Splitting and Seasoning Oak

[openspaceman]

12 minutes ago, sime42 said:

Do you mean smell the formaldehyde before putting on the fire, or during burning?

During burning.

 

I can generally tell if someone is burning chipboard, mdf or plywood as I walk past, by the smell. Though if you burn it hot enough there should be no smell, as if you walk by a crematorium you won't notice a mdf coffin burning by the smell. This is because everything has to reach a temperature of 1200C for 1.5 seconds before being sent up the chimney. Event then is has to reach a ejection velocity at the top of the stack ( I can't remember how many metres/second ) that the hot gases carry on up a long way before they are diluted and dispersed.

[Gabriel82]

@sime42 asbestos, formaldehide and you're still here 😁

 

Anyway: burning oak ,hornbeam or any other wood in log form is nice.

 

 But if we would all heat our homes with only that,I'm sure we'd run out of forests to cut... 

😂

Maybe if we'd live in Siberia we wouldn't run out of trees to cut...

 

But as is, new forms of useable energy should be tried.

 

Although Navien , NTI caprice 85 or even Kiturami condensing  oil boilers are "tempting things" to have and use 😁

 

I myself am "cheating" still having installed some time ago a new condensing gas central heating just to be safe and instant hot water.. 

 

Unless using mechanized stuff at every stage, getting dried firewood will be labour intensive.

At least here in Romania...

 

 

[sime42]

11 hours ago, openspaceman said:

During burning.

 

I can generally tell if someone is burning chipboard, mdf or plywood as I walk past, by the smell. Though if you burn it hot enough there should be no smell, as if you walk by a crematorium you won't notice a mdf coffin burning by the smell. This is because everything has to reach a temperature of 1200C for 1.5 seconds before being sent up the chimney. Event then is has to reach a ejection velocity at the top of the stack ( I can't remember how many metres/second ) that the hot gases carry on up a long way before they are diluted and dispersed.

 

Thanks. For the esoterica!

 

Crematoria are probably more concerned by certain "culinary" smells than formaldehide .....