Over the weekend I spent time doing what I like to call "general cleanup". This is basically just a free for all, I go around the grounds looking for shit to pick up or dispose of, maybe rearrange things, and just overall try to make things better without really doing anything too complicated. In this case it was dealing with all the scrap wood I had generated during the past projects I've worked on over the weeks.
The first batch of wood I had to deal with was the stack of pallet boards I salvaged from the remnants of the old fuel shed. After I built the door and extra shelf for the new fuel shed using some of the 2x4's and pallet boards from the old fuel shed salvage, I was still left with a sizable amount of pallet boards and good lengths of 2x4's. I ended up making a small neat pile of pallet boards over where I have some other salvage wood stacked. Most of this wood is wood pulled from the old storage shed, and it includes a couple of pieces of OSB plywood and some corrugated sheet metal that's currently laying on the ground. I really wasn't too concerned with salvaging the OSB for actual use other than as a buffer from the ground for any wood I may lay on top of it. In this case the pallet boards in question, they were stacked neatly on top of the OSB to keep them protected from the ground. The extra 2x4's were already stacked along with the other 2x4 salvage, all of which is in front of the storage trailer. The next batch of wood in question is a batch of wood we got from one of our neighbors as refuse from a building project they had. This consisted of many 2x4's that they used in building a mold for pouring a concrete slab, among other things. Along with the neighbor's wood was some extra wood we picked up from curbside from some rando's house. This consisted of some odd pieces like 1x6's or some shit like that. Topping it off was multiple random cuts and ends that were mixed in the bunch. This wood was stacked on the opposite side of the main gravel drag, kinda in the way but not in the way. I separated the 2x4's and moved them to the 2x4 pile in front of the storage trailer while taking the smaller pieces and neatly stacking them in some crates for immediate use in the house or wherever when it comes time to burn. The remaining oddball sized pieces went to the large pile of scrap wood in front of the new fuel shed, which consisted of the remains of pallets I cut up when I pulled boards to clad the sides of the shed. After clearing the pile from along the driveway, we now have room to be able to maneuver when pulling in or out of the driveway. The last pile is that aforementioned pile by the new fuel shed. This is the pile that I planned on putting the saw to to make nice small pieces that can be used anywhere, in the house stove, outside in the work area burn can, or for any future projects or jobs that might require burning wood (wood gasifier anyone?). This morning I started on the cutting of that wood, neatly stacking it in front of another pile of wood that underwent the same treatment while I was building the new fuel shed. That pile is just the ends and extra wood that was cut from the pallet boards I nailed onto the shed, this stack I'm making now is a mixture of shitty pallet boards, shitty 2x4's and other odd pieces of wood, all cut up to pieces that are below a foot in length. I used a large pallet that was made from heavier gauge boards that I couldn't use to clad the sides of the shed as a base to stack the wood cuts onto. At some point in the future when this wood is exhausted the pallet will probably rot enough so that I can break it up easily and use it for firewood as well. At this point though I did manage to make a nice dent in the stack of scrap wood and get a nice stack growing on top of the pallet. Hopefully by the end of tomorrow I'll have all the wood cut up and stacked and another area cleaned up so I can move on to something else around the homestead.
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