Splitting lumber ends for kindling
I figured out what those ends
of 2X4s were good for --- kindling!
They split apart into
small pieces with a touch of the hatchet, and light like gasoline.
Now I'm wishing I hadn't
wasted so many chunks of lumber during my first fire of the year.
It just goes to show
that everything has a niche on the homestead, if you only know what it
is.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Pallets make a great source of fire wood. Many places recieve deliveries on them, then have left over to deal with. If the deliveries are heavy objects the pallets tend to have thicker [better] wood slats. Many of the pallets are hard wood, oak.
There are tools folks have created that makes taking the slats off the 2x4's a simple task. Then a skill saw can cut your free firewood to size.
BTW, it looks like you avoided Sandy's snow and heavy rain.