Using Those Pallets
Apr. 3rd, 2023 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kevin_standleeLisa and I continued to work on reducing the pile of pallets over the weekend. By the time we finished, there were only about 1 1/4 pallets left, and the wood box was nearly completely full of both Pres-to-Logs and pieces of pallet. The weather got warmer and more spring-like, so I let the fire go out so that I could dig out ash, and also nails, as when you burn these old pallets, you end up with old nails in the ashes, of course.
This morning, I awoke to around 1 cm of snow.
It was not enough to stick on paved surfaces. I swept snow off the porch. As with the last few storms, when the sun came out, nearly all of the snow melted.
This was approximately how much pallet wood was in the wood box. (This photo is from Friday.) It was time to start using it.
Restarting the fire was pretty easy. The high winds howling outside helped because they create a large draft in the fireplace. It was not long until there was a roaring fire going.
The pallets burn well — a little too well sometimes. They burn relatively fast and I need to keep loading more wood into the fireplace much more often than with the Pres-to-logs. But of course this is wood that did not cost us anything extra, and it also means we are clearing out the junk pallets.
This morning, I awoke to around 1 cm of snow.
It was not enough to stick on paved surfaces. I swept snow off the porch. As with the last few storms, when the sun came out, nearly all of the snow melted.
This was approximately how much pallet wood was in the wood box. (This photo is from Friday.) It was time to start using it.
Restarting the fire was pretty easy. The high winds howling outside helped because they create a large draft in the fireplace. It was not long until there was a roaring fire going.
The pallets burn well — a little too well sometimes. They burn relatively fast and I need to keep loading more wood into the fireplace much more often than with the Pres-to-logs. But of course this is wood that did not cost us anything extra, and it also means we are clearing out the junk pallets.
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Date: 2023-04-03 07:35 pm (UTC)