In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.
Great way to cut heating costs
Fatstrat
Member Posts: 9,147
if you use a wood burning stove.
http://knowledgeweighsnothing.com/free-and-virtually-unlimited-fuel-to-heat-your-home/
http://knowledgeweighsnothing.com/free-and-virtually-unlimited-fuel-to-heat-your-home/
Comments
I think its a joke, why not just burn the paper.
You would have to sit there and continuously feed loose paper into the firebox where a thick solid log of fuel will burn a long time while releasing its energy.
Maybe now the neighbors wont look at me funny when use it to mulch the flower beds.
I think its a joke, why not just burn the paper.
You would have to sit there and continuously feed loose paper into the firebox where a thick solid log of fuel will burn a long time while releasing its energy.
[:D]
Why would this stuff make more creosote than wooden logs?
quote:Originally posted by fordsix
really all ya gota do is start ordering catalogs and the junk will follow
That, or sign up for the NRA! [:D][}:)][:D]
NRA members can make a cord a week.
Pretty cool actually, but I wonder what it smells like when it burns with all that plastic and glossy paper, etc.
Montanajoe...why do you think it would cause a chimney fire?
gonna be nasty dirty,and build up in the chimney. Will have to keep it clean out/and burn hotter fires more often to prevent build up of crud. JMO,,
The big industry down there was growing pine trees. These were all Southern Yellow Pine.
They planted them real thick in a field, anywhere from 20 acres up to a thousand acres. Anybody with 40 acres to spare just planted little pine trees on it, it was a great money maker and required zero annual maintenance or tending.
At 20 years they made a "pulpwood cut." They thinned out about 2/3 of the trees, especially the weird or twisted trees. These trees were used to make paper. The rest of the trees were left to grow for 20 years more and were cut for timber, as Southern Yellow Pine is some of the best timber that there is.
At that time only pine was used for pulpwood. If they clear cut a pine tree forest, that is, cut every tree growing, they just made pallets from the oaks or hickory trees.
So, it was quite a surprise to me, last month, to see many tons of hardwood trees being hauled into the giant International Paper mill outside Columbia SC, along with lots of pine as well.
The paper that I hauled out of there was brown kraft paper. This is a heavy weight paper, brown colored, it is used to make cardboard boxes and other such industrial uses. I was hauling out rolls of this stuff that were 6 feet high and 4 feet in diameter, maybe 8,000 feet of paper on a roll, weighing 6,000 pounds per roll.
Whether this is the only type of paper made at this huge mill I don't know.