Repurposing offcuts.

We generate offcuts throughout the year in the workshop.

R S Offcuts

 

Chopped tails, tenon cheeks, waste from miters, offcut ends, pieces of dowel, slivers from rippings… you name it. If there is something big enough, I will do my best to save it for another use. What is left is generally burned in the woodstove. That said, it’s not the most convenient thing to reach into a container, grab a bunch of small irregularly shaped pieces of wood with sharp points and edges, and reach into the stove box and sprinkle them about. You might, no, you will get burned that way.

At the initial stage of building a fire the offcuts are not helpful, unlike their featherweight cousins:

R S Shavings for fire

 

 

Once the fire builds and is fully underway, then they can be added very nicely packaged like this:

R S Stuffed cereal box

I save all the bits and pieces in sheetrock buckets and then pack them in the flat cardboard boxes we recycle otherwise. They burn very hot.

R S Snow and Fire

 

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