Mold? Disease? Where do you draw the line on what you'll bring in your home?

Mostly oak (3 kinds), but there's also a bunch of maple and some hickory -so you probably wouldn't want to bother with junk like that.

 

If you are averse to bringing it into your house period, throw it in a paper bag outside and walk it right into the stove. Likely overkill, but if you have someone in the house that is allergic, it might work.

 

Oaks notorious for harboring fungi, sometimes mine has pretty colors on it.

 

Thanks, Dennis!

 

Very cool. Glad I'm not the only one. Super cool to have peeps to talk about this stuff with here. And Happy Thanksgiving!

 

I understand your apprehension about bringing Mold etc. I don't like that either. Also have respiratory issues here. My approach is a rather large air filtering system. I have 6 long haired cats and two labs so dander is also a concern. When considering air filters, also consider the cost of maintaining them. I bought one that can be cleaned. That cuts the overall cost and makes the up front cost more justifiable.
I have one that is kind of funny. It the dog passes gas, the filter cranks up to remove the odor, then goes back down. When I start vacuuming, the filter comes on, but settles back down after I am done.

 

Hoo boy! I'm having flashbacks! (Uncontrollable shuddering) There was a thread similar to this about spring/summer and it seemed that the gloves were about to come off!

 

If it is a wet fast growing mold, I don't bring it in. (for the little kicker stove or at the cottage)

 

A retired guy I know has a wood shop and he crafted some spalted maple. His wife would not let him bring it into the house, even after it was worked and sealed/coated. How'd ya like that? the spalting is caused by fungi.

 

Is that a fun guy or a fungi?

 

These images are pretty close to what he turned.


She was concerned about the origin of the spalting....

 

The only time you might need to be concerned is if you decide to make a sandwich or something edible from the various forms of fungi found on your logs as most, not all, are toxic.

 

Good question you raise. I have to separate right at the splitter and toss junk into a separate pile. Junk wood gets piled on the south side of the woodshed where everything else goes. If I ever discover how to post a pic I will put one up. After a couple years I cover it right up and use it in our old stove in the garage in winter. A lot of what we see are conks of one form or another that are the external evidence a form of rot rather than mold per se. I don't know if it makes any difference but I think we see hundreds of kinds of rot going on in trees let alone bat scat and who knows what all else. None of it is probably very good for us to breath etc so good clean fresh cut solid logs without rot defects is what comes into the house. If the junk goes right into an OWB or garage stove or the like and into a 600 or 700 degree stove it is unlikely to do us much harm.

 

Good thoughts, thanks!