Austria firewood explodes in wood stove Dec. 1, 2014 1:23 PM EST VIENNA (AP) — Austrian police investigating a grenade blast were less puzzled by the explosion and more by where it took place — inside a wood stove that appeared to contain nothing but firewood. The woman who owned the wood burner also had no clue at first. After all, she only put firewood inside. Or so she thought. Police spokeswoman Petra Datscher said Monday a World War II grenade apparently landed on a tree during fighting. It was then enveloped by wood growing around it to the point that it was invisible when the tree was chopped down for firewood and sold to the supermarket where the unidentified 22-year-old woman bought it. The blast Sunday in the lakeside town of Gmunden shattered the stove's glass panel, but the sturdy wrought-iron stove prevented injuries
Well made grenade if it was still active after 70 years in a tree Glad it didn't kill anyone, what a freak accident
We had a logging contractor up here on the local military base who was clearing some training ranges. He decided to sell some of the logs for firewood, turns out they contained unfired munitions. That source for wood dried up pretty quickly...........................
Heard of folks baiting there firewood with M80s to stop/catch/punish thieves Don't forget which piece is baited
While I agree it is POSSIBLE for that to happen; I find it highly, highly unlikely based on what Corvus here said in his 1st post............. Hi, my name is Rolf and I'm a new member in the club. I guess I'm the first and only one from germany here. The way we keep our cockle stoves burning, goes that way: first we buy the logs from town/community, then wood workers cut the trees and distribute the portions for every customer. You find your portion besides a forest track. The forest management has established this rule to avoid the compaction of forest soils by plenty of tractors in the woods. Having my receipt I drive my 50+ year old Deutz tractor into the forest for cutting the logs apart and bring them home. The splitting is mostly done at the yard at home. Our trad. measuring unit for firewood is "Ster" = stacked cubic meter (or Rm= Raum meter) What you call a cord is 128ft³ = 3.6246m³ So one cord means 3.6 Ster for us. I guess my storage is about 6-7 cord at the moment. I'm interested in your way to process firewood. When I look at all the stacks here I see one big difference to the traditional way that is still popular here. It's to cut the logs to length of 1 meter = 3,3 feet, then split and stack it. When it's seasoned in 1-2 years it's been cut down on a circular saw to final 13 inch each. You see that kind of wood stacks everywhere in the landscapes of germany, switzerland, austria, northern italy (Tyrol), eastern france and probably at our eastern neighbors too. Though cutting the fresh wood instantly to the final dimension is also to be seen. For our "Meterholz" stacks I produce a special cover that I serve to the forestry trade. Tarps drove me crazy - always rifts and leaking. Every year I had to replace some. But the biggest handicap in my opinion is that the wood moisture is trapped underneath the tarp. What you get is moldy wood in the upper layers. Thats it for today. I look forward to a good exchange of ideas. Cheers, Rolf Corvus, Nov 3, 2014 Here's the link to his thread here..........http://firewoodhoardersclub.com/forums/threads/hello-from-germany.7613/
