[AT] Gas can rant

[Jason DeJoode]

Can't believe y'all are having so much trouble with a gas can. Maybe you
need  No Spill Jill to show you how.

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015, 6:23 AM Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> For a long time around here (corn belt) the standard method of wood / coal
> stove lighting was to keep 3 or 4 dried corn cobs soaking in a quart can
> about half full of kerosene. Even city folks would go get a big basket full
> of cobs from the elevator/mill or some farmer they knew. Today few people
> have access to corn cobs.
> We started heating with wood/coal in 1965 and have used (mostly wood) for
> all or part of our heat ever since. We have started a lot of fires... We
> don't start many now since the wood furnace holds fire so well. We joke
> about only starting one fire a year. It doesn't really work quite like that
> but close to it.
> We have been having to buy firewood for a number of years now due to health
> issues but the cost of a winters supply of firewood is less than the cost
> of one month of mid winter heat off of the gas pipe-line. This is a big
> house and while it is pretty well insulated it is a bit hard to heat just
> by its stretched out nature.
> I avoid using anything like K-1 as fire starter. We have a steady supply of
> dry twigs from all of the trees.
> The Dotson brothers became world famous for their fire starting skills /
> smoke signals at Portland.
> :-)  :-)
>
>
> --
>
> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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