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Central Scrutinizer

Sing it with me!!!! Laughing

I love these early fall surprise tides, that run to the dunes, and extinguish all fires. FREE FIREWOOD for the taking!!! I made a trip between Zahn Rd. and Newport Pass Rd. at lunch today, and the 'booty' ought to last us, between the backyard chiminea and the inside fireplace, until Christmas or so! Cool

bulldog1935 · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 4:21 pm Post subject:

Comal County has outlawed use of all fireplaces if there is an alternate home heat source.
While preventing hostile fire in homes is a factor, the real reason is preventing firewood vendors from spreading live oak decline fungus.
Cheap firewood that you wouldn't want stacked in your yard.
I hope none of your firewood is from these counties.

ok, finally got that link straight

Rxfire · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 4:35 pm Post subject:

I see a lot of "what ifs" in that law.

So Comal County is going to pay your electric or gas bill? Reimburse homeowners for their $500 wood stove? What if you use wood FROM YOUR OWN LAND? I smell a lawsuit coming on that move. And during power outages, is it allowed then? What if you only burn juniper (cedar) or pecan or hackberry or ash?

Might as well prevent boats from using Canyon Lake, as they might be bringing invasive species into the county. And, no deer breeding, as Chronic Wasting Disease might be brought into the county with those breeder deer.

Thanks for posting that, as I have a wood stove, harvest wood from our land, and depend on that for heat in the winter (next door in Hays County).

bulldog1935 · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 4:43 pm Post subject:

what you need to prevent is boats from Canyon Lake going elsewhere, because there are zebra mussels in Canyon Lake.
CLWSC water supply was down 5 or 6 days this year because of them.
Comal Co. has a better argument on the firewood, though - it's not really extrapolation if you drive through the hill country.

since you depend on wood heat, you're allowed, even without all the extrapolation

Rxfire · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 4:58 pm Post subject:

Is Comal County going to regulate the tree trimming industry, also? Mulch sales coming from outside the County? There are a lot of rural folks in Comal County that are not going to comply. Just lucky that the Kinder Morgan pipeline is not going thru Comal County, as that land clearing activity could spread oak wilt/oak decline. Oh, hell, that is less than 2 miles away!

I remember those powerline trimmers out toward Kerrville that spread oak wilt everywhere there was a powerline maintained by infected saws (and it spread outward from those powerlines).

bulldog1935 · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:13 pm Post subject:

so since everybody's spreading live oak decline, everyone else should be spreading even more - seems less than airtight to me

Rxfire · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:19 pm Post subject:

Public education is the best solution. Laws like this have little effect, as rural residents wil continue to heat with wood. What wood? That is where education comes in.

bulldog1935 · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:23 pm Post subject:

like don't transport unknown firewood

for the third time, if wood fire is your source of home heat, you're allowed to burn it in Comal County and if you burned dead oaks from your property it would not be adverse to the environmental concern - I didn't write the law, just live here and understand its purpose.
Eliminating firewood commerce is a certain means to slow the spread of live oak decline.
People hauling firewood from dead trees in Gillespie Co to sell on the side of US-183 in Austin for use in decorative fireplaces is what spread it 30 years ago.

Rxfire · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:39 pm Post subject:

burn cedar

bulldog1935 · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:43 pm Post subject:

hackberry and bring a squirt gun to save the rug

Rxfire · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:47 pm Post subject:

for throwing sparks and ember, bois d'arc is the best. For stink? Soapberry. You'll know it by the yellow wood...

bulldog1935 · Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2019 6:08 am Post subject:

pronounced beau darse, has always sounded a little light in the loafers to me, but the squirt gun may not be enough, bring in the hose nozzle.

The problem with cedar is it tars up your chimney and, one unexpected cold night, all the tar residue will ignite.

I haven't burned firewood since I lived in Austin and realized the source of roadside firewood was live oak decline, and that commerce in diseased firewood was spreading the disease - mid 80s. When my girls were growing up, we burned some of the store-bought paper logs (made from lumber-mill and refinery bottoms waste), though they give modest radiant heat, great entertainment.

Central Scrutinizer · Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2019 8:25 am Post subject:

Well, that escalated quickly! Shocked

Your Honor, I'm going with the following defense:

1-I didn't buy any of the wood, so I'm not promoting vendors who spread oak decline fungus infected wood
2-I don't live in Comal County, so their ban doesn't apply to me
3-If the fungus can survive being inundated with salt water, then dried for months and still be viable, God Bless You Fungus
4-It saved me $$'s from having to buy a 1/2 chord of wood, so I got that going for me.

I throw myself on the mercy of the Court.

BayFly · Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2019 8:32 am Post subject:

I'm surprised the live oak decline fungus can survive being burnt in a fireplace or otherwise. Is this one of those theories no one has been able to prove, but is trying to control everyone with? In Lakeway (Austin) they regulate the time of year one can trim oak trees, but I've not heard anything about fireplace contents being regulated.

Salt On the Brain · Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2019 8:41 am Post subject:

Half chord?
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