Whatzit?

[rogruth]

Burning the outhouse contents.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Burning the outhouse contents.

Nasty!

[rogruth]

Burning the outhouse contents.

Nasty!

Yes, but it was done. Sometimes the fire would burn the "hole" building down if it wasn't watched.
I guess that is not the answer.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Burning the outhouse contents.

Nasty!

Yes, but it was done. Sometimes the fire would burn the "hole" building down if it wasn't watched.
I guess that is not the answer.

Hmmmmm...........I guess. Never knew that to be done.

[rogruth]

Nasty!

Yes, but it was done. Sometimes the fire would burn the "hole" building down if it wasn't watched.
I guess that is not the answer.

Hmmmmm...........I guess. Never knew that to be done.

I have seen this process used in southeastern Ohio hill areas to "empty" the paper contents of outhouses.
This was 60 to 80 years ago.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yes, but it was done. Sometimes the fire would burn the "hole" building down if it wasn't watched.
I guess that is not the answer.

Hmmmmm...........I guess. Never knew that to be done.

I have seen this process used in southeastern Ohio hill areas to "empty" the paper contents of outhouses.
This was 60 to 80 years ago.

We just tore them down and buried the rest.

[webenda]

Fire Place is close.

The image is related to the wood or coal stoves once found in cabooses.


It is a wood stove designed for houses.


They are very popular in Kentucky.

Most of the heat in a fireplace goes up the chimney. The wood stove is different in that the entire wood stove gets too hot to touch. In the above image the thermostat for the heat pump is reading 79 °F. The thermostat is set to 60 °F and has not started the heat pump yet, even at night.

The wood stove costs about the same to heat the house as the heat pump. Running the heat pump in September raised our electric bill by $32/month. Two ricks of wood cost us $70 and has lasted from early November with enough left to last through January.

The one we have has an adjustable air supply. At night we throttle the air supply and the exhaust to slow down the combustion (flames go out but timbers continue to glow all night. In the morning we open it up and throw a log in. The log bursts into flames in a few minutes.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Most of the heat in a fireplace goes up the chimney.

That is highly dependent on the enclosure and doors that should be installed front of a fireplace, and just how far one opens the chimney draft. A plain, open fireplace w/o a controllable chimney draft is highly inefficient. One with glass doors such as mine can heat the space quite nicely and the surrounding brick well through the night long after the fire is out. I let it go out rarely bothering to put in large enough wood to hold overnight.

How big is your local rick of wood - a rick is a rather variable volume vs. a cord. And what kind of wood is it?

[webenda]

How big is your local rick of wood - a rick is a rather variable volume vs. a cord. And what kind of wood is it?

A rick is 4 ft x 8 ft x (15 - 30 inches). The last load seemed to be cut to 18 inches ± 3 inches. Most suppliers tight stack the wood. We drove out to the lowest price supplier to find the wood loose stacked with many round pieces. Our current supplier brings close to 1/3 cord and delivery is free.

The wood is "What ever is in the strand I am cutting." Last year it was half white oak and half red oak. He said there was some hickory in the load. I suspect the gnarly split wood is hickory.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

How big is your local rick of wood - a rick is a rather variable volume vs. a cord. And what kind of wood is it?

A rick is 4 ft x 8 ft x (15 - 30 inches). The last load seemed to be cut to 18 inches ± 3 inches. Most suppliers tight stack the wood. We drove out to the lowest price supplier to find the wood loose stacked with many round pieces. Our current supplier brings close to 1/3 cord and delivery is free.

I know what a rick is -- it's the width or length of the cut that's the variable vs. a cord. My 1st job was splitting firewood - $10/cord stacked on the truck.

The wood is "What ever is in the strand I am cutting." Last year it was half white oak and half red oak. He said there was some hickory in the load. I suspect the gnarly split wood is hickory.

Might be hickory, but I've not found it to be gnarly; pin oak at times is, but large white oak could be. Hickory has a distinctive aroma; you'll know when you are burning it. My wood is whatever the neighbors are having taken down or I'm having trimmed. My fire tonight is mainly red and pin oak with a bit of poplar mixed in; maybe some old maple.....

[webenda]

How big is your local rick of wood - a rick is a rather variable volume vs. a cord.

A rick is 4 ft x 8 ft x (15 - 30 inches). The last load seemed to be cut to 18 inches ± 3 inches. Our current supplier brings close to 1/3 cord and delivery is free.

I know what a rick is -- it's the width or length of the cut that's the variable vs. a cord. My 1st job was splitting firewood - $10/cord stacked on the truck.

Perhaps I should have phrased my answer this way:

A "local" rick is 4 ft x 8 ft x (15 - 30 inches). The last load seemed to be cut to 18 inches ± 3 inches. Our current supplier brings close to 1/3 cord.

[webenda]

I suspect the gnarly split wood is hickory.

Might be hickory, but I've not found it to be gnarly; pin oak at times is, but large white oak could be. Hickory has a distinctive aroma; you'll know when you are burning it.

Thank you. The ones with a nice aroma were cleanly split.
The gnarly ones are hard to split, there being many strands of wood holding the halves together as it splits. Maybe I will save one and ask the locals what it is.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The gnarly ones are hard to split, there being many strands of wood holding the halves together as it splits. Maybe I will save one and ask the locals what it is.

If you are unlucky, it's elm. Stringy, nasty to split, and hard to burn unless well aged.

If you are lucky, it's pin oak. That'll burn!

The two are very different in coloration and grain.

[webenda]

Whatzit?

[rogruth]

A Jackson Pollack painting ? Naw, too uncluttered.