I really miss the smell of wood smoke.

[HighHeat22]

Love the smell of burning wood. It is neat when you are driving and you can smell wood burning at a house and you look and see the signs wood stack or pile, chimney. Puts a warm good feeling into a person.

 

[eclecticcottage]

I don't have to worry, as long as my neighbors are around. I haven't ever seen their stove, but I believe it's pre epa...and I never lack for the smell of wood smoke when they are burning

 

[fish4wood]

I reserve a pile of shag bark hickory bark to add to the stove when I have visitors. What a warm and welcoming scent to be greeted with when you drive up. There is nothing like that smell!

I also use it during the summer to hickory smoke my ribs on the BBQ.

 

[drewboy]

I'll jump into this conversation and say that I love the smell of white birch burning. Sweet.

 

[logger]

We live in a very small neighborhood out in the sticks. My favorite part about buying our cabin a few years ago was when we first came to see the house in February, we pulled down the street all we could smell was burning wood. After becoming friends with all the neighbors, I now know the whole neighborhood burns stoves... kind of have to with nothing but oil, propane, and electric heat. I love the smell.

 

[Wade A.]

+1 on saying there should be a moratorium on dryer sheets, and all industrial strength perfumes in general. Cloying and sickly sweet pollution, I say. I used to ride mountain bikes with a friend who always overdosed his clothes on those. After he heated up on a ride, you couldn't get in his slipstream without gagging. I finally had to tell him is was either me or the Bounce. Just asking, why would any grown man want to smell like that? Oh well, I guess my dog thinks he is quite the item when he rolls in dead skunk too. Whatever floats your brick.

 

[HighHeat22]

I was thinking the same thing how did this discussion turn to dryer sheets.

 

[BlankBlankBlank]

Love the wood smoke odors outside. Dislike, very much, the smell of dryer sheets. I'm from Europe, the old country. Remembering, as a kid, the odor of coal. Now that's really nostalgic to me.

 

[neumsky]

I burn incense that have that wood smell....cause I ai'nt got one yet haha.

 

[Light in the Dark]

So is there any way to get the best of both worlds? When I do get a stove here... I want the woodsmoke smell. I dont want to waste wood, or dirty the air for no good reason. My stove will not be the sole heat source in the house (or at least that is not the intention).... so whats a guy to do?

 

[Stump_Branch]

First love the smell, cold snowy night, seeing smoke coming from someone elses chimney.

Every now and again i can catch a slight whiff. Not like the stoves of old.

I noticed more smell from the tube stoves ive had than the cat. But when the cats bypassed, see and smell it. If you still want it get a stove with a bypass. Reloads and cold starts, go out and get your fix.

Smell of oak, cherry, apple, hickory mouth watering. Black locust, poplar, walnut smell kinda off putting to me. Locust can near smell like trash.

 

[amellefson]

Hate the smell of those dryer sheets.

Same here. I have worked in too many basement laundry rooms and that is what I always smell...laundry soap, dryer sheets, a dirty litter boxes. Yuk...but in all honesty those days that is the smell of money

If I reload too soon or get a bit of smoke in the house from cracking the door on a restart that usualy does it for me.

Tony

 

[Lumber-Jack]

I have the best of both worlds, a modern smokeless EPA certified wood stove heating the house, and a smokey old smoke dragon in the shop. Once in a while I like to burn walnut wood in the shop when I know I'll be working around outside and might catch a whiff.

As for dryer sheets,,, I can't stand them, I wish the EPA would ban them. However, after reading this thread I'm starting to think there may be a market for "smoke sented" dryer sheets. ;-)

 

[amellefson]

I'm starting to think there may be a market for "smoke sented" dryer sheets. ;-)

I always say WD40 cologne

 

[fish4wood]

Black Locust is wood with an attitude, it's rough - stringy - has spikes - smells like a chewing tobacco spitoon when you split it - spits like a dragon when you burn it - and smells like a landfill coming out of the chimney. But boy does it burn well.

 

[seeyal8r]

My father only ever had an open fire place. So when he gets to my house he doesn't understand why there isn't smoke rolling off the eaves. He even comes in (to a perfectly warm house) stirs the coals, loads some wood, and goes outside to look for the smoke. I try to explain that my insert burns the smoke, makes more heat, and rarely smells.

But when I'm outside css like I was last weekend and the smell of burning oak passes me by I love it.

 

[egclassic]

I think that most of the stuff you smelled before is getting burned in the stove and not going up the stack. With mine I can often smell hot stainless steel smell outside coming off the liner.

OK, so I'm not imagining that!
Sometimes I go outside to see how I'm burning and to try and get a whiff of burning wood, but usually all I smell is a "hot metallic" smell.

