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On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 07:03:29 -0800, Joerg
wrote: On 2019-11-11 20:29, John B. wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 06:58:31 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-09 14:57, John B. wrote: [...] In fact I can't remember any house having it's chimney cleaned so it must not have been a common happening. That is like with safety belts, grandpa's car didn't have them and he lived well into his 90's. Yet we won't drive without. I'm not saying that they don't happen, just that I never saw it happen and we lived in one neighborhood and my grandparents lived about a mile away and I think that if a chimney fire had happened in either neighborhood it would have been BIG NEWS all up an down the street so I think I would have heard about it. But I would winder about why a chimney fire occurred twice within a reasonable length of time. Not setting their stove correctly, i.e., burning too rich a mixture and generating too much "soot"? The usual, making a fire in the stove and dampering it down too much. That results in a hardcore creosote layer. They had smoke crawling out of the chimney all the time. Even after those fires they did not learn. Most people do not learn this, for whatever reason. Problem is that the incompetence on the part of people with wood stoves also results in a lot of wood burning bans that hit people who are competent in that domain. Probably a defect in the modern educational system. Nobody seems to be educated regarding how to manage wood fires any more. :-) -- cheers, John B. |
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On 2019-11-12 14:43, John B. wrote:
On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 07:03:29 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-11 20:29, John B. wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 06:58:31 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-09 14:57, John B. wrote: [...] In fact I can't remember any house having it's chimney cleaned so it must not have been a common happening. That is like with safety belts, grandpa's car didn't have them and he lived well into his 90's. Yet we won't drive without. I'm not saying that they don't happen, just that I never saw it happen and we lived in one neighborhood and my grandparents lived about a mile away and I think that if a chimney fire had happened in either neighborhood it would have been BIG NEWS all up an down the street so I think I would have heard about it. But I would winder about why a chimney fire occurred twice within a reasonable length of time. Not setting their stove correctly, i.e., burning too rich a mixture and generating too much "soot"? The usual, making a fire in the stove and dampering it down too much. That results in a hardcore creosote layer. They had smoke crawling out of the chimney all the time. Even after those fires they did not learn. Most people do not learn this, for whatever reason. Problem is that the incompetence on the part of people with wood stoves also results in a lot of wood burning bans that hit people who are competent in that domain. Probably a defect in the modern educational system. Nobody seems to be educated regarding how to manage wood fires any more. :-) To my surprise the vast majority of "smoky burners" are old people. They are also very resistant to learning anything knew about it, proclaiming to be experts. One woman had the chimney smoking so bad that people walking farther up the street started coughing. She usually threw one lone log into the stove with just a few burning embers in there and didn't even bother to open the air intakes. Upon suggesting to do it a little differently she respomnded "Well, that's how my late husband always did it and he knew!" -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:39:34 -0800, Joerg
wrote: On 2019-11-12 14:43, John B. wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 07:03:29 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-11 20:29, John B. wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 06:58:31 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-09 14:57, John B. wrote: [...] In fact I can't remember any house having it's chimney cleaned so it must not have been a common happening. That is like with safety belts, grandpa's car didn't have them and he lived well into his 90's. Yet we won't drive without. I'm not saying that they don't happen, just that I never saw it happen and we lived in one neighborhood and my grandparents lived about a mile away and I think that if a chimney fire had happened in either neighborhood it would have been BIG NEWS all up an down the street so I think I would have heard about it. But I would winder about why a chimney fire occurred twice within a reasonable length of time. Not setting their stove correctly, i.e., burning too rich a mixture and generating too much "soot"? The usual, making a fire in the stove and dampering it down too much. That results in a hardcore creosote layer. They had smoke crawling out of the chimney all the time. Even after those fires they did not learn. Most people do not learn this, for whatever reason. Problem is that the incompetence on the part of people with wood stoves also results in a lot of wood burning bans that hit people who are competent in that domain. Probably a defect in the modern educational system. Nobody seems to be educated regarding how to manage wood fires any more. :-) To my surprise the vast majority of "smoky burners" are old people. They are also very resistant to learning anything knew about it, proclaiming to be experts. One woman had the chimney smoking so bad that people walking farther up the street started coughing. She usually threw one lone log into the stove with just a few burning embers in there and didn't even bother to open the air intakes. Upon suggesting to do it a little differently she respomnded "Well, that's how my late husband always did it and he knew!" Loyalty! I just love it :-) But both the "damper" in the pipe and the air inlets on the stove work together to control the fire and improper adjustment have a major effect on both the heat generated and the amount of wood burned. If you have to cut and split your own firewood you will learn to be frugal :-) -- cheers, John B. |
