[AT] Gone Shopping ??

[charlie hill]

John I  have to agree with you.   I had a great neighbor for years and was 
not happy to see them move away but the one thing I don't miss is there wood 
furnace.  It was ok in cold weather but in the fall and spring when it was 
just barely needed that thing smoldered and cooked creosote something 
terrible.  He had a fairly high stack.  Just high enough for the fumes to 
drift over and settle in my house.
It was particularly bad when he decided to throw a few plastic bottles, 
fiberglass, etc. in with the wood.

It worked great for him.  His dad was retired and enjoyed cutting and 
splitting fire wood.  All my neighbor had to do was load, haul, unload and 
stack the wood.  Then fill the fire box full every morning so it could 
smolder all day long.

I saw a home made furnace in some farm paper that would burn round bales of 
hay.  It was made from an old oil tank and would hold 2 or 3 round bales at 
a time.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Hall" <jthall at worldnet.att.net>
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Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Gone Shopping ??


>I live in a rural area and those type funaces still irritate me. They stink 
>up everything for at least a 1/4 mile. Too bad they can't get them to burn 
>clean instead of smolder. I love the smell of a fireplace but the dense 
>clouds of smoke those things produce is too much. I've thought about one of 
>those outfits but the smoke is more than I am willing to subject everyone 
>too.
>
> Now if I had somewhere indoors to put it, one of those corn/pellet stoves 
> would be worth considering.
>
> John
>
>
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>>I thought I'd best bring this up regarding outside wood furnace/boilers.
>>
>> They're no doubt fine for rural areas, but apparently there are some 
>> disadvantages in suburban or more populated areas. In the Binghamton NY 
>> area, so many residents complained about the smoke and odor that new 
>> codes are being adopted to curtail their use. Folks who already have them 
>> installed will be the biggest losers. You can bet that the oil and gas 
>> companies were happy to "assist."
>>
>> Bob in NY
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