http://www.farmersalmanac.com/blog/2009/01/14/surviving-the-cold/ Weather, Gardening, Full Moons, Best Days and more. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:49:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.farmersalmanac.com/blog/2009/01/14/surviving-the-cold/comment-page-1/#comment-663 carol Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:28:23 +0000 http://www.farmersalmanac.com/blog/?p=677#comment-663 Robert, Talk about wood is work, it warms you up at least 7 times, cutting splitting and stacking! You handle each piece of wood at least 7 times before it's all stacked and covered for the winter! Sometimes I used to remember an individual piece of wood that would hit me in the shin or pinched my finger, and I still had to handle it a few more times. Peace & Blessed Be... Robert,
Talk about wood is work, it warms you up at least 7 times, cutting splitting and stacking! You handle each piece of wood at least 7 times before it’s all stacked and covered for the winter! Sometimes I used to remember an individual piece of wood that would hit me in the shin or pinched my finger, and I still had to handle it a few more times.
Peace & Blessed Be…

]]> http://www.farmersalmanac.com/blog/2009/01/14/surviving-the-cold/comment-page-1/#comment-628 Robert Stanhope Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:40:42 +0000 http://www.farmersalmanac.com/blog/?p=677#comment-628 Burning wood is allot of work and can be vary dirty but their is a major gratification to seeing that low heating bill and knowing that your house is as warm as you want it with out turning up that thermostat. I recently took the grate out of my fireplace and replaced it with a grate heater and now I’m heating my whole house with my fireplace. A fireplace is about 5% heat efficient and this they claim makes it a 120,000 BTU per hour furnace and I believe it you can’t make to big of a fire or you will run you’re self out. I bought the grate heater on ebay it was called insertafurnace it was the only one with a screen. I also found the website http://www.insertafurnace.com/

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