EPA Banning Wood Stoves Jan. 2023 Off Grid Living In A Tiny House
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Without wood stoves most of our ancestors would have froze to death. The EPA is off their rocker with the regulations.
@William Burroughs yeah and we have also seemed to get obese and lazy and barely the world superpower.
@William Burroughs if it isnt broke, dont fix it. some things are timeless. its simple and works.
@William Burroughs And we also have people eating tide pods....Your point is ?
@William Burroughs Yo, Willie, the life expectancy in most third world countries is still less then 50, even with all your technology. Didn't think that one through huh?
@William Burroughs SOY BOY... your mommy is calling you.
I'm getting really tired of the government banning stuff...I'm at the point where I don't give a rats acc what the government ban's FJB
Control NWO
One day you can buy a firearm and its ok. The next day they make an new law and you can be a FELON for owing it.... THIS IS REAL... Joe Biden give me a fucking break..
And it is your attitude that will bring about a complete ban on things! Regulations like these are meant for the good of the many.. Not the ignorant and selfish few
@@keeneterry1603 Good of many... You actually think adding MORE laws will be good for many... Like a criminal will follow the law anyways... Ignorant is your middle name... IF gun laws worked? why is Chicago a shooting range Like 1000 people a year get shot in Chicago alone.. When its just about ILLEGAL to carry a firearm... I Like to talk FACTS and gun laws wont change ANYTHING... there are More guns then people in the USA... IN 2021 there were almost 100+ million back ground checks done since 2019. My atitude is for my Constitutional Rights. And There is a REASON Police officers are Sworn an Oath to UPHOLD the constitution!! You think its about Deer hunting and duck hunting??? Lets talk about Ignorance...
Right out of the new paper.
In the first five months of the year, there were 971 shootings, compared to 1,151 for the same time period in 2021 and 961 in 2020, according to police numbers. In 2019, there were 736 shootings in that same period.
@@keeneterry1603 If you like a government to tell you what to do on YOUR private property go live in some Communist place... Leave the LAND of the FREE alone.. You cant tell a person they cant heat there home with a wood stove.. Thats like telling a person they cant eat meat its animal cruelty...Give me a break..
Funny thing about the EPA banning these wood stoves, that may be no longer the case. There was a Supreme Court case concerning the EPA, and the court ruled against the EPA saying that the EPA cannot just make up new laws as it sees fit. This case was decided within the past 3 or 4 months. I’m sorry I don’t know who the claimant was, but it should be easy to find.
all three branches are private for profit establishments and have been since 1871. stop paying any tax, we have no government, only for profit trust's controlled by foreign actors.
They just need the guns, final act in this play.
West Virginia verses EPA
EPA, alongside other governmental agencies think that they can "mandate" whenever they feel like it......tell them to go back to Hell where they came from !
When you apply that same ruling to the IRS and interesting thing happens...
@@mikepowell8611
Anyone still willing giving their money to the govt is a fool.
And we all know...."a fool and his money...."
West Virginia vs EPA is definitely going to prove a problem for the EPA to regulate it any further.
We are LUCKY... WEST VIRGINIA already "BANNED" the EPA regulating FIRES for a.) Heating Source, b.) Cooking of Food, d.) Processing of Resources and Materials, etc... and the BIG ONE... FULL EXEMPTION FOR PRIVATE RESIDENTS....
One can only hope.
Chevron deference will be a blocking mechanism for sure.
and us in MAine fat chance
Bingo
Seriously inhumane to ban heat in cold climates.
Seriously against the law in the great state of Maine.
Supreme Court over ruled EPA.
Who says the bureaucrats in question are human?🤣
It’s their job to be inhumane. It supports the overall mission of government to decrease the size of the population.
Epa isn't elected. It's hired on staff and the director of the epa is appointed by the president. The epa has no jurisdiction to make law. They can only enforce laws that are drafted and passed into law by legislation. Their so called "laws" are merely recommendations or requests. What they don't know doesn't hurt either. It's my family's health and wellbeing over these ss gustaf ding bats.
