On 12/26/2020 9:11 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2020-12-26 9:53 p.m., Bob wrote:
>> On 12/26/2020 8:46 PM, Leo wrote:
>>
>>>> Nice. There were days using a maul I wished for something like that.
>>>
>>> I have a sledgehammer, a wedge, an axe and something called a wood
>>> grenade in
>>> the garage. The only one of them that I have used in the last thirty
>>> years is
>>> the axe. I found that paying a power bill is more efficient to me
>>> than what
>>> they do.
>>> I also have a five foot by one inch diameter iron rod with a chisel
>>> tip, a
>>> hand winch and a crowbar. What the hell was I thinking?
>>>
>>>
>> When I was younger heating with wood was good exercise and using the
>> stove to cook at times was fun. Famil room was always nice and warm
>> too. Â*Â*Not sure how much money I actually saved but at some point I
>> found it easier to write checks for oil than split and haul wood.
>
> Not to mention the problem of most fireplaces sucking all that warm air
> out of the rest of the house to feed the fire.Â* The house next door had
> an oil furnace but the former owner heated primarily with wood. He had a
> brother who owned a wood lot a few miles from here. He worked steady
> midnights and spent most of his time cutting, splitting and lugging work.
>
> He worked at a GM plant and his wife was a loans officer at a local
> bank, so they were making pretty good money between them and could
> easily afford to pay for oil.
>
>
> The guy who bought the house from him got rid of the wood stove and
> replaced the oil furnace with natural gas. He later sold the house and
> built a place about 250 miles north of here and heats that place. They
> got one of those hi tech exterior units that uses a coolant to transfer
> the heat from the wood powered heater to the house. His wife usually
> comes back this way to visit every christmas, bit he has to stay there
> to feed the fire. She is not very happy with the arrangement.

We heat with wood ... which I cut split and stack with the help of
modern (sorta) technology . BUT we also have a propane (too far out in
the country for natgas to be profitable) heater for those times when we
want to go out of town in the winter . Like the last 3 days that we
spent in Memphis . I only turn the gas heater to about 50° , it's job is
to keep the pipes from freezing . Took almost an hour to warm the house
up (with the wood stove) after we got home !
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