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> Don't sweat the wood stove thing...you get what you pay for...so do some 
> research on wood stoves.

Hmmm ... have a caution there with the 'get what you pay for'.  In the case 
of so many things, wood stoves being a good example, you can get a lot less 
than you pay for.  Or at best pay amiss.

As someone pointed out, if you lived in a neighborhood with 50' wide lots, 
you don't want ol' Smokey Stover in every house fouling the air.  In that 
case 
there may be a place for those best of the best of the best woods stoves that 
use carefully graded firewood and produce almost no particulates of any 
consequence.  But way out here in the backwater, that's a waste of effort.  
As, I 
think it was Bev, pointed out when they do their annual burning of the 
underbrush 
here in the forest, it puts more particulates in the air than my stoves would 
in 5000 years.

Many in remote locales, like me, have unlimited access to disreputable wood:  
tree trimmings, sawmill slabs, bark, roots, knots, woodshop scrap, coppice 
wood, discarded loading palates, deadfall branches.  You can't burn that 
stuff 
in a greener-than-thou stove.  An expensive stove would not give us what we 
paid for.

James   </HTML>