How can anyone not love smelling the smoke from a wood stove burning??
I love it. We have a fireplace that we use all the time.
It makes absolutely NO difference to the environment if the smoke, etc. from wood fires enters the atmosphere; OR, the very same wood simply ROTS and DECAYS and simply slowly and invisibly enters the atmosphere via the Krebs (planetary carbon) Cycle.
To keep the EPA (goons) away from your personal business, simply build any fire only from well DRIED wood (less than 12% moisture), and make 'small' HOT fires with lots of air/oxygen ... to keep the small fire ... HOT!
If thats not good enough, consider to burn hard coal 'anthracite' for a smokeless 'blue' flame combustion.
If you smell smoke from any wood burning appliance, thats a direct indicator that something isn't correct and should be addressed.
I love the smell of burning wood . The people that complain are the ones that can't take advantage of the cheap heating bill in the winter. So they cry to big government.
Love it but if I smell it in the house then something is probably wrong.
The EPA needs to be dismantled ASAP!
I live in a small city in Southeastern Idaho. Been here since 1997. 90% of the homes built before the 1990s have fireplaces and/or wood stoves, my house has both. Anybody with experience using wood to heat their homes knows that the number one way to reduce smoke is to use wood that is as dry as it possibly can get. Number two, most smoke is produce while starting the fire, once the fire gets roaring there is very little smoke. It is usually people who don't know how to use wood as a source of heat, and don't clean out their chimneys, that create the smoke/fire problem. However, the climate is also a factor, during Winter we have several weeks of Arctic inversion, which pushes the air downward, during that time you will notice a haze in the air from all the families using their wood heat, especially since that is the coldest time of Winter. Something that is big here in rural Idaho are wood pellet stoves, they work great, very little smoke and a lot of heat! The pellets are made locally from reclaimed/scrap wood. I know several people who use them, but they are more expensive than old fashioned wood stoves and do use electricity to operate the automatic hopper and the temperature control. The EPA regulation is a clear case of government overreach, to try and control the few people who ruin things for everybody else.
Aaron, I have a small wood stove,(I have a small house), and use my furnace as a supplement to the stove. I have a couple points on your and other's comments.
So long as the wood is 'clean', no creosote, paint, other coatings or chemicals, the smoke is NOT a pollutant. Wood has been burning for longer than man had anything to do with it.
Smelling smoke in the house might not be a problem. I smell it any time I open the door to stoke the fire. If you SEE smoke a couple of minutes after you close the door, THAT might be an issue.
On the pellet stove part, I think they are great but I have a couple of issues with them. They require power. You can operate them on DC with adapters. No issue there. Problem 1, you can't, at this time, make your own pellets. 2 years ago pellets were "on allocation". Suppliers up to 2 hours away would only sell 1/2 ton per customer at a time. You are at the mercy of somebody else. Problem 2, the top surface doesn't get HOT. If all utility service in my area goes down for an extended time, I can cook on my little stove. Nothing fancy, but I can fry eggs or heat a can of beans. Likely? No. But doable if needed.
Stay comfy in Idaho. I'm just a few hours south.
@@kenhayhurst374 I have a wiseway pellet stove. No power. Gravity fed. Can be used for cooking with attachments. Heats my 16x70 mobile. Things awesome. Problem, prices have increased over 100% from 2 years ago for the stove. Pelles are 100 more this year at almost 300 a ton. But you can buy a pellet mill. Cost between 600 / 5000 to make your own pellets.
@@xxiisinneriixx3564 Is that that one that looks like a big "Z"? If so, I wasn't aware it came w/ cooking attachments.
Also, I figured there was a way to make pellets. If not, there would be soon.
All cool news. I have my house and 2 rentals(on same property). My main concern is water and heat. I have gensets for emergencies but always on the lookout for more 'permanent' and less 'fuel dependant'.
Thanks for the info.
