Looking for advice...

I'd love to go to the factory but it would be quite the trip.... 2400 miles is a little more than a day trip unfortunately.

 

When you're skin and bones it is tough to stay warm. Coupled with Low blood pressure is even tougher.

 

Welcome to FHC. One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet Eckie is we like beer, dogs and pics. Lots of pics. And if the power goes out and its dinner, you can cook on the stove.

 

Yeah, not a day trip for me either, but only 720-ish miles....

 

Not much creo at all, secondary/cat burns the smoke well if, like Chaz said, you have dry wood.
No power needed, not outside air (OAK) needed unless your house is really tight, with no air leaking in anywhere.

So you give it more air for the Oak, I assume?

Yeah, more like 70 for me. 82 and I'm down to my undies, and that's something no one wants to see.

Trust the still, small voice when you hear it.

 

Bahahaha....i think i hear a Ray Stevens song starting to play!

When I used to cut and sell firewood, I'd pretty much only cut oak and hickory (ash and cherry if i came upon it, but was very infrequent). Always skipped over the maple, ash, birch etc, causr if people are paying they want the good stuff. As silly as it sounds I'm actually a bit excited to hear people say cut red maple and some tulip poplar to have around, and even pine. As much oak as is laying around it dont make any sense, but hey...I'm kinda looking forward to it

 

As far south as we are really only need Oak in the worst couple months of the year. The rest of the time we can burn about anything and stay warm.

 

I'm in a similar situation, our elevation and being on the edge of the Sierra Nevada Mountains helps it get colder here, but we still don't see anything close to the higher latitudes. Rarely get down to zero, maybe a handful of times during January and February each year.