So many companies giving away their pallets free firewood with a little bit of effort heat treated and dry really no different than the expensive kiln dried firewood you buy at local store. Free is always worth it.

Interesting. Our pallets in the UK are a bit different it seems. The best type are Europallets (they can take more load). There's no 2x4 it's just thick planks but there are 9 separating blocks, each about 6 inches square. They're made from compressed woodchip and while the planks burn quick and hot the woodchip blocks burn much more slowly.

I work in a sheet metal shop. So the metal comes in on five foot by ten foot oak pallets. I have a homemade bar to take them apart. I cut them down to about twenty inches with a skill saw. You also have to burn the pallets with logs or whole wood, because pallets burn away to fast. But burning pallets really subsides your wood supply.

I just got an old woodstove to put in my workshop and I plan on burning hardwood pallets, scrap lumber and any other free wood I can get my hands on. I will only be using it for a few hours at a time so I'm not worried about burning pine or anything that has nails or screws in it. In my house I use pallets and scrap lumber to start my fire and I continue to feed the stove that throughout the day, at night I load it up with actual hardwood logs and damp it back to get a nice all night burn. Cuts back on the amount of actual wood logs I need and I can still maintain a nice warm house doing it.

This proves experience is a great teacher! Really enjoy your videos. Thank you.

DO it for your exercise.

Definitely looks like a lot of work. Thanks for doing that experiment and sharing the results.

Really glad you have you chain saw back :)

Burning pallets with an indoor wood stove for 2 years. You do have to reload the stove every 3 hours or so. However the house goes from freezing cold to 80 degrees in about 30 minutes.

You never really know until you give it a try. Good information.

I have an indoor stove. I've been heating my 2300 sq.ft. house with pallets for seven years, and I will continue. In this video, there's a lot of chaos. I've developed a system, which includes a special turntable on which I cut my pallets. I collect them year-round, and stack them out back. I don't usually have to touch the stored pallets much though, as I get more all the time. I usually cut up a week or so worth at a time. It's good exercise. The nails and ashes, once they're dead, go out with the trash. It is totally worth it. That week's worth takes about an hour to cut up.

This is the quickest and easiest way I have found to break down pallets for burning. With the pallet face up, make four cuts with an old circular saw through all the top slats. One cut on the right side, next to the interior support piece, one cut on the left side next to that interior support piece, then two cuts, one on each side of the middle interior support piece. Now flip the pallet over and make the same four cuts on the three bottom slats (there are usually fewer slats on the bottom). I process a bunch of pallets like that and am left with a large pile of all the slat pieces already cut to size, and the interior support pieces with all the little chunks of slats on them. I lower the blade in my circular saw and cut each of the support boards into three pieces, making the cuts between where the remaining bits of slats are to avoid nails. If I want to keep ashes that contain nails separate, I can do that because all the support boards have the nails in them and all the slats are nail-free. Good luck!

You're eating spaghetti one noodle at a time. And you're working hard to do it. Using logs (or wood thicker than 3/4") would be more like taking a full mouthful. But it's a good source of free heat if you're stuck without wood.

The wood ash since it's from heat treated wood can be incorporated as fertilizer to a garden. Keep on keeping' on!

Right on

Maybe use some pallet slats to fill gaps in other pallets to create a temporary modular floor for your goat shed. That should keep them above water. A pot magnet (magnet glued to steel so only 1 side is exposed & has a hole in the middle) nailed to the end of a stick or broom handle is good for getting nails out of ashes. You can find pot magnets at most places that sells hardware. Do you have a damper on your wood stove? Partly closing it will slow down the burn, but it takes practice to find what angle works for you.

Good info , and good looking Lab.

About what I expected, like you said, best for warmer days just to take the chill off overnight. Shoulder wood I think it's called for Spring and Fall.

I would have given up too, but I got beyond the chainsaw method of disassembly. There's a faster way!! Nails also are no problem, I get money for them at the scrap yard. I've been heating 100% with pallets in an outdoor burner for nearly two years now. The secret is in the outdoor burner -- I made a d.i.y. one specifically for burning pallet boards.

Makes good kindling. Better to get everything real flat. More dense and burns longer. My fav way to take apart pallets is to stand them up and knock off the boards w a framing hammer. Comes apart quick and it's enjoyable.