Wood burning smell from the firepit in the garden

[Broch]

What worries me most is that someone who describes himself as a 'garden bushcrafter' is removing 80% of the botany from his garden

(just pulling your leg spader)

 

[spader]

They are, aren't they ? and everyone loves having a real fire....until they don't have it and they start to complain about the smell and the smoke, etc.,

Personally I love fire, I have a thing about old hearth herbs, but I loathe the stench of improperly burnt crude hydrocarbons....you know the stuff the inept pour onto their 'charcoal' to get it to light ?
That stench clings to everything.

One of our neighbours decided to burn the scraps from his new decking in his chiminea....that stuff was tanalised and it burned with an acrid smoke like TCP. Absolutely horrible, but since the wind blew it away from him he didn't care.....yet fruit wood prunings, or pine, most folks like.

It's not easy keeping everyone happy

M

I love the smell of wood fire. The noise and warmth from the old wood stove is calming and takes us back into the good old days.

But I know what you mean. If the wrong fuel is burnt in wrong set up, then it could give out bad stench, which is not nice.

My neighbor was not even complaining at the firepit at the time. She was just asking when it will end, so she will know when to put out her washings, which was fair enough and right thing to ask.

But I was preempting the possible scenarios it could go wrong if the operation is not carried out in correct and sensible ways, hence I was asking other folks how they manage the situation in balanced manner.

It should be all fine here, because they sometimes burn woods in their chiminea and do BBQ themselves too.

 

[spader]

What worries me most is that someone who describes himself as a 'garden bushcrafter' is removing 80% of the botany from his garden

(just pulling your leg spader)

No problems. I should have put down "a wanna be" in front of it.

 

[Gabri]

I totally get why you’d rather burn garden waste instead of hauling it to the skip every few weeks, especially with all the new booking systems making things less convenient. I went through a big garden clear-out last year and kept a firepit running for a few weekends. My neighbours didn’t complain but I always checked first if anyone had washing out, or waited till evening or a damp day. Any big piles, though, I just called for a local removal because it really was taking ages to burn little by little and was starting to bug everyone.

If you’re in the Hamilton or Southern Ontario area, there’s actually a local junk removal service called 1day junk that handles garden waste, old paint, and leftovers from renovations. Makes things way faster if you’ve got a mountain of stuff like I did.