What have you heard to burn in the wood stove?

Wife's grandpa was famous for cutting up old tires and tossing in a chunk to heat things up. Today I saw this old tip that didn't age well. What have you seen/been told to add?

 

damm. I have this pic saved on my phone and forgot to post it! Wonder how many people actually did this

 

When I was a kid we used to burn the insulation off old copper wire before scrapping the copper.
It was really entertaining to watch.

 

I work with a guy that thought it would be a good idea to throw his old oil filter in the stove.
He showed me a picture with black smoke pumping out of his chimney ' looked like a coal fired steam engine.

Probably not a good thing to throw in?

 

I've seen alotta stuff go into a wood stove ......pvc, abs, plexiglass, styrofoam, foam rubber, insulation, house wrap, tar paper, milk jugs, particle board, upholstery, vinyl records, soup cans, light bulbs, glass jars, poopy baby diapers.....

In the end, I'm pretty much convinced that just plain ol' dry firewood is really the best fuel for the woodstove.

 

Lol. If it was one, it was too many

 

I hear farmers will throw dead animals in an outside wood boiler to get rid of them.

 

Most of the larger hog confinement operations around here have some type of half-azz incinerator for smaller pigs but they also have an enclosed structure to put dead ones in & then have the dead wagon (rendering truck ) come pick them up.

Most folks just drag or haul dead ones to an out of the way ditch; buzzards, eagles, coyotes & other wild life make short work of them.

 

Or dig a big hole....

I saw a vid where someone threw an aerosol paint can in a wood stove. Results were impressive, but not conducive to smooth operation. I imagine it was a bet, or hey watch this (especially since it was videoed).....

 

Guy on a fb group would throw chunks of tires in his wood stove, which was homemade IIRC, he'd have it glowing! Thankfully it was the shop stove

 

I've seen it done at the neighbors.

 

Works great on older boilers. I know a meat cutter that throws in all the bones and other offal into his boiler. Heats house and shop for almost three months in the winter.

I throw fat and trimmings from trapping season into my garage stove. Burns hot and clean, just have to have some old timey knowledge.

 

I've been known to put wood in my woodstove.

 

last week I caught mouse #10. it was rather dead, and the stove rather hot. I stuck it atop a log already gone to coal stage. in not too long it also was a mouse shaped coal.
I don't know that it's useful to do that, I have been chucking them outside, and some cat has been well fed.
My dad had a chipmunk get in his enclosed fireplace from on top of the house, that was a chore to chase around the house and out the door. Next time a squirrel got down there, a lot of cardboard was used to build a quick hot fire. that worked as planned.

 

Buddy said first it smells like burnt hair, then burnt bbq. Someone once burned a skunk and it smelled like skunk the whole way thru. Allegedly.

 

Behind my screenhouse is a specific rock on the rock wall, that has a flat top. I have given it the name "Dead Munk Rock". Over the years, there's been hundreds of chipmunk and mice bodies placed on it. The bodies disappear within days.

I've never burned one, though.