Years ago, I sold a long time customer a load that had lot of dry hickory. Evidently he'd never burned much really dry hickory, and perhaps didn't pay as much attention to the stove as he should have. I think it was later in the season when I was delivering a other load, he said the stove got hot on him with the hickory and he cracked his liner... He definitely didn't get any creosote out of that hickory though!
You're not the only one to tell their dad. I had to tell mine that oak which takes incredible amounts of time to dry and he was putting in his insert. Problem is that he and time have an odd relationship and I gotta remind him that the wood hadn't been drying for enough time then.
A lady up the road always has a load of fresh cut wood to mix in. " It helps to hold a fire all night " house filled with smoke on the first fire of the season. when the chimney was cleaned almost 2 five gallon buckets of creosote were removed. same lady claims hickory will melt your stove. Her family has been selling pulp wood and firewood for over 50 years..
Maybe he was trying to get some free firewood from somebody that didn't want to give up their good stuff and they got a goofy bit of 'advice'. Like take from the pile on the north side, but watch out for the snakes and hornet's nest
And down wind before the cat’s engaged, the scent is heavenly. Makes me dream of barbecue spare ribs (I’m assuming heheh).
I burned a load of hickory last night, it light up quickly & kept the shack warm on a windy 20* night. I sure hope I didn’t creosote up my chimney…
No smell no smoke in mine on a still cold day you can see vapors of heat.. most people enter house feel heat and ask me why I am not burning wood… I am correctly
I’m sure there are myths about all types of wood. Hickory takes a bit longer to dry than most woods so he’s probably referring to actually burning wet wood.
Any wood and even pellets and corn will make creosote if the combustion is damped down enough and the venting or flue piping is running too cold. Operating temperature is everything.
Ding ding ding!!! Since shag takes at least 2 years to dry, that might be why this guy thinks that shag causes creosote.
I burn oak and hickory. I cleaned my chimney once last year and after a full season of burning I didn't fill 12 gallon shop vac. The worst buildup was the single wall pipe from the stove to the chimney. The worst build up was the first chimney sweep after I bought the house. Previous owner told me he cleaned it twice a year and it was still extremely built-up with creosote. Between green wood and no chimney cap the previous owner caused himself a lot of problems
I wish I had some hickory here to burn so I could check out for myself all this talk of creosote buildup. In the meantime, I guess I will have to keep burning all that very clean no creosote pine that manages to keep my house so very warm. What do you say Wildwest.
I've burned about 2 cords of hickory the last couple years. The whole neighborhood smelled like ... bacon. I'd love to have a few years worth!