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On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 05:43:27 +0700, John B. wrote:
Probably a defect in the modern educational system. Nobody seems to be educated regarding how to manage wood fires any more. :-) Defect tween legs of their parents. Sadly, the brainless breed. |
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On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 01:07:28 -0000 (UTC), news18
wrote: On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 05:43:27 +0700, John B. wrote: Probably a defect in the modern educational system. Nobody seems to be educated regarding how to manage wood fires any more. :-) Defect tween legs of their parents. Sadly, the brainless breed. As I read in another context, "They are there and they multiply". -- cheers, John B. |
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On 2019-11-12 17:00, John B. wrote:
On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:39:34 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-12 14:43, John B. wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 07:03:29 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-11 20:29, John B. wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 06:58:31 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-09 14:57, John B. wrote: [...] In fact I can't remember any house having it's chimney cleaned so it must not have been a common happening. That is like with safety belts, grandpa's car didn't have them and he lived well into his 90's. Yet we won't drive without. I'm not saying that they don't happen, just that I never saw it happen and we lived in one neighborhood and my grandparents lived about a mile away and I think that if a chimney fire had happened in either neighborhood it would have been BIG NEWS all up an down the street so I think I would have heard about it. But I would winder about why a chimney fire occurred twice within a reasonable length of time. Not setting their stove correctly, i.e., burning too rich a mixture and generating too much "soot"? The usual, making a fire in the stove and dampering it down too much. That results in a hardcore creosote layer. They had smoke crawling out of the chimney all the time. Even after those fires they did not learn. Most people do not learn this, for whatever reason. Problem is that the incompetence on the part of people with wood stoves also results in a lot of wood burning bans that hit people who are competent in that domain. Probably a defect in the modern educational system. Nobody seems to be educated regarding how to manage wood fires any more. :-) To my surprise the vast majority of "smoky burners" are old people. They are also very resistant to learning anything knew about it, proclaiming to be experts. One woman had the chimney smoking so bad that people walking farther up the street started coughing. She usually threw one lone log into the stove with just a few burning embers in there and didn't even bother to open the air intakes. Upon suggesting to do it a little differently she respomnded "Well, that's how my late husband always did it and he knew!" Loyalty! I just love it :-) But both the "damper" in the pipe and the air inlets on the stove work together to control the fire and improper adjustment have a major effect on both the heat generated and the amount of wood burned. Modern stoves like ours only have inlet controls. Primary air jets for the initial phase (on/off control) and then a secondary air control with vernier. The trick is to adjust that secondary so you have a sustained hot burn above the wood (it mostly burns the wood gas) but no less air. The result is a wood burn with no smoke and no smell as it should be. ... If you have to cut and split your own firewood you will learn to be frugal :-) I just split another half cord of oak, by hand. Yet I'd never pollute the neighborhood with smoke. Smoke crawling out of the chimney means lots of unburnt particles in there so dampering a fire down too much is actually a wasteful use of firewood. This is the key fact that most self-proclaimed "experienced" wood stove users do not understand. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 07:31:27 -0800, Joerg
wrote: On 2019-11-12 17:00, John B. wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:39:34 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-12 14:43, John B. wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 07:03:29 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-11 20:29, John B. wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 06:58:31 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-09 14:57, John B. wrote: [...] In fact I can't remember any house having it's chimney cleaned so it must not have been a common happening. That is like with safety belts, grandpa's car didn't have them and he lived well into his 90's. Yet we won't drive without. I'm not saying that they don't happen, just that I never saw it happen and we lived in one neighborhood and my grandparents lived about a mile away and I think that if a chimney fire had happened in either neighborhood it would have been BIG NEWS all up an down the street so I think I would have heard about it. But I would winder about why a