I have an electric. It is pretty good. Splits nearly anything... I have had stuff as big as 18inch dia. On the beam. It want split 18 right...
What? No love for silver maple, pine, and boxelder?? Snobs.
Looking like a face cord at most...sounds like pretty good wood however.
As others have said the fireplace is quite a different animal from the stove or an insert ... Which is just a stove with an air jacket around it...
The soft woods make great secondaries!
LOL
Do you have December? We southern cheeseheads had a couple weeks of December in November, but since then it's been a more like late March.
Couple of years ago we traveled up the Washington coast and into Alaska ... The whole area besides this strange anomaly that is Victoria (felt...
I think it would limit air flow enough to make it not worth it
Ceramic cats have a history of cracking in automotive applications...with a curious side effect They can disappear. Happened to me. My Saturn Vue...
Lol :handshake:
Always nice to have a spare waiting in the wings. Couple years ago I bought a zero clearance pump just so I had a backup in the sump pump were to...
We have freestanders up north and while the do kick azz in terms of radiant heat, they tend to overheat the room without the blower moving the...
Great post! I can see it being easier to refit tubes and refractive tiles into a cat stove than adding a cat to an older stove. The cat stove...
What's wrong with frugal? It's why most folks started burning wood.
More levers, more options more fun!
Must be more of dem guberment regulations ruining it! :p
It's humor. Did your sense of humor freeze up?
War and Peace is only about 1200 pages.
If you really need low and slow burns, then you probably need to be looking for a cat stove. A tube stove will be able to handle both high heat...
