Stix wrote:Daddybang wrote:bladeracer wrote:Daddybang wrote:We have to be very careful with the wood we burn(or at least know exactly what it is) as some trees can have nasty effects if ya breathe the smoke including hallucinations or in extreme cases death.
What about CCA Treated Pine - is burning this stuff actually dangerous?
Bob here never worried about it, if it looked like wood it went in the stove.
Don't know about treated pine I've burnt pallets and coppers logs and ended up with a very sore throat but I've felt the same after burning untreated black cypress logs(very handy for keeping mozzies down in camp
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There's a few rainforest trees that the murris use for some of their corrobees and they get some very interesting result from burning them and inhaling the smoke.
Its not dangerous to burn CCA treated timber...but given its treated with Copper, Chrome & Arsenic you probably dont want to be breathing in the fumes/smoke..
I love the smell of Cypress...its so nice to cut & nice sweet smell when burning...
Termites dont like the taste either... (well the termites down here anyway--dunno about the the supercharged hulk versions you breed up there.. . )
Yeah stix it's one of my favorite bush timbers I'm lucky enough to have quite a bit of qld bush cypress and black cypress growing on my blovk so we use quite a bit of it for posts .
I am looking at building a saw to make it easier to cut the logs into planks to build a little cabin at some point (hard to get good planks with the little chainsaw I own). Posts i have put in the ground six or seven years ago haven't been eaten by the termites yet.