Firewood Needed

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There is plenty of FREE wood on there all the time.
When burning wood for heat almost all wood is free game.
Pallets, old buildings being torn down.
Nail embedded wood. I even burned many pieces of wood with hinges on it.
I will scoop it all out with the ashes and then get the magnet after the metal.

Some people get picky and want split wood.
I care less I will burn tons of round logs and limbs.
I even take junk furniture apart like bed frames and chair frames and burn those.
I will not pay for firewood though. Too much free out there.
 

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There is plenty of FREE wood on there all the time.
When burning wood for heat almost all wood is free game.
Pallets, old buildings being torn down.
Nail embedded wood. I even burned many pieces of wood with hinges on it.
I will scoop it all out with the ashes and then get the magnet after the metal.

Some people get picky and want split wood.
I care less I will burn tons of round logs and limbs.
I even take junk furniture apart like bed frames and chair frames and burn those.
I will not pay for firewood though. Too much free out there.
Gotta be careful with treated wood though. Some pallets have insecticides. I read a lot on them during the whole “furniture from pallets” craze my wife kept harping on me about.
 

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Don't burn plywood in quantity though.
I tore off the deck of a trailer that was getting rotten that had 3/4" plywood.
Stacked it on edge in the fireplace, filling it up and lit it off.
Was working out in the garage when the home phone rang. (90's)
Neighbor a street over said it looked like a rocket was firing from our chimney, so I went to the front room and saw the newspaper sweep off the coffee table and into the fireplace. The door I just opened gave it enough draft to suck that paper off the table. We had glass doors on the fireplace so I put them in place which dampened the fire enough that it got itself under control.
Yes, there was soot in the chimney that exacerbated the issue but all fireplaces will have that over time.
The farther west one goes, the higher the price of wood gets. In the panhandle it draws premium price, around the Arkansas border it's much cheaper.

Parks, If your close to Tenkiller lake, check out the road that follows the tailwaters which is the Illinois river. A couple years ago I was fishing that area and was shocked at how cheap the firewood was. It was pretty much all hickory selling for around
$30 per rick split when oak around Ponca was selling for $70. I have zero idea what it's selling for now but there were several vendors.
 

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Yep it is inside a wood insert.
I do draw the line at rail road ties and tires.

My grandmother burned tires and she told me keep all windows and doors shut or you will have a lot of black soot in the house on everything.
All those old coots in my family lived past 93 years old.
 

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