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Vermont must have some strict rules on smoke. I recently bought a hardy and I have seen some smoke but I have been burning dry wood and there is little to no smoke other than when the blower kicks on when in idle you see just a bit but I would ha e to think that burning in a standard indoor woodstove is more harmful because they have smoke rolling out if the chimney 27/7 that'd one if the reasons I bought a owb plus all the dirt and all staying outside I just think that some burn here wood and from what I have seen are giving owb a bad name but then again I haven't been burning wood fro a long time either I don't intend to make people mad but I don't see anything wrong with and owb smoking some compared to people burning trash leaves etc. in there fire pits out back just my opinion
VT has valleys, many of which had a haze over them from ONE OWB.
If people were truly responsible, they would not have as big of a problem, but people are people. For many years, the OWB sellers were telling the buyers to burn stumps (with dirt on them), tires, carpet and all sorts of other junk.
This is not something brought about by Big Government, but rather started with individual citizens petitioning the state government. They couldn't breathe on their own properties!
While it may not be worse than burning leaves or brush piles, around here we can only do that a couple days a year. Some Vermonters were burning year-round.
As I said, if people were truly responsible we wouldn't need many laws or regs. But, sadly, they are not. Protecting the many (the air quality) trumps protecting the right of one dude to burn green wood and smolder it.
i understand the dealer i bought mine off of told me to burn just about anything that will burn but since i have neighbors some what close i choose to burn dry seasoned wood to keep from smoking them out, i have talked to them and they are all curious to how the owb works the one neighbor even is thinking about buying one once he sees how mine operates. i too think that people could be more responsible about there buring practices. we here can burn leaves and trash about all year other than the occasional buring ban from 6 am to 6 pm
Years ago in our town a lady raised a fuss about burning leaves in the fall because her kid had asthma. Fine not a problem,but I stopped by their place one day to drop some paper work off and she comes to the door smoking a cigarette! Go figure!