Homelite410
Hack with a CNC Mill
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Wood heat is in my blood! Dad grew up with an old Ashley in the living room and I have heard the tales of grandpa draining the oil out of the M farmall and A John Deere, and setting it atop the old stove until it almost smoked and then pouring it back in the tractor to coax it to start on the sub zero days!
I grew up in an old farm house with a Des Moines coal furnace central radiant style and we were never cold. The house I bought 4 years ago had a brand new lp furnace installed when we bought it and the first thing I did was check out the chimney! Well all be darned the chimney already was clay lined and we were in business. My first stove was a Montgomery wards, thin, add-on furnace that with a fire 24-7, pillowed real bad inside, but for 100.00 it kept us warm for 2 years. I was at a garage sale one day and there sat a Clayton 1600 (us stoves) that been used 2 seasons. I quickly laid down the money and that one still keeps us warm now. As for the other stove I put it out by the garage and piped the heat in the window and that stove gets all the un-stackable or bug infested crap I don't want in the house! Yes I rely on power, but have a small generator to run it if the power goes out!
I grew up in an old farm house with a Des Moines coal furnace central radiant style and we were never cold. The house I bought 4 years ago had a brand new lp furnace installed when we bought it and the first thing I did was check out the chimney! Well all be darned the chimney already was clay lined and we were in business. My first stove was a Montgomery wards, thin, add-on furnace that with a fire 24-7, pillowed real bad inside, but for 100.00 it kept us warm for 2 years. I was at a garage sale one day and there sat a Clayton 1600 (us stoves) that been used 2 seasons. I quickly laid down the money and that one still keeps us warm now. As for the other stove I put it out by the garage and piped the heat in the window and that stove gets all the un-stackable or bug infested crap I don't want in the house! Yes I rely on power, but have a small generator to run it if the power goes out!