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The Mrs found a site recommending wet wood

Discussion in 'Everything Else (off topic)' started by Screwloose, Dec 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM.

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  1. WeldrDave

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    I got thinking, I'll BET the "Climate Change" Idiots LOVE seeing that much smoke/steam come out of a Chimney! I'll bet it gives them an aneurysm and veins pop out of their heads! :rofl: :lol::rofl: :lol::rofl: :lol:
     
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    It smokes like no other, smoke fills the valley. the wood is split extra large , thrown on the ground and covered in snow at this time . then loaded into a 1970s stove and set extra low to last all night. and they've been doing it like that forever.
     
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    I'm burning an old 1978 Fisher air tight, (so they say) :rofl: :lol: BUT, I'm currently burning hard woods 5 and 6 years old. As many of us here do, (and have been doing) We're all on the 3+ year plan. You can't even see a puff of smoke when my old girl is burning. I did install a baffle so I get somewhat of a secondary burn. This stove has been in here since about 1981. I have no plan to change it, nor the desire too. It is a Heat Monster! 8 years ago I pulled it out of the house, stripped it down bare, repainted and all new fire brick. :cool: I wouldn't swap this stove for a new stove. The old stoves were fine "IF" you burn't them correctly, many have the mindset that; "They'll burn anything"... And the old Fisher advertisements even said they will burn your trash! :eek:o_O... Yup! That's why some do that and give us wood burners a bad name! :headbang: Here's a thought if you want to, give them our web site, and maybe encourage them to the 3 year plan, give them the education they need. Though, they may couldn't care less either
     
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    I tried talking to talk to them but since I was a transplant here, I couldn't possibly be right, after all that's how their daddy did it back in the day. fresh cut green wood on the dirt and no covering.
    I had an older stove at my old home it was a 1980s Tremont and had secondary burn tubes. I loved that stove and burned it for 30 years . I left it in place when I moved as it was very heavy and moving it seemed overwhelming to be moving by myself.

    I just completed a woodshed addition and will jump from a 3 year to 5 year inventory of mixed hardwoods .
    If any standing members are in central Va and need wood I have all you want for free , you cut you haul.
     
    Va Homesteader, Dec 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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    Nice offer :yes:
     
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