woke mobs are coming for my gas stove

which?

  • convection

    Votes: 1 9.1%

  • propane

    Votes: 3 27.3%

  • grill

    Votes: 1 9.1%

  • i cook my food on a burning rubber tire

    Votes: 6 54.5%
  • Total voters
    11
Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke

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Herb & Suds said:
Having heated a home for two years cutting, hauling, chopping,splitting and cleaning up ashes…
Power companies may be underpaid
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I kinda agree. I have had wood heaters for most my life in many different homes. But the heats awesome and the way it attracts people to sit and chat by the fire is ancient and in our DNA.
Buying wood in is now more expensive than electric heating here but its just not the same and works when the power goes out.
 
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hillbill

hillbill

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I grew up shoveling chunk coal delivered by “People’s Coal” green truck. What is called firewood today was kept in the wood bin next to the coal bin hatchet split and used as kindling to start the coal. Like my Propane. And the walls don’t need washing every Spring.
 
Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke

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hillbill said:
I grew up shoveling chunk coal delivered by “People’s Coal” green truck. What is called firewood today was kept in the wood bin next to the coal bin hatchet split and used as kindling to start the coal. Like my Propane. And the walls don’t need washing every Spring.
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Burning coal? wow thats some 1800's stuff right there.
 
PadawanWarrior

PadawanWarrior

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Lucky Luke said:
I kinda agree. I have had wood heaters for most my life in many different homes. But the heats awesome and the way it attracts people to sit and chat by the fire is ancient and in our DNA.
Buying wood in is now more expensive than electric heating here but its just not the same and works when the power goes out.
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Our gas fireplace works fine when the power is out. The fan just doesn't run.
 
Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke

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PadawanWarrior said:
Our gas fireplace works fine when the power is out. The fan just doesn't run.
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i don't know anyone with a gas heater anymore. Been many years since I've seen one They all got converted back in the 80's. They don't pump out the heat that wood does and don't have the residual heat that a wood heater has.
 
Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke

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Herb & Suds said:
Easy
I shoveled tons of it in my grandparents house in Pennsylvania and the outhouse and cistern for water always had a black widow or two
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ive never experienced a coal fireplace. Seen a few in the old colonial buildings back when Australia was colonised by the Poms. I had a shit in a outhouse long drop toilet the other week. glad i didnt drop my phone.


 
PadawanWarrior

PadawanWarrior

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Lucky Luke said:
i don't know anyone with a gas heater anymore. Been many years since I've seen one They all got converted back in the 80's. They don't pump out the heat that wood does and don't have the residual heat that a wood heater has.
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It does have the residual heat though. Metal heats up and that heat radiates off it. The fan usually blows through the metal and out into the house, but if the power is off it just doesn't radiate off as fast. And people still get them installed. Along with lots of people doing pellet fireplaces. My son installs the shit.

The old fireplace was wood burning but the old owners put the gas insert fireplace in there. I like wood too, but it's not as clean. If it was the end of the world through I'd rip this shit out and turn it back into a wood burning fireplace. Until then don't woke me up.
 
Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke

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PadawanWarrior said:
It does have the residual heat though. Metal heats up and that heat radiates off it. The fan usually blows through the metal and out into the house, but if the power is off it just doesn't radiate off as fast. And people still get them installed. Along with lots of people doing pellet fireplaces. My son installs the shit.

The old fireplace was wood burning but the old owners put the gas insert fireplace in there. I like wood too, but it's not as clean. If it was the end of the world through I'd rip this shit out and turn it back into a wood burning fireplace. Until then don't woke me up.
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Not like a thick metal wood heater. As i said i haven't seen a gas heater for years. The last models i saw were quite small and you can move them to different bayonets in the house. They are not a popular choice here like they were in the 80's. They have gone the way of Oil and Kerosene heaters of the 70's. Pellet fires ae becoming more and more popular but again you need electricity for them to work and they seem expensive for the fuel.
Australia sells a shit ton of gas to the world but its not something that we use in home heating. The vast majority of new homes are ducted reverse cycle air.

Being woke just means you are good at history really.
 
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Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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Herb & Suds said:
Having heated a home for two years cutting, hauling, chopping,splitting and cleaning up ashes…
Power companies may be underpaid
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I lived in MN in highschool, and we had a wood furnace, to supplement the oil furnace.
You have a pretty valid point. Cutting, transporting, splitting, stacking wood, bringing it in to burn, and then cleaning the ashes out and disposing of them is a hell of a lot more work than turning the thermostat up or down a couple of degrees. How much of a savings is it after you count your time, your effort, the gas for the chain saw...The eventual thrown out back, the potential heart attack...
 
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