@@kenhayhurst374 Thats the one. Last I checked they had multiple options for cooking/hot water/ fans etc. They were just too pricey and looked like something I could go to my local welder for. ( I also noticed theyre now assmbled or built n shipped from China, which wasnt always the case. So Im not sure if the information is there as it was from when they were locally built) Theyre needy little stoves. Need the bottom cleaned once every 2 or 3 days. The rest 1, 2 days a month to be safe depending on temp n time running. Im running it in a northern Michigan snow belt. Using it as my main source of heat. Parents use one to supliment. I know 3 others who use for main and supliment. Like most are mentioning here though, if they can get ya, they will. So the price of the unit is up a lot, and pellets too. Ideally, for my next home Ill be back to an iron stand alone wood stove with this wiseway I have now small pellet mill to capitalize on the cutting/splitting/projects so not to worry about pellet prices.
The pellet stoves are kinda noisy inside a house
I hereby outlaw all alphabet agencies
They won't be shutting my stove down
@William Burroughs bull
they will take you to the camps 😳
@@dalemclean5103 don't think so Tim
Do you have a private army? You do realize the EPA, along with the Dept of Agriculture and DOJ, and any other 3 letter agency you can name, have all militarized and have SWAT teams? You are far more dangerous than murderers and rapists and such like, because you don't conform to the NWO! They would have no qualms about killing you in order to shut your stove down.
is what you do is when the EPA comes and tells you no well start useing them for firewood I.E. put another EPA on the fire and open up another can of beer! lol lol
Sounds like a lawsuit against epa. The ruling in west virginia vs epa would apply. The ruling basically is epa does not have the authority to say what happens in a state
@William Burroughs The ATF does not even have a say in our state either! Heck, the Sheriffs and State Police are always asking if anyone see's an ATF Agent in their area, to call them ASAP so that they can be Arrested for Violating our State Laws. It is unlawful for ATF agents to act on their own within the bounds of our state. They have to go to the State Circuit Court and show where a resident has VIOLATED STATE LAW. If a resident has Violated a State Law, then the Court will notify the SHERIFF or STATE POLICE to handle the issue, NOT THE ATF, as it is a State Issue and the Federal Government has no authority over State Rights.
Vote Republican back into the government and agencies like the EPA will no longer have so much power.
@@eucliduschaumeau8813 We can only hope but the Republican Party is full of RINOs without spines.
My grandad used to put green wood w/a bit of dry/seasoned after supper & wouldn’t putt wood in it again till morning when he got up! One deer season I stopped @ their house to visit & quickly had to shed several layers. I looked at the thermometer & I asked Grandpa if he knew it was 92.5 degrees in the living room? His reply? Yeah son, I like er’ warm! 😆 Lost him in 10’ at the age of 90, making him born in 1920. My great grandparents on mother’s side was born in 1912. Lost grandma in 92’, then grandad in ‘04, almost 92! & he smoked 77-yrs! Different breed of people altogether. Had “indoor”, plumbing the last 4yrs of his life. Thought it was nasty to use the bathroom in your house. I’m almost 50 in the present day & I’ve used an outhouse & wood stove since I was old enough to carry wood! 1st house my wife & I bought had a literal concrete block outhouse w/cement floor with the appropriate hole, tin roof, double sided door, chain latch, chimney vent & actually had little rafters built for it. 😆
I hear ya brother. I'm heating with wood right now at 62.
We live and work on a southwestern ranch, so we already have a pretty low opinion of the EPA...
😂 No one has to comply. Ban together and sue them
The EPA has over stepped there authority like every govt agency
Agreed, it's time.
Such as the social security administration sending us the dollars we need to survive after corporations discard us for having too much experience.
Remove the tyrants
@William Burroughs Nothing wrong with that.
I'm a newbie subscriber and have watched only 2 of your videos. Yet I have learned things and heard things from you I never knew. The way you put things together and take things apart is very unique. I've watched a lot Preppers and off gridders but you seem to see things others don't. Thank you so much for sharing your world with us. God Speed to you and yours.
