I know they've been used for fire and heat in the past. Anyone here ever try it and willing to report on its efficacy?
Anyone ever burn cow patties in their stoves?
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I wish I had some. My downwind neighbor deserves it.
No, very few and mainly for show (the cows that is). Perhaps for you neighbor I may recommend something from the swine animal.
You know it's been a long, cold, hard winter when........
If you were closer, I'd give you a face cord of wood just for asking!
Honestly, never heard a report on here of anyone trying it. From what I've worked with over the years, my climate doesn't get things dry enough.
I'm thinking this mostly would have worked out for folks years ago who lived in an area w/ cattle / bison but minimal trees..... Just using what they had sort of a deal. I'm fairly certain if they had a better option, they would have used it.
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If you were closer, I'd give you a face cord of wood just for asking!
Honestly, never heard a report on here of anyone trying it. From what I've worked with over the years, my climate doesn't get things dry enough.
I'm thinking this mostly would have worked out for folks years ago who lived in an area w/ cattle / bison but minimal trees..... Just using what they had sort of a deal. I'm fairly certain if they had a better option, they would have used it.
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Times can be tough though, and pellets are scarce. I am certain there are some members here who walked by a steaming one thinking... I wonder how many BTUs I could get outta that puppy!
Dustin92
Member
Oh yuck- I can't imagine the stench if you got a back draft or forgot to open the bypass on a cat stove! I will stick with wood, thank you! (No offense!) If you want to try burning poo, by all means go ahead, but make sure you have a wind from the north so I can't smell it!
veemaxx
Member
This is a common fuel in India and other parts of the world. You see cow patties drying everywhere in the country. Believe it or not it doesn't smell that bad burning. Sort of like burnt popcorn.
I think it is the same for all herbivores. The smell probably isn't that bad as opposed to meat eaters such as ourselves or dogs.... Both very rank. Not that I am looking to try it, but I am curious if people have done it. I have heard it burns well and similar to peat.
tcassavaugh
Minister of Fire
guess you're not a farm boy.....some things just remind me of home growing up. it still brings back memories when I drive by a horse farm or cow barn and you get a whiff of that manure pile. we used to get a few but never collected them. we'd fling them like a Frisbee or sometimes at each other........you sometimes had to entertain yourselves when in rural America.
Kevin Dolan
Burning Hunk
I have burned peat in an open fireplace in Scotland . I am not sure if there are special stoves for burning peat? The peat is cut in early spring and pile d to dry for burning that winter, it burns somewhat like coal with a big ash bed holding a lot of heat for an overnight burn.
They must be seasoned and stacked properly to burn them the same season they are produced.
We did burn some when i was a kid,,,,did not smell bad.
We did burn some when i was a kid,,,,did not smell bad.
My grandfather apparently used it to make his beehives, using willow branches for the frame. You ever burn it?
Don't know about any special stoves, but it seems it is the original "bio brick". Wait a second...I just had an entrepreneurial idea!
tcassavaugh
Minister of Fire
nope, never burned it.....threw it, shoveled it, used it for second base but never burned it.....
Fi-Q
Feeling the Heat
Hummm, nothing better than home made bread toast on the old wood cook stove filled with season cow ´hard´ and split .... Heeu..... Boooze 
CenterTree
Minister of Fire
Holy Cow!
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Actually, this thread is not complete BS.
I mean, they are saying the answer to our energy crisis is to use ALGAE for fuel, why not burn cow poop too?
And, no chain saw needed either!
tcassavaugh
Minister of Fire
i think i read someplace about collecting the methane somehow.Holy Cow!
---------------------------Actually, this thread is not complete BS. I mean, they are saying the answer to our energy crisis is to use ALGAE for fuel, why not burn cow poop too? And, no chain saw needed either!
Nick Mystic
Minister of Fire
I tried putting a stack in my splitter and it just made a big mess dripping down in all the crevices and the juice gunked up the brushes in the motor!
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