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[tom <tom AT honeychrome.com>]

We put in one of the new, fancy-pants euro wood stoves that meets epa  
standards without a cat.  It was more expensive than I would've liked  
to have spent, but I wanted to keep the significant other happy - it  
has a nice, big window and does a fine job as our sole heat source.   
Our place is small, and the european stoves tend to be smaller than  
the American made models and so it was more size/output appropriate.   
But it has one giant drawback (besides how much it cost)- the box can  
only accomodate 14" lengths, whereas the American standard is 16".   
No problem if you harvest and cut all of your own wood, but an issue  
if you're buying your cords, which are almost always cut to 16".