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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] wood stoves
  • Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:23:46 EST


> 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>




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