Thanks
The fact this conversation is even real is heart breaking. Land of the free my ass . You have no rights . Ban the EPA
Obviously not real cold where the negative people are… You live a winter in central New York and you’ll be in love with anything that gives you a heating advantage.
LOL , try northern Ontario dude , Trudope has commented on the same BS and i imagine the response was the same down there as up here , they can get bent , NOT happening , shove your mandates , etc... it shows the agenda pretty clearly when you look at it a bit closer !
They can ban them. It’s a good thing I know how to make them out of piping and cinder blocks
@@jerryeastman170 I’m not sure. California probably did
Once a stove is up to temp, it should produce nearly zero smoke if the wood is seasoned correctly and the operator knows how to build a fire.
Facts! Well said MJorgy5!
@William Burroughs I always try to season my firewood for a minimum of 18 months stacked on pallets. Wood stacked on the ground absorbs all the moisture out of the earth. This usually works for most woods, unless it's something dense like Locust or Oak that hasn't yet been split. The bigger the piece, the more time it takes to season. Woods like Birch or Maple will season in a year or less, if pre-split.
Missed you yesterday! Need my daily little house off grid fix! Lol!
Sorry
My wood stove has that pipe he showed, it really does work great. You can see all the smoke re-igniting, I guess it works functionally sort of like a simple catalytic converter. It also burns a lot less wood than before when I had a much older unit without that feature. I would said at least 1/3 less wood over the course of an evening fire, which is a big deal, much less wood to split and carry. It also has the blower, so much more of the heat is cycled into the living space, also very beneficial.
If things take the twists and turns I believe will take place in the next 25 to 30 years, wood stove's will still be around (albeit selectively and usually in rural areas) in the US, and the EPA will not be in 2050.
The only reason i can think of the epa banning wood stoves is co2. whicha court ruled the epa does not have the jurisdiction over.
Good explanation. Thank you and Carolyn. See you tomorrow 👋😊🐿
So then are fire places outlawed ? I don't understand if you can have a fire place but not a wood stove . The only real difference is a fireplace has a bigger flue.
Ya but a log can't roll out of your wood stove like it can the fireplace. Sparks fly out of the fireplace even with the screens on so the woodstove is safer but they will let you keep your dangerous fireplace. It don't make sense to me
BS iam keeping mine....
It’s control
@@tom-dr1ym that's just nuts. Thought we were moving away from fossil fuels,.nothing makes any since anymore.
It's all about control. The safety issue is just a cover.
USA banned gas to Europe....
(North Stream 2)
While out doing pizza delivery in the winter I love the smell when I drive by a house that’s burning wood.
Sir, growing up me & my Dad would not only cut firewood for the winter in fall & winter, but the other 1/2 of the work was falling green trees to let them season till next year so when we went to start cutting wood, we had ready to go dead & seasoned wood. Use oaks, hickory & other mid to soft woods like Hackberry. Walnut makes a gas that will make u very sick or worse, can’t split elm or maple & sycamore puts off a foul odor that u will not like! Sycamore is best used for furniture & pallets. I used to like to fall a small pine or find one dying, dead or already down, cut it up in 10-12” pieces then use a splinter or kindling axe/ hatchet to make of course kindling to start a FRESH fire only. The sap will pop & crack and can cause pressure in ur stove so don’t use much if any w/normal fire. It’s neat sometimes if you want to be romantic or it’s the holidays & nothing says Thanksgiving & Christmas like a crackling fire! Living the old ways is how I was raised but I choose now to use central air/heat. Our oldest 2 sons are on their own, our youngest boy will most likely never have to live the old ways but I still explain it to him & he looks at me like I’m from a different planet & besides Ive got a bad back but if times get hard, I’ve got MORE than 1 wood stove to use complete w/double wall insulated pipe, mortar, bricks, rocks and clay square sections to make a flu and ready to put in & take right off. Where I grew up in Missouri the 1st house I remember as a kid didn’t have running water, outhouse ONLY & a wood stove. Had to heat water on the stove for a warm bath in an old metal tub! Those were the good ole days! Used to think we were poor but didn’t realize till it was too late we were wealthy beyond measure! Can I get an Amen?😅 I’m not a “Cowboy”, just an old Ozark Mountains Missouri country boy that cut wood, mowed yards, hauled hay, dug fence post holes & built fence during summer break for money. Had to start filling taxes when I was 14yrs old! What I wouldn’t give to go back to those times again! Point being? Get yourself a wood stove people, it’s not rocket science! Just remember to 1st cut the dead or dying timber on your place first. Then pick out trees that are not valuable on the timber market, black oaks, some red oaks, whites are BEST, hickory but remember some make good nuts/protein, Mockernut, Bitternut, etc., then most importantly is to REPLANT so when you’ve worked ur way through the good “wood stove”, timber which if you plan & have oh say 20-acres, you can burn wood indefinitely! Only drawbacks are it’s a bit dusty w/wood & it may give some of you dry air nosebleeds, like it did me. However, get a metal 1-gallon coffee can, fill with water, place on top of stove & that should help w/any sinus problems. Not perfect but what is?👍
Love your videos. Missed you yesterday. Hope everyone and everything is going well with you.
