Posted on 11/23/2007 6:18:58 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
My neighbor’s boiler looks like that when it opens up. You can hardly see his house. The good thing is that he doesn’t have any other houses close by. The heavy smoke doesn’t seem to last very long before it shuts itself down some and looks more like a regular chimney, just closer to the ground.
>”We’re not hillbillies or trashy people.”<
“Apparently, it is still quite alright to stereotype and malign hillbillies and trashy people, without raising so much as an eyebrow from the reporter or anyone else.”
It leaped out at me too. If you haven’t read it before here is a fine book on the subject.
http://www.amazon.com/Redneck-Manifesto-Hillbillies-Americas-Scapegoats/dp/0684838648
Too true. You should smell it when the liquid manure trucks start spreading their bounty on the fields across the road from us. But heck, it only lasts for a day or so.
We have a woodstove to help heat our house. I put it in a couple of years ago when the price of heating oil shot up. It save me a couple of thousand a year, and it saves oil.
I don't burn any painted wood. But I do find myself cutting up some of the stuff that would have gone on the brush pile to use for kindling. So it's heating our house instead of wasted on the brush pile. And if we didn't burn brush, we'd have dead wood all over the place and a fire hazard, like those idiot self-annointed environmentalists have produced in California.
I’m sick of government being in every aspect of our lives, every thought, every word, every orifice.
I use unprocessed plain ground peanut butter.
Everyone’s on 5 or 10 acre plots out where we are. So the concentration of smoke from wood and pellet burning stoves is pretty low. We use a Lopi Answer stove to heat our main room when it gets really cold and dank. What with stove’s efficiency and the seasoned tamarack and fir that we burn, there’s very little smoke.
People who burn pressure treated wood and garbage in their stoves are just plain stupid.
I wholeheartedly agree with you.
I know we did for some time.
I'm always offering my buddy my large stack of railroad ties to burn in his wood stove, but he never comes over to get them. I don't know why.
If we all go back to wood stoves, we'll all go back to the days when everything was covered with soot and people got black lung disease just sitting in their houses.
Well, pressure treated wood contains a lot of arsenic as it's designed to resist bugs and decay organisms. Woodsmoke laced with arsenic is no joke.
That's one reason they highly recommend sealing your deck if you have one made from pressure treated wood. Keeps arsenic off your feet.
+, what about the chilruns???
One neighbor worked for the Phone company all his life. He had a windfall of old poles. The good part is that they were easy to split.
The bad part is everyone got sick of having fire trucks there all the time.
This left him with a dilemma. If one cannot burn them, how do they get rid of them?
Some of them are still there, twenty years later.
It's two different technologies. The Lopi has either a catalytic secondary burner or an oxygen injection secondary burner. Either approach burns up the smoke. The result, your Lopi extracts about 75% to 80% of the total energy in the wood as heat. The closed wood burners are very clean and very efficient.
I've never seen an outdoor burner with a secondary burner in it. So it is a lot less efficient and sends a lot of smoke out the chimney that could have been burned for heat.
Given all that, I'm still reluctant to regulate their existence. I hate being beholden to utility companies and government regulators and markets for something as fundamental as not freezing.
OTOH, anyone who burns treated lumber or plastic is crazy and dangerous to themselves and others and needs to be shut down yesterday.
I use them for blocking out garden plots.
Sheesh!
This just P!$$&$ me off so bad! Where do these people get their ideas about southern people?! &*$#! My daughter and SIL have one of these wood boilers. They live in a beautiful 2500 square foot home on top of a beautiful secluded mountain in east Tennessee so I guess they are hillbillies but far from trashy and uneducated. He has a degree in horticulture and has his own business. She has her own business and also works at a home for the mentally ill. Their only daughter, 16, is a straight A student, has her own car and works to pay her own insurance and buys her own clothes, etc. Excuse the rant. I feel better now.
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