Thank you all for the helpful information about outdoor furnaces in the previous post.You guys seem objective, as well as helpful, so I hope that you will bear with me for my final, ultimate, outdoor furnace question: How mad would your wife get on a damp, muggy day in winter if I dumped a bag of chicken bones into your furnace? Some explanation might be in order. Last summer I set up a 50 gallon drum for use as a trash burner to get an idea of how noxious the smoke would be around the house. My mother, bless her heart, dumped some chicken bones into the fire and taught me a quick lesson. I had the drum sitting about where I had planned to place the furnace, but a light north-east breeze gassed me all morning while I worked on the stone house. So my question is really about the quantity of smoke the furnace produces, and what happens in the family when a freak wind moves it toward the dwelling. Smoke from dry hardwood can be unhealthy, but it isn't necessarily unpleasant, so I added the chicken bones. So there's the question laid bare. I'd appreciate a few answers to help me get over the bad smell of last summer. Thanks, Rod
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