Firewood Time
The 95 foot ash tree died last summer. On Tuesday, we cut it up, and my brother hauled it up the mountain with the 4WD tractor.
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My Huntsman pictured burns so clean that the stove pipe and the chimney have no build up, even after months of use. With a hot fire there is little to no smoke coming out of the chimney. Quality seasoned wood and a hot fire is the key. This stove is in the middle of the basement with an open foyer stairway for good air flow.
I wanna know about that big ribbon there. What's that for?
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I replaced my Papa Bear Fisher, with a "High Efficiency," Pacific Energy woodstove three years ago. $3K for the stove and another $2K for fairly extensive chimney work. Including a Heavy Duty SS Liner, removing the internal flue etc. I was concerned about a chimney fire with my very large rock chimney, you could get inside the Lower part of the chimney/fireplace and stand up in it. No real way to clean it out thoroughly. Had already had one chimney fire a couple years previous. 😮
Still have my Papa Bear. (For sale $400.) 🤔😉😁
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This is our little heater/cookstove/bakeoven. It's a Kitchen Queen brand. We have to clean the pipe out every spring but it's never real bad. Empty the ash pan (directly under the firebox, on the left) every two weeks or so. We're mostly burning Douglas Fir and Western Larch (tamarack). I try to avoid pine as it's pretty dirty.
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NeoBlackdog, nice photo of your cook stove. Classy look. The ribbons are for quilt projects. My wife is a skilled quilter. We are both retired so house keeping is a joint endeavor.
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My neighbor had a hernia surgery 1.5 weeks ago. I drove him there, hit all the gun shops in town (West Plains MO) and drove him back home. He's had me filling up a wheel barrow of firewood for him everyday. That is a bit of a workout. Of course it has me jones-ing for a wood burning stove, again.
Our house just isn't setup for one though - no room for it in the main living room. If I ever get an addition added to the house I plan to put a wood burning stove in there.
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Gonna git down to minus 4 tonight. Might hafta let the faucet drip tonight. Love our wood stove. And Mr generator!!
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I replaced my Papa Bear Fisher, with a "High Efficiency," Pacific Energy woodstove three years ago. $3K for the stove and another $2K for fairly extensive chimney work. Including a Heavy Duty SS Liner, removing the internal flue etc. I was concerned about a chimney fire with my very large rock chimney, you could get inside the Lower part of the chimney/fireplace and stand up in it. No real way to clean it out thoroughly. Had already had one chimney fire a couple years previous. 😮
Still have my Papa Bear. (For sale $400.) 🤔😉😁
We did the same thing with our fireplace as it was large like yours. We did the Pacific Energy Neo 2.5. That thing almost heat the whole house. The PE is super efficient with wood.
Also put a new wood furnace in the basement. It is a Kumma Vapid Fire 100. 30 years I built a room in the basement next to one of the windows so every two weeks we have to fill the wood room.
I have a tree farm on 45 acres so we get firewood off the farm. A while ago I bought a logging winch from Hudson Forest Products. Helps a lot to get logs out of woods and down to landing for cutting and splitting.
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