Wood-Burning Advantage Never Mentioned

[secureland]

I searched to see if it had been mentioned, and it hasn't


So please remember that yet another advantage to heating with wood is the appreciation developed for a cold beer when the house is nice and cozy!

 

[jcrenfrow]

I'll drink to that

 

[carvinmark]

I'll drink to that

Me too !!!!

 

[Moss Man]

Salute! :agree2:

 

[chainsaw1]

What i like about it is that i get to spend alot of time with my Dad (he helps me cut all the time) time that i would not have spent with him.

 

[MATTYB11]

just one?

 

[chainsaw1]

just one?

Well----and that 2

 

[Mkarlson]

:smoking:

 

[Hugenpoet]

I searched to see if it had been mentioned, and it hasn't


So please remember that yet another advantage to heating with wood is the appreciation developed for a cold beer when the house is nice and cozy!

I have never limited my appreciation for a cold beer to either temperature or circumstance.

 

[cityevader]

From "Cheers":

Everyone: "NORM!"
Sam: "What'll it be, Norm?"
Norm: "A keg and a snorkel, Sammy."

 

[sdt7618]

Slainge

 

[Suz]

One thing that is never mentioned is the exercise that people who burn wood get. First off you have to cut, split, and stack the firewood. Next you have to feed the stove, and take care of the fire. Whereas those who burn other fuels just sit around and get fat.
Next is the fact that we are burning a renewable resource. Never mind what the people who complain that we are killing the trees, they are a living thing and will die! Plus I think 95% of the firewood cutters take dead and down trees and thus clean up the forest floor so that there isn't a big fuel base to fuel a forest fire if one should break out. (This is one reason the fires are so hot and destructive in CA.)
One other item that I threw at my Insurance Underwriter is that I know my furnace is working because I have to fire it up or have someone "stoke the oak" if I'm going to be gone for more than 8 hours. I asked her what guarantees does she have that her gas/oil furnace is going to continue to work while she is gone. (She said she never thought of that!)
Another satisfaction that I think most feel is to sit there with your favorite brew and admire the wood pile. Looking at the pictures posted on the board of people's wood piles they are proud of them! Plus how many of the people who burn oil or gas can look at their scars and remember which piece of wood that caused it!
Jim

 

[logbutcher]

All of the above...:agree2: .
And of course, that our harvested BTU's allow us to be warmer at any time. We're usually freezing our ***** :censored: off in friends' fossil houses.

 

[forestryworks]

Heating with wood connects the user to what the environment is doing temperature wise. Way too many people, IMO, have little more connection to the weather than the walk to and from their vehicles a couple of times per day........ they never go outside for more than 60 seconds!

A wood burner is much more likely to know the temperature swings in their local area.

i'd rep ya but i'm out

good post

i used to work as a groundskeeper - 98% of my time was spent outside

and during the winter i'd always roll my eyes at the people who step outside with a coat on and complain that it's cold and be in their car in less than thirty seconds... their loss i guess

 

[toddstreeservic]

People always think that I am crazy in the winter because I never(should say seldom) wear a coat when I am going from the house to the car, car to store etc.

 

[Lloyd H]

Quote Suz

"Next you have to feed the stove, and take care of the fire. Whereas those who burn other fuels just sit around and get fat." I did something wrong, been heating with wood 29 years now and still got fat.

 

[Hugenpoet]

"Next you have to feed the stove, and take care of the fire. Whereas those who burn other fuels just sit around and get fat." I did something wrong, been heating with wood 29 years now and still got fat.

I learned a long time ago that you can't cut, split and haul enough wood to make up for the calories in the beer, but its a lot better than doing nothing and still drinking the beer.

 

[Rookie1]

I have a fire going right now and sat by it with a can but it would get too hot when I would set it on top of the stove.

 

[toddstreeservic]

I just had to move into the other room because mine was too hot.

 

[beerman6]

"Next you have to feed the stove, and take care of the fire. Whereas those who burn other fuels just sit around and get fat." I did something wrong, been heating with wood 29 years now and still got fat.

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