Best Straw Fire Logs

There is an amazing and astoundingly environmentally-friendly option available now for fireplaces and “wood-burning” fireplaces and stoves. This newly-enhanced Straw Fire Log is composed of the most readily-available crop grown – straw. Compressed into tight bundles, easy to ignite, non-polluting, straw fire logs are quickly becoming a fire product of choice.

Why Straw?

At one time, nearly all fire logs have been wood products. When trees were more plentiful and the labor of chopping them down and rendering them fireplace sized was possible, wood was always the most obvious choice for burning in a home. Needless to say, our previous history did not produce many alternatives to burning wood for a few thousand years because there were, indeed, plenty of trees. Peat and coal were about it – and peat has a limited range of sources, quite finite. Coal, of course, is extremely messy, is also very finite in range and burns as dirty as one can imagine.

Straw, meanwhile, is an entirely renewable, permanent crop, harvested at least once a year regularly as rain – sometimes more – and desires little help outside of rainfall. Straw can be produced in massive quantities in relatively simple, low maintenance agricultural fashion.The straw products have inbuilt advantages which are startling in their benefits and very Earth-friendly. Renewable, of course, straw fire logs burn clean. Their low moisture content maximizes the heat produced. The amount of CO2 produced from burning straw fire logs equals that of straw breaking down in a field in the time frame of one year. Wood products meanwhile, have a “carbon cycle” of from 5 to 150 years. Straw is burnt in an one year carbon cycle. The remnants of straw log fires thus present an ash which is absorbed as fertilizer as soon as it is applied to the soil itself. As a potash source, burnt straw log ash, while not particular plentiful, makes an distinctive soil amendment.

Other Facts

Burning Straw Fire Logs reduces built-up pitch in chimneys. For the reason that there is so little detritus produced from flashing straw owing to it’s exceedingly low moisture content (12%), “smoke” from straw fires moves rapidly up the flue containing very few adhering particles. As a bio mass product, produced in such small moisture-rich sizes, what particles actually traveling up chimneys finds their way into clearly absorbed, organic and non entering spots.

Straw logs are dust and insect-free. Anyone who has dealt with forest products will nod knowingly at this fact, and in some serious relief. The invasions of spiders, termites and hiding bugs of all types are so often a product of stacks of cord wood, hanging around in areas which are perfect hiding spots for insects.

Owing to the seriously lower moisture content, simply stated, additional heat is caused by straw fire logs than by wood. One supposes this should be about foremost when considering its assets. When one adds the fact that it takes a simple match to start these fires, the benefits of straw logs suddenly become totally remarkable.

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