Maybe it's just me. I gotta believe someone or two out there feel the same as me on this one.
There's gotta be a better way of getting seasoned wood inside for short term storage just before burning than treking it through the house a couple times a week.
It's been done with coal bins and laundry chutes; why not wood bins or is everyone doin' it except me?
I'm talking about a slooce-way (aka wood butler - I prefer this term to 'dumb waiter') from outside to inside the house very close to where the wood is needed near the stove. And insulated so you don't have to buy an oversized stove to compensate for affluent cold air leakage created by the butler. And critter proof so as not to be host to uninvited rodent woodstock parties. And enough volume (say 1/4 cord: 32 cu ft) for several days so as not to become a slave to the thing. And, of course, weather proof to keep the inside of the house different than the outside. "Pretty" would be nice but is in the mind's eye anyway.
I'm talking diagrams for the thing with dimensions, latches, hinges, insulation and weather stripping, all spelled out. Yup, cookbook style.
Any Paul Bunyon wannabees out there with some solid plans?
Aye,
Marty
There's gotta be a better way of getting seasoned wood inside for short term storage just before burning than treking it through the house a couple times a week.
It's been done with coal bins and laundry chutes; why not wood bins or is everyone doin' it except me?
I'm talking about a slooce-way (aka wood butler - I prefer this term to 'dumb waiter') from outside to inside the house very close to where the wood is needed near the stove. And insulated so you don't have to buy an oversized stove to compensate for affluent cold air leakage created by the butler. And critter proof so as not to be host to uninvited rodent woodstock parties. And enough volume (say 1/4 cord: 32 cu ft) for several days so as not to become a slave to the thing. And, of course, weather proof to keep the inside of the house different than the outside. "Pretty" would be nice but is in the mind's eye anyway.
I'm talking diagrams for the thing with dimensions, latches, hinges, insulation and weather stripping, all spelled out. Yup, cookbook style.
Any Paul Bunyon wannabees out there with some solid plans?
Aye,
Marty