Yup, but bending over wasn't much better! I do have my "Official" Pat pending, "Dennis authorized" red milk crate! "but I didn't use it"
I've been burning now about 40 years, "most" love the smell and enjoy when I burn, especially cherry or hickory! Over the years I've only had one neighbor who really complained and her "B!TC#" was, every time she opened her door she would get a smoke smell in her house! It's funny because the wind blows "mainly" from the North West all winter and she lived due south of me so she "rarely" would get any odor. She eventually moved, there was nothing in life that made this woman happy, that's just how she was. In my local area, there is about 10 folks in a 3 mile radius who either burn wood or pellets. Most are "recreational" burners and not like I am.
I'd be interested to see where your stack is since you also live on a postage stamp....the smoke is most times smiled upon but the bulging out over the sidewalk and in my case I'm splitting on the road is more of a
I'll send you a pic after work. My files are at home, my back yard is roughly 90ft in length and I stack usually 4 rows along the side of my fence.
Loading wood shed for winter. Other side of yard is self explainatory. There is another pile behind 2017 you can't see, about three cord. We process out in the drive way then haul it around back, "yes" our neighbors think were completely nuts but used to it. When I explain that our electric bill in the winter is 1/4 of what theirs is, then they seem to get it! These houses were built "all" electric heat, we've had neighbors with $800 to $1000 bills a month for heat while mine is $150 to $200
Medallion is a term that was used for all electric homes. The gas companies promoted "balanced power" homes the same way. Medallion was an advertising gimmick that sort of worked when electricity was dirt cheap. Even then people tended to want more than just electricity in their house, although I admit it is the only outside source of heat for my new construction. I am using a ground source heat pump on that site, think geothermal. It gives me back lots of heat for very small electrical usage. In summer you can run the air conditioning feature for a lot less than a conventional AC which helps balance out with the winter heating bill. So far this year, with me not yet moved in, so no fires, it is costing me <$100 per month to heat 2500 square feet of well insulated space.
Well done and a neat tidy shed....of which mine will need revamped come spring to get the hell off the property line....but that's a story for a different thread....I'm thinking of entering the "make it with pallets" FHC contest I saw somewhere....
I can't be sure to tell the truth? Although, back in the 60's it was a big selling point, "why" I have no idea?
They were pics from 2015. The Daughter ran that splitter for 10 hours! , She had a blast and I got a lot of split wood!
To answer your question of 'why', I remember ads for electricity saying it was 'penny cheap'. That was back in the late 50's into the 60's. I guess I am dating myself
Well for us we started getting our electric from hydro.. it was cheap a lot from quebec.. the oil crisis hit.. so it was cheaper .. this was before my time but gramps was a master plumber electrician. . his kids bought houses and gramps went in and put in furnaces.. IIRC I was his wire puller and fetch this tool guy... great memories
I'm turning 55 here shortly and I remember my the hoopla about buying an all "electric modern home". But not much more than that. I remember my Father "B!TC#!NG and complaining about the electric bill going up and up every month and thought he was gonna kill my brother for taking his 30 minute showers. . Funny, my Daughter does/did the same thing . Our water heater is electric and it's fairly new, but doesn't seem to help. All these houses around here were 1950's and 1960's era...
