Posted on 01/07/2014 8:04:38 AM PST by CedarDave
I am so cold.
FUEPA.
I’m in Tampa and freezing. good grief I’m screwed
Just did some looking - you can run a diesel motor on kerosene if you add 1 part motor oil per 75 parts kerosene.
“Oil drip wood stove has a small stainless steel tube with a flow-control valve that drips used motor oil on the wood fire.
The wood acts like a wick and doesn’t burn up unless it runs out of oil.
I wouldn’t put one in a house, but they work great to heat a garage or pole barn.”
I used to hang out with a group of grimy mechanics who had a 55 gallon barrel stove. They burned used motor oil in it and it belched smoke like a locomotive.
Kept the shop toasty warm.
When you’re retired, the cost of really good equipment gets put aside. I’m in the Harbor Freight league now. /s
This old farm house is 60 years old and was built from Red Oak that was cut and milled on the farm. It’s solidly built but I replaced all of the old original windows about five years ago with the Low-e double pane gas filled windows. It’s much easier to heat now, especially with the wood stove. I can’t afford to use electric heat exclusively. We try to cut downed trees on the farm when we can but we can even buy wood a lot cheaper than we can buy electric heat. We have 14 acres of hardwood on the farm with 30 acres of hay fields. We make out much better than people in town. Rural people, especially the middle and older generations, will not put up with the government messing with their wood stoves. We also bought one of those little infrared heaters for the end of the house that the wood stove can’t completely warm, especially at night. I can fill the wood stove’s wood box before bedtime, turn the damper down some, and it will heat all night until about 6:00am. By then it’s down to hot coals but it’s still warm. The infrared’s use less electricity than the heat pump and I set the thermostat on it at 65 or 68 so that it doesn’t run all the time. Electric heat for us is for backup only or when it’s cool but not cold enough to fire up the wood stove.
I’m running on all the good stuff I bought before I retired.
Most of my OPE is > 20 yrs old LOL.
It’s so cold, it’d freeze the balls off a pool table.....
Anyone who knows even a modicum of Soviet history knows what is happening here.
The LOPI Endeavor we have has big flat hotspot right up front. We only have a boiling pot there for some humidity.
These do not have the damn cat converters and is why I bought the first one. Instead it uses a re-burner that forces the hot fluegas back into the stove so its better than a cat converter AND you get the extra heat instead of it going out the pipe.
We use our’s almost 100% for winter heat and with all the drought killed oaks in East Texas firewood is now cheap. Its even cheaper if like my Ol GrandDad used to say “cutting your own firewood warms you twice”.
I have gas central heating and the amount I pay every month to our homeowners assn. covers any amount of gas or water I use.
I'm in southeastern Texas about 60 miles north from downtown Houston. In winter, we usually don't get more than two times when the temp. drops below the 20s at night and seldom gets into the lower 20s during the day. In a shtf situation, I have an approved for indoors propane stove that runs off the small bottles of propane. I would use that in my living/kitchen area to cut the cold and then turn it off. I have two sleeping bags that keep you warm down to 0. I would sit in one in my chair and put it on my bed at night to sleep in. That will get me through the few times I would need to do that.
I have numerous ways, I think it's six ways, to cook that doesn't require wood. I have enough canned heat and several Sterno stoves to cook food for a year inside and that adds a little heat to the room. I have enough jar candles to heat food and provide light and a little heat, for a year. Outside are several ways and the absolute it will last forever, is my professional built Rocket stove that cooks at a high heat using twigs, not logs.
I do have an outside fireplace and that accepts logs which I have, plus charcoal, or anything that burns. It has a cooking grill to prepare food outside. Then there is the propane grill outside with two large containers of propane, then there is the charcoal grill. Oh, yes, I have a ceramic Japanese round smallish grill that will cook with using 7 charcoal briquettes - that could make it 7 ways to cook.
I know what you mean about cutting firewood. I sat around and didn’t build up my supply when it was plentiful. I didn’t expect December to be as cold as it was and I will be using my seasoned wood sparingly the rest of the winter.
Don’t know nothing about all that cat stuff and don’t want to. Might if I lived in town.
Now that’s a good tidbit to know. Thanks!!!
Mine’s so old, it antique.
I have the same make and model - it was one of the best things I did when I built my house. The worst? Since I'm single I did the kitchen wrong - it's due for a make over come spring and summer.
“...Global Warming Emperors have no clothes.”
GoreBull Warming is a real bitch...
Well, “Meat is murder” , you know.
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