No wonder the price of lamb went up!!

[rovers90]

Just read an article from the Daily Telegraph of 15 October regarding the popularity of stoves and what people are burning. Apparantly, a wood burner manufacturer commssioned a study as to what people are burning in their stoves.

 

Some are lighting their fires with petrol or diesel! But it gets worse - when it comes to burning fuel people admitted to burning dirty nappies, old clothing and shoes, railway sleepers, one dealer had a customer who was a poultry farmer and put chicken carcases on the fire and another knew of someone who used dead lambs!!!

 

In the survey, it appeared more than half the users questioned were totally unaware of the correct wood to use and more than a quarter thought all wood was the same.

[roseyweb]

more than a quarter thought all wood was the same.

 

Good so i can keep palming willow, pop and conifer off on people in exchange for beer

[nepia]

Widespread practice. I've got farming rellies in Devon with a Rayburn; fistfuls of bale cord to help it get going followed by nappies from 4 children, then 8 grandchildren + friends etc. Diesel's been used many times too, along with the bones from meat-based meals. Not the same as cremating Matilda the Hen though...

[pembswoodrecycling]

My father is a great believer in getting the "calorific value" from his rubbish, but a nappy or the mess the dog left on the carpet in the bin and it stinks to high hell, put it in the rayburn and it disappears without a trace, its just incineration.

we also burn alot of willow, not by choice...it's just what we have on the farm, and if you get it dry it doesn't burn too badly. Although the occasional ash or oak from neighbours woods are always welcome!

[tommer9]

When i have had woodburners (I have electric heating at the mo for the first time in my life...) anything that would burn went in it. Anything.

[doobin]

Indeed. I'm a great believer in feng shuing my house by chucking everything that's rubbish (and I mean everything...) on the fire.

 

It's only going to be burnt anyway, or go in a hole in the ground. Old clothing/oily rags are great fuel.

[Midway]

Not quite dead animals, but it's great for old bank ststements and letters with private details etc. Just saves that shreading process.

[Alycidon]

You would think that the stove retailer would advise customers about the inns and outs of what to burn, I do and labour the point but an awfull lot dont and people buying stoves on line do not have a hope in hell of getting this info from their suppleir.

 

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[easy-lift guy]

Based on this thread I do not believe it has anything to do with what the stove retailer suggest for a type of wood, folks will and do burn anything?

easy-lift guy

[Joy Yeomans]

we used to cremate our gerbils as children on an "open fire Pyre" in the hearth that dad created for the ultimate trip to heaven for our pets, when they died!

 

now in our stanley, theres nothing worse than hair when the lads have a haircut! conifer and larch stick offcuts.

 

we have raised our lambs in the plate warmer of the stanley before. - and then cooked them in the oven when old enough - i hasten to add after their ultimate trip to the slaughter house!

joy