I bought wood twice, once right when we moved in and once when I got a real good deal on green wood mid-winter. Mostly I get stuff for free here and there. Got a pickup load 2 weeks ago of good dry maple. Needs splitting but that relaxes my shoulders. The neighbor has a couple spruces I should get out and cut. Mix it in with the maple and it'll be fine, especially if its good and dry.
I have a Jotul 118 which is a good heavy cast iron stove with secondary combustion air, very little smoke out of the stack if the wood is dry. Our house is only 1000sq/ft, the stove sits in the basement and heats most of the house pretty well. The bedroom is farthest away from the stove so stays pretty cool which is mostly what you'd want anyway. Yeah its a lot of work but I think much of the loss of our society is due to things being too easy and people not building enough character through hard work. I play with white gas stoves and lanterns too remember, propane is certainly easier but it has no soul. As I think of it turning on the radio is also easy but playing an instrument is way more fulfilling. -Curt ________________________________ From: Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca> To: "curtlud...@yahoo.com" <curtlud...@yahoo.com>; Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 6:41 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Sacrilege It can be done but it is a whole lot easier and cleaner to use a natural gas furnace if you live where the gas is available. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
