Pallets for wood, what is your choice for the nails?
For you who burn pallets, do you throw the nails into the fire box still embedded in the wood and then just clean it out at the end or do you take each nail out? Seems like it would be much quicker to burn the wood with the nails in it and just empty it at the end. Am I missing something?
2011-8 Taps on a very crude block arch
2012- 38 taps 2 X 3 with blower.
2013- 70 taps total-50 on tubing, 20 on buckets
2014- 75 taps- Low vacuum, 2X4 drop flue
2015- 100 taps-2X6 Mason Drop Tube, low vac
2016-115 taps high vac, 60 taps buckets
14X20 post and beam shack with attached 10X14 wood shed
12 beehives and an avid waterfowl hunter.
Wishing I can quit my day job, keep bees, farm, and make syrup!
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im burning pallets this year and i just throw them in. my grate is made of rebar space about 8" apart. so nothing will get cought in them.
spencer
Spencer Carney
350 taps
phaneuf 2x4 with hybrid pan
2-350 gal, 5-55 gal drums, and a cage tank
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Definitely do not pull the nails. Just throw it all in. They'll fall to the bottom and you can clean them out easily enough when you scoop the ash out between boils. Some get hung up in the grate, but that's no big deal. Just push them through when you are cleaning out the ash.
Sean
I burn some pallets and lumber cut offs. I leave the nails in. Just make sure you dont dump the ashes somewhere you drive or your tires will look like swiss cheese. lol
02 F350 powerstroke and 89 Toyota 4X4 5 speed sap haulers
16X16 sugar shack
30"X8' raised flue GH Grimm evaporator Smoky Lake Maple front pan!
Sthil MS 460, 026 (2), 009, husky 61, 365, 272, and a 42
2009 41 taps, 2010 72 taps on a barrel evapotator all buckets, 2011 151 taps 34 buckets 117 taps on tubing.
The one thing you have to watch is the nails don't plug your grates.I have had to in a long boil figure out how to remove the nails to get enough air flow going again.
maybe 50 taps for 2011
Finally ready to boil when I get enough sap
I just might be crazy.( make that I know I am)
Trees all tapped except the ones with 5 feet of snow.
Enough rabbits to keep Elmer busy..
thats the least of my worries Ken, more concerned about nail hitting bottom of syrup panOriginally Posted by KenWP
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