 

[nate379]

You guys are weird. After I go camping I end up having to wash all the clothes cause they smell so bad of campfire. A light whiff of smoke from a properly burning stove is fine, but I don't need to be smelling like I was under the bridge getting warm buy an oil drum fire!

I don't care for most colognes but laundry soap and the dryer sheets smell good to me. I'd much rather smell like a dryer sheet that than dirty sweaty clothes!

 

[Lumber-Jack]

LOL
My boys and I went fishing a couple weeks ago with some friends and their kids. The fishing wasn’t great, but it was fun for the kids. Anyway, one couple who are mutual friends showed up with their son and his visiting aunt. The aunt didn’t want to even get out of the car, the mother started walking on the ice but quickly turned back (out of fear that the ice might break on her) and also stayed in the car. The son and father actually made it out to where we were fishing, and the son even put a line in the water, but quickly started to get cold. We had a small fire going in a little metal container and the son wanted to stand beside it with some of the other kids but the father kept telling him to get away from it because it was going to make his cloths smell like smoke, and for most of the rest of the time the poor boy was torn between wanting to get warm and trying not to get too close to the fire and displease his dad.
I really felt sorry for the kid. All the other kids had a great time and nobody “else†cared if they smelled a little smokey after. I kept hoping the young man would catch a fish, I was curious to see if his dad would have let him touch it for fear that he might come home with a fishy smell on his hands, but alas he never caught one. Perhaps if he had caught a fish the father would have wrapped it in a dryer sheet to try and hide the smell. ;-)

These my friends are what you call "city people".

 

[nate379]

No city for me, I grew up in northern Maine... far enough north that most people think we have outdoor toilets and drive horse/buggies around haha.

I remember rotary dial phones and party lines and I'm under 30 years old.

 

[firefighterjake]

No city for me, I grew up in northern Maine... far enough north that most people think we have outdoor toilets and drive horse/buggies around haha.

I remember rotary dial phones and party lines and I'm under 30 years old.

Actually the horse and buggies are a little further south . . . in Smyrna . . . there are several Amish families living there now.

And yeah . . . I grew up with rotary phones and party lines (fortunately it was my grandparents who shared the line) . . . I am a little older than you though . . . 41.

And for the record . . . I agree . . . or rather my wife agrees . . . when I come home from camping, working on wood or sledding the first thing she tells me to do is put the clothes in the washing machine due to the wood smoke or two-stroke smoke from the saw or sled . . . she cannot stand it.

And I personally hate it when I go to a person's house and the whole inside smells like woodsmoke . . . I've seen and smelled far too many homes that smell like that.

That said . . . I don't mind catching a whiff of wood smoke when I'm outside.

 

[Lumber-Jack]

And I personally hate it when I go to a person’s house and the whole inside smells like woodsmoke . . . I’ve seen and smelled far too many homes that smell like that.

Jake you better be carefull, you are at risk of turning into one of those closet dryer sheet sniffers. ;-)

 

[Martin Strand III]

For those who like the smell of wood smoke, ask yourself
"How much poison can I take?"

ALL ingredients of wood smoke are harmful to human health.
NOTHING in wood smoke is beneficial to health.

Wood smoke contains:
* Carbon dioxide
* Carbon monoxide
* VOCs
* PM10s
* PM2.5s
* Trace minerals and other harmful compounds

Most knowledgable sources in wood burning indicate that,
if you smell wood smoke from your fire, it is not recommended.
It is best for you and yours to adjust your fire to avoid the
smell of smoke; i.e., increase draft, burn drier wood, correct
chimney problems, etc.

Then again, people like what they like.
Maybe the Darwinian Awards will win out over time..

Aye,
Marty
PS: Grandma used to say, "Don't work harder. Work smarter."

 

[firecracker_77]

I still smell my stove...even when burning clean, I can still smell it depending on which way the wind is blowing. When the wood is wet, or I'm not burning clean, you can really smell it. Last night before the snow, the smoke was billowing straight up and then descending into itself but not really blowing away. You could smell that.

 

[Martin Strand III]

I still smell my stove...even when burning clean, I can still smell it depending on which way the wind is blowing. When the wood is wet, or I'm not burning clean, you can really smell it. Last night before the snow, the smoke was billowing straight up and then descending into itself but not really blowing away. You could smell that.

THAT is NG.

A new stove fired for the first time, or so, will give off an odor.
This is usually burning paint.
This is not wood smoke.

Some local situations will cause chimney effluent to draft back
into the house.
THAT is NG (equivalent to inhaling wood smoke).

Living in a valley close to others burning wood means you
will inhale your neighbors wood smoke.
THAT is NG.
Convince your neighbor to burn clean - or move.

It's a cruel world.
Some say, "THAT is NG."

I say, "Protect yourself. Noone else will."

Aye,
Marty