[MAK]

I bought 1000 Euros worth of wood off my neighbour last year.
Some time after delievery of the wood he sent his lad out to replace fence posts and chuck these in his wood near his other trash. Today the same lad is out replacing fence posts again ( particularly those he set fire to when he burnt the hedgerow ferns- idiot).

So - should I go out with wire cutters and a claw hammer to remove wire and nails from the discarded posts then carry them home OR buy next years wood off him again ? ---

one fence post will make 3 logs

3 logs will burn for 2 hours

Now continue

 

 

[colliewoman]

depends on your fire. if open fire I would not burn treated/tanalised wood. wood burner on the other hand, id burn anything except elder, and thats only because i'm too superstitous

[suziequeue]

Yes

No question....... Otherwise it's a waste...... Unless they can be used for something else.

We tend to put that sort of wood in our workshop stove......a godsend

[MAK]

Split - untreated chestnut spaced every 10 meters

[Lesley Silvester]

Go for it.  It's a waste of wood otherwise.

[Smalltime]

They are probably treated with something, so I would be a bit careful about burning them. We went into a wood and salvaged loads of wooden posts at the weekend I had spotted that had been used to get the trees started. The trees have all outgrown them now and I currently using the stakes to erect a barrier around my new vegetable plot. Waste not, want not. 

[princesspiggy]

we burn fence post, and also strainers - which really do stink the room out with creosote. slightly worrying when creosote is suppose to be carcinogenic. 

[deepinthewoods]

chestnut doesnt burn very well.

[northfifeduckling]

great kindling 

[chrismahon]

Just don't get caught MAK. I hate waste !!

[MAK]

What a result !  No need to gather the posts.

I took just 3 eggs up to each of the old ladies of the village and one has offered me all the fire wood I want from her wood. It's just up the lane and on a hill ( the one with the dead car in !!!!) lots of dead wood still standing ( leaning) that I can drag home.

I find chestnut OK for burning - so much grown here as a crop. Sort of cut and come again.

[Bangbang]

Must have been golden eggs ! 

If a good chuck could cut wood !

[Lesley Silvester]

What a result !  No need to gather the posts.

I took just 3 eggs up to each of the old ladies of the village and one has offered me all the fire wood I want from her wood. It's just up the lane and on a hill ( the one with the dead car in !!!!) lots of dead wood still standing ( leaning) that I can drag home.

I find chestnut OK for burning - so much grown here as a crop. Sort of cut and come again.

That's a good swap for three eggs.