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"We have to wait until we can wrap a chain around the driftwood and then bring it out of the water using one of our trucks or tractors so we can load it onto a trailer and haul it away," Stanley said.

My son-in-law and I were discussing wood burned in traditional cordwood stoves and he said that the instructions with his stove said most emphatically NOT to use driftwood. Any reason why?