burning paper

[windthrown]

Mr. Sensitive... geez...

windthrown--i told of one guy doing it--want to incarcerate me??? or incinerate me--which??? and--i wonder what happens to all these metals and other contaminates you speak of--in a waste oil burner--they just disintegrate to nothing--right????????? no ash, no residue, no nothing to go in the landfill--right?????? as one said--his truck uses more oil than what he burns--wonder what happens to that--o right----it goes into the air we breathe--anyone dead yet----tree huggers delight----

Don't take it personally. I was responding in the 3rd person. Meaning general audience about burning oil in a wood burning appliance. Basically if you burn waste oil, or tires, or other stuff hot enough the materials in them oxidize. Meaning that they chemically change and become inert materials. The waste oil burner design that they have on Mother Earth News do indeed leave no residue or ash. They burn completely and hot enough to do the job.

 

[jhellwig]

I might burn less paper products in the owb if there was somewhere to take it to otherwise.


I splash some used oil around the inside of the door of the thing on occasion to remove creosote.

 

[olyman]

j--and here in iowa--we aint got much to worry about----:greenchainsaw: :greenchainsaw:

 

[ktm rider]

I am with patrick, I burn any kind of paper product in my AHS boiler. I even use some old motor oil to get the fire going. I don't really see the big deal. I do stay away from plastic however.