Christmas day we went to a couple parties. As it always goes at most family gatherings, I get bored and start talking about chainsaws or outdoor wood boilers or something similar to break the boredom. We got on the subject of how to keep thick creosote from lining the inside of our boilers. One of my relatives(not on my side!) said he came across something purely by accident that cleaned his down to nearly bare metal after only a couple hours of burning. They had an old Blue Front Amazon Parrot that had died, and the ground was too hard to dig a hole, so he incinerated it. When he went out to add wood in the evening, he noticed the inside walls were almost spotless! :D
Maybe that's whats in Ashtrol? :P
I burned a few chickens in mine,raccoons,woodchucks,porcupines,squirrels. Never noticed any difference. ;D Seem like all of my relatives live in the city or in town or a 250 foot square lot. They don't even own a chainsaw.
burnt a dead chicken once in an outdoor pit. IT shure put of some btu's, and then some smell. No one could stand down wind of it! :-X
It was like burning a pillow!
I know a guy that puts all of his deer carcasses in the OWB. Says he doesn't have to worry about the neighborhood dogs that way. He does not have any close neighbors.
I cremated a Vietnamese pot bellied pig that weighed over 100 lbs but it was in a decommissioned owb that was waiting to go to scrap. No water in it and probably not much creosote in it at the time. Couple of cut up cedar fence rails that had bowed so much they weren't worth keeping got everything going and then after a few hours it was done. Nothing but a few pieces of bone or tooth left and very few ashes. The ugliest most unfriendly pig I have ever been near but my younger daughter thought the world of him. Don't get me wrong he wasn't dangerous he just didn't like people. Ungrateful wretch had the life of Riley but was offended by even an accidental touch. That might be a bit of overkill to de-creosote a stove but it solved the problem of getting rid of such a large carcass and being sure it wouldn't turn up again in sight of my daughters.
Does anyone know where I can get an old Blue Front Amazon Parrot? It can be dead or alive. ;)
we had an outdoor cat die in very cold weather
called the towns animal control
she says just cremate in you furnace
never again hadda weld back together the burn out from out gas
?? ?? ?? ::) Missed the point.
Trouble with his Cat-O-liddick converter,blew that poor feline all over cremation.
Here's the link pigman.
http://www.parrotpad.com/
Guess it need to be a parrot, cause duck carcasses do not seem to affect the creosote. To bad there are not parrots up here, if there were and they had an open season on them then I would try it.