What else do you burn?

[AOD]

Hiya Chuck!

Lotsa MI folks in this thread!

 

[stihl sawing]

Some of you guys burn some crazy :censored: in your stoves. Mine only gets wood and some paper to start a fire with. Gotta agree with not wanting to be downwind of the dog crap and fish heads.

 

[Octane]

I do have some of those premade firestarter bricks. Break them into thirds after they are broken into thirds. Not even 1/3 of the way into the box I bought last year.

I use those too. IMO, thats the only way to start a fire. I used to use rolled up paper grocery bags and the starter blocks beat the heck outta rolled up bags any day.
I dont see the harm in burning them in the woodstove. All they are is sawdust and wax.

 

[wdanforth]

Newspaper to start, then wood, wood, and more wood.

 

[bassman]

tires mostly .

but only bias ply never radial!!:greenchainsaw:

just kidding

I burn alot of cardboard as I have alot of it and cooking fat to the point where I should buy a waste oil burner ...


this year I have 18 cords of birch so I am holding off with the trash and oil as I hope this good hardwood will extend my burn times.

 

[stihl sawing]

I do have some of those premade firestarter bricks. Break them into thirds after they are broken into thirds. Not even 1/3 of the way into the box I bought last year.

Other than the above, only firewood.

I use those too, They are better than paper. A good pine knot will do it too.

 

[danrclem]

I usually just burn wood and sometimes papers that I don't want to fall into the wrong person's hand.

I had a friend (deceased) that bought a house many moons ago. He went to clean the fireplace and found some partially burned Kotex pads. Ooooooh.

 

[AOD]

Waste oil

I wonder if there was a way to build an add-on waste oil burner for a wood stove, something like a drip feed through an old brake line into the firebox. If you had a hot fire going it would drip slowly and burn away completely, and you could get rid of waste oil and cooking grease. Sometimes I get grease soaked paper towels from cooking and I save them to light fires with, the smoke smells like Burger King.

 

[cityevader]

I use those too. IMO, thats the only way to start a fire. I used to use rolled up paper grocery bags and the starter blocks beat the heck outta rolled up bags any day.
I dont see the harm in burning them in the woodstove. All they are is sawdust and wax.

You GOTTA try the top down fire method from the other thread recently...awesome!!!

 

[TJ-Bill]

I burn anything I can ger my hands on.. tires, pop bottles, computer parts, used oil filters, road kill..

Just kidding guys.. I only burn paper products junk mail, paper packaging, paper towels, egg crates. I used to keep all my junk mail/news papers but I found they piled up faster then I could burn them,,

 

[Rookie1]

I wonder if there was a way to build an add-on waste oil burner for a wood stove, something like a drip feed through an old brake line into the firebox. If you had a hot fire going it would drip slowly and burn away completely, and you could get rid of waste oil and cooking grease. Sometimes I get grease soaked paper towels from cooking and I save them to light fires with, the smoke smells like Burger King.

I went into "oldtime hardware store" downtown and overheard salesman telling citydweller about how guys did that years ago. He was trying to sell him a cheap Chinese woodstove,I could see through all the seams.

 

[AOD]

Thats too bad that a lot of old time hardware stores have been invaded by cheap Chinese crap.

I thought I saw something like an oil burner on an old stove once. Old oil furnaces had a carburetor and float system, but I am not sure how their burners worked.

 

[Upidstay]

I burn any papers I'd normally shred. The odd expired credit card too. Aside from that, maybe some paper plates, napkins. That sort of stuff.
I have a wood stove inside, but a friend has an owb, and he started burning almost anything that would fit through the door. He backed off on that after his neighbors started complaining about the smell. Watched him put some stumps in there. They burn very nicely, dirt and all!!

 

[KsWoodsMan]

I wonder if there was a way to build an add-on waste oil burner for a wood stove, something like a drip feed through an old brake line into the firebox. If you had a hot fire going it would drip slowly and burn away completely, and you could get rid of waste oil and cooking grease. Sometimes I get grease soaked paper towels from cooking and I save them to light fires with, the smoke smells like Burger King.

Not all of it gets burned away. There are heavy metals that dont leave your property if you dump the ashes. If you throw them away they still get into the soil in a landfill somewhere. The amount that you take in from breathing and handling them will be adverse to your health too.

I have built an oil burner that made lots of heat and it put out very little smoke. I regard it as one of those things I did because I could not because I should. Regulations aside, please don't.

I would much rather live in your area if you burned roadkill or chicken feathers instead of waste motor oil.

Waste vegatable oil though is a different story, Mmmmmmm - eggrolls.

 

[woodbooga]

Crumpled newsprint to start. Some paper products, too, to save on trashbags. Paper plates if not yucky with food, paper towels if not too wet. Credit card applications and receipts with debit card info as well. (Most of the "credit cards" that come with those applications are just cardboard, though they look fairly authentic).

About the most exotic thing that's ever gone into the cookstove firebox was a quarter bag of stale tortilla chips, which burnt real good.

My FIL knows a guy 2 towns over burns his clothes in his stove. He never does a wash. Just waits for the fill-a-bag-for-a-quarter day each month at the thrift store. He's on the govt. dole and changes his gender when his bennies run out; he can reapply as a woman in a man's body and goes to the welfare office in woman's clothes. Goes back and forth - by the time his benefits run out in one gender he is eligible in the other.

The extent that some are willing to go is boggling.

Guy says burning clothes makes hot fires that keep his stovepipe clean.

Personally, I'll stick to burning wood and brushing my chimney in my man clothes, which are washed regularly and proudly re-worn until (and sometimes after) they become threadbare.

 

[twincam]

wow, its funny to hear some of the things people brag about burning in the OWB's. I feel bad for the responsible burners. ILL laugh when they ban those smoke dragons anyway. Some of you should be ashamed. but you probably dont give a flying F---

 

[AOD]

Ive known more than one OWB owner that has burnt old tires in one.

 

[KsWoodsMan]

wow, its funny to hear some of the things people brag about burning in the OWB's. I feel bad for the responsible burners. ILL laugh when they ban those smoke dragons anyway. Some of you should be ashamed. but you probably dont give a flying F---

After they are gone the indoor wood burners are next. No thanks.

When guns are outlawed only the outlaws with have guns.

 

[Joshlaugh]

Just newspaper to start the fire and wood in my woodstove.

I have a small outdoor firepit that we use in the summer. I burn all bank documents, credit cards etc in there.

 

[berry5]

take the waste oil filter it and run it in a diesel truck feels good to drive for free, smokes a little. when people ask about the smoke just tell them, it burns alot of oil. wood in the stove ill have to try the deer bones i get tired of them stinking