Firest Fire of the Winter Season

Jim Taylor
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Monday, December 29, 2025, 17:24 (207 days ago)

I have kept a fire going in the wood burning stove for

Gary Reeder
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Monday, December 29, 2025, 19:44 (207 days ago) @ Jim Taylor

the last 3 or 4 days. It was 14 degrees this morning when I got up so I got a fire going real quick. We have 3 wood burning stoves, 2 heating type stoves and a wood cook stove I had shipped out here from Knoxville Tenn after we had gone thru the first big heavy snow season. That stove is exactly like they sold 200 years ago. It will heat up the whole rear part of the house. And once I learned how the thermostat worked it is easy to cook on.

I love a wood stove.

Jim Taylor
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Monday, December 29, 2025, 19:57 (207 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

We had 3 of them in the house in Oracle. I want to put an insert into the fireplace. Sure makes the wood last longer and get better heat out of it.

I love a wood stove too, radiant heat!

WB
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Tuesday, December 30, 2025, 08:47 (206 days ago) @ Jim Taylor

We do not have one though. I do use those "Buddy" propane heaters a bunch. It provides the same "back up to it" warm heat. I use them in the shop and bathroom on very cold mornings. I have the long hose and 20 lb. bottle kit too for the shop.

Every few years I have to take the jet orifice out and make certain the piezoelectric striker is lighting the pilot. You might need to tweak the igniter to strike on the edge of the gas tube, just right. I just tuned up one last night, strikes instantly. I have the "Big Buddy" models with dual ceramic plates and two one pound bottles. If I ever meet the inventor I'll hug his neck. Once after an ice storm we heated the entire house with it (1800 sq. ft.). We slept int eh living room but it was toasty in there, about 60 deg. in the back, in the teens outside! For $150 or so you can't go wrong. (I bought mine for about $90 ten years ago!)

There is nothing like a good wood stove

Dave H.
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Monday, December 29, 2025, 22:52 (206 days ago) @ Jim Taylor

To keep things warm, dry and toasty. Gotta love ‘em

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