Driftwood as firewood?
Remi
house is near a beach and there's lots of driftwood there. Is there anything
wrong with burning driftwood in a fireplace? The driftwood seems clean.
Thanks.
Tom Kendrick
content. Some of that wood may also be pressure-treated which should
not be burned.
Bob F
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burns pretty fast as the soaking seems to take something out of it.. but
free and easy to pick up.no side effects i could see in my wood stove
and chimmney. sometimes id put a wet peice in a hot fire,,it would burn
after a while. lucas
Harry K
Nothing at all wrong with it. Best to cut and stack for a month or two
to be sure it is dry. The only problem is cutting it, even if it looks
clean, it will have sand/dirt embedded in cracks and crevices - may
have to sharpen your saw more often.
If it is on salt water there is an added benny in the wood should burn
with some colorful flames due to the bit of salt that will be on/in the
wood.
Harry K
Remi
true? (It is saltwater).
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rob...@nf.sympatico.ca
Every stove manufacturer will tell you to never burn driftwood in their
stoves, and most (not all) will tell you not to burn driftwood in
their manual. I would be worried about the thing you can control, and
that is salt in driftwood. Its pretty common knowledge that salt is
corrisive to metal. And in the presence of heat, that chemical reaction
happens faster. Manufactures are hip to what driftwood damage
looks like, and good luck claiming a warrenty claim on a premature
rusted out stove. Enjoy the pretty colors.
George E. Cawthon
up creosote.
Harry K
Care to supply a cite to a manual containing that?
It certainly wasn't in my stove manual or the manual with the prefab
chimney I installed years ago. Minus a cite, it sounds like just
another old wives tale to me.
Harry K.
HarryS
Harry
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Edwin Pawlowski
These guys do
http://www.uaf.edu/coop-ext/ruraldevelopment/pdfs/driftwood.pdf#search=%22driftwood%20firewood%22
They say no, but give no reason.
http://www.canren.gc.ca/prod_serv/index.asp?CaId=103&PgId=614
Never Burn
a.. Wet or green wood
b.. Household garbage such as plastic or cardboard
c.. Painted or stained wood
d.. Pressure-treated wood
e.. Particleboard or plywood
f.. Ocean driftwood
g.. Glossy magazines
h.. Any materials prohibited by local by-laws
George E. Cawthon
Depends on what one means by driftwood. Lots of
wood (especially timbers) drifting in the ocean
and piled on beaches contains all sorts of toxic
stuff--oils, tars, creosote, and various other
preservative. So no, one should not burn that
stuff in a stove.
If by driftwood one means actual tree trunks and
branches that were obviously never treated with
preservatives, there should be no problem in
burning it.
rob...@nf.sympatico.ca
My pacific energy wood burning insert states it in the manual. My
vermont castings manual at the summer home states it as well. Burn it
anyways. When your stove / stack becomes pitted and rusted forget any
warrenty parts replacement. And yes, google it. Not only for stove
damage but for what salt turns into when heated and burned and vents
from the stack.
Joshua Putnam
says...
> Bob F suggests that if it's saltwater it could rust out my chimney. Is this
> true? (It is saltwater).
Is your chimney metal or masonry? Burning salt-water driftwood with a
metal chimney is definitely an invitation to rust.
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Remi
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J.Lef
burned ocean drift wood. It was my only source of heat for my living room
and kitchen.
Just two things.
1) you really need to let it dry out for a few months if possible, so
overstock, cover in a dry place and itll be fine, I found outdoors
preferable, but covered.
2) You will go through saw blades faster because of the salt content and
various other reasons, so either learn how to sharpen whatever kind of saw
blade you will be using, or find someone, who will do it unexpensively for
you. Maybee barter some wood for sharpening.
I always used a two person hand saw, so I dont know if this
would apply to a power chain saw or not.
Much regards
JO
Have a 5 year old Harman TL300 stove that I burned kiln dried-not treated-
firewood in. Just had to replace it as it has been "gutted" by corrosion as
the wood was sourced from logbooms sitting in saltwater. I have seen
firsthand what saltwater wood will do to a stove that should have lasted me
20-25 years.
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Oren
Venison, fish and meat gets a pepper flavor from it.
Cut it off the tree and season it dry.
<https://tinyurl.com/ztflcln>
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DerbyDad03
build huge bonfires by piling driftwood higher than we were tall and dousing
it with diesel fuel. During the winter it was so cold we would keep our
beers near the blaze to keep them from freezing.
One summer morning after such a fire the night before, someone noticed
smoke coming from the tundra hundreds of feet from where the bonfire had
been. We had started a tundra fire, where the roots of the tundra catch
fire underground and smoke/fire pop up some distance from the source.
Lucky for me I had radio duty that day so I spent the day inside while
the rest of the crew (whether they had been at the fire or not) spent
the day with shovels, turning over the tundra in an effort to stop it
from spreading any further.
After that we kept the bon-fires relatively small until the tundra was too
frozen to burn underground.
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DawnPatrol
Any real search turns up that burning salt impregnated wood produces dioxins,
as well as the generally tolerated carcinogens normal to burning all wood or
organic matter. If you think Dioxins are OK in your life, your Google skills
need work.
https://www.thoughtco.com/burning-driftwood-colored-toxic-fire-3975990
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rbowman
> Yes indeed burning driftwood , which is high in chlorides releases eight
> times the dioxins and also toxic furans and is not recommended ,
> especially not year after year , both your fireplace and your
> environment will be impacted
>
Marilyn Manson
with diesel fuel and then set our beers next to the blaze so they wouldn't freeze.
If you stood close to the fire, it was too hot. If you stood too far back, your beer
would freeze before you could finish it. Solution: Find a comfortable spot
to stand and drink fast. ;-)
Ralph Mowery
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> When I was in living in AK, we'd pile driftwood as high as we could, douse it
> with diesel fuel and then set our beers next to the blaze so they wouldn't freeze.
>
> If you stood close to the fire, it was too hot. If you stood too far back, your beer
> would freeze before you could finish it. Solution: Find a comfortable spot
> to stand and drink fast. ;-)
>
>