Within the last 3 days I had two conversations that left me thinking I should hand out business cards with this forum's URL on them....
On Sunday, a guy my wife was chatting to at work about my wood burning addiction stopped by the house to see our FXP 44 and my wood stacks. This guy has been burning wood since the 70's, nice guy but a bit of a know it all type. He see's my wood stacks and tells me he doesnt have the desire to put all that effort into storing, he just takes his tractor out to standing dead oaks, cuts and splits there then brings the wood right to his porch. Cut/Split/Burn as I go. I careful ask how it burns and he says just fine....hmmm, I say to him that I have some oak from a standing dead I cut split a year ago that isnt seasoned yet. He looks at me like I have 3 heads..... the conversation goes on and he mentioned that he cleaned his chimny last year and took out a few GARBAGE cans worth of creasote. HOLY CRAP - I told him he was going to burn his house down. I didnt want to be rude to the guy and there was now telling him that he was NUTS.
Today, I was having a new garage door installed. My son was working with a good friend who had a couple side jobs today to cut up some down trees from last weeks snow storm. His saw was out of commission so he borrowed mine. After the first house ( a pine down a embakement and not worth trucking out) he stopped by the house. He said the next job was a red cedar and asked if I wanted the wood. I said of course. The guy doing the garage work almost laid an egg hearing that - you cant burn that in the house, you will certainly have a chimmeny fire, etc.... He said he has been burning for years and would never burn softwoods. I tried to explain that as long as its seasoned its fine but he would not accept it at all.
Rather than argue,I felt handing them the URL and letting you all at them would be most effective .... LOL
On Sunday, a guy my wife was chatting to at work about my wood burning addiction stopped by the house to see our FXP 44 and my wood stacks. This guy has been burning wood since the 70's, nice guy but a bit of a know it all type. He see's my wood stacks and tells me he doesnt have the desire to put all that effort into storing, he just takes his tractor out to standing dead oaks, cuts and splits there then brings the wood right to his porch. Cut/Split/Burn as I go. I careful ask how it burns and he says just fine....hmmm, I say to him that I have some oak from a standing dead I cut split a year ago that isnt seasoned yet. He looks at me like I have 3 heads..... the conversation goes on and he mentioned that he cleaned his chimny last year and took out a few GARBAGE cans worth of creasote. HOLY CRAP - I told him he was going to burn his house down. I didnt want to be rude to the guy and there was now telling him that he was NUTS.
Today, I was having a new garage door installed. My son was working with a good friend who had a couple side jobs today to cut up some down trees from last weeks snow storm. His saw was out of commission so he borrowed mine. After the first house ( a pine down a embakement and not worth trucking out) he stopped by the house. He said the next job was a red cedar and asked if I wanted the wood. I said of course. The guy doing the garage work almost laid an egg hearing that - you cant burn that in the house, you will certainly have a chimmeny fire, etc.... He said he has been burning for years and would never burn softwoods. I tried to explain that as long as its seasoned its fine but he would not accept it at all.
Rather than argue,I felt handing them the URL and letting you all at them would be most effective .... LOL