If you start with some cardboard and kindling under your logs, you can light the cardboard and just close the stove door and it will get going quickly on it's own. I have used dead bamboo stalks (that have turned beige or white) and for me, there is nothing better to use as kindling, it burns hotter than wood and does a great job of getting the logs burning. BTW, I would never use wet wood, that's looking for trouble.
Thanks Chris for that advise.
Like 3/4 of Maine use a wood stove. The EPA and the government can suck one. Most of us use older stoves that work fine. Actually got smoke pouring outta the chimney now. 😃
The EPA is another arm of the globalist parasites who want us all living in colonies and eating insect eggs.
The problem with the old woodburning stoves is that they are not economical to run, you heat for the crows, and they let out small pollution articles into the air. In Norway, wood is the main source of heating in most homes, and we have had these regulations for years. Clean burning wood stoves. The technology gives more energy per log you put in there, the smoke/heat circulates inside the stove before released to the chimney and out into the air. People with already old woodstoves installed get to keep them, but when purchasing new, you need to buy the new technology. Dont worry, its a good thing. 😊
Who doesn’t like the smell of a fireplace? It’s one of the best parts of camping or lighting your fireplace.
Good luck enforcing that in N Wi/Mi/Mn - the same people with wood stoves have great gun collections and most are veterans.
I have been using fire wood for a source of heat since a child. All my houses had some way of burning through the years. Last home I restored a wood fired kitchen stove/oven it had a manufacture date in the early 1900s, it was a functioning work of art. Four years ago I bought a new style Drolet wood burning stove with the after burner for the smoke. Seasoned Dry wood is the key. I am all for clean environment and this system works great. Very efficient. I can stock it up and it will burn slowly for 8 plus hours. I always liked going outside for some fresh air on a cold day and watch the smoke come out of the chimney but dam there is none unless it is right after you fire it up for a short time. The newer environmentally safe wood stoves are great.
I have to chime in here. 10 years ago, here in California, the wood stoves that could be sold were EPA approved. We have one and it does not smoke. It does something that reburns the exhaust and it comes out of the chimney clear. So there are EPA approved stoves and there have been for years now. Most importantly,, wood is a renewable fuel. In gas and coal and oil's cases, when they're gone, they'll be gone. The world needs to figure out how to use wood (😊). But, this stream got my attention, which is what UA-cam wants so... good job!.
My 1 dog used to lay under our wood stove. I would freak out and my husband had me feel under the stove. It wasn't hot.
It was crazy to me.
My husband cuts all year. Also some woods do a lit better with higher btus.
I live in the country and I don't care what the EPA says. I use a fireplace insert made in the early 1980's. Once it's burning hot there's almost no smoke or smell from the chimney. I never burn green wood. I mostly burn hardwoods but softwood is ok as long as it's dry. It just doesn't last long.
