Ass didn’t used to be a bad word, people made it into a bad word. It’s strange.
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brand news…european parlament has decided to forbid wood for heating in 2025…
i wonder how much people will follow this insane laws…
it needs always a bit till people wake up…
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My dad used to say this little poem “I ran around the barn so fast,I bumped my nose against my ass” 
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Yes GiorgioP. why I taught myself to learn to woodheat as much as possible entirely smoke-less back in 1999.
Our new State law back then was only 20 minute visible smoke allowed in every 2 hours for refueling. Ha! I found I could beat this.
Then Progressively a few years later in my State an Air-Pollution Action Days system developed where NO combustion burning was legally allowed as they the State declared. With a toll-free reporting phone number so your neighbors could report you.
Then a few years after that our in-State located homeowners insurance company Lied on an in-home inspection about our 1996 certified, code-inspected and approved; in-house wood stove to be able to cancel us. The pre-cursor to the now popular Cancel social movements.
But today now with affordable, common now mini-drones and IR heat seeing cameras they will catch you once a date on some calendar become Real.
These reasons are why I tell all still hoping to use a reasoned Bio-Mass as a carry-forwards energy source approach . . . you will not be heard as smart, or eco-caring. You will not be heard. If heard; then vilified.
Unfortunately, it is going to take a big-reset of some type to break out of the avalanche now of the indoctrinated voting generations. They must learn real cold. Life destitute made from sapping “Approved” energy costs.
You Pray for the Second Coming.
I’ll keep inviting the Aliens to come and force us to rapidly re-learn to pull together and be directly as possible practical users.
Steve unruh
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Steve, thank God that isn’t the case in Chile. Very few people here use gas or electricity for heating. Many government offices use woodstoves, the Post Office, Civil Registry, etc. Wood pellets are slowly making inroads though.
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Yes MartyS you are now in the double handful of men and women I personally know of who’ve left the US and Europe for South and Cental America; Make-Haste-S-L-O-W-L-Y places.
Us here remaining in these cutting-edge, rapid-change, new-Age; latest-Tech areas, and still using wood for heat, are the frogs resisting at the mouth of the rapacious shore bird cartoon that says Never, Ever, Give-up, or Give-in.
Low heat needed shoulder season fires are the hardest to do cleanly, no-see-me.
And I was so proud with these same time pictures until I went outside for the chimney view . . . !!, visible smoke!!
Run inside and poke the coaled chunks in tighter and add another raw wood split to get open flaming smoke eating. O.K. now.
Heat moderation then is cracking opening a couple of windows.
S.U.
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It is illegal to burn trash in a fire barrel in Michigan. I have seen no one around here worry about it. I’m sure it’s not the same everywhere in the state but there is just not enough population density in this county to employ a trash burn gestapo. My personal belief is that by this time next year there will be a big problem paying even the wages of the county Mounties. Big brother is an expensive rascal. I guess time will tell.
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Ouch, this sh*t is on it’s way in Sweden too, often new “reports” about how dangerous to health the wood-smoke is, just to get those electrical/ central heating city folks in an uproar against people living in the countryside, destroying their lung’s with poisonous smoke. Good for them they can fly by jet to a warm vacation resort 3-4times a year, to clear their precious lungs with some clean air… 
Im going to heat with wood until they pry the matches from my dead, cold hand… and many like me.
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I could not have said it better myself, this is the way 
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Got a new welding table 
Coworker is throwing out a bunch of clutter, this used to be covered in tiles or something, but all I see is something metal I can rest parts on for welding, and something lightweight I can throw around.
Also started cleaning out my shop.
Edit: I also let the Predator 7250 generator stretch it’s legs. Opened the petcock, set the choke, one pull start.
Did a little bit of welding using the generator and then shut the petcock to run the float bowl empty.
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That looks like a very sturdy made living room table, good catch, either you make the legs longer or you sit down and weld. My father has shown me now as he is getting older that sitting down to work is underrated, he is winning me over on that one
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I have an occasional inner ear issue so I’m better off sitting.
Pretty much this whole time I’ve been squatting or sitting on a stool with things propped on that old milk can. Not many places to rest your elbow so it’s also freehand.
At least with this table I can rest a wooden block or something to put my elbow on.
I need to build a heavy duty dropcord, all of my outlets are beside the breaker box. I’ll most likely continue to weld beside the garage door while it’s open since that’s where my breaker is. No big fan or fume hood to blow smoke out.
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Did they just pass something? I wasn’t aware it was illegal. Last I knew, it just needed to be contained, and burning ‘yardwaste’ was illegal unless you have a burn permit, then you can make a pile and burn it. Otherwise it just had to be contained.
It was the people who burned their leaves and created piles of smoke, and the fires from crap flying out of a burner barrel.
That being said I burned almost all the yardwaste in the burner barrel making maple syrup which then it is just an open cooking fire which falls under different regulations. 
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I agree. Very well put.
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I like sitting while working too, except during welding. Getting a small ball of molten steel in my lap makes me get up and dance.
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Michigan air quality and solid waste regulations prohibit open burning that creates smoke or odor nuisances. A burn permit does not allow burning prohibited by other regulations. Burn permits are available from the DNR for the Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan counties.
Kind of an all encompassing law Sean. Not sure how a burn permit is useful if you cannot produce smoke.
Here’s a song to go with that dance Marty.
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With the very nice weather we’ve had for the past week or two I stopped burning wood and was able to manage with hydronic solar. Now we’re back to only a degree or two above freezing and burning wood in mid winter rate again 
Two months from now we pass Midsummer and accellerate towards the colder and darker months again. Funny, but wife doesn’t want me to mention realities like that
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There is two seasons for us living in the northern climes JO. Winter and getting ready for winter
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Hi J.O.,
I forgotten that you had an active solar hydronic house heater set up too. And a nice gravity emptying one as I recall.
You are my proof of concept.
Here old fashion we say, “Make Hay when the sun shines.” Moderns puzzle over this seems to be obvious.
They miss the underlaying wisdom that not-cold-wet strung together periods of 4-5 Spring days are rare and valuable. Too valuable to waste dithering, fussing and fretting. That is the luxury of cold rainy days.
They are too isolated by concreate, asphalt and glass from Nature.
Your accomplishments J.O. sure make me feel lazy and neglectful and wasteful.
This week upcoming we will see for the first time in 189-191 days; days of 70F (21C). Maybe even 80+F (27C).
I will be crazy busy then growing grasses and weeds whacking and mowing. My hells. Then like mad working up next 250 days heating season’s firewood to be able in the 100 warm sunny days, dry down. That, I actually enjoy. Measured accomplishments. That work done, stays done.
Ha! Coming out of winter gone pale and weak, strength building pains; I enjoy not-so-much.
Tell your Wife that those who live in 250+ days a year sunny places people go a little bit insane. Able to, too long, be busy-busy, all the while watching All turn dry and brown, dusty dead and dormant. They crave clouds and rain. Life renewal.
Regards
Steve Unruh
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When I lived in the Northeast they used to say there was nine months of winter and three months of damn poor sledding.
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