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["Franklin W. Davis" <knarfme AT comcast.net>]

  Hi Jerry...interesting post...:-)  Don't sweat the wood stove thing...you 
get what you pay for...so do some research on wood stoves. It seems you live 
on the left coast where you won't need eight cords to keep yourself warm for 
the winter so a small stove should fit the bill just fine. Buy quality and it 
will last many years. 
  If you live in one of the sink holes out there in the west...where smog 
gathers...MOVE...:-) There are lots of good places out there where you can 
enjoy a wood stove without a problem.
  Living underground like a worm would save on heating and cooling...If you 
can do all the work yourself it would be a good way to go from what I have 
read over the years.
  Some pellet stoves have battery back up now from what I have heard...but 
have never looked into that type of stove. I recently read in the paper that 
the biggest pellet manufacturer is here in Maine.
  I have an old All-Nighter wood stove...which is located in my basement. I 
bought it used ten years ago so I don't know how old it is. It has a pipe 
inside that a blower can be hooked up to...which I've done. I also have 
installed a MagicHeat extractor that removes some of the heat from the stove 
pipe before it goes up the stack. The stove is also firebrick lined. I burn 
between five and eight cords a year...depending on how cold our Maine winter 
is...:-) Franklin
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Subject: Re: [Homestead] Cutting dry wood
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> Red oak is pretty wood. Have you considered it for your plank
> flooring? Åsk local mills about charges. If feasible, cut it into the
> lengths you want the planks, haul it to the mill and let them cut it,
> bring it home and sticker and cover it. More rural mills today also
> have planers and can make T&G.

Right about the red oak being nice wood. This tree is not that quality
though. Standing there for a year or more dead has worked on it.

I did however have better success this afternoon working on it with
the chain saw. I got about half of it cut up and will work on the
bigger half next time. Lots of stopping to sharpen the chain. This
tree had 3 trunks and they all died so there is more to go. There is a
nice 20 foot hickory near the oak I'm cutting out so another young
tree to take it's place.

It looks like worms got it lots of worm holes in the wood. Anyway it
should make good firewood and lots of it. It still needs to dry, but
not as much as a live tree, so might be decent in a couple of months.
This is going to take some work to split :>)

I am going to talk to a couple of local sawmills. I could easily cut
my own wood to be sawed as you described for the other project.

Rob - Va