What do you burn in you stove besides wood?

NATE379 said:

Saves a bit of $$ since it's like $2-3 per bag at the dump.

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WHAT???? They have to pay per bag?

I burn $100 bills in mine (HA!)

Seriously, I've burned the errant sock that didn't have a mate. I also burned one of my kid's pair of underpants as a joke a few years ago! Bank Statements and other financial stuff too.

NOTHING

Small rodents that get stuck in the trap get cremated.

Yup, dead mice. But only with the bypass open.

RNLA said:

Small Children.... :gulp: . . . No really, it's true! :lol:

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So do you season them in the basement or dry them in the oven first?

My wife burns her fingers.

Dog poop from the puppy who is taking entirely too long to house break.

I have once or twice, thrown in some junk mail, but it usually just goes straight to the shredder... I have thought about trying to compact and "log" the shredder waste.. I have a piece of pipe and an old tractor piston that fits it almost perfectly.. if I mounted it in my 20 ton shop press...

Dakotas Dad said:

I have once or twice, thrown in some junk mail, but it usually just goes straight to the shredder... I have thought about trying to compact and "log" the shredder waste.. I have a piece of pipe and an old tractor piston that fits it almost perfectly.. if I mounted it in my 20 ton shop press...

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You should try it!

I visited a buddy off the grid in Talkeekna, Alaska, and he cooked me a steak dinner in his wood stove.
Didn't actually burn it, but he could have.
Cheers! and good eating to you....

I bet that smells real good?!

I made the mistake of cleaning the yard one day and throwing the turds in the burn barrel while I was burning branches and other stuff. Well I could smell roasting poo all the way at the house, 300-400 ft away! YUK!

Clodhopper said:

Dog poop from the puppy who is taking entirely too long to house break.

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I don't burn paper like junk mail with colored ink, but do burn:

- tissues, napkins, paper towels, etc.
- paper milk and juice cartons (These are safe to burn and burn well and clean. I tear out the plastic spout.)
- cotton fabrics
- paper vacuum cleaner bags (I tear out the rubber gasket)
- butter wrappers
- candle stubs

Over the last year my wife and I have produced exactly three 30-gallon bags of trash that needed to go to the landfill. Everything else is composted (organic stuff), recycled (junk mail, newspapers, plastic containers, bottles, cans, metal) or burned (clean burning items such as in the list above).

Odd items I have tried burning:

- bone-dry straw horse bedding with dry horse "chips" (burned but was hard to aerate and not worth the mess or hassle)
- a 10 lb or so pile of dry barn swallow droppings (I was curious what it would do. It burned but stank! Not recommended!)

Seeing that nearly all printers ink today is soy based - I wonder if it is as "dirty" ad the old petroleum based inks were.

I burn the stinkbugs that my area is infested with.

Caught my son throwing the wooden "Whoopin' spoon" in the stove. Good thing I have spares !

I burn coal when its really cold or I need a long burn. Then I have bags for stuff that will burn. And am thinking of havering another bag for cans and metal that I can crush in the splitter and through in a 55 gal drum and take to the scrap yard. And that will leave me with just misc and glass that I have to take to my sisters for trash pickup.

Billy

I too burn chunk coal in my Glenwood cookstove. Once I get a good base of wood coal I start to throw in a few fist sized chunks everytime I load wood in. I think that nut sized would be better but I got a deal on 1/2 priced bags of chunks so I bought a half dozen. That and all the junk mail and flyers and paid bills all go it.

Have since switched the Glenwood over to all coal and hooked up a cylinder backburner coal stove that works awesome.

-PB- said:

STINK BUGS!

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Yep! Mine are wrapped in kleenex.

Cotton filter cartridges that I use to filter waste vegetable oil for my truck. The fiber is completely natural (there's a stainless steel core, but I just fish that out of the ashes later) as is the fats, hydrogenated oils, and french fry/breading bits. I save them for the morning-tossing just one in wrapped in a brown paper grocery bag along with some pallet wood warms the house up quick. As long as they have plenty of air they burn very cleanly-I've never found any evidence of chimney deposits when cleaning. I would never use more than one at a time though-the flue temps get plenty hot with just one. And yes, if you happen to be outside when there's one burning it smells like you're standing outside of a restaurant

I'm closing in fast on 2 tons of bituminous coal. Heading over next week to pick up another ton just to relieve any doubt about having enough.