Give me a learning. I'm thinking there has to be some crossing wires somewhere. I was told that I can have all I want of some driftwood that a neighbor of my campground owner cleaned off his pasture shoreline a year ago. I know it will go fast being driftwood but it is free, close, and easy to access instead of me hauling wood an hour from home. I was talking about it at work and a guy said his dad always told him you could not safely burn driftwood because it puts out poison gas from absorbing something in the water. His dad was originally not from Dakotah Territory and I am wondering is this something he got from being too close to 3 Mile Island, Fukashima, or Chernobyl, or is he worried about fungal growth in the wood? Anyone ever hear of this about driftwood???? I have burned some before and not died.
Driftwood from saltwater is supposedly not good due the the salt rusting things...or might poison a CAT stove? I'd probably burn it...at least in a non cat stove anyways...
burning salt water wood - Google 搜尋 We never walk in town during wood burning season as many folks burn beach wood!
I have been hunting up in Yellowstone and have burned a lot of drift wood in the camp fire. You do not get any closer to the smoke than that with no ill effects. Was on the Buffalo fork river Teton national park.
Oddly enough. One of my first hoarding/scrounging pipe dreams. Long before this or any other forum was to build a small barge and run up and down the Ct river collecting drift logs. So much decent wood hanging around on the shores. Barkless, limbless logs just waiting for a two stroke engine to set them free
I made this many years ago jo191145 out of knotty cedar stock. New Yankee Workshop - S04E02 - Outdoor Lidded Bench ...
I had never heard of this. Had a couple fires on the beach at Cape Cod many years ago. Spent the day scrounging wood while the wife laid in the sun.
I personally have cut plenty of wood for use in a woodstove from the Pacific beaches here in Oregon. LOTS of people did, and we all knew it was bad for our stoves due to the salt, but never heard of anyone having ill health as a consequence. That was years ago.
I've never known of anyone getting sick from burning driftwood. But as has been stated, I would not attempt to burn it in a stove that has a catalyst as it would eat that cat quickly.
Same only I didn’t burn in a stove but in a boiler. You can see it in my avatar. Hence my name that we gave it too. We didn’t know dangers but smoke was smoke... not exactly good for you. It happened years ago and now we’re changing out the wood there and not looking to burn the salted driftwood anymore. I wonder if I should mention it to the park rangers. They issue $10 wood permits to cut on the beach...
I think I did... or commented about it. I remember finally getting the whole thing in the picture and now I’m wondering where I posted it exactly.The sad part is that this was put in the ground long enough ago that the “pics or it didn’t happen” wasn’t well thought out. So we don’t have any previous pictures. My dad to this day admires the fact that we got it done safely nobody was injured also it was just him and us kids. My brother and I were probably still in the single digits when it was all said and done. It’s anyones guess what it weighed at the time. I will share here for anyone wanting a gander. The last picture was bad but it was important to show that all that was under this was just sand/dirt mix and then Fatboy was just slid down into the ground from the same blue trailer I’ve been using for all these wood runs.
I had a few trees (birch and poplar) wash up last fall that I’ve cut and stacked. Nothing huge, maybe 5” diameter at the largest, 10-12 feet long. A couple were the work of beavers, others had roots still attached and got yanked out by the waves. Fresh water, and I have a pretty good idea where it came from as there is an area on the shoreline a couple miles north that has been beat up pretty bad over the past year. I figure if the wood comes right to me, may as well take it.
