Re: EPA ban on wood stoves

Posted by Billy NY on February 23, 2014 at 07:40:19 from (72.226.79.200):

In Reply to: EPA ban on wood stoves posted by rkh on February 23, 2014 at 05:17:05:

I don't care for some of the things politicians come up with just as much as the next guy, then again, like JD seller, I don't appreciate someone smoking out the neighborhood either.

It just seems per the complexities of the human race, some people just don't seem to either care or comprehend the efficient and correct use of a wood stove, in addition to being inconsiderate to others by virtue of what they do.

Its been discussed here, the use of wood burning stoves and other equipment many times. Lots of variables.

Common sense should dictate, well seasoned firewood, suitable for burning, with proper combustion, not choked off, or using green, wet or otherwise unsuitable wood fuel. Full height chimney is a must, even then smoke can drift back down.

Start up does not need to be done with heaps of trash or papers, or anything that sends thick plumes of un combusted gases out the stack, you build a fire just like a camp fire, small tinder, ascending up to kindling, and you as the end user knows, you need enough of these materials to last a season. When its warmer out, I have to cold start more often, but am cognizant of how I do it so the initial start up smoke is minimized, the stack runs clear with a very light amount of soot if I use pine kindling, or a slight hue of blue, with dry wood that fire will take off and I check the stack every time. It gets better with modern equipment, but with a conventional stove, set up correctly, there is no need for smoldering nuisance smoke at all. My father is thick headed, nice air tight stove, several year seasoned wood and he would choke off the oxygen so much it would smolder white smoke, fill the yard, get into the one barn. Hate to say it, but its people that do these things that cause problems. He has or had COPD too, much better now, but asthma and other respiratory issues were chronic. Ironic and hypocritical for sure, maybe he's changed, but while I worked at the place, I wanted to cap off that darned chimney. I spent a winter using that stove and that super dry wood, clear stack all the time, really easy start up and dial back the combustion air to get a long clean burn was no issue, too much and it smokes, there is an optimum range, and you do have to maintain a certain flue temperature, its that simple. Some people just do not get it, have a lot of neighbors, this is a real problem, common sense, not regulation is what is needed, just that some people don't have a lick of common sense.

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