[Greenbuilding] Wood heat

[Ron Cascio]

When we renovated a 100 year old farm building into a hunting shed a few 
years back, we built the wood shed on the outside wall just behind the 
woodstove. Built a small double door (one inside, one outside) hatch so one 
could open both and load wood from the woodshed directly onto the brick 
hearth next to the stove. Works like a charm.

At our old house we had a woodshed that held three cords about located 50' 
from the house. Best dog I ever had... all I had to do was open the door and 
say; "Mango, get some firewood." and that dog would bring wood into the 
house and drop it right next to the stove until I said; "Good boy". I miss 
that darn dog, for more reasons than there are words to describe.

Ron


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clarke Olsen" <colsen at fairpoint.net>
To: "Environmentally-preferable design, construction, building elements" 
<greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org>
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Wood heat


> We all know that getting/keeping firewood dry is essential to making
> wood heat practical,
> but planing for wood storage is often overlooked. Unless you can
> build-in a clever load-from-outside,
> remove-from-inside double door bin, my experience is it's a lot
> easier to fill a wood bin close to the
> door. Carrying wood from there to the stove is not such a chore when
> the door is closed and your
> feet are dry...
> Clarke Olsen
> 373 route 203
> Spencertown, NY 12165
> USA
> 518-392-4640
> colsen at fairpoint.net
>
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