Yup…burning anything in a garage is a big no no. You should share your wood pile with him Heck…haul a few cords over this way!
My stove is a smaller one, but its rated 85% efficient–it also has a fan on the back–its brand new… I just want it for cold weather. We have natural gas here and its cheaper now then its ever been so i’m in no hurry.
Last winter or the one before, i forget, a guy that has some acreage out in the country, who cuts/splits firewood (retired) and sells it ran out of his dried stuff…people then wanted the green stuff …he made a nice chunk of change.
Yeah…i think you need an actual coal stove. I’m not sure if an avg wood stove could handle coal or is even set up to burn coal. I’d imagine coal also burns hotter.
If you haven’t read Norwegian Wood, find it at your local library…awesome little book on how the pros do it in Scandinavia.
There was a castle that used 34,000 loads (not sure what a load would equal) of wood in 1 winter. Think of how hard it would have been to keep a castle even remotely warm!
didn’t know there was a non fiction book of the same title.
john lennon, sergio mendes, and that japanese novel first came to mind of the oldie typing this, lol!
I’m fascinated as we had a wood burning stove in our house in Maine that kept all three floors warm; we then converted to a coal stove which I hated, because coal is dirty. The coal stove was much hotter. But the stoves were indoors. How do you get the heat from outdoors to the inside of your house?
They circulate hot water under ground in a foam pipe. When it gets into the house it hooks to any existing furnace. If you have forced air it hooks to a big heat exchanger that the forced air blows through. Mine goes to my electric hot water tank first. It runs through a heat exchanger there than goes to a heat exchanger for my hot tub, (But only if the tub calls for heat) than to a big heat exchanger on my existing boiler in the basement. These exchangers keep the water in the outdoor stove separate from the other systems. I love my heat! We have a nice warm house. I get all my wood for free. Half the time I cut it, and other times I just pick it up all ready cut. I like it best when they just dump it here! I just turn the breaker off on the hot water tank so no electricity is being used. when I am done burning outside I just flip the breaker back on and it electric again. I actually had to install a mixer valve so the hot water pipe gets some cold mixed in with it so it doesn’t scould anyone. It makes the hot water tank just a hot water storage tank. You can do straight hot water on demand with it too.
Yes, The epa outlawed all the old style burning stoves to be sold anymore. This includes the burners you put in the houses too. It’s not against the law for people who have them already hooked up to keep on using them. The new ones have to burn more efficiently so there is no more smoke. They do this by adding fans, extra combustion chambers, and make you split your wood to small pieces.
I don’t have a wood boiler…i believe most use water pipes. A buddy in high school had a wood boiler system in his garage with all these valves and gauges (this was early 90s)… They (his dad was nuts) would burn railroad ties in there along with about anything else flammable they could find. I remember even in winter the house was 80F. It was set up with in floor heating so even the floors were warm.
I don’t burn anything other than natural wood. When you throw anything with chemicals in a stove you are creating acids in your creosote that are very corrosive. Things like plywood, cardboard, and garbage are a no, no. That’s why burn barrels rust out so fast.
They’re predicting 80+F here all this week. I’m thinking about planting sweet corn. But given we are two months from ave last frost that’s probably a waste of seed.
Yeah Fruit…the models have been showing that heat for days now pooling into New Mexico north and west Texas… I know you are up there in elevation, so it might not be as hot as the lower deserts…wonder if we don’t see 100F south of the border in this little stretch.
Well I couldn’t help myself. Planted sweetcorn today. But at least I planted the variety that probably isn’t best tasting. It’s supposed to come up in cool soils, which isn’t our problem. But at least I put a cool towel on my spring fever. Now I can do something else.
Plan is to plant every two weeks until something survives. Nobodies beating me to the punch!!
No work today, Presidents’ Day, I have my eye on a patch of brush and briars south west of the house. I think it will be a perfect spot to clean up and put more trees. About 9 am I was cleaning up from breakfast and the water quit. That will put a crimp in your day off. after a couple of hours of tinkering I determine it has to be the pump. Pulled the well pump and found one of the hot wires clear at the bottom worn into. Got it all back in the ground and on just before dark. Nothing like turning the water back on to make your wife happy.
I’m eating my LAST Goldrush apple for breakfast this morning. sigh
I won’t have access to any more of these until May when my favorite local orchard re-opens for the season (they keep them in gas-controlled storage until May).
I feel your pain Matt. Actually, I felt your pain and then made a wonderful discovery. I thought I was out of Gold Rush a long time ago, but then found a bag in the 'fridge buried under other apples. Score!
Not sure where you are in MD or if you want to take road trip, but Kuhn Orchards goes to the Palisades Farmers Market in DC, year round. They’re there on Sundays from 9-1. They have Gold Rush by the pound or by the case, in fact, they’re the orchard where I first discovered Gold Rush.
They also have CSA and ala carte pick up options listed on their site.
Heck…haul a few cords over this way!
