Hello everyone, I signed up recently after reading all the info on the site. Thought I would say hello after Yooperdave welcomed me into the fold. A little about me, I am active duty Navy here stationed in Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan. I have been in Japan for 17 years of the last 26 of my career and my wife (Japanese gal I am an East Texan) and I decided we would retire in Japan once that day comes and bought a house 1.5 years ago with a wood stove. The builder is located 15 minutes away and gave us access to unlimited wood, the leftover timbers from the houses they build. Not my favorite wood source but managed with it through last winter. Wood stove that was installed by the previous owner is a Japanese stove made in China, Honma brand. Its a small cast iron stove single wall pipe all the way up and out, I have a thimble through the wall. No secondary burn feature . I am out in the country, but only 20 minutes to the city and don't have a lot of access to woods that surround me. I don't discriminate against what I burn, but won't burn pine or sugi which i a type of cedar here that is abundant. I have a neighbors that are great and offer up free wood if they have any on their little garden plots or land. they are all much older than me and appreciate me coming to clean up their property and it helps me out as well. My primary wood source is the base. I picked up two pallets worth of cherry last year and some Ginko which I split and stacked and have used this year. The public works manager has my card and give me a holler when they plan to do some trimming and typhoon season can be a windfall for me. I am a scrounger as well always keeping an eye out for any crews who may be trimming grounds of local businesses or whatever I can get my hands on. My wife thought I was crazy the other week when we happened to be out and running errands and i just stopped and walked up to a crew who was cutting trees to remove them to widen a road. I am not entirely fluent in Japanese but can read, write and hear,speaking Janglish. So the look on these guys faces when they see a 6'2" 200 lb American stop and walk up to them out of the blue asking for wood can be amusing. So far everyone of them is more than helpful and some have even asked what size rounds I need and have trimmed down logs on the spot so i can chunk them in my station wagon and split them at home. The little stove provides plenty of heat for our small single story home but in the future want to install a little larger stove and with secondary burn. I will have some questions with a creosote issue i have noticed but will post in the other section. For now looking forward to reading your posts and learning a bunch while sharing with y'all what goes on over here in Japan.00. Will try to post my pics of what my set up is.
Welcome to FHC. Nice looking stove. It looks like a sideways Jotul 602 with gothic arches from a Jotul F 100.
Hello and Welcome to FHC I was stationed 13 months at MCAS Iwakuni Japan back in the 70's. Nice place and people.
A Yankee scrounging wood in Japan. I like it. Welcome to the family and thanks for serving our country.
Welcome to the site! What are your tempetures like where you live? How's your firewood stacks coming along? What type of trees are available to you in Japan other than Cherry and Ginko?
Welcome aboard again Navy in Japan! Nice pics and interesting stove. Hope all is well with you and yours!!
Welcome,and thank you for your service. Lots of good folks here and we are darn sure glad you are here now too.
Hello from back in the States NavyinJapan As Locust Post said, and I'll second- thank you for serving! Really nice set up you have. You will really enjoy being here-glad ya joined up!
welcome aboard shipmate. i was stationed at Atsugi from 85 to 91. 4 of the years at AIMD and the last with VAQ136, Did the Operation desert storm/Shield thing on-board USS Midway out of Yokosuka
