The neighbors are burning railroad ties
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savageactor7
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Those inconsiderate outdoor wood boilers folks are going to ruin it for all of us...
...how gross burning creosote treated railroad ties.
As if they aren't bad enough smoldering that green wood. My nose just puckers up whenever I smell 'em.
...how gross burning creosote treated railroad ties.
As if they aren't bad enough smoldering that green wood. My nose just puckers up whenever I smell 'em.
There is no Federal law or regulation banning the burning of railroad ties for heating fuel... the EPA has no jurisdiction (yet). The only thing the EPA has to say about it is that burning them in your fireplace may be hazardous because creosote is suspected to cause cancer. Of course that suspicion is based on smearing the stuff an inch thick on lab rats, and forcing them to eat pounds of it. There has never been any correlation to serious or long term effects on humans from the smoke.
FEMA?? What would any of this have to do with FEMA??
And there ain't any such thing as "UN EPA"... but there is a United Nations Environment Programme, which basically advocates takin' from the (perceived) rich and givin' to the poor, while having little (if anything) to do with the environment.
Oh... and I make my own ammunition.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken
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the GOAT
Chainsaw truther
You must really hate polar bears.I fired mine up this morning.
Thats the DHS( not the EPA) if you're keeping score on the Ammo 'supply and demand' Economics charts.
http://rt.com/usa/dhs-ammo-investigation-napolitano-645/
066blaster
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This it what it looks like all day
Yep... looks like an OWB... they make smoke... that's what they do.
One of my neighbors has one... he don't cut anything ahead of time... he cuts as he burns all winter.
One of my neighbors has one... he don't cut anything ahead of time... he cuts as he burns all winter.
066blaster
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I'm not complaining I just thought it was Unethical and stupid.
066blaster
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Whatever, I gotta go burn my garbageYep... looks like an OWB... they make smoke... that's what they do.
One of my neighbors has one... he don't cut anything ahead of time... he cuts as he burns all winter.
Chris-PA
Where the Wild Things Are
Nobody cares if you are a Republicrat or a Demublican when you purchase legal protection. It is (at present) only a matter of how much credit you have access to.
Trx250r180
Saw polisher
who would want something that smoked all day like that next to their own house ,motor oil burners are cleaner than those things
Matters what State in which you reside as well.
Chris-PA
Where the Wild Things Are
It's just the logical end point of the social arrangement that has been foisted upon us, replacing the sense of community that once existed here - everyone isolated, weak and unable to assert themselves, and convinced they are free.
It's nice when it works that way, but it doesn't always. I tried that with my neighbor, with whom we were on good terms at the time. However, he is a sociopath and does not have normal relationships with people, it's all about manipulating people to get what he wants (which I knew). Once he discovered I was not fooled and was going to try to limit his behavior then he immediately switched to trying to intimidate. When that didn't work either then things degenerated very quickly. You cannot count on others behaving reasonably, although it is worth a try.
cuinrearview
Red saw lover
This thread reminds me of an ex-girlfriend. She'd piss and moan about her problems but never do anything about the ones she could control. The time it's taken to photograph, upload photographs, and type posts to this thread could have been spent either a) going over and discussing your concerns with the man, b) making a few phone calls to find out the legality of the act so we could have a discussion based on laws and not emotions and opinions, or c) performing one of the acts suggested above to stop him from operating the thing. We all have neighbors that we don't agree with. Sometimes we can make them see things as we do, sometimes there's not a way to make them.
Different strokes for different folks...
I can't figure out why anyone would want one of those fancy, new-fangled, EPA certified, elitist stoves (shrug)... or something with heat exchangers requiring cleaning and brushing (shrug)... it-is-what-it-is (shrug).
nathon918
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.......oh yeah...nevermind
When did this "sense of community" exist??
I've been here since 2010... and been railed, insulted, attacked, even threatened and called every name in the book from near day one.
And why??
Because I didn't... don't... fit the perceived mold (or should I say the accepted mold). Because I don't believe there's a "right" and "wrong" way to heat with wood... just because there's your way and my way don't make either way right or wrong. Because I don't hug trees, believe in magic, or roll-over and play dead on command. Because, in my mind, heating with wood ain't a religion, it's simply a way to stay warm... nothin' more, nothin' less.
"Sense of community" my azz... that sense wasn't extended to me, I was treated almost like some sort of alien from outer space at times because I saw no harm in using a little used oil to start a fire... or whatever.
It ain't that the "sense of community" is gone... it's just that your community ain't the overwhelming majority it once was.
I do get some pretty good laughs out'a it all though
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