You've spelled out my exact dilemma Scotty; one stove takes up to 17" and the other will take 22" comfortably. Last year I cut everything to 17"...
There's just no way around how bad the sorting and (re) stacking is going to suck so I think you're probably right Bill, I could just as well cut...
I've got a little craftsman electric. Maybe I'll touch up the chain on it and put it in the furnace room. It's nice and toasty in there so I could...
Yeah, I really need to put together a better method for cutting to length in the woods. Two problems I had there; first I was cutting with a good...
The title pretty much sums it up. I thought I was so smart this fall, filling my pallet sized racks with all that dead standing split elm and ash...
I burned a bunch of ash and elm with a few random pieces of the last oak splits overnight. Both stoves reloaded at 730am with the basement at 75...
True story! With the lack of substantial snow cover I bet the frost is sinking pdq as well. I almost forgot, I fluffed my door gasket at 2:30...
I'm standing here tonight in the 65 degree living room running a wood furnace and a stove on a 4 hr load rotation. The wind is just nuts and...
Brilliant. Thanks for the very thorough explanation.
Great setup you have there Thundar. I'm envious! When you say that you tied into the main trunk line I'm assuming that the trunk runs above your...
Brian; how do you like the raised hearth? I want to do something similar when I move my Answer (or maybe a new cat-stove, don't tell the Answer)...
I've never directly associated them with a species of wood, probably because I wasn't paying attention, but that makes sense.
It's funny I just caught this thread, I pulled a "clumper" out my Answer last night while raking the coal bed forward. I usually find them at the...
The idea I've toyed with is to put something like, a Daka, Tundra, or any "furnace" type wood stove, in a small utility shed just adjacent to the...
I have this same thing happen in my Answer from time to time. I've mostly solved it by installing a stove pipe damper and shutting that down about...
x2 What Coach said. Beyond that, more power to you. I wish I had wood heat in my attached garage but when I looked into putting my Daka in there...
I've done this same-dang-thing more than once Sherwood! When my kids were little we lived in a house down at the farm that was partially insulated...
How do you have it plumbed into your HVAC? Do you have a backup furnace at all? Where does it get the make-up air for combustion? Oh and where do...
I found the washer(s) behind the latch last night but it's a little toasty in that area to be able make any adjustments. SWMBO is working from...
My Lopi Answer doesn't have a bypass but it's a pretty small stove. I installed a damper in the pipe about as close to the stove as possible and...
