Tom, Tom, Tom...... Untrue to put it mildly! Over the decades, I have dealt personally and closely with two Central boiler dealers. First one was in the early 90's. Both of them made it quite clear to not burn green wood and recommended against it. First dealer in the early 90's told me flat out that you'll hear many people telling you that green wood is fine and "better" for the OWB. Don't listen to them. 2nd dealer, early 2000's, said do you burn green wood? Nope. Good, don't have to advise you against it then. Both dealers were very down to earth common sense guys and not so worried about a one time sale.
Yawner .............. Just where did you take a wrong turn? New to this whole "firewood thing" or must be your first year burning wood? Questions like these are a case for "membership under review".
Maybe I'm wrong but every time I see thick black smoke coming out of them I assumed it was creosote burning inside of it.
Sometimes a fella has to do what he has to do…. This is the shop stove, I ran out of construction cut offs so I gotta dip into the uncovered stash in the yard.
Next time id mix them together before running out…this season i burned a lot of heat treated cut offs mixed with locust slab wood (cut in the summer) and i been getting great heat
Yep, did exactly that…we have a 40 yard dumpster at work for wood, it gets hauled off every other week during the summer. Most of the workers are layed off now so the pickings are slim. I could probly build a sweet wood shed out of what’s in the dumpster if I could pull the good stuff out before it a gets jumbled up in the can.
You keep collecting data. There was a study, called Exodus 3... No further studies were needed. It was studied again by cavemen, but they didn't have pencil and paper.
I have the same at my work …we build big shipping crates I recently started listing the wood as arts and crafts wood on market place and been getting tons of hits
Thanks Dave, unfortunately unless it could be loaded log length mechanically the logistics of that wouldn’t work for me. Too far over rough roads to be hauling that much in the bed of the pick up.
Well, it's there if you want it. Take a little at a time if you choose. It needs to be cut up, there are several large pines down and pushed off to the side, (very easy to get to).
With the crazy winds we have had this winter there is no shortage of broken off pine trees right out the back door…
Years back my dad would mix in some fresh cut green in the fireplace. Usually the day we cut it too. Lots of skinny limb wood. He would crib stack some on the hearth and burn later. I never liked the idea but there was no convincing him.
