will need to be taken when cutting the jagged edges, but since their are many fractures already, the wood will split into nice pieces quickly once I get the wood out of the forest to the processing area.

I am hoping to get a hundred bundles of kindling from this mess of two trees colliding, for a net of about $400.00 once the wood is dried/cured and bundled. This is not near the value of what the logs from the damaged trees would have produced, but it is better than discarding or burning it as waste.