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Carcass disposal - Wood stove? #289803
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I now have neighbors. Someone bought a chunk of land next to me and is building a house there now. Last year, I had been piling the carcasses in a ditch on that property line, and burying them at the end of season, but now with a house going up close to that, I don't think he'd appreciate that. I think I remember from the old forum someone saying they burned them in their woodburning furnace. Can you really do that?

Re: Carcass disposal - Wood stove? [Re: ] #289810
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I burn what I can't sell in my Central Boiler unit. As long as you do not overdo it they flat out disappear in there. I sell all my coon meat but still have the guts to deal with. Also the coyote carcasses etc. When you scoop out the ashes you will see an occasional tooth or piece of bone, that's it. Might as well heat my house with the stuff.


Re: Carcass disposal - Wood stove? [Re: k9.] #289813
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Oh I put the guts in paper feed sacks, and throw the whole thing in like a log. If too many at one time, I put them in five gallon buckets and let them freeze. When I am ready to burn them I bring them into my heated shop for just a bit, to let the edges soften between the bucket and frozen meat. Then I take it out to the burner and dump the frozen bucketfull into the fire. It thaws and burns away.


Re: Carcass disposal - Wood stove? [Re: TrapperMatt] #289833
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Hm. So you can throw in the entire carcass? (mainly coon and possum)

Re: Carcass disposal - Wood stove? [Re: TrapperJake] #289868
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Don't you have trouble with greese buildup in chimmneys. Also if you have neighbors, it looks like the darn smell of burning carcasses would get them riled a bit. Also don't the carcasses smoke a lot when burning. Not condeming, just curious. I have a big rendering company pick me up each yr. These people are starting to get plumb squirrley about carcass pickup to. Every yr. it is a well maybe we can do it this yr. typ of thing. Without these people ,I am out of bussiness. As a furbuyer, I get way to much stuff to burn or cart off.
It is also illegall in Ind. to dump carcasses, even though, you see deer remains in every creek and along country roads.

Re: Carcass disposal - Wood stove? [Re: don Wolf] #289943
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I burn mine but not in my stove. As hot as the coons burn I dont think you would have a grease\soot buildup with them as long as you dont overlaod your stove. Mine go on a brush pile that I start every spring so I have a good wood\brush base buy fall to pile carcuses on. It gets burned in the spring before it warms up. It burns HOT and very clean (no smoke) after the first half hour.

Re: Carcass disposal - Wood stove? [Re: RR 3] #289947
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I've stayed warm from coal and wood all my life. I am NOT putting those in my stove, they'd melt the stove pipe right off of it. A few pounds of coon fat turned the stove pipe red.

Outdoor stoves are another thing. I know farmers that encourage me to stoke those with carcases on my way through. You could probably burn tires in them if you could fit them through the door. These burners burn straight up, and the drippings fall straight down.





Re: Carcass disposal - Wood stove? [Re: RR 3] #289948
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Jake. Why not dig a pit on your property before season and cover it at the end of season? I have a farmer by me has no problem with me placing carcases on the fields he is going to put into corn the following year. What is left after winter is tilled in in the spring. Maybe you can find a farmer by you willing to do the same. PETA would just love to find your skinned animals on the side of the road. They would call them dogs and cats and get on the front page.


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Re: Carcass disposal - Wood stove? [Re: Animals Only] #289966
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Jake. Why not dig a pit on your property before season and cover it at the end of season?


Don't have a method to dig a big/deep enough hole. The ground is too solid around here to try and tackle it with a shovel. I suppose if I get any backhoe work done, I'll plan on doing that.

As for burning them, I have heard the coon fat COULD actually burn through the inside of my woodstove (Taylor brand). That was my main concern with doing that.

Thanks for all your ideas/info guys.

Re: Carcass disposal - Wood stove? [Re: TrapperJake] #289988
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last year i either threew them in my dumpster (we had it because we moved) or i know a guy who works in a gravel pit and he buryed them for me in the gravel pit (in Spring)



Re: Carcass disposal - Wood stove? [Re: Gotcha!] #290053
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I burn coon,yotes,fox,and beaver if I can get them in the door,smells like a BBQ going on.

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I forgot I put those in a wood furnace I wouldn't put them in a stove.

Re: Carcass disposal - Wood stove? [Re: ] #290688
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My outdoor wood burner stands alone, and chimney fires are not a concern. my nieghbors are far enough away that it is not a concern. Coon fat burns very hot. Whole carcasses will disappear.


Re: Carcass disposal - Wood stove? [Re: k9.] #290725
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I've only had my Central Boiler up and running since the middle of last winter. The only thing I disposed of was about a half dozen deer skeletons. Burned almost completely, and did smell great, just like BarBQue


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Re: Carcass disposal - Wood stove? [Re: T-Rex] #290733
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check and see if your local landfill will accept them. Our county landfill will take them but they bill us on weight.

Re: Carcass disposal - Wood stove? [Re: k9.] #290737
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Last year we had a canine trapper dispose of his carcasses on a back road. They made it to the 6 o'clock news, as skinned dog's being used by devil worshippers, in some pagan ritual. Sounds funny, if it wasn't a true story. The police were involved and finally after much publicity the guy that dumped them came forward, and admitted that they were legally caught coyotes, and he used poor judgement in disposing of them. I don't recall if he got fined or not.

Re: Carcass disposal - Wood stove? [Re: Albert Burns] #290750
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Yep animal carcasses can get more attention than assaults on humans do.


Re: Carcass disposal - Wood stove? [Re: k9.] #290791
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Carcasses on the side of the road have ruin my whole day more than once. The horses really, really dislike it.

I have an outdoor boiler also. Mine is the Hardy. I burn whatever I don't save for future bait. The hair is really the only objectionable thing to burn off an animal and since these are skinned, no big deal. I was on the land of the fellow nearest me cutting some windfall trees for him this winter and he actually asked what I was cooking over there everyday that smelled so good. I put a coyote, 2 fox and a coon in there at once one time and it didn't over do it. I've also put in 2 deer skeletons at once with no trouble. I think it is a great solution. I even cremated two of my dogs that a neighbor shot (long story but I'd have shot them to if I were him--completely my negligence that cost them their lives) because the ground was frozen to hard to bury them. Now they stunk but it was hide and all. Overall, I think it is great plan of disposal.


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Re: Carcass disposal - Wood stove? [Re: horsepower] #290806
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I feed beavers and rats to our hounds(remove heads and guts first)they love em' and cuts down on feed costs.


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Re: Carcass disposal - Wood stove? [Re: Mob Tracker] #290820
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I do that too. However if too much beaver at a time they get the black squirts.


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