ISeeDeadBTUs said:And to think I read this post thinking it was about OWB's :roll:
did you stop at the initials? ........."OWB neighbors/restraining order"
I read it to be problems with neighbors, OWBs and legal consequences.
ISeeDeadBTUs said:And to think I read this post thinking it was about OWB's :roll:
Der Fiur Meister said:603doug said:....., we do not bother you and you do not bother us but if you need something we will be there with bells on to help...........
My next door neighbor has an OWB which may not be what I wanted to see, but he doesn't bother me, and I don't bother him. The one that complains in this rural township is the lady who moved here from a large city two years ago. She calls the County Sheriff (township is too small to have a police dept.) and complained about the dirt the tractor left on the road after the farmer neighbor came off of his field. Then she calls about the horse manure on the road from the neighbor's horses. The sheriff asked her what she expected when she moved in across from a farm??? 8 of the 12 homes on our one mile long road burn wood. You see wood piled up everywhere. I'm just waiting for the day they complain about that.
What might seem strange to those who live in the city or a subdivision, is just a way of life around here. We burn a lot of wood. Stoves, OWB, campfires and furnaces. Any time you walk out side in the winter you can smell wood. Reminds me of campfires around the lake when I was a kid or the stove at the old man's place. To me what seems strange is the need to lock the house when you're gone. We couldn't even find the keys the last time we wanted to lock the doors. I guess we live more by treating people the way we want to be treated.
Ugly said:Problems with neighbours and OWB's are only going to get worse imo. Part of it is the perception that what's going out of the owb is somewhow more toxic than it is.
Our story: The big OWB (Empyre 650- 1/2 full cord at a time) we have attached to the big building DOES smoke at times but the prevailing winds take it no where close to the nearby homes. We still got complaints though and we are VERY rural. Neither my Dad nor I could figure out why there would be a problem. Then one night, I was working late (2:00am) changing a piece of 2 1/2" copper pipe that had broken on the hydronics (rubbed against concrete - bad install 50 years ago) when I heard the door slam on the boiler out in the yard. I went outside and here's one of the guys down the road looking like a deer in the headlights. I at first assumed he had been trying to do us a favour and had loaded some wood in the boiler. I asked him what he was doing and then *I* opened the boiler door. Inside on top of the flames was a piece of crusher grate and on it was rolls of household wire (extension cords, christmas lights and so on). This idiot had been using our boiler in the dead of night to burn the cover off electrical wire so he could salvage the copper scrap. To make matters worse, we found out he was one of the rotten SOB's that had the gall to complain about the boiler.
Had he been a younger man I might have fed him his teeth, as it was I used the big poker and pulled the flaming mass of burning plastic out of the stove and dumped the ash barell on it. I just pointed to the gate at the front of the yard and turned my back and walked away. He had the nerve to ask my Dad my for the crusher grate back the next day. I just shook my head no and today that grate is the ramp on the back of my dad's little trailer.
I actually chipped a tooth from grinding them that night. We've never gotten another complaint and it's been a year and a half or so.
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