Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Cowboy254]

I once read that letting wood rot in the woods returns exactly the same amount of C02 into the environment as burning it. Trees are nature's solar collectors.

Air quality is another subject. England is putting a ban on home heating with coal and wet or green firewood. This makes sense. I'm also an advocate of clean burning technology(secondary air and/or catalytic) to reduce air pollution and in some instance restriction of older stoves. I'm not always but I try to be a "good steward" of Gods creation.

Don't get me wrong, I think burning green wood is not good for a host of reasons. It's the authoritarian urge to control that I don't like.

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How are they going to enforce the ban on green wood burning? Cut now burn next month for alot of wood heating people

Stamp on wood sellers and also rely on people pointing the finger at their fellow man, children dobbing in their parents etc.

 

[svk]

What's the oil look like and is it full.
Kinda sounds like my stove heating when it's loaded full of locust .

It is full and fairly recently changed. To me it sounds like more than a collapsed lifter but I could do some seafoam followed by an oil change just to make sure.

 

[chipper1]

It is full and fairly recently changed. To me it sounds like more than a collapsed lifter but I could do some seafoam followed by an oil change just to make sure.

That's what I thought, hard to tell over the net sometimes.

 

[SS396driver]

When I hear a strange engine noise like that, I just turn the radio up and it goes away.

Ever wonder why harleys have loud exhaust. With the factory exhaust the engine is super noisy even when brand new. Even on my Road glide with rhineharts I can hear the rockers actuating .

OP I think it's a wrist pin slap definatly not a rod knock

 

[LondonNeil]

Very sharp looking setup!

some saws ooze sex! others....just leave a little puddle of oil.

 

[Haywire]

Ever wonder why harleys have load exhaust. With the factory exhaust the engine is super noisy even when brand new. Even on my Road glide with rhineharts I can hear the rockers actuating .

OP I think it's a wrist pin slap definatly not a rod knock

My old BMW airhead made quite a racket. Noisy valves, sounded like an old sewing machine.

 

[SS396driver]

I'm almost finished with the auxiliary oiler for my mill it's been leak tested.Just need to make a bracket and get a shut off valve

 

[LondonNeil]

@Cowboy254 , ever read 'norwegian wood'? i thoroughly recommend it, its informative but also very interesting for a wood geek like us. In Norway they have those laws, and for good reason. I'm all for it here....but doubt it will be effective other than to push prices up and hence reduce middle class ambiance burning a bit. we aren't a nation that relies on wood heat.

 

[SS396driver]

@Cowboy254 , ever read 'norwegian wood'? i thoroughly recommend it, its informative but also very interesting for a wood geek like us. In Norway they have those laws, and for good reason. I'm all for it here....but doubt it will be effective other than to push prices up and hence reduce middle class ambiance burning a bit. we aren't a nation that relies on wood heat.

So the wood sold in marts is green? Around me the wood must be kiln dried. I dont think so much for wetness but rather to stop the spread of bugs

 

[turnkey4099]

There are honey locust without thorns. Lots of them around here. Red wood. Sunburst Honey Locust.

https://inlandvalleygardenplanner.org/plants/gleditsia-triacanthos-var-inermis-sunburst/

I planted a row of them in my wind break. Around 20 years later one of them reverted to the thorny type. It did not survive the day I saw that. I'm still getting flats on my firewood wagons.

 

[turnkey4099]

W

How are they going to enforce the ban on green wood burning? Cut now burn next month for alot of wood heating people

Scanners measuring how much smoke is coming out of chimneys? Too dense and get a ticket?

 

[svk]

OP I think it's a wrist pin slap definatly not a rod knock

I agree not a rod knock.

Wondering how long it will operate like that before things come apart?

 

[turnkey4099]

Never seen a locust tree in my hood. Get lots of ironwood but it's so small that you would have to cut for days to gather enough to last long. Always know ironwood as the crap will spark your chain when cutting it.

Dry Black Locust will do the same. I don't know if green locust does. Never cut any green after dark.

 

[Haywire]

Don't get me wrong, I think burning green wood is not good for a host of reasons. It's the authoritarian urge to control that I don't like.

Amen, brother!

 

[svk]

Amen, brother!

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[woodchip rookie]

So not a triton?

 

[panolo]

So not a triton?

Guessing 6.0

 

[James Miller]

The old stoves can burn clean with little to no smoke also. Are old VC shut down all the way cruising along at 450 or so STT. No noticable smoke out the chimney. I tend to agree with the people who say the wood is more important then the stove.

 

[svk]

Guessing 6.0

Mine? It’s a 454

 

[SS396driver]

Mine? It’s a 454

I had a little noise in my 467 that was in the Chevelle ,this happened about a second later. So that's why the 496 is going in now. Number 8 piston just disintegrated no pre ignition . Good news is TRW paid for the new engine rebuild with all forged items. Seems they had a run of bad pistons