Firewood BTU and the perfect firewood question/intro.

Yeah, especially with (2) 90s in the pipe. And a chimney fire with a Boxwood stove would be a bad deal because they are anything but airtight...extra rockety sounding it would be!

 

Burning garbage, treated wood, and wet wood, in a window-vented vogelzang.

 

yes i do have creosote!... i drilled a small hole in my 9o's just large enough to install a small bolt to use as a plug,, about every two months i go out, remove the plug, and use a home made "shovel" and stick up there thru the hole and clean out the bend..usually get couple cups of "ashes" to pour out the whole... my pipes have been up 2 yrs and just recently replaced my outdoor 90 due to rust holes.... from there, running horizontal thru the wall to the stove, i had around 35-40% restriction which i cleaned out.. next year it will be time to replace all the pipes... am thinking about running the pipe vertical thru the roof as it should... and will definitely have to use some triple wall up there and do it right.... my current setup would probably make most people cringe... leaky boxwood stove, 2ft of 6in flue... a 90,, then 4ft of flue out an old window boxed in with sheetmetal.... another 90 elbow.... and 4ft more of flue going up with a gas ventcap on top.. flu is about 12 in from side of my residence where it goes up so i don't worry about catching the side of the house on fire,,,it is secured with metal coat-hangers no less! It was designed with what money i had to spend, which was very little... (i get very nervous on windy days tho, i could probably shove it over outside with my hand!) .. last year, before i drilled and plugged the aforementioned holes in my 90's.. i had a habit, when my draft wasn't very good, to go outside and smack the flue with a broom handle and dislodge all the built up creasote.. my draft of course got better.. when after i say about 10 episodes of this it eventually blocked off my 90, resulting in a very smokey house, and very pizzed off wife. so thats why i drilled the holes.... ya.. i need to go thru the roof... ---------too bad my son busted out the window i removed or i would have had a window to go back in the hole... If i burn all the garbage i can that my household generates, i never have to make a trip to the burn barrel.. hehehe... treated wood? yea ill burn it.. i hear its toxic,, probably is... but the smoke goes outside and dissipates, therefore i don't breath it.. or too much of it anyways.. maybe it will poison some of these mosquitoes Couldn't be no worse than seeing a hvac guy do 100's of jobs,, while letting all the r-12 escape into the air...he says reclaiming it was too much time and money.. gotta do what ya gotta do... maybe one day i will be 100% compliant with the oath of responsible wood burners burn on my friends!

 

yea mate.. thats me... (for now im hopeing its temp)

 

Best that I've burned, Black Locust or any type of Locust, Honey or Sunburst and even Purple Robe. They all burn for a bit and put off a lot of heat.

 

My uncle had a Fisher papabear.. id love to have that here.. kinda big tho for a mobile home tho..

 

Welcome! Burning your family’s residence is no joke, stay safe. I am a firm believer in do what you gotta do till you can do better. But burning garbage is is poor form my friend. To each their own.

 

here she is in all her glory... $200 stove, $60 in flue, enough to keep you warm.. does pretty good, i feel safe.. i think anyone can burn within epa standads if they have enough experience in using a stove.. just the right damper setting, with just the right air supply.. no smoke out flue, just pretty heat waves!... i think epa stoves are designed so that anyone, no matter their experience, can throw in a chunk of wood and use the stove and be within epa guidlines.. to me you can't really tweak an epa stove everything is kinda pre-set... i probably coudn't burn my garbage in an epa stove.. what good would that be? heheh ..

 

Too far off reality? lol.. its they way we do things in our local part of the sticks... im not the exception... its the rule around these parts!

 

I thought maybe Norman was pulling our leg but now I wonder.
He makes some statements that I agree with and some that are silly.
His set up and burning garbage burning is something I would never do as that is the recipe for a chimney fire considering the wet wood he is burning.
Good luck Norm, we're pulling for ya.

 

His stove and set up is one that reminds me of the thread MightyWhitey set up.Another Neighborhood Wood Burner............I think??

Shoot.

I believe if he keeps posting, he’s luring everyone into this game he calls “Garbage”, seeing whoever picks up on it....

 

Oh boy..I too wish he were joking. I however whole heartedly believe he is being truthful lol. Reason being, I could take you to at least 10 households in my town of roughly 500 people in which this is common practice. And these are the same people that have chimney fire after chimney fire and still .. they still don’t understand what is causing it!

 

Since you asked; here's the picture!!!!

 

Oh....it does produce tons of creasote...i clean out my flue about once a month...gonna srart a new thread about what i found today....should be a fun read....

 

I think red oak is my favorite. Good seasoned red oak burns good and really holds the coals. I like black locust also but it can get to hot for my liking if I don't mix something with it. Been burning soft maple right now that is seasoned nice heat but doesn't hold the coals great.

 

Hands down the hottest burning wood you can get is Osage Orange and Persimmon. Everything else burns hot, but not like these 2 do.