firefighterjake said:
What is this . . . there are an awful lot of words here
Q. Why did you write this?
A. I’m a government employee and have lots of time at work . . . well that and it seems as though I keep seeing the same questions asked every year right about this time. I thought maybe I could combine some of the most frequently asked questions in one thread and some folks might not have to dig around as much to look for the answers to the most commonly asked questions . . . well that and you can only watch the Rollerblading Babies so many times before you need to do something productive.
Feel free to add to my answers . . . this isn't designed to be an end-all, be-all type of thread . . . I tried to account for different opinions (even when they're wrong -- yeah Dennis I'm talking about your insistence that splitting wood vertically is the way to go
) . . . and some of my answers weren't completely thorough . . . rather I wrote this up hoping that some folks might find it useful to have some of the most commonly asked questions here in one place.
Ha Jake, you got that in with the first post! lol
Lad, I must say you have put much thought into this and have done a fine job. I had considered doing something like this along with
a series of frequent mistakes that new wood burners make, or should I say, common mistakes new wood burners make. Of course the number one mistake there is to buy the stove, install it and then buy some wood. That will work when burning fuel like oil or gas but just does not work well with wood.
I will be going back over your posts again so perhaps will comment more later. However, we are getting short for time for our trip out your way so it might have to wait until we return (maybe with a new stove).
In the meantime, I'll still be sitting down and splitting all our wood in the proper vertical manner.
