[AT] Profane propane prices; was Fuel prices

[Dick Day]

For anyone considering installing an outside wood burning furnace, here is a 
website that appears to have all of the answers...

http://www.outdoorwoodfurnaces.org/guide.php

Dick

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Profane propane prices; was Fuel prices


>I just bought and installed a 119,000 BTU wood/coal furnace and am
> burning tornado scraps...  The wood furnace feeds a little over half
> of its heat into the old gas furnace and I am just using the old
> furnace as an air handler with a filter.
> I also bought the smallest Wood-mizer band saw mill and will have tons
> of slab wood to burn.
> I have a solar room out front that was never on the heating system and
> I have a pellet stove running on low out there. I was using a pellet
> stove for 90% of my heat feeding it through the old gas furnace. My
> very good neighbor and I went together and bought a semi-load (1,150
> bags) of oak pellets (worked out to $2.99 a bag, delivered free) and
> we used maybe 2/3rds of them. This year there is a huge sawdust
> shortage since the building trade is down so bad. The company that
> made our pellets is really in the pre-finished oak flooring business.
> They have already over-sold for this year and won't even take an order
> at any price.
> My neighbor now wants for us to go into the pellet making business
> together on a small scale. Mostly making pellets for our own use but a
> couple of other neighbors have expressed an interest in buying from us
> which might cover expenses.
> We  have been looking this possibility over for a while now.
>
> --
> "farmer"
>
> "Good clean muck never hurt nobody!!!"
> Morris Moulterd
>
>
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>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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