We're Doomed..............if this doesn't change!!!

Agreed!!

To late for you though!!

 

If some one has been doing something for 50 years and it's working I can see them not wanting to change but cant believe burning wet wood and choking down your stove is working.
Many people still seem to think creosote is a by product of burning wood, you see posts about it once in a while such as the one where black sticky creosote was coming out of the seams on his flue pipe, the first response was your flue pipe was installed incorrectly (which it was) instead of your going to burn your house down fool.
Not sure whats worse, an old guy who's been doing it wrong all his life or a new guy who thinks he knows it all, you see about as many of one as the other.

 

I'm not even old and I don't understand all that crap

 

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. LOL
Actually I do not have that problem at all, for me I have always wanted to not just know why something works but I want to know why it does not work, getter older has not changed that thinking for me what so ever.
What I fear is peeing my pants.

 

Well one nice thing about the new EPA stoves is they wont burn with green wood. Seems to make alot of people PO'ed.

 

Yes and some who have bought EPA stoves have discovered how well dry wood works, one person even wondered how well his old stove would have worked with dry wood.
I remember one review online about the Englander 30, guy stated the stove did not work so he exchanged it for another and that one did not work either so he sent it back and warned people not to buy this stove as it was crap.
Note to Huntindog1-the Drolet works really well with Oak.

 

oldspark , which stove exactly won't work really well with Oak? Lol

 

That Summit I had.

 

The problem is a lot of people aren't necessarily looking for maximum BTUs, rather they are often looking for those loooong burns that wet wood provides. At least that what two of my neighbors said when I asked them about how dry their firewood was. After all, everybody knows wet wood takes longer to burn then dry wood. So there is a bit of (fuzzy) logic to their thinking process on burning wet wood.

 

Here is what you get when a person doesnt know how to run a stove.

 

Same guy posted another video 1 month later so he must have figured it out.

 

I like how at 2:09 he has a screen text that says "WITH DRY SEASONED HARDWOOD", but then he has his wood sitting on the stove obviously trying to quick dry it.

It's just another case of people not knowing what seasoned dry wood really is. At least he's getting those looong burns that make wet wood so desirable.

 

"Can't get the pipe to turn red, can't get the stove to turn red"..........like it's bad thing. Jeesh.
Seen this before and I'm still just...........jeesh.
Maybe if he spent as much time and thought getting wood ready as he took making that fancy video, he'd have dry wood.

 

The pathway to burning cleanly is :
1 Dry wood
2 Small brisk fires.


This chimney has had a wood stove at the bottom for around 20 years.

Not an overly large stove that predates EPA.


Dry wood !
Pictured is one of my older brothers, He believed in burning dry wood.

 

Campin-looks like your brother new what he was doing, I like his wood rack he has there.

 

Hilarious, It's like the guy intrinsically knows his wood's wet, he's got a bunch of splits sitting directly on top of the stove....but he still says it's the stove's fault.

 

Jeez..................another guy with "perfect" wood stacks!!!!! Those splits and rounds all look to be within 1/4" all the same length!!! Another guy that uses a plumb bob, level and slide rule when stacking.


I was having a good day until now!!!

 

There were also two rows stacked under the mobile home!
Yes , my brother's wood collecting was second to none. He would only cut when dry so no sawdust would stick to the wood and no cutting with a dull chain and the chain always cut straight.

This was an exceptional brother also as a very good marine and powersaw mechanic.
He lost a battle with cancer a month after this picture was taken.



He gave all his wood to Granny, Woodwidow's mother. Unloading at Granny's. Woodwidow in the picture.



Granny in action!

 

Wood Boilers and Smoke issues.
Back in what I call prehistoric wood burning, we owned and operated boilers like the 2 pictured below.



This boiler we called the "PIG" and the one below its nickname is not printable.


These two older style boilers have fireboxs surrounded by water, so the fire temperatures are very low and no matter how hard you made them burn, they produced lots of smoke.




With gasifcation and heat storage a different result.

 

I bet its nickname was "Muddy Firetruck"!!!