[Stoves] Re-inventing the Wheel, Time and Time Again.

[Julien Winter]

Hello stovers;


Just as an interesting aside.   In the 1970s, my family purchased a 150
year-old farm house in Eastern Ontario.  In the basement was wood furnace
that ate a small forest every winter, and a Bellanger cooking range in the
kitchen.  Both of these were bottom-grate stoves, with a small amount of
secondary air coming through the door for loading wood.   As a result, it
was routine practice to take down all the stove pipes every 6 weeks, and
burn the creosote and soot out of them.  Lit from the bottom, these pipes
would go off like a rocket.  Around the county, it wasn't uncommon for
someone's home to be lost in a chimney fire.  It is astounding, given that
fire was domesticated by pre-human ancestors, that humans have been so
incredibly bad at burning biomass cleanly until only recently --- or the
technology keeps on being invented and forgotten, because I'll bet the
Romans were no fools with fire.

Cheers,
Julien

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Julien Winter
Cobourg, ON, CANADA
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