Agree...mostly. Not a smoke expert but I have noticed that the smoke produced by green/wet wood is different. The "wet" smoke is more like steam to me. It tends to float closer to the ground and seems to linger....like in the pics the OP posted. Smoke from dry hardwoods seems to dissipate faster. Again...not an expert but this is what I have observed using a firepit and from neighbors that I know are burning wet/green wood.
I agree that something is not right at all with what he's burning. I have never before smelled such an disagreeable, acrid, pungent, burning, offensive smoke like this. Over the summer I was cleaning our screened in porch and I noticed everything smelled slightly offensive, and as I wiped the nylon screen with a damp cloth, black-green resiny soot abundantly coated the cloth. The stench was unique. I noticed this was the same acrid low-level smell through out our house I was never able to identify or eliminate. I thought the smell was from old fish pate cat food (we have 2 cats). I never gave it much more thought until 2 weeks ago when the wood smoke became so bad I was able to identify the source. I now realize that this smoke has impregnated everything in the house and is the cause of these smells. Our garage stinks. I thought it was rotting cat food in the garbage. Nope, it's acrid wood smoke residue that has coated everything.
We went out for a while this morning and the same stench was overpowering all around our house and probably the neighbors on each side of us. It burned my throat and made my eyes sting. After we exit our neighborhood, the short road we take to the main road goes right past the woodburner's house. Copious smoke from the chimney was blowing directly at our house dead center on its long side.
While we were out I noticed I was begining to clear out of my throat and lungs some the smoke I breathed over the past several days. Upon returning home, the very noticable ever present sour smell that now envelopes our house was present outside and in. After being inside a few minutes, I now taste it, like I have several times before. We can't even air out the house. We've been barraged by the smoke non-stop about 80% of the time beginning sometime in October. This is going to be a very long winter.
When the heating season began this fall, DW began having severe daily chronic headaches. She saw a couple doctors about it and had a sleep apnea test that was inconclusive. Doctors could not determine the cause. She noticed headaches were much better and sometimes gone while away from home.
I also began smelling a dusty acrid smell from our heat vents when the furnace was on (I run the blower continuously to help control the excessive dust we have). I began thinking the heat exchanger may be cracked and that possibly DW's headaches were from low levels of carbon monoxide.
I bought a professional grade (Fieldpiece SCM4) trace carbon monoxide detector, detects down to 1 ppm. There is zero CO in our house. I also checked the furnace burner flames as the blower motor comes on and there is no change in flame pattern, so it appears the heat exchanger is not cracked. I pulled the furnace blower which gave me visual access to the secondary heat exchanger. The blower, it's housing, supply ducts, and heat exchanger alll have this super fine light brown dust coating. The dust particles are small enough to pass through the MERV 11 filter I installed. No air bypasses the filter; it fits tight in it's frame. The dust buildup has to be from continuous fan operation and the acrid dusty smell I still notice when the furnace is burning gas is the dust that keeps being deposited on the heat exchanger when the burners are not firing. This dust must contain some of the smoke particles because it's the same acrid smell as it burns off each time the burners light.
The smoke that gets in the house has to be the source of DW's headaches. I now am beginning to feel a little ill sometimes and I think it may be because of breathing low levels of smoke. It's inside because it envelops our house most of the time. No matter how well the house is sealed, you must have some air exchange in order to breath, cook (gas stove) and eliminate indoor pollutants.
Before I realized all of this, I thought the smells were internally generated, so what did I do? I cracked open a few windows to get more air, but in reality, I made the problem worse. Because the odor does not subside after cracking the windows, I opened them a little more and left them open longer.
Yes, this is very serious problem, and one that can only be solved by moving. I'm beginning to fear for our health. As I type this, I can taste the smoke in my mouth.
I just hope the Honeywell electronic air cleaner aleviates some of our symptoms and smells.