[AT] Gas can rant

Stephen Offiler soffiler at gmail.com
Mon Jul 27 10:08:26 PDT 2015


I'm very impressed with the thought that went into the No Spill design.  I
might need to own a few of those.  Thanks for sharing that.

SO


On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Jason DeJoode <dejoodster at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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