I follow this guy on Instagram who seems to live a life of bouncing around from cabin to cabin in VT and elsewhere. He posts lots of cool pictures but this one from the other day set me off a bit, especially with all the hipsters commenting about how beautiful and cozy it looked and how great the smoke was. Mind you, he mentioned this photo was not edited at all to enhance the smoke or anything. My first thought was this is what happens when you cut a tree and burn it the same day. Talk about a creosote factory. If anyone's stoves smoke like this, I would advise a few more years of seasoning!!!!
Looks like when we burn fresh cut pine boughs when we clean up outside...smokes just like that, especially the Hemlock.
Hoped it was photoshopped for the sake of pretty much everything but he mentioned in the comments it was pretty much a point and shoot photo.
This is what I thought too, except I don't do that in a heating appliance, just brush piles. Maybe he'll get a good pic of the chimney fire too?
You might be right on the money. Ton of Hemlock dying off in that area. But there's only like, three or four people in Hawley, MA so at least he's not likely to be bothering the neighbors.
For Pete's sake! That's more than I used to generate in the owb, even when we were cutting and splitting Sunday to last the week in our first year here. Now with the IS, I think that photo contains more smoke/steam than we've thrown in the two weeks it's been running! Is this the same guy with the propane torch and fan video?
Looks like my neighbor's chimney, the guy tells me my wood will "dry out and be useless" if I let it sit too long.....
I get that all the time (or it will rot) from several acquaintances who heat with woodDone trying to talk any sense into them. Useless effort.
