stop burning pallets

[marshman]

Blimey Marshman, I used to cut them up neatly like that with a hand-held electric circular saw; 42 cuts per pallet if I remember right. Someone at work said that he just smashed them up with a sledge hammer.
Stan

8 cuts per pallet! I cut them up neat so they stack up neatly. 2 lots nice flat nail free bits and another pile of the corner spacer blocks - full of nails! - Haven't cut any up since end of October and still have about a month left in the shed. Did use twice as many last year though. I'd like to see someone smash a pallet with a hammer and stack the remains quicker than I can cut one up with this:

[regen]

"Surely you saved all the nails up and then weighed them in at the local scrappy!!!! "

I did try saving them for reuse as nails but the burning process made then to soft for reliable reuse.  Cost of getting them to scrappie was more thn value of nails but it was fun watching the dustmen trying to move the bin! Invariably they ended up at the local tip.

Regen
 

[Woodrascal]

How do you sweep your flue rogeriko?

[martin W]

To be fair most of the (small number) of pallets I've burnt have been broken in one way or another so they weren't up for much reuse. I suppose they wood ought to be recycled for another use if it was any good. Some pallet do have nice thick boards, but are a Heinz to get appart without breaking them.


Is it ethically wrong to burn a pallet that is offsetting carbon fueled (gas) space and water heating  I think not, as long as the pallet is not removed from a recycling chain. The pallets I've used are thrown out by a company as not required anymore, some are picked up and reused (if any good) by a local salvage and recyling firm who put their goods on them. However this is a adhoc arrangment and the salvage firm turn up now and again so its not really a proper recycling chain.

[rogeriko]

Pallets are wood after all whats the difference between them and "firewood", its still trees that you are burning.
Woodrascal asked how I sweep my bendy flue, well the answer is I dont I fill the fire full of thin sticks light it and leave the door open until the flames are coming out the top of the chimney, clean as a in minutes. My house is built of solid concrete its not going to catch fire.

[martin W]

lol!  

(couldn't find a phot of a flue pipe with flames roaring out)

[StationHouse]

That reminds me... got a few pallets to cut up tonight as we are running low on firewood. Not buying in any more wood until next winter as saving for a trip to the Maldives we booked last week