What else do you guys burn?

[Patrick62]

The annual "what have I burned" reply:

Wood, dry mostly. But sometimes it is a little green.

Mostly in efforts to get a ripping blaze going (and dispose of some trash) I have been known to use some compressed air which is more effective it seems than the oxygen from the torch set.

Fire starters, and enhancers, or stuff to be cremated has consisted of:
cardboard, empty soda and water bottles, empty oil bottles, sacks with remains of taco's or hamburgers in them. Carburetor cleaner, Used motor oil (lots of this), WD-40, scraps of gaskets, old grease rags, soaked paper towels, Propane, gasoline, and a old pair of sneakers.

You can bet my neighbors love me.

somewhere I read that the size of the atmosphere is in excess of 1000 million cubic miles. It matters, but not to the extent that one would be lead to believe.

 

[dingeryote]

driving down a major roadway yesterday, we saw a large cloud hovering above the skyline up ahead. it kinda matched the other big cumulous clouds that were passing by.

as we got closer, we soon realized it was smoke coming from kodak's coal burning chimney. without any wind, that smoke rises hundreds of feet into the air and it looks like a huge cloud.


and people complain about what we burn.

It matched the clouds eh?

Steam.

Coal burning is an evil black.

Stay safe!
Dingeryote

 

[Ambull]

Where I live we are somewhat in the dark ages. Every farm around here has a burn barrel. And they burn everything that can burn, including plastic.

The outdoor wood furnaces are becoming very popular. People also burn everything in them. At least they are heating their house.

I take some liberties burning stuff in my stove, but I don't go out of my way to do it. I feed my table scraps to the dogs, and I wouldn't think of putting them on the fire. But hey, if it works for you, more power to you.

Much of the emissions has to do with burn temperature. Wood burning at too low a temperature puts out plenty of emissions just by itself. Things burn much cleaner when the stove is really hot.

We don't even have recycling around here. No emissions testing on cars either.

JM2C

 

[Circle B MN]

I hate the smell of burning trash....

 

[WidowMaker]

Burning 2x4 scraps alone that are kiln dried can do two things. One is they off gas too quickly, allowing for a rich environment sending unburnt particles into the chimney. That could create a potential for creosote. And like said, an over fire of a stove. I have read of alot of stoves ruined from scrap lumber. If its mixed, or burned in moderation there shouldn't be a problem. Filling a stove with nothing but, I wouldn't do it.

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I gotta throw the B.S. flag on this one, I ain't buying it...

 

[SkyP]

curious- does anyone know the btu's per pound of fingernail clippings?

 

[laynes69]

This comes from the U.S EPA site:

DO NOT burn freshly cut green wood, or kiln- or oven-dried
lumber.
BECAUSE: The high moisture content of fresh wood hinders
hot, clean burning. Kiln- or oven-dried lumber vaporizes
too fast, leading to excessive pollution and creosote
buildup, with its associated fire hazard.

Here is a link:

http://www.chimneysweeponline.com/homillends.htm

Its one reason why they recommend wood moisture in the 20% range, when it gets too dry, it can offgass too quickly.

 

[SpiralAcacia]

curious- does anyone know the btu's per pound of fingernail clippings?

There MUST be some un-heard of gov'ment dept. handling fingernail clippings. I mean, it's 2010, man, got to have someone telling you what to do with them.

Actually in some backwaters places I read, they collect them and burn them so the evil spirit won't use them to give you trouble.
Makes sense.
Like burning your bank statements and stuff.


SA

 

[Upidstay]

So, what exactly is wrong with burning the leftover food scraps from my dinner with my family of 4? Can you enlighten me, oh great guru of wood burning? Any data on how bad burning a chicken leg bone is for the environment? I don't toss huge bags of trash into my stove. It amounts to a handful or two of dinner scraps wrapped in newspaper. Sheesh. I give wood burners a bad name? That was totally uncalled for. :censored:

You figure wrong.



Yes you do. Right here:






Wrong.


It's people like you who give woodburners a bad name.

 

[WidowMaker]

This comes from the U.S EPA site:

DO NOT burn freshly cut green wood, or kiln- or oven-dried
lumber.
BECAUSE: The high moisture content of fresh wood hinders
hot, clean burning. Kiln- or oven-dried lumber vaporizes
too fast, leading to excessive pollution and creosote
buildup, with its associated fire hazard.

Here is a link:

http://www.chimneysweeponline.com/homillends.htm

Its one reason why they recommend wood moisture in the 20% range, when it gets too dry, it can offgass too quickly.

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That maybe true of lumber straight out of the kiln, but not many of us have access to that kind of lumber...by the time we get it as scrape ends, its be out in the real world conditions long enought that it probably contains about the same moisture content as your seasoned wood pile....

That's my story and I'm sticking to it...

 

[Patrick62]

slightly off.

I was slightly off, I looked it up, and:
the volume of the Earth's atmosphere is more than 10 billion cubic miles

My gosh, that is a lot of air, and burning a few oddities into it is not going to "make a difference" in the grand scheme of things.

Plus, the stuff is "self cleaning"

In regards to the wood being too dry, I will state this:
I am currently selling wood that was standing dead for gosh knows how many years. Popcorn dry, and the customers love it.

 

[savageactor7]

The strangest thing we'll burn is soaking wet logs pulled from the swamp. I started doing that when the kids were driving the 4 wheelers in the water and getting stuck...and they were motivated in helping me too. It's an easy take when the waters down.

Sure that's mostly for out door campfires but that gets stacked in the shoulder season pile. It's the only wood we stack off the ground, junk wood is high maintenance to dry/keep dry...

...but it's dead and does dry out fast.

I'm of the opinion you can burn anything if it's dry. Of coarse at night time its best to burn good long lasting hard wood.

Junk wood doesn't last long but it'll save you coin and help with your wood lot management chores at the same time.

 

[gwiley]

After spending so much money on my OWB I don't put anything but wood and paper into it. It just isn't worth having to worry any potential problems.

I burn wood in many stages of seasoning (mostly fully dry though) and personal papers (since shedding is a pain) - nothing else, ever.

 

[cedarman]

I burn wood pallets, and hardwood. my cousin has an apparatus that drips burnt motor oil into his stove on top the flame. gets the stove super hot. gotta be bad 4 da enviornment.

i threw a couple pieces of leftover chicken in the woodstove onetime. after bout ten minutes of burning i walked outside and it smelled like i was sitting outside a 5 star restaurant.

 

[CrappieKeith]

my "Fire containing apparatus" eats anything, railroad ties, telephone poles, old car tires, cut up truck tires, old pallets, tractor innertubes, bundles of old newspaper and catalogs exc....

Don't forget disposable diapers....so do you have a tip on how to keep the wire from the radial tires out of the grates?
LOL

 

[Dalmatian90]

Going back MANY decades ago, the family farm sat between two railroads. Grandpa knew the section foreman and he dropped off all the used railroad ties.

There was a particular length he wanted them, so they all had about 18" cut off. The long part was used for fencing. The short ends to the sauna.

My uncles say the never mind the black smoke, with the amount of creosote on them when those short ends were being burned they'd have flames boiling out about 6' high from the chimney.

As it was a vegetable farm, makes me wonder how some of those veggies tasted!

 

[Adam_MA]

Hippies! All the grease in their hair makes em go up with a flash!

 

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