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Old 04-21-2006, 08:14 AM   #11
Cyclefrance
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Deep countryside of Surrey , England
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Originally Posted by Griff
They dye it. Don't ask me why.
Think thats' to stop the creepy-crawlies eating their way through it and rendering it ineffective - only guessing, though.

We burn pine in our wood-burning stove - as long as it's reasonably seasioned it doesn't give that much trouble in samll quantities - not enough anyway to worry about clogging the stack. Otehrwise the chimenea route suggested by Elspode sounds a good alternative.
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