Oh I love this!
I live in Bulgaria ,English ex-pat. All my neighbours have wood stoves and cookers, we tend to use gas in the summer to cook as too hot otherwise. But you can even buy wood stoves to heat up a boiler as a complete unit! for 330lev (about 150 Uk pounds) 80l of 60 deg C plus water ,with mine takes about an hour from mains cold water. 3 x 30cm by 120cm logs, a bit of cardboard (about a cereal packet?)and some dry twigs.
I actually own 7 petchkas, kamins etc! This means wood 4 wood burning room heaters, 2 cooking stoves and the bathroom boiler! I can cook on the room heaters, but they can be a bit slow, so pressure cooker.
My workshop room heater cost me 20 lev (10 pounds)from a scrapyard, needed some TLC, new lid and firebox door, but heats up my 2 repurposed railway carriages workshop (5.25m x 8m) shed in a from say 0deg C to working temp say 10-15 deg C in about an hour,.
The trick is to burn DRY wood first and I do mean dry! If you have not got a moisture meter, mine died ( thank you children!) Pick up your wood, if it is heavy,and worse has leaves on it, store somewhere out of rain and preferably in sun with a draught!
Good dry wood weighs a min of half the weight and probably a quarter of the weight! (2 kilo wet (just cut) about 500g dry)
This burns fast and hot! I do mean hot! I kept pigs and after cleaning the meat off a split 200kg pigs skull, I stuck it in my cooking stoves firebox, ash and bone for the garden...right....
Next morning not even the teeth!
A bit scary!
Oh AND don't burn any of the pine type woods. Massive creosote problems. It is why they were grown originally, pitch for caulking boats.
Plant trees, I do, lol,
The crazy English LADY.
12cm, 12cm NOT 120cm lol
whole log lumberWood is often classified into two categories including hardwood and softwood. But, the difference between these two types of wood isn’t in their name. That is, hardwood isn’t necessarily denser than softwood.
For instance, yew wood is classified as a softwood but is considerably tougher than certain hardwoods. Likewise, balsa wood is classified as a hardwood and yet it’s one of the least dense and softest types of wood...What makes a wood hard or soft?
To classify a wood as hard or soft depends on the seeds that the tree produces. A wood will be classified as a hardwood if the seeds that the tree produces have a coating. These coatings can either take the shape of a fruit or a shell.
A wood will be classified as a softwood if the seeds don’t have any type of coating and are instead dropped to the ground and left to the elements.
thank you for this very informative comment
Great video. I'm glad to see you're ok, I missed watching you yesterday. Hope Carolyn is doing well too. :-)
Loving your channel, its my dream to live off grid but sadly not one shared by my wife. That said you never know and the knowledge gleaned from your off grid journey is invaluable. Best wishes from across the pond in the uk, Rob
We make those doors that are on that style woodstove at my work, they are made by pouring iron into a sand mold. We make them by the thousands every week.
Had them all our lives and we're not getting rid of our fireplace.
The People outlawing them might have to though
On the plus side gasifying wood stoves are the most efficient on the market and will give you the most heat for the wood you burn plus they burn cleaner so less maintenance in your chimney although they themselves might take a little more to keep burning efficiently
I have been using a small homemade version for camping for the last seven years and it only takes a handful of twigs to get a good rolling boil for Stew or soups and the lack of smoke makes it a pleasure to be around and almost unnoticeable two others
I cut my own spacers out of conduit and cut them 1 1/2'' long and added a washer on the drywall side.
I just installed my stove today :)
We had an insert installed in our last house. We burned kiln dried oak. Had the chimney cleaned after two seasons and it still didn't have much creosote.