chimney fire occurred twice within a reasonable length of time. Not setting their stove correctly, i.e., burning too rich a mixture and generating too much "soot"? The usual, making a fire in the stove and dampering it down too much. That results in a hardcore creosote layer. They had smoke crawling out of the chimney all the time. Even after those fires they did not learn. Most people do not learn this, for whatever reason. Problem is that the incompetence on the part of people with wood stoves also results in a lot of wood burning bans that hit people who are competent in that domain. Probably a defect in the modern educational system. Nobody seems to be educated regarding how to manage wood fires any more. :-) To my surprise the vast majority of "smoky burners" are old people. They are also very resistant to learning anything knew about it, proclaiming to be experts. One woman had the chimney smoking so bad that people walking farther up the street started coughing. She usually threw one lone log into the stove with just a few burning embers in there and didn't even bother to open the air intakes. Upon suggesting to do it a little differently she respomnded "Well, that's how my late husband always did it and he knew!" Loyalty! I just love it :-) But both the "damper" in the pipe and the air inlets on the stove work together to control the fire and improper adjustment have a major effect on both the heat generated and the amount of wood burned. Modern stoves like ours only have inlet controls. Primary air jets for the initial phase (on/off control) and then a secondary air control with vernier. The trick is to adjust that secondary so you have a sustained hot burn above the wood (it mostly burns the wood gas) but no less air. The result is a wood burn with no smoke and no smell as it should be. ... If you have to cut and split your own firewood you will learn to be frugal :-) I just split another half cord of oak, by hand. Yet I'd never pollute the neighborhood with smoke. Smoke crawling out of the chimney means lots of unburnt particles in there so dampering a fire down too much is actually a wasteful use of firewood. This is the key fact that most self-proclaimed "experienced" wood stove users do not understand. Perhaps, today. But when I was a boy wood fires were apparently much better understood although no one worried about smoke in the sense of contaminating the atmosphere but certainly in the sense that they weren't burning the wood efficiently and therefore "wasting" wood... remember that in a northern New England climate where things certainly do freeze that what's in the woodshed has to last until spring as the snow is too deep to get to the woods to cut more. My grandfather used to spend a month a year cutting trees in his "wood lot", cutting to length, splitting and hauling back to town in order to heat his house for the winter. -- cheers, John B. |
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On 2019-11-13 14:49, John B. wrote:
On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 07:31:27 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-12 17:00, John B. wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:39:34 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-12 14:43, John B. wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 07:03:29 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-11 20:29, John B. wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 06:58:31 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-09 14:57, John B. wrote: [...] In fact I can't remember any house having it's chimney cleaned so it must not have been a common happening. That is like with safety belts, grandpa's car didn't have them and he lived well into his 90's. Yet we won't drive without. I'm not saying that they don't happen, just that I never saw it happen and we lived in one neighborhood and my grandparents lived about a mile away and I think that if a chimney fire had happened in either neighborhood it would have been BIG NEWS all up an down the street so I think I would have heard about it. But I would winder about why a chimney fire occurred twice within a reasonable length of time. Not setting their stove correctly, i.e., burning too rich a mixture and generating too much "soot"? The usual, making a fire in the stove and dampering it down too much. That results in a hardcore creosote layer. They had smoke crawling out of the chimney all the time. Even after those fires they did not learn. Most people do not learn this, for whatever reason. Problem is that the incompetence on the part of people with wood stoves also results in a lot of wood burning bans that hit people who are competent in that domain. Probably a defect in the modern educational system. Nobody seems to be educated regarding how to manage wood fires any more. :-) To my surprise the vast majority of "smoky burners" are old people. They are also very resistant to learning anything knew about it, proclaiming to be experts. One woman had the chimney smoking so bad that people walking farther up the street started coughing. She usually threw one lone log into the stove with just a few burning embers in there and didn't even bother to open the air intakes. Upon suggesting to do it a little differently she respomnded "Well, that's how my late husband always did it and he knew!" Loyalty! I just love it :-) But both the "damper" in the pipe and the air inlets on the stove work together to control the fire and improper adjustment have a major effect on both the heat generated and the amount of wood burned. Modern stoves like ours only have inlet controls. Primary air jets for the initial phase (on/off control) and then a secondary air control with vernier. The trick is to adjust that secondary so you have a sustained hot burn above