Editorial and Stories

Stories and Editorial from the Hearth

Stories Only ---------- Editorials Only	The Fireplace and Stove Industry is largely made up of small businesses. In fact, many successful manufacturers and retailers started in their basements, living rooms or barns. As a result, this industry has "soul" and a lot of tales to tell. Whether it is silly customers, stingy manufacturers or just plain interesting history, everyone seems to have a story. If YOU have a story to tell, please submit it using our Story Submission Form
	Working at Vermont Castings From an ex-employee VC operates (or operated) two Vermont facilities, a foundry in Randolph and an assembly plant in Bethel. Operations at the Randolph foundry are all related to casting iron for VC and OEM sales of items like… Read the entire story...... Recollections from working at Vermont Castings A few more recollections from the period approx 2000: At the end of the month/quarter to encourage production to hit the numbers, cases of beer were alternated with every third or fourth stove at the head of the line.… Read the entire story...... Winter heating costs paid before it starts! I was going to write to the local paper, with their glaring headlines Oil prices up, heating costs to soar. Gee I have my 2 tons of pellets ($530), and a tank of oil (275 gal). I’m set… Read the entire story...... Early Day Fuels by Jessie Sluder Guffy Note: Reprinted from http://www.thepastwhispers.com/ with permission from Lois Caywood Guffy. Set in the early 1900’s. Early day heating and fuel were certainly a lot different from what we now have. At… Read the entire story...... Learning about wood stove clearances the hard way The first place I say ignited on fire from a stove was a tool shed. Yours truly and a bunch of hippies lived in the hollows of West Virginny. We had a rented house, and some extra bread vans… Read the entire story...... Thoughts from Denmark Industry, ecology and modern life can coexist Editors Note: This article was written after I returned from a trip to Denmark to visit the factory of one of our suppliers. This supplier produces high efficiency boilers (hot water heat) which can use multiple fuels - Wood, Oil,… Read the entire story...... Take it easy Not much about the Hearth - but it could save your life ! Take it Easy, you’ll be ahead of the game. by Craig Issod, webmaster Take it from me—the original type “A” personality. It pays to keep yourself rested and healthy. I worked 60 to 70 hours a week for many… Read the entire story...... A Stove Passed Down through Generations A Story about an Old, but reliable stove This story is about the old reliable stove that heats my grandparent’s garage, I use it quite a bit in the winter when I pull my ‘77 Toyota Land Cruiser in to fix trail damage and do regular maintainence.… Read the entire story...... Joys of Burning Wood Another Ode to wood by a Hearth.com reader It’s a beautiful clear cold morning in North Georgia. My twelve year-old woodstove is just about “right” now burning some poor quality wood that I cleared from a friend’s yard. We’ve been burning wood in our woodstove (my second one)… Read the entire story...... ode to a woodstove Note: a letter from a Hearth Industry Member to his associates Hello from Northeastern Minnesota. It was just one day before the famed East Coast “Blizzard of ‘96”. I glanced at the thermometer .. Minus 35 deg! The snow squeaked under my feet as I carried out the trash. The air… Read the entire story...... Page 1 of 4 pages 1 2 3 > Last »

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