10 Dangerous Trees You Should Never Burn Because the Smoke Can Kill ?
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I think burning in a modern stove burns those compounds. The warnings are for open campfires where some of those can be released.
I do have the impression that he just listed a bunch of trees that do contain toxic compounds and the assumes they survive a fire.
I do have the impression that he just listed a bunch of trees that do contain toxic compounds and the assumes they survive a fire.
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I burn plenty of black walnut in my stove. Burned plenty of some of the others in brush piles and I'm still here, I'm sure I've breathed some of the smoke. I'm more concerned with what I'm breathing from air pollution I can't control along with the junk in my water. My neighbors burn their trash with soda bottle and baby diapers and all of the other junk in it.
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At high enough temperatures, the question isn't what burns. It's what doesn't. Not weighing in on the wisdom of burning plastic bottles and diapers...
I've burned lots of black walnut. No problem. It splits easy. Here's a couple Nissan truck loads I stacked in my yard, the woodshed was full.
On the other hand, I made the big beams in my log cabin from black walnut. I had my helper sanding down one of the beams. He had on a respirator, but still he got fine powdered black walnut sawdust on his arms and it made him sick. I sent him home and I sanded down the big beams for the next 4 hours. It made me a little ill but I could handle it. It is some freaky wood, for sure.
If you are burning a trash pile in the yard, don't let any poison ivy get into the fire. If you breathe poison ivy smoke you will get poison ivy in the lungs. Might be headed to ICU.
On the other hand, I made the big beams in my log cabin from black walnut. I had my helper sanding down one of the beams. He had on a respirator, but still he got fine powdered black walnut sawdust on his arms and it made him sick. I sent him home and I sanded down the big beams for the next 4 hours. It made me a little ill but I could handle it. It is some freaky wood, for sure.
If you are burning a trash pile in the yard, don't let any poison ivy get into the fire. If you breathe poison ivy smoke you will get poison ivy in the lungs. Might be headed to ICU.
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East Tennessee huh? I'm just a few miles away in western NC. I had some neighbors, a quarter mile away, couldn't see their trailer they were down in the valley, and one Saturday I smelled a nasty toxic smell in the air. Later I drove past their place and I saw the problem. They had a 55 gallon drum and they burned all their garbage. Milk cartons, plastic Coke bottles, every Saturday morning they dumped it all in the drum and burned it up. If the wind was right I got to smell that for several hours.
They didn't want to be bothered with dumping their trash at the landfill. The landfill was 1 mile away.
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I can't bring myself to run a burn barrel. It's a simple habit, driving down the hill? Put the trash in the truck. Let the county inmates take it out at the drop of in the village.
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