the wood (it mostly burns the wood gas) but no less air. The result is a wood burn with no smoke and no smell as it should be. ... If you have to cut and split your own firewood you will learn to be frugal :-) I just split another half cord of oak, by hand. Yet I'd never pollute the neighborhood with smoke. Smoke crawling out of the chimney means lots of unburnt particles in there so dampering a fire down too much is actually a wasteful use of firewood. This is the key fact that most self-proclaimed "experienced" wood stove users do not understand. Perhaps, today. But when I was a boy wood fires were apparently much better understood although no one worried about smoke in the sense of contaminating the atmosphere but certainly in the sense that they weren't burning the wood efficiently and therefore "wasting" wood... I remember the not so good old days when as a cyclist I came through small valleys or villages during winter and had to cough. There are undoubtedly lots of people who lived there and needlessly and gruesomely died of lung cancer because residents didn't know how to properly operate a wood stove. remember that in a northern New England climate where things certainly do freeze that what's in the woodshed has to last until spring as the snow is too deep to get to the woods to cut more. My grandfather used to spend a month a year cutting trees in his "wood lot", cutting to length, splitting and hauling back to town in order to heat his house for the winter. We have become decadent and now buy 3-4 cords/year. I add about a cord each year from our yard and from splitting rounds that neighbors didn't want. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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On Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 3:23:19 PM UTC-8, Joerg wrote:
On 2019-11-13 14:49, John B. wrote: On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 07:31:27 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-12 17:00, John B. wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:39:34 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-12 14:43, John B. wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 07:03:29 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-11 20:29, John B. wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 06:58:31 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-09 14:57, John B. wrote: [...] In fact I can't remember any house having it's chimney cleaned so it must not have been a common happening. That is like with safety belts, grandpa's car didn't have them and he lived well into his 90's. Yet we won't drive without. I'm not saying that they don't happen, just that I never saw it happen and we lived in one neighborhood and my grandparents lived about a mile away and I think that if a chimney fire had happened in either neighborhood it would have been BIG NEWS all up an down the street so I think I would have heard about it. But I would winder about why a chimney fire occurred twice within a reasonable length of time. Not setting their stove correctly, i.e., burning too rich a mixture and generating too much "soot"? The usual, making a fire in the stove and dampering it down too much. That results in a hardcore creosote layer. They had smoke crawling out of the chimney all the time. Even after those fires they did not learn. Most people do not learn this, for whatever reason. Problem is that the incompetence on the part of people with wood stoves also results in a lot of wood burning bans that hit people who are competent in that domain. Probably a defect in the modern educational system. Nobody seems to be educated regarding how to manage wood fires any more. :-) To my surprise the vast majority of "smoky burners" are old people. They are also very resistant to learning anything knew about it, proclaiming to be experts. One woman had the chimney smoking so bad that people walking farther up the street started coughing. She usually threw one lone log into the stove with just a few burning embers in there and didn't even bother to open the air intakes. Upon suggesting to do it a little differently she respomnded "Well, that's how my late husband always did it and he knew!" Loyalty! I just love it :-) But both the "damper" in the pipe and the air inlets on the stove work together to control the fire and improper adjustment have a major effect on both the heat generated and the amount of wood burned. Modern stoves like ours only have inlet controls. Primary air jets for the initial phase (on/off control) and then a secondary air control with vernier. The trick is to adjust that secondary so you have a sustained hot burn above the wood (it mostly burns the wood gas) but no less air. The result is a wood burn with no smoke and no smell as it should be. ... If you have to cut and split your own firewood you will learn to be frugal :-) I just split another half cord of oak, by hand. Yet I'd never pollute the neighborhood with smoke. Smoke crawling out of the chimney means lots of unburnt particles in there so dampering a fire down too much is actually a wasteful use of firewood. This is the key fact that most self-proclaimed "experienced" wood stove users do not understand. Perhaps, today. But when I was a boy wood fires were apparently much better understood although no one worried about smoke in the sense of contaminating the atmosphere but certainly in the sense that they weren't burning the wood efficiently and therefore "wasting" wood... I remember the not so good old days when as a cyclist I came through small valleys or villages during winter and had to cough. There are undoubtedly lots of people who lived there and needlessly and gruesomely died of lung cancer because residents didn't know how to properly operate a wood stove. remember that in a northern New England climate where things certainly do freeze that what's in the woodshed has to last until spring as the snow is too deep to get to the woods to cut more. My grandfather used to spend a month a year cutting trees in his "wood lot", cutting to length, splitting and hauling back to town in order to heat his house for the winter. We have become decadent and now buy 3-4 cords/year. I add about a cord each year from our yard and from splitting rounds that neighbors didn't want. Don't you guys have NG? https://energykinetics.com/savingshe...elcomparisons/ NG beats every other fuel in terms of cost per therm and low levels of pollutants. -- Jay Beattie. |
