AXE the Norwegians !

[mete]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...r-s-unlikely-utterly-gripping-bestseller.html

After the TV program now the have everything in a book !

 

[300Six]

Neat! Seems to me wood burning was frowned upon by urban environmentalists as being pollution generators only a few short years ago. What goes around comes around!

 

[Square_peg]

Wood stoves are more clean burning than they used to be. Aside from that we have burn bans whenever there's a temperature inversion that traps the smoke close to the ground. It can get pretty bad in some of the rural areas around here where wood burning is more commonplace.

 

[Oxbow]

Wood can burn very clean or very dirty. Just like diesel, just ask VW.

The more you starve the flame of O2 or heat the dirtier the combustion gets. Here in NY the outdoor wood boilers are really popular. When the house is calling for heat and the blowers are running they burn clean as anything, but when the things are idling they really pour out foul, yellow smoke that is really bad to breathe.

 

[markv]

http://overgrowthesystem.com/toby-hemenway-flowing-toward-abundance/
this article has something to say about wood piles

 

[Square_peg]

http://overgrowthesystem.com/toby-hemenway-flowing-toward-abundance/
this article has soemthing to say about wood piles

Very good article. His comments on flows versus stockpiles are right on point whether you're speaking of fire wood or food. I've taken a similar approach when it comes to preparedness. Rather than fill a bunker with food I've just learned what's out there already and has been there for 1000's of years. That can't be stolen. Just keep enough on hand to last until the next season.

 

[markv]

he makes several good arguments for maintaining a flow of needs instead of stockpiling.
i cherish the days cutting, splitting and stacking firewood back when my folks lived in "The Woods".
while my dad was still healthy and able to cut wood he could work as hard as any local farmer even though my dad was not a laborer in the true sense.
we cut up tops left from a railroad tie logging operation for several years. i never felt guilty burning all that wood except for disturbing and ultimately scaring off the Pileated Woodpeckers.
those were the days

 

[Square_peg]

he makes several good arguments for maintaining a flow of needs instead of stockpiling.
i cherish the days cutting, splitting and stacking firewood back when my folks lived in "The Woods".
while my dad was still healthy and able to cut wood he could work as hard as any local farmer even though my dad was not a laborer in the true sense.
we cut up tops left from a railroad tie logging operation for several years. i never felt guilty burning all that wood except for disturbing and ultimately scaring off the Pileated Woodpeckers.
those were the days

Great post. Thank you.