First chance to attack my burn pile.

[Lou Jacobs]

My pile of offcuts and defective bowl blanks has been growing all summer and fall. This Thanksgiving weekend was just a bit warmer than I would’ve liked for a fire in the fireplace, but gave me an opportunity to start making a dent in my scraps. I’ve been able to give quite a bit away to neighbors who have adopted outdoor fire pits, but I kept enough that it will probably see me through a good part of the winter (We don’t heat with wood!). What do you do with your rejects?

 

[Monty Ivy]

Fire pit in the backyard...campfire style with friends. Our house has a fireplace but we rarely need or even use it down here in Texas

 

[Kalia Kliban]

We heat the front half of our house and my shop with wood stoves, so those dry scraps come in handy. The small greenwood offcuts, which I produce by the truckload, I generally bag up in 50-lb feed sacks and give away on freecycle. My husband is thinking about trying a hugelkultur bed in the garden, so he might snag those offcuts for the next season or so.

 

[Chris Lawrence]

I turn mine into pizza. I built a wood fired oven in my backyard.

 

[Don Wattenhofer]

My 30 X 40 shop has in floor electric heat but since that can be rather costly so the thermostat is set to about 40 degrees F.
When I go out to work in the shop I start a fire in my DAKA wood furnace so all of the cutoffs get used up quickly and I supplement that with dead falls from the surrounding woods, so the floor heat rarely comes on. The shavings from turning plus the shavings from the planner get bagged up in plastic shopping bags and once a bed of coals is established in the wood burner they provide additional BTU's.

 

[George Kuipers]

Rapid movement from the maybe shelf to the fire pit, since the maybe shelf gets overloaded quickly.

 

[robo hippy]

I heat with a wood stove in both the house and shop. I do have to buy firewood since I don't do production work any more, and don't go through cords of wood every year.... I did see a picture of a wood or coal stove from maybe the early 1900s, and the stove pipe had a big round circle/life saver type stove pipe right above the stove before it went out the wall. Lots of heat lost with straight pipes....

robo hippy