RE: Hog Fuel Warning
This message is from: Frederick J. Pack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forgot to mention that the burning area (where the stuff was shoveled...or fed tosometimes by a belt) was also called the HOG. Is was called the HOG by the voracity at which it ate fuel. Best wishes to all, Fred Pack's Peak Stables Answer: Wood not suitable for lumber was chipped, or ground, into chunks. These chunks were fed into boilers to create steam. The boiler ate these chips like a hog. Voila: Hog Fuel. This message is from: Lori Albrough [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why is it called hog fuel?l
RE: Hog Fuel Warning
This message is from: Frederick J. Pack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Answer: Wood not suitable for lumber was chipped, or ground, into chunks. These chunks were fed into boilers to create steam. The boiler ate these chips like a hog. Voila: Hog Fuel. This message is from: Lori Albrough [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why is it called hog fuel?l
Re: Hog Fuel Warning
This message is from: Teressa Kandianis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, actually, in my area (which isn't so far from Gary's), hog fuel comes from two different furniture factories - from one we get hardwood and the other one is cedar. The stuff isn't bark, its very coarse wood chips. Our local supplier gets it from the furniture factories and delivers it in 80 or 90 cubic yard batches for about $225. Lots of horse places use it around here because it doesn't break down as quick as bark or sawdust and for footing around the barn in the wintertime, it doesn't compact and get buried in the mud so it keeps feet dry - and water drains right through it. I haven't seen either of my fjords even attempt to eat it - they will try to paw down through it to get to a sprig of grass underneath. I don't have time right now but plan to check out that Canadian website that lists plants toxic to animals. And I have no clue why its called hog fuel. I tried to get some from the local rock yard where I get my bark for landscaping but they said they haven't been able to get it - which tells me its something different than bark because they have all grades of all kinds of bark there all the time. Teressa the novice from cloudy but still warm Ferndale. My older guy is away at school and you just can't believe how much more cooperative my yearling filly is being now that she's lost her cohort. Want a foot? No problemo - which one and how long? Don't need either a halter or a line to get her to stand still for mane trims and feet cleaning.I guess she's just showing off when her big bro is around.
Re: Hog Fuel Warning
This message is from: Lori Albrough [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thorson, Gary wrote: Hog fuel is ground up tree bark. Why is it called hog fuel?l
Re: Hog Fuel Warning
This message is from: Thorson, Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hog fuel is ground up tree bark. In lumber mills in the Pacific Northwest, they strip the bark off of the trees before they saw the trees up into lumber. The bark is then ground up. Some people use hog fuel as bedding for horses. The problem with hog fuel is that you never know what kind of trees the bark came from. So if your horses are allergic to some kinds of bark, or if they were milling poisonous trees, hog fuel can be dangerous unless you know exactly what kind of trees they were milling. Gary Thorson Tumwater, WA
Re: Hog fuel warning
This message is from: Denise Delgado [EMAIL PROTECTED] dear casey, i thought it was yew, aka hemlock, which is deadly. socrates used it to do the deed. denise in no. calif. cloudy and cool. LOOKS LIKE RAIN! YEH!!!
Re: Hog fuel warning
This message is from: Bushnell's [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't know what hog fuel is! My imagination hasn't helped either.. must be dust abatement I guess, made from hogs??? made for hogs??? But I thought as sure as anything if I ask I'll be the only one who doesn't know ..=) Thanks Bill! P.S. I knew you didn't really vacuum because Bill is a masculine name =) Ruthie, NW MT At 10:23 AM 10/5/99 +, you wrote: This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Will someone please tell me what hog fuel is?
Re: Hog fuel warning
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Will someone please tell me what hog fuel is?
