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How can you burn green wood?

Discussion in 'The Wood Pile' started by Yawner, Nov 13, 2022.

  1. Warner

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    Everybody doesn't use the garden hose dragon method? :emb:
     
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    It wasn’t a recommendation. And —Yes, it is Smokey. But it’s only annoying and not dangerous since there is no chimney to get creosote in and potentially catch fire to burn your house down. That is what I was referring to.
     
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  3. HDRock

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    As Backwoods Savage said you need a lot of air, the newer stoves don't burn green wood very well, the older stoves will accommodate a lot of air and ya need to keep that sucker hot and keep stroking it , it will burn , half azz , anyway, you need a stove temperature about 500 degrees to put anything close to Greenwood in it to make it burn, like I said half azz good
     
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    That can’t be serious. Is that from Saturday Night Live? I love how he is manually sawing with his chainsaw going. I almost had coffee spurt out my nose. Should be titled “How to start a fire in half an hour”.:rofl: :lol: But how does he keep such a straight face throughout the whole thing? Some great one liners in there.
     
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  5. oldspark

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    One can only hope he is not serious but I think he has a case of brainagonnus.
     
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    Because the guy is goofy he seriously thinks he's going to accomplish what he's trying to do
     
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    Not sure what the landlord is burning. IMG_2235.JPG
     
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    Man, I hope no one complains.....
    I've seen a lot.of that these last few weeks too....more houses than I recall last year with lots of white coming from their chimneys...
     
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    o_O Shingles?
     
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    I believe Kris in that worthless/dangerous video was high as a kite.
     
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    Thats just sad, and then some people wonder why wood burning has a bad reputation in some areas. I don't even have smoke from my pre epa stove in the shop.
     
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    So he's burning cannabis?
     
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    This is exactly how they do it. Just don’t let the fire go out and you do t have to worry about starting it again:rofl: :lol:
     
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    That’s hilarious and genius at the same time. Lot of effort to burn green wood.:rofl: :lol:
     
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    You’re too kind. Burning seasoned wood is the responsibility of the person who uses it to heat their home. As long as you’re honest about what you’re selling, I wouldn’t feel obligated to give them seasoned wood along with the stuff you split in September. Chances are, they view the wood all as the same and don’t put a mix of seasoned and unseasoned in each time they load the stove/fireplace:headbang:
     
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    Old buck that ran a sugar house told me to put the next load on top of the stove to heat up and dry out before loading. image.jpg
     
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    My neighbors at my previous house used to cut the night's wood from a log pile outside the back door in the afternoon and stack it against the wood stove to dry. The house burned shortly after I moved from the area.
     
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    Must have had bad wiring, eh? :whistle:
     
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    No person selling a product should be deceptive or make false claims, but also........Buyer beware.

    If I sold a cord of wood, I told the buyer how long it had been down, how long it had been split and sold it at an appropriate price. I'd even go as far to advise against burning it until next season. What the person loading and firing the stove does is not my responsibility.
    I've been feeding a stove for 20+ years now. I evaporated a LOT of water due to poor planing on my part. Never bought anything but log length. Have yet to burn anything I didnt intend on.

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    I had a customer I built a stick chimney for. He cut a days worth of wood from a live maple that had leaned over in the swamp behind his house. Used all the plywood scraps from construction to build a footbridge over the swamp hummocks. He blamed the chimney for the black water running across the basement floor.
    General contractor hired an engineer to inspect chimney. Results were the wood was 80% water. Didn’t know that was even possible but that’s what I was told by the GC. Game over.