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On 11/13/2019 6:59 PM, jbeattie wrote:
On Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 3:23:19 PM UTC-8, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-13 14:49, John B. wrote: On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 07:31:27 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-12 17:00, John B. wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:39:34 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-12 14:43, John B. wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 07:03:29 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-11 20:29, John B. wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 06:58:31 -0800, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-09 14:57, John B. wrote: [...] In fact I can't remember any house having it's chimney cleaned so it must not have been a common happening. That is like with safety belts, grandpa's car didn't have them and he lived well into his 90's. Yet we won't drive without. I'm not saying that they don't happen, just that I never saw it happen and we lived in one neighborhood and my grandparents lived about a mile away and I think that if a chimney fire had happened in either neighborhood it would have been BIG NEWS all up an down the street so I think I would have heard about it. But I would winder about why a chimney fire occurred twice within a reasonable length of time. Not setting their stove correctly, i.e., burning too rich a mixture and generating too much "soot"? The usual, making a fire in the stove and dampering it down too much. That results in a hardcore creosote layer. They had smoke crawling out of the chimney all the time. Even after those fires they did not learn. Most people do not learn this, for whatever reason. Problem is that the incompetence on the part of people with wood stoves also results in a lot of wood burning bans that hit people who are competent in that domain. Probably a defect in the modern educational system. Nobody seems to be educated regarding how to manage wood fires any more. :-) To my surprise the vast majority of "smoky burners" are old people. They are also very resistant to learning anything knew about it, proclaiming to be experts. One woman had the chimney smoking so bad that people walking farther up the street started coughing. She usually threw one lone log into the stove with just a few burning embers in there and didn't even bother to open the air intakes. Upon suggesting to do it a little differently she respomnded "Well, that's how my late husband always did it and he knew!" Loyalty! I just love it :-) But both the "damper" in the pipe and the air inlets on the stove work together to control the fire and improper adjustment have a major effect on both the heat generated and the amount of wood burned. Modern stoves like ours only have inlet controls. Primary air jets for the initial phase (on/off control) and then a secondary air control with vernier. The trick is to adjust that secondary so you have a sustained hot burn above the wood (it mostly burns the wood gas) but no less air. The result is a wood burn with no smoke and no smell as it should be. ... If you have to cut and split your own firewood you will learn to be frugal :-) I just split another half cord of oak, by hand. Yet I'd never pollute the neighborhood with smoke. Smoke crawling out of the chimney means lots of unburnt particles in there so dampering a fire down too much is actually a wasteful use of firewood. This is the key fact that most self-proclaimed "experienced" wood stove users do not understand. Perhaps, today. But when I was a boy wood fires were apparently much better understood although no one worried about smoke in the sense of contaminating the atmosphere but certainly in the sense that they weren't burning the wood efficiently and therefore "wasting" wood... I remember the not so good old days when as a cyclist I came through small valleys or villages during winter and had to cough. There are undoubtedly lots of people who lived there and needlessly and gruesomely died of lung cancer because residents didn't know how to properly operate a wood stove. remember that in a northern New England climate where things certainly do freeze that what's in the woodshed has to last until spring as the snow is too deep to get to the woods to cut more. My grandfather used to spend a month a year cutting trees in his "wood lot", cutting to length, splitting and hauling back to town in order to heat his house for the winter. We have become decadent and now buy 3-4 cords/year. I add about a cord each year from our yard and from splitting rounds that neighbors didn't want. Don't you guys have NG? https://energykinetics.com/savingshe...elcomparisons/ NG beats every other fuel in terms of cost per therm and low levels of pollutants. -- Jay Beattie. Good idea. What's the cost of trucking propane from Oregon to Wisconsin this year? https://www.wisfarmer.com/story/news...in/4096818002/ -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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