You should see what maple does when the homeowner cuts off just enough branches for his daily use from a tree that leaned over in the middle of a swamp. Black water pouring out of the chimney clean out door and running across the basement. Sweet!! I’ve seen another guy doing the same thing. All Nighter stuffed in a fireplace with a few feet of reverse assembled pipe through the damper. Cooking pots in the fireplace to catch the drips. Both times I got the call as a Mason that I built the chimney wrong LOL
Es, my neighbor who lives n a busier road, is entertained by the desperate movement of pickup trucks in November with fresh cut wood “gotta get my wood cut!”
I have that huge pile of Mulberry saw logs seasoning on the far side of the yard presently. I'm about to add some apple wood and another large maple to it as well. Some of the saw logs are 3 foot in diameter.
WOW!!! mustve been your reaction to that. I had a call back for a chimney leak on a roof i did. Go in the attic and sure enough...dripping. It WASNT raining out. Ended up have two gas furnaces vented into one flue. Gas produces lots of moisture when burned and it was condensing as it went up.
I was just talking junk. Especially in that case. Although, I could see someone making maple syrup the real way, and then trying to add smoke flavor somehow... Cause you know, eventually someone tries to have/make a "smoked" everything...
I’m with you I’ll continue to get 14 hours of shoulder season heat from garbage, creosote producing, chimney fire causing spruce… This winter I’ll switch over to garbage boxelder/silver maple. Nobody calls me to cut down nice trees like hickory. Although I’ve burned plenty in the past 30+ years it was mostly as a kid/teen living with my parents. First I’ve ever heard it disparaged though. It’s usually regarded as primo. I’m sure none of you will be surprised when folks tell me I’m going to burn my house down burning pine and spruce.
The same SIL’s father jaw about hit the ground last year when I told him I was burning Cedar & Ponderosa Pine in my stove.
One of my neighbors says hickory won't burn. It might have something to do with him being on the stump to stove in a weekend plan. He has had chimney fires in the past.
wow! Those gassers could be piped through a wall, and then the chimney put to better use . . . with a wood stove . . . Good catch on your part though!
JimBear Barcroftb next person who tells me I'm endangering my house/burning junk wood or the like: I'm gonna lick my finger and touch them behind the ear, and tell them "look you're wet behind the ears".
I was gonna say the same thing, but I see JimBear wants to keep the dangerous stuff all to himself...
Yep, I will hang on to the dangerous Hickory, Ponderosa Pine, White Pine, Red Cedar & Silver Maple that I have.
When I was a young teen, my dad got a local pulpwood guy to bring us a load of wood. It wound up being hickory. I hand split that stuff abd it baked in the GA sun all summer. We had the old potbelly stove in the basement. I loaded that thang full one night, a bit later mom said she could smell turpentine......went to the basement, sides of that stove was almost orange, stove pipe was a dull red. It was so hot, it was drawing pitch out of the floor hoist that had been there 20 yrs. Dad put some heat shields up and I didn't load the stove like that again...
