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Yes. I guess it is, but I have friends in the local volunteer fire department. AOC logic isn't limited to NYC and DC. Idiots exist everywhere.
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Not sure where you are at with this comment A few minutes to get the fire started are different from the hours of keeping the fire going.
I was asking if using paper to start the fire is a good idea after one of the posts above seemed to poopoo the idea.
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I have always used paper to start the fire as have all my friends and family.
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Paper to get the fire going, but when it is going seasoned wood is all you need. Burning garbage and trash in a wood stove is not a good idea and can cause a chimney fire, which is its own SHTF. Save it for the fire-pit outside.
This year I started burning alot of our paper products and small boxes that where going in the "recycling" I see no difference Vs the other years. I typicaly leave the damper Open when until the papers are burned. I have had a fire going non stop Since November, it's now march.
As to how to limit chimney Fires..theres two ways. Run the fire hot all the time or let the chimney have a small "fire" once every other day. Chimney fires happen because a build up of creosote. Creosote can happen with a cold chimney. So if you have wet wood you have a colder chimney(lower burn). Same goes for masonry chimneys, there just alot of mass to heat up for a typical stove.
As to how to limit chimney Fires..theres two ways. Run the fire hot all the time or let the chimney have a small "fire" once every other day. Chimney fires happen because a build up of creosote. Creosote can happen with a cold chimney. So if you have wet wood you have a colder chimney(lower burn). Same goes for masonry chimneys, there just alot of mass to heat up for a typical stove.
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I'm in southeast Texas so ash accumulation is minimal.
Only clean it out when the ash reaches the grate.
I may have to fire it up tomorrow, supposed to get in the low forties. Brrrr! LOL
Some goes in the garden, but most goes on the lawn. A soil test will tell if it would be beneficial.
For fire starting I use these, rolled newspaper, tied with jute, soaked in paraffin or old candle wax.
Burning plastic and paper also changes what you can do with the ashes.
If you are careful to burn nothing but clean, dry hardwood in a hot fire the ashes can have a lot of uses in cooking, preserving food, cleaning and making chemicals. I you are burning garbage or cold fires that ash is a lot less useful.
If you are careful to burn nothing but clean, dry hardwood in a hot fire the ashes can have a lot of uses in cooking, preserving food, cleaning and making chemicals. I you are burning garbage or cold fires that ash is a lot less useful.
You may not plan to. But it sure is a convent way to get rid of trash. We compost and recycle a lot but without garbage pickup there are things like plastic film packaging that can't be recycled, and can't be composted. It is pretty tempting to toss a little bit now and then into fire you already have going.
I would never burn plastic and similar items normally. I'm not a green new deal commie but it ain't good for the environment . Luckily we have weekly garbage pickup so don't have to go that route. We have a nice outdoor firepit for boxes and used to burn limbs, sticks etc for clean up. Won't be doing that anymore as we've started a kindling bin for that stuff.
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We clean out when the ashes reach the bottom of the doors, about 3 inches deep. Move the coals over and remove ashes, move coals to the clean side, then remove ashes again, never shutting the fire down.
We use a 5 gallon bucket. A "metal" bucket
, no plastic bucket.
Ashes go in our huge compost pile to it's own corner, and use as needed.
We use a 5 gallon bucket. A "metal" bucket
, no plastic bucket.Ashes go in our huge compost pile to it's own corner, and use as needed.
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these are good to have if you burn wood , you light it like a flare and put in the stove if you have a chimney fire in progress . the chimfex will put the fire out.
I've never had to use mine but it's near my stove if I ever do.the high temps of a chimney fire will often damage the chimney and could burn down the house .having intentional chimney fires is foolish. buy a brush and clean the chimney as needed.
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I've never had to use mine but it's near my stove if I ever do.the high temps of a chimney fire will often damage the chimney and could burn down the house .having intentional chimney fires is foolish. buy a brush and clean the chimney as needed.
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Possibly hickory or ash looking at the bigger pieces of bark.
If hickory, which is in the walnut family, there is over ten species of hickory, which includes pecan that is in the hickory family.
So, fairly smooth lower bark, very smooth upper bark, very white wood inside with light brown center, Im guessing ash.
If hickory, which is in the walnut family, there is over ten species of hickory, which includes pecan that is in the hickory family.
So, fairly smooth lower bark, very smooth upper bark, very white wood inside with light brown center, Im guessing ash.
Friend of mine took a look and came to the same conclusion. Good woods for burning though, I assume.
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