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Fri 2 Dec, 2005 03:31 pm
Alright, so....my parents went away for the weekend, and I am staying at their place holding down the fort while they're gone. Now, they live in the boonies, and heat with a wood stove. I am not used to this way of living and have already let the fire pretty much go out a couple times. If any of you are bored and wanna help keep me warm on this winter weekend, please feel free to remind me in any way you can......lol.......
Heat is alot different coming from a wood stove, and it gets really hot in here super fast.....which is good sometimes, but it takes forever to get it back to a comfortable state.
How many of you burn wood as your main source of heat? What kind of wood do you burn? I know some wood burns at a higher heat then others, like tamarack.
Anyways......here goes............
just here to remind you to put wood in the fire...
but I can't answer your question, sorry
And what does the stove use? Or you could get one of those portable electric space heaters....
Umm, i'm not sure what kind of wood the stove is usuing right now....lol....if thats what you mean...a mixture of tamarak and mill ends. A portable electric heater wouldn't be enough to heat this place......They have propane back up, but its only to be used in emergency sort of situations....lol
Don't burn the house down. You'll be super warm for a little while but then you'll be super cold.......and an orphan
Haha, yeah and i'd better be on the run from my folks, cause if they caught me.....well, let's just hope that doesn't happen....lol
I heard on NPR that more people are using wood pellets.
Apparantly it's much cheaper to heat your home than with gas.
I wouldn't like that house heating up too much business.
We heat our house with a wood stove. (We also have central heat, but are too cheap to use it.)
Basically, hardwoods (Oak,Hickory,Maple,etc.) make better fuelwoods than softwoods (Cedar,Pine, etc.)
The softwoods are easier to light and will give you a quick hot fire, but the hardwoods will burn longer and produce more heat for your effort.
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You be the visiting dignitary, and I'll be the high priced call girl.
You could put an eye out with one of those things, Chai...
Speaking of putting wood on the fire. :wink:
Awww.....I love Dolly, but Raquel was one of my favorites, Chai. I'm gonna miss her. <sniff>
uh, maybe this is an emergency and I'd turn on the heat - the propane, that is. Sleep tight now, without worrying about the house catching fire. The parents won't kill you, will they?
The best wood to use is Ash (no pun intended).
Burns nice and slow. It's surprising how long a medium sized log will last.
Funny....that's what the wife is always saying.......
The key is to stick in and leave it alone. If you're always looking at it and fiddling with it, it doesn't last as long.
Lord Ellpus wrote:The best wood to use is Ash (no pun intended).
Burns nice and slow. It's surprising how long a medium sized log will last.
Funny....that's what the wife is always saying.......
M'Lord,
I beg to differ with you. Shagbark Hickory is the best wood.
...........But one can only obtain this in the colonies.
Ash is available all over the world.
Where the Ash tree grows, of course.
Quote:The best wood to use is Ash (no pun intended).
Burns nice and slow. It's surprising how long a medium sized log will last.
Ash can be burned--without smoke--when green. It belongs to the Olive family.
I usually burn balsa wood. I buy those old airplane kits they sell them in lots at the Liquidation Barn, and usually I'll make it through the winter with about 30 tons of the stuff.
You throw in a chunk and it goes ffffft, there's a brief flame, and a small blast of heat will momentarily caress your skin, then....nothing.
The exertion from trying to keep the fire going keeps me plenty warm and pretty much fills up my day. At night I obviously can't tend to the fire, so I sleep with the animals and am comforted by their heat even though they stare at me with disapproval.
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A little known good start for kindling is old books...great fun watching as the heat builds and the pages turn, first slowly then more rapidly until
pfft! the book is done.
To Kill A Mockingbird is especially good.
Although I'd just toss on anything written by Ayn Rand.
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