Types of Wood to Burn in A Fireplace
An interesting graph from the USDA Forest Products Laboratory, that tells the benefits of burning various types of wood. Good knowledge not just for home heating, but also for camping and back-country activities.
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It’s Not Fair That They Get To Burn Things
Pennsylvania has some of the loosest restrictions on open burning in most of it’s rural communities in the Northeastern states. People can and do have fires, and burn brush, trash, and all matters of things on their rural acerage.
Most folks down there heat with wood or coal. They burn there trash daily — and all of it including plastics — and dump out the unburnable bottles and cans in woods. Life is a non-stop opporunity to play with fire.
From the blackened trash burning barrels, to the black smoke rising behind the houses, to the flicker of flames, the smell of burnt plastic rising in air. Good ol’ fire.
I wish I could burn things like they do get to down in rural PA…
Why I Don’t Own Any Propane Camping Appliances
I spent a little extra when I bought my Coleman lantern and Coleman stove, and went for the dual fuel models over the propane models. Dual fuel appliances can burn either automobile gasoline or Coleman fuel.
I like using liquid fuels, primarily gasoline, for a couple of reasons…
First off it’s cheap.Second, there are no containers to discard or recycle. Propane containers are often difficult to recycle. Gasoline, in contrast, you purchase and put in a reusable gasoline container. You buy gasoline at any gas station, put it in a portable gasoline container, and you can reuse the gasoline container for a long period of time.
Third, having extra gasoline is handy in an emergency. You never know when you run your tank a little low, and the extra gallon or two of gasoline can get you to the gas station.
There is a slight inconvience of having to pump liquid fuel stoves and lanterns, but compared to all of the benefits of using automobile gasoline, nothing beats them.