Ponderings

windyhill4.2 · Post by **windyhill4.2** » Sat. Jan. 10, 2015 8:54 am

The sulfur smell is the one thing that we do not like with burning coal.After smelling wood smoke for most of our lives(we do miss wood smoke) it is difficult to accept this "new" smoke smell.

titleist1 · Post by **titleist1** » Sat. Jan. 10, 2015 8:59 am

Pap wrote:He doesn't believe me and said he will get to the bottom of it and report the person with the bad septic system.

Seriously, he was going to 'report' them instead of letting them know and talking to them about it directly? That is a guy I would not tell anything to about my coal burning. I'd have let him continue to look for the septic issue just to keep him occupied.

Hey WH....you can buy Yankee Candles with a wood fire scent to get you over the desire for that wood smoke smell!!

windyhill4.2 · Post by **windyhill4.2** » Sat. Jan. 10, 2015 9:08 am

I have pondered the price on those candles.We are also pondering how to get more coal with little $$ available,all extra $$ goes to our coal buying fund.

titleist1 · Post by **titleist1** » Sat. Jan. 10, 2015 9:23 am

WH...here is a low cost alternative for ya.....i think I read this in a HambdenBob recipe book.....

Head out to the woods and collect some deer poop. not the big blotchy, messy kind that looks like oversized muskrat took a dump, but the nice pelletized stuff that comes from a mostly ruffage diet. spread out the poop pellets on a cookie sheet and set them on the crane to dry overnight. The next day melt some parafin in a pan and drop in the dried deer poop pellets to soak up the melted parafin. Its important to remember to not put the cookie sheet back in its normal place in the cupboard but to take it out to the workshop for future non-food uses.

Take the poop pellets out of the pan after they have soaked up some parafin and let them dry. Then place a handful of the poop pellets in an empty cat food can and light them up. Because of all the ruffage the deer eat when you burn them it will smell kinda somewhat sorta like wood smoke.....I promise!!

windyhill4.2 · Post by **windyhill4.2** » Sat. Jan. 10, 2015 9:49 am

You have to watch those cook books from Ohio

Post by **Rob R.** » Sat. Jan. 10, 2015 9:59 am

windyhill4.2 wrote:The sulfur smell is the one thing that we do not like with burning coal.After smelling wood smoke for most of our lives(we do miss wood smoke) it is difficult to accept this "new" smoke smell.

It is an acquired smell.

Throw a few sticks in the Crane if necessary, and get some different coal.

Pap · Post by **Pap** » Sat. Jan. 10, 2015 10:12 am

" Seriously, he was going to 'report' them instead of letting them know and talking to them about it directly? That is a guy I would not tell anything to about my coal burning. I'd have let him continue to look for the septic issue just to keep him occupied."

Yea, he is a real piece of work. He was cutting across another neighbors lawn to turn into his drive way and was leaving muddy ruts in the neighbors yard. The guy asked him to please stop cutting the corner because he was fixing the dirt/mud all the time. The butt hole told him he will do wants he wants and you can't stop me. So he put some kinda big rocks on the corner of his yard. The next night the guy hit the rocks and banged his car up pretty good (they towed the car to the shop). He then called the cops but they said there was nothing they can do, the rocks are on his property.

EPugs45 · Post by **EPugs45** » Sat. Jan. 10, 2015 12:24 pm

Pap wrote:"So he put some kinda big rocks on the corner of his yard. The next night the guy hit the rocks and banged his car up pretty good (they towed the car to the shop). He then called the cops but they said there was nothing they can do, the rocks are on his property.

HAHA good for him, poetic justice!

Hambden Bob · Post by **Hambden Bob** » Sat. Jan. 10, 2015 3:01 pm

Gentlemen,Gentlemen!....'Tis a well known fact that back in The Prairie Days,Soddies were heated by burning Buffalo Chips. That would constitute an equivalent to Stove Size Coal. Henceforth,Deer Pellets would maybe go towards Pea or Buckwheat. Rabbits would produce something a little larger than Rice ! What's the point of this Post,one would ask?.....Answer-None !

However,since once again,Turds and Ohio Cookbooks somehow seemlessly meshed right into why the Neighborhood smells like a Fart Factory,I felt I would offer these Solid Fuel Alternatives for Your Neighbors' Consideration......Gawd,I luv this Place !!

Protrucker · Post by **Protrucker** » Sat. Jan. 24, 2015 7:03 am

When I first lit the coal this year my wife complained about the smell, but not any more. She's loving the steady heat & doesn't even seem to notice the "farts" now!

EPugs45 wrote:HAHA! My husband says if we just walk around naked enough they'll put a fence up themselves, I said no with our luck they will be into that kind of thing!

Lol
I keep my house warm enough to walk around naked..... and I do that!

I even go outside naked when it's not too cold. No complaints from the neighbors yet, but I have a very secluded yard. I hate clothes & only wear them when required.... nothing wrong with that either.

“And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.” (Genesis 2:25)
“But the Lord God called to the man, and said to him..... “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” (Genesis 3:9-11)

"Never before did I get so close to Nature; never before did she come so close to me . . . Nature was naked, and I was also . . . Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! – ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability, that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent."
Walt Whitman, A Very Public Quaker

smokerdude · Post by **smokerdude** » Sat. Jan. 24, 2015 7:28 am

uh. sulphur farts, nudity and Walt Whitman. Can't do anything with that.

windyhill4.2 · Post by **windyhill4.2** » Sat. Jan. 24, 2015 7:52 am

Adam & Eve walked around naked in the Garden when things were perfect,b4 they sinned. When they sinned they both covered themselves with leaves. God slew an animal & made them clothing from the skin & then drove Adam & Eve from the garden. In sinless perfection they were naked & weren't ashamed. After sinning they were driven from the Garden & we still clothe ourselves today in this sinful world we live in. We haven't heard any comments from neighbors or customers yet on the sulpher smell,but we do have a number in our area that burn either coal or wood.

Post by **Rob R.** » Sat. Jan. 24, 2015 8:14 am

Unless your neighbors live right on top of you, the smell of flue gasses from a stoker should be a non-issue. I had one load of coal a few years ago that created an odor that I could smell if I was standing next to the house on a real calm day, but that was it.

Hand-firing is a different story, when you toss a bunch of coal in the stove it can definitely create an odor outside.

waldo lemieux · Post by **waldo lemieux** » Sat. Jan. 24, 2015 11:05 am

I blame the coal stove even when Im not at home. Um, er, I just shook down and loaded the stove as we were leavin to come here and that pesky coal gas gets stuck in yer britches! Honest.

Doby · Post by **Doby** » Sun. Jan. 25, 2015 4:34 pm

Pap wrote:" Seriously, he was going to 'report' them instead of letting them know and talking to them about it directly? That is a guy I would not tell anything to about my coal burning. I'd have let him continue to look for the septic issue just to keep him occupied."

Yea, he is a real piece of work. He was cutting across another neighbors lawn to turn into his drive way and was leaving muddy ruts in the neighbors yard. The guy asked him to please stop cutting the corner because he was fixing the dirt/mud all the time. The butt hole told him he will do wants he wants and you can't stop me. So he put some kinda big rocks on the corner of his yard. The next night the guy hit the rocks and banged his car up pretty good (they towed the car to the shop). He then called the cops but they said there was nothing they can do, the rocks are on his property.

I say that a boy! No common sense then your gunna Pay