[AT] firewood

[Larry Goss]

There are some things about the design of traditional farm houses in 
northern and eastern Europe that are really kind of neat, Mattias.  
The concept of a single hearth that "does everything", is one of 
those.  Making the cooking area large enough to walk into, and 
having it double as the heating system for the whole house, is also 
efficient.  In addition, the tapered flue is used for smoking meats 
and as storage.  Once you have seen one of those houses, it puts a 
whole new meaning to "central heat" and the idea that Santa Claus 
(Father Christmas) could in fact come down the chimney.

We used to have similar farm houses in this country, too, but in 
this age of modern systems we've lost that way of living.

Larry 

On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, =?Iso-8859-1?Q?Mattias_kess=E9n?= wrote...

>Here in Sweden were things aint as great as in that BIG country way 
west. We
>don't have to cut or split we simply put the whole trees in the 
kitchen
>stove :-)
>
>2006/11/25, Mullrbob at wmconnect.com <Mullrbob at wmconnect.com>:
>>
>> No doubt in my mind !
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