Be very careful if you choose to burn paper in your fireplace. One way to help minimize flying fire balls is to tightly twist your paper tightly before igniting them. When burned the ink releases harmful chemicals into your home. Best to find some other was to dispose of your unwanted magazines than to burn them in your fireplace.
Some places that would benefit from your second-hand magazines would be your local library, nursing home or retirement community, or doctors and dentist offices. You probably have an excess of styrofoam lying around your house. A lot of vegetables come on a styrofoam tray that you are left to dispose of. If you burn it you will be releasing a gas that can effect the nervous system.
Best to keep it as packing material for a future package or find some other way to dispose of it like donating it to a craft shop in town. Coal burns much hotter than wood, so you can really get into a lot of trouble if you try to burn coal in your fireplace.
Coal, when burned, gives off carbon monoxide, which can be poisonous. If you want to burn coal for a heat source you need to invest in a coal fireplace. So be a little bit picky when you choose what to burn in your fireplace.
You make an excellent point when you mention how you should refrain from putting garbage in your fireplace since they can release unhealthy chemical emissions in the air. Thank you for mentioning how burning green wood in your fireplace will generate an excessive amount of creosote. Hi Gary.
Yes, walnut is good for firewood. Dear Julie I did some cutting back on an estimated year old Yew Tree. I left all the cuttings with foliage ready to burn for about a month. When I came to burn it, the leaves were still very green, it was a very difficult bonfire, and I was caught up in the smoke a lot, with the wind being very turbulent I found myself consuming a lot of thick smoke. I fell very ill over the next few days, they found an infection in the lower right lung.
I have read that Yew Tree smoke can be toxic. Have you any comment on this that may help. Sounds like you inhaled a lot of smoke.
Hope your infection is gone now. I replaced a 30 year old deck that had treated lumber. The treated lumber is still burnable in my fireplace. Thank you! Burning treated lumber is not advisable. Burning it in your fireplace will give off fumes that are harmful for you to breathe. Thanks for your comment. I have some oak logs that I split but notice that they are somewhat blackened.
They were trunk pieces from a tree that had been topped off so just the trunk remained. Will these blackened pieces still be good and safe to burn? Great site! We have a horse farm with 20 year old oak fence boards that were originally painted with black fence paint yes, water-based paint — not creosote.
They were again spray painted in with the same kind of paint. The paint is virtually gone from all but cracks and deep creases. Can these be burned in my home fireplace? Thank you.
I would not recommend using them as firewood. Even though you say most of the paint is gone, the paint most likely seeped into the oak. Maybe an alternative would be to have a bon fire outside with them!
We have been burning wood from a previous forrest fire, oak and juniper from northern Arizona. There is a lot of black soot escaping the guard and up, causing dark blacking up my mantle and staining the deer head hanging just above it. There may also be cottonwood being burned. Can humans contract any diseases? I and my roommate have thick chest mucus and strange ulcerated lesions.
We burn cedar all the time in our wood stove, but mostly we use it for kindling as a fire starter! It lights great when dry! We have alot of brush oak trees that I would like to cut and use the trunk for firewood. Is this okay to burn in the fireplace after seasoned? Can I just say what a relief to find someone who actually knows what theyre talking about on the internet. You definitely know how to bring an issue to light and make it important.
More people need to read this and understand this side of the story. I cant believe youre not more popular because you definitely have the gift. Get Best fireproof fabric supplier from here. Thank you for your kind comment. Because it is the only wood that I have access to that is worth the effort. In an experiment I determined that hedge that is green with leaves intact has a moisture content of This test was not preformed not with a moisture meter but in a drying oven.
The pieces were 5" rounds and equally sized splits. The pieces had the bark and thin layer of sapwood removed. I was using their weight in grams before and after drying. The test was run at degrees for three months to start with. After five months the weights had not changed. Three months after splitting green rounds. The wood is so dense that there is VERY little interior moisture.
I am burning some hedge that was pushed into plies almost forty years ago. The bark is long gone and there is no evedence of any rot. I have NO problem burning wood that has been processed for as little as 6 months. So Cowboy if you have access to these wind rows you will find alot of dead wood that you can burn the day you cut it if the outside isn't too wet. Maybe a quater of what I drop is already dead and burnable.
So it goes first leaving the split rounds to loose the moisture from the bark and sapwood for later in the season. Cutter said:. Click to expand Battenkiller Minister of Fire. Nov 26, 3, Just Outside the Blue Line. Nov 13, 50 NE Kansas. I have actually cut down a standing hedge tree out of my grove and burned it with some dry wood this winter.
It seemed to me that I got longer burn times with a piece or two of green hedge mixed in with the dry. One part herbicide is dilute with four parts water and the solution is painted over the entire surface of the stump immediately after it is cut. Common or Wild Privet is a semi evergreen or deciduous shrub with dark green, lance shaped leaves and white flowers, followed by black berries.
Toxicity to pets All parts of these shrubs and small trees contain oleanolic acid. When ingested, this plant can affect the gastrointestinal system, resulting in vomiting, diarrhea and refusal of food. Large ingestions have caused coordination issues, increased heart and respiratory rates and death. All Privets have white blooms in the spring or early summer, followed by black, rather non-descript berries in the fall.
Most are deciduous shrubs that lose their leaves in the winter , but there are a couple of members of this family that are evergreen. Privet burns ok. We also have the chinese tallow tree around here to deal with. When to Prune Privet That is, removing damaged branches or opening the interior of the shrub should be done before spring growth begins. When to prune privet by trimming the outside of the hedge?
This type of privet hedge pruning should take place in mid-spring after the annual growth has begun. Some species produce a fruit, which is mildly toxic to humans. Symptoms from eating privet fruit include nausea, headache, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, weakness, low blood pressure, and low body temperature. Burning Properties When it is dried adequately, tallow wood burns well in fireplaces. It burns rapidly and produces a lot of heat, an attribute of many softwoods used in fireplaces.
It does not lead to creosote buildup. Texans who value its pleasant odor when burning have used it for barbecues. Roundish oval leaves are 24 inches long, dark to medium green and glossy above, distinctly paler to almost whitish beneath.
Trees like pines, firs, or cypress have "soft" wood, which burns fast, leaves few coals, and makes a lot of smoke that can coat your chimney with soot not a safe thing in the long run. Seasoned softwood is okay for outdoor fires, but you may want to avoid it if a fireplace is involved or you want a long-lasting fire or coals to cook over. Burning salt-saturated driftwood is a bad idea as it can release toxic or harmful chemicals when burned, according to the EPA.
Watch out for any wood covered with vines. Burning poison ivy, poison sumac, poison oak, or pretty much anything else with "poison" in the name releases the irritant oil urushiol into the smoke.
Breathing it in can cause lung irritation and severe allergic respiratory problems, the Centers for Disease Control state. Oleander shrubs thrive in frost-free climates and every part of it is toxic. Blue ash, American chestnut, the Kentucky coffee tree: There are more than 20 endangered species of native trees in North America, and by their very rareness you're unlikely to find any in a batch of firewood for sale.
However, you should double check this list before chopping anything down yourself.
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