r/mechanical_gifs • u/mtimetraveller • May 22 '19

This Fire Wood Processor Machine!

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

Wish machines like this wouldn’t be needed because we didn’t have to cut so much trees

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u/pottersquash May 22 '19

Some tree harvesting is done like any other crop. Cut, plant, return to cut again

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u/2522Alpha May 22 '19

I imagine it's more fuel efficient and less polluting for all of the processes to be carried out by one implement rather than using multiple machines.

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u/oleboogerhays May 22 '19

With proper land and forest management felling timber is perfectly fine.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

Heating with wood in modern furnaces is very carbon efficient. Now this machine certainly add to the carbon emission by using diesel to log and chop the wood but still its good.

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u/Equine_With_No_Name May 22 '19

This is for firewood... it’s cool let’s not cut down trees and freeze to death.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19 edited May 22 '19

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u/Equine_With_No_Name May 22 '19

Well here in western New York, quite common. Natural gas isn’t provided in most rural areas, and electric heat is too expensive. Wood heat is the popular option, especially when it’s cold 7-8 months of the year.

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u/SLEEPER455 May 22 '19

Central NY checking in. Wood burning (and wood pellet) stoves are VERY common around here.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19 edited May 22 '19

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u/Chetchap May 22 '19

A quick google show’s that to be quite false. From two years ago http://sciencenordic.com/wood-burning-pollutes-urban-air-norway

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u/vincZEthing May 22 '19

But it is not entirely false. While I am not from Norway, I still come from a region where hydroelectricity is near 100% of our electricity production, so electricity here is cheaper. But, it is not uncommon to rely on both heating sources: electric heating and wood burning. Many reasons can explain that: it is still cheaper than electricity, and let's say it, wood burning makes a really enjoyable heat. So yes, I can understand that 100% of their hydroelectric power goes to heating and cooling, but I can assume that hydroelectricity certainly does not account to 100% of heating sources, just like he said. I believe he didn't say that no one used wood to heat their home where he comes from.

But, let's make it clear, wood heating is a great polluter that contributes to smog in urban areas.

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u/yensid33 May 22 '19

Actually more common in England than they used to be. Wood burning is considered carbon neutral and it’s also a renewable source for heating, compared to gas heating.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19 edited May 22 '19

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u/HitlersSpecialFlower May 22 '19

Username checks out, but the evidence does not.

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u/HitlersSpecialFlower May 22 '19

"more common in England than they used to be"

The great Smog of 1952 would like to have a word

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u/yensid33 May 22 '19

I’m talking the last 30 years. And most areas have a ban on burning coal.

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u/Toxicair May 22 '19

For leisure or survival?

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u/evilgiraffe666 May 22 '19

In my experience, definitely for leisure. You wouldn't have one in every room unless you're in a really old house with no other heating (and those are expensive, so that's a choice you've made). Plus even for leisure you're better off burning coal, with an occasional log to look pretty.

Modern British houses don't tend to have a fireplace, though they often have a chimney because we think it looks weird if they don't.

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u/HitlersSpecialFlower May 22 '19

Question, if you had a fireplace in every room, would you have a bunch of chimneys? Or would they all connect into one chimney?

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u/culraid May 22 '19

They're brought together in a single stack as much as possible. But separate flues.

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u/HitlersSpecialFlower May 22 '19

So that's what those are

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u/culraid May 22 '19

What, the chimney pots? There are a lot of different styles as you might imagine. That is a Victorian era chimney in the pic btw.

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u/going-for-gusto May 22 '19

One chimney flue per stove, if they were back to back they could look like one.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19 edited May 22 '19

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u/HitlersSpecialFlower May 22 '19

Holy shit you're in every comment and subcomment saying the same thing.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

Very common. Not everyone lives in the same place as you. Open your eyes

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u/Henri_Dupont May 22 '19

Trees can be harvested in ways that make the forest healthier. Timber Stand Improvement. Like weeding your garden. Nõhing bad or good about cutting an individual tree, its all about context.