A month or so back we got a woodburner - it's fantastic.
Near our office is a pumblers merchants, some weeks back I called in there for something and asked the guy about the big pile of pallets he had outside. "help yourself mate". So I did. However, unless you want to cut them in sections before loading you can only get a few of the smaller ones in a car (saloon), so I contented myself with taking a few a day and rapidly filled up the free space in my garage.
Over the last few days I've set about "sorting" them out. Wrecking bar/saws/chopsaw all used and I now have a nice pile of timber for kindling & burning. Although not as much as I'd hoped for as pallets are mainly empty space.
However, the amount of work to do this has been quite significant, hours and blooming hours its taken to reduce a dozen pallets into something usable. Ok, it was free but that was only because of my zero cost slave labour - good exercise though and good therapy it must be said.