Have any counties baned heating w/wood? (gated, to live in)

[jabogitlu]

I'm sorry, but burning wood is the most natural way to heat anything. How do you think man kept warm and cooked food for thousands of years? Now personally I think it's a bit messy and hard work but...

All of my family grew up with wood burning heat sources, and my maternal grandmother grew up in a house with no electricity (i.e., a wood-burning cookstove). So far they're all doing quite well and lasting into their eighties with no real problems... so...

[Bones]

Originally Posted by jabogitlu

I'm sorry, but burning wood is the most natural way to heat anything. How do you think man kept warm and cooked food for thousands of years? Now personally I think it's a bit messy and hard work but...
All of my family grew up with wood burning heat sources, and my maternal grandmother grew up in a house with no electricity (i.e., a wood-burning cookstove). So far they're all doing quite well and lasting into their eighties with no real problems... so...

Jab, yes a wood stove is messy.....but it feels so good on a day like today when it's 17 degrees and snowing.....

[RS-1080]

Originally Posted by Bones

Jab, yes a wood stove is messy.....but it feels so good on a day like today when it's 17 degrees and snowing.....

Amen to that.


Another thing about wood, your in good shape if the electricity goes out

[marmac]

---if-- you have a wood stove inside a house, check with your insurance company for proper instalation.

I've seen some wood stoves set up in a house so improper that the parents should have been charged with child endangerment for the fire hazzard it was.

Amazing how many people know how to operate a chainsaw safely but then burn that firewood in a set-up that is a hazzard.

At least outside operating the chainsaw, they are mainly a danger only to themselves. Setting up an improperly installed wood stove puts their entire family at risk ( including little kids)

[Mark-faf]

I have burned wood, (though not in TN), for 35 years and I consider myself a "tree hugger". Here's the deal. I use a modern EPA approved catalytic wood stove, properly installed. When the catalyst is ignited, you can't see or smell any smoke from the chimney. It is 80% efficient. Wood heat is "carbon neutral", so it does not contribute to global warming. You are either cutting your heat yourself, or your money goes to a hard working local bloke making a living, not some third world country loaded with terrorists. So there!

[Capt. Dan]

Originally Posted by RS-1080

LOL, some also complain that the methane and ammonia in cow poop rise into the air causing problems too. Good lord, should they be banned also? What'll they do to stop 'em? Kill 'em all ... or just plug their but with a cork so they'll die without wasting bullets or putting gunsmoke in the air?


I like firewood ... I like beef ... I like to hunt & fish and also love to shoot my guns. Glad to live in Tennessee where I doubt we'll see any of them banned. There's a reason I've never left Tennessee ... it's also known as '' God's Country ''

NO SH*T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ss20ts]

Originally Posted by Mark-faf

I have burned wood, (though not in TN), for 35 years and I consider myself a "tree hugger". Here's the deal. I use a modern EPA approved catalytic wood stove, properly installed. When the catalyst is ignited, you can't see or smell any smoke from the chimney. It is 80% efficient. Wood heat is "carbon neutral", so it does not contribute to global warming. You are either cutting your heat yourself, or your money goes to a hard working local bloke making a living, not some third world country loaded with terrorists. So there!

Yay baby!!!! Buy American!!

[garxhap]

Originally Posted by klosk

I am not allowed to talk about where I come from on this site but I can tell you in many states there are "NO Burn" days to compensate for the bad air pollution. Glad to see Tennessee doesn't have to worry about those kind of days.

Why can't you say where you live? Are you in the Witness Protection Program?

[JoAnn5]

Oh i love my wood stove in the fall and winter!! Nothing like the smell of wood, and nothing warmer to heat with, in my opinion! Of course, it makes a bit of a mess with the ashes and the crumbles from the wood bark, but it's worth it... Love it when my neighbor across the field has their fire going too! I can remember sitting in my grandparents house in front of their fireplace watching the flames.. when i was just a little girl... and they both lived to be almost 90.

[skinem]

You know what they say about wood--it warms you twice.

I was warmed today...