OT: Firewood splitting/burning qualities questions

That's what the doctor said.

That's what the wife said.

I'd rather bang my head on the wall.

I don't give a damn!

I agree. I'm better without one.

Bill

What a load of arse.

Bill

One year this woman came to our bonfire party. She grumbled at me for having a bonfire and generating CO2*. Later I heard he boasting about her recent holiday, where she had clocked up 12,000 flying miles.

Bill

Smokeless fuel rots TV aerials very quickly. It will go through a steel mast (no galv) in 8 months.

Bill

Ghastly wood. Nearly as bad as poplar

On the

if you can rase flue temps enough the tars tend to evaporate

That's why my 6 aerials are at the opposite end of the roof to the chimney!

The satellite dishes are lower down on the wall to the chimney.

It was so cold last night and it was raining. I wanted to put the wood burner on but wifey said no.

Later on the central heating came on automatically.... In flaming June....

So to wind her up, I turned on my smart TV, and used the smart apps to play an eight hour long 4k UHD video off the internet of a real burning Birch wood fire on a 48 inch TV....

Pfft... Had mine alight last night. ;-)

Tim

I never turn mine off.

Bill

Different woods have different smells. Some are pretty vile.

Efficiently burned wood has no smell. What you are smelling is unburned hydrocarbons. They are f****ng you up. ie Shortening your life.

The acid is what buggers traditional chimneys up. It attacks cement. The sweep is an idiot.

Many smokeless fuels are high in sulphur. That what attacks the metal.

Need it all explaining do you Billy (as it's all fact)?

Or are you one of those who are knowingly happy to squander recourses and hence why you try to defend the indefensible?

Grow a tree and it captures carbon. Make something with it and it continues to retain the captured carbon. Convert it into chipboard and it still retains the captured carbon. Burn it (the raw wood or chipboard) and it releases the captured carbon again.

Given that we will never be able to do that with coal, oil and gas, doing it with wood is at least something.

Unless you DGAF about polluting the environment of course, then you can just burn it ... just be thankful that you are in a minority these days.

Cheers, T i m

It takes years and years. That's why woodburning to generate electricity (Drax) is nonsensical when we allegedly need to do something about global warming NOW. Not to mention the diesel used to bring the wood all the way from the USA and Canada.

There's a lot of wastage in joinery.

That's a good thing though. It encourages plant life. That's why the planet is greening over as atmospheric CO2 increases.

You are conflating CO2 emissions with pollution. CO2 isn't a pollutant. It's essential for life.

Sorry to say this, but you seem to have swallowed the global warming hoax whole.

Bill

No, combi from Calor Gas. Except it isn't Calor any more because they wanted 68p per litre. Flogas charge 35p.

Bill

T i m is the ultimate gullible swallower of political propaganda.

He believes in the EU and world peace as well.

Mine has been fine for 13 years

Jonathan

Erm, 'yes', so even more reason why you don't squander the recourse once it has grown.

Quite, again, probably down to subsidies and palm greasing.

I didn't mention that. I was talking about the waste and pollution, especially locally (when you have to put up with the smell / smoke / fumes), plus the release of captured carbon.

Quite ... and the questionable use of the forests that are supposed to not be hardwood.

Still less wastage than just burning it all (or letting it rot).

There are limits / trigger points though, as with most things.

I can happily discuss / consider both simultaneously.

Yes, the life of plants specifically ... and except when it is in excess and it's presence may cause other knock-on effects.

How different would plants grow when CO2 is ~300 ppm V the ~500ppm it is today (highest CO2 levels in 800,000 years)?

How comfortable would you feel in a room where the atmosphere was 1000 ppm CO2 OOI? (further cognitive impairment I'm guessing) ;-)

It was you who brought up the whole GW thing, probably in an effort to distract from the point?

But hey, you have already conceded that burning wood is a bad thing so that's ok. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

Inclined to agree. All the wood I collect for burning isn?t fit for joinery and would have been left to rot, releasing CO2, albeit more slowly. Pollution is way less than the coal fires that everyone used to have. It also reduces my consumption of irreplaceable fossil fuels.

Tim