This topic was spawned by my own curiosity while splitting some maple that has all the bark falling off, and by the "sawdust log" thread.
I was wondering what everybody does, because it seems that I'm going to have lots of maple bark laying around if I don't find something to do with it. I would like to burn it, but don't want to overfire my fireplace, and don't want to deal with the hassle/mess if it's just not worth it (BTU content vs. mess).
So what do you do with the bark?
Do you burn it? How? All at once in a large fiery glory in an outside pit? A little at a time in your stove/fireplace/boiler etc? A lot at a time inside? Does the bark leave more ash to clean up?
Do you compost it?
Or just leave it lay where it is?
I was wondering what everybody does, because it seems that I'm going to have lots of maple bark laying around if I don't find something to do with it. I would like to burn it, but don't want to overfire my fireplace, and don't want to deal with the hassle/mess if it's just not worth it (BTU content vs. mess).
So what do you do with the bark?
Do you burn it? How? All at once in a large fiery glory in an outside pit? A little at a time in your stove/fireplace/boiler etc? A lot at a time inside? Does the bark leave more ash to clean up?
Do you compost it?
Or just leave it lay where it is?