The weather here today is very hot and humid. I spent some time working up ground this morning. Using the tiller made the sweat roll but then I had a piece to work up using the atv and a spring toothed drag. I think the sweat rolled as much on the atv as it did wrestling the tiller. Coming back to the house I decided to check out to see what a land owner had done yesterday when he took a tractor back in his place (a 70 acre woods). That served a couple problems. I was sweating so the ride did me good and it was also good for the atv to cool things off. It also bypassed some deer that I did not want to spook. But......when I came home, I passed a neighbor's house and what did I see? Smoke coming from his chimney! Yes, looks like he is building a fire on the hottest day we've had yet. Sort of makes one wonder a bit...
Uhhhh...maybe his stove went out and he needed to cook a meal? I dunno, how nuts is the guy normally? It's similar weather here right now. I need to go to the salvage yard. It'll be hot out there in the sun , but there's a breeze. I may go in the woods and cut a dead Red Elm when I get back, I don't know. One thing's sure; I won't be starting a fire today!
In this weather they always cook outdoors. In other weather, very little cooking is done! Wife usually runs to town for food when they are home. They're nuts but not this much!
Maybe just burning up some trash or papers that would normally go through their broke-down shredder. Very weird though.
My brother's. wife's folks heat their hot water with wood. That means fires in the stove year round. What is this "hot" you speak of?! Has been in the 50s here for the last few days. I've had my stove going to warm up the house.
Maybe it was coming out of their oil boiler flue and it is burning like crap so it smokes? I'm going to try out lighting my wood boiler once a week during the non heating months to bring my storage tanks up to temp for hot water.
i burn every 6-7 days through the summer to charge my tanks for DHW, no smoke tho. and boiler and tanks are in an outbuilding. theres an OWB down the road a few miles that chugs 365 days a year. they have a whole parking lot full of logs.
C'mon Sav.... Everyone knows that summer is the best time to have a good hot fire in the stove with some unseasoned pine to burn all of the creosote out your chimney and get ready for the next burning season!!!!
I have watched Denise's neighbor burn soaking wet oak and a smoke stack worthy of a steam train! They are defiantly a little odd... The heat just won't let up this week and the last. Man it's hot out again with the humidity.
They have an old, old stove. Something he got for doing some work for somebody. Smoke dragon for sure and as Pete said, they don't know what good wood is. But, the fire was short lived and the house is still standing.
