Continuing with the grounds cleanup that I had started earlier with the moving of a bunch of old pallets, I had also been preparing pyres around several stumps that needed to be disposed of. The wood from the pallets made for the fuel for these pyres but some of the pallets still needed to be cut up further. In this next session I was able to get the rest of the pallets moved from the old area where they were stored. The ole lady was able to further cut the grass around this old pallet storage area to help open the area some more.
I was able to separate a few pallets that were actually still good due to the wood being heavy duty and probably made of pressure treated wood. These pallets were moved over to the firewood staging area to lay down more surfaces for stacking more firewood, especially when I start processing the rest of the Fallen Trees from their resting place. Of course I'll have to lay some more gravel to provide the surfaces for these pallets to be laid upon but that's neither here or there. With the pallets moved and stacked up near the stump burning area and the good pallets set aside I decided to go ahead and fire the pyres and let them start burning while I took the battery reciprocating saw to cut the pallets up into individual boards. From there I was going to separate the decent boards from the rotted trash. Cutting up the pallets started off with using a metal blade to cut through the nails holding the pallets together. After breaking the pallets down completely, I then switched to a wood cutting blade so I could further cut the boards down into pieces small enough to periodically refuel the stump fires. I did separate a lot of decent pallet boards that I was able to restock my rack some with boards for future projects. I did keep the fires going a while in the process but didn't want to just exhaust all of the pallet/fire wood since I will more than likely have to do more to these stumps to get them in a state where they would burn better. After the fires went out, I noticed that I did some damage to the stumps, with the larger ones being somewhat dented. The smaller ones were hit pretty good but these things were not fully consumed by any stretch. More than likely I'm going to have to do some extra stuff, like maybe taking the chainsaw to cut slits through the stump to create more surface area for the fire to touch to help get the wood to burn better at the core. I did drill holes through some of the stumps to put stump remover powder inside but even after letting the stuff sit for a month it still wasn't enough to allow for the stumps to burn down significantly. I'll have to do more to get these stumps to burn more with the next burn. Worst case will be after a couple of burns I'll probably end up putting the saw to the stump right at ground level to try and chop the things down flush with the ground so I can be better able to work around the area, build on them, or set something up on them. Of course these few stumps that I fired are not all of the stumps that need to be taken care of. Since there were so many trees brought down, there will be even more that have to be dealt with. In the end I want to get all of this detritus removed from the area pending any future construction.
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