Me and my wife put in a neapolean baniff 1400 c. Woodstove with a flip up cook plate area. It is a epa stove. It has a meloica brown enamel coating. We had it 2 years love it. We a have a lidal cider log home with very tall ceilings. It heats the big cubic space very nicely. We are looking to add a la nordica america or jb roby bake oven wood cook stove se we can bake. The baniff 1400 c has a big lid that flips up so you can put a 10 inch cast iron skillets on it or dutch ovens. But I like to have a bake oven. We was planning on doing both when we put 1 St one on, butttttttttt my wife went hog wild one rock masonary work all up the high walls and off to both sides. The rock was sheet wall. At was all individual placed like a puzzle .I love it ,but it ate up my reserve money for my other wood cook stove bake oven. But I will be doing it. Got my eyes set in a la nordica america. No as for as people comments. Wellllll when power goes off and gas is going sky high and electric ty keeps climbing. But when powers out or EMP ,people will be knocking on door. Trust me people do that to me already. I have 6 rack s down STAIRES in rec room loaded with pre kindled dry wood that I keep inside plus 10 rack s outside dead in and covered plus I have many rows of wood cut and season. People will be bagging for them to stay warm. The warmth from them are next to nothing. The neapolean baniff 1400 c we got very very happy with. We spent high dollar on it. It was 3,000 when we got like 2 years ago. Plus install and masonary work. But well worth it. I decide to go with them meloica brown enamel coating. That was my splurging.
We have a large Napoleon wood fireplace with a floor to ceiling rock hearth! We love it, and it has an automatic vent fan that blows hot air out the front. It automatically turns off. 😍
Those tubes are called after burners. My stove is pretty new. I refuse to change. I will continue to burn wood. Wet wood is a death bomb to a wood stove.
I had a fresh air supply on my stove. Last March there was a couple storms that came with high winds. I couldn’t get my stove lit. In fact I could watch it blow out from the wind. My house was filled with smoke and there was nothing I could do. Finally out of desperation I took the fire out of the stove with a metal shovel and metal can. That fixed the smoke in the house, but putting a downdraft cap on the chimney was the ultimate solution.
Light the fire with sycamore or maple. The trees are water hogs, and when the wood dries out, its cavernous texture lets oxygen pass through easily. You will have a big fire very fast. Then throw on the oak. Before going to bed, use slow-burning honey locust. Been there, done that.
The new rules do not effect existing wood stoves. Only those being manufactured to burn BELOW a specified efficiency.
This government can ban whatever they want that doesn’t mean anyone is going to abide by it , what’s next oxygen tax ?
If Government bans woodstoves I gaurantee Politicians will be exempt
Oxygen tax is coming. They got everybody trained up with their Corvid masks . Now they're going to start sending them to you with CFM meters on them. Smart meters of course.
I build my wood stoves and will melt aluminum cans . Its made from 1/4" steel and the flu from 1/8" wall stainless steel pipe. Concrete backerboard for ceramic tile works as spacers and fire breaks
I just use an old 55 gallon barrel. Lasts for about 15 to 20 years. Awesome amount of heat. Stay warm.
@@wwtf7180 Ive made them like that also. Currently using an old 120 gallon propane tank converted to a stove/heater. Should last longer than me
@@ronnieb7408 I love that idea. That’s a big stove. Keep up the great work.
So much good information, thanks!
I stopped burning wood 4 years ago. I just ran out of time to prepare my firewood for the next season. I bought a hitzer coal stove and burn anthracite coal now. I love it it's very clean to burn and clean to use plus way less hassle. I light my stove once in September and it stays running untill April. The house never gets hot and cold always at the same temperature. The stove regulates it's temperature to maintain the heat in the house. Best part just like a wood stove it requires no electricity.
There was a case several years ago in Pennsylvania regarding someone who purchased a woodstove. Located in a Pennsylvania Township. They Gave the homeowner a letter that they examined the area where the home Owner designated where the woodstove is going to go and they measured the distance from the neighbor to the woodstove which was well over 75 feet which is the required distance in that particular township. When township gave him written permission he then purchased An outdoor woodstove. With Letter in hand he Had it installed. Within a year after he had it installed the area that he was in the people got together and signed a petition and took him to court and won On the basis of the smoke was disturbing them. Even though he had the letter From the township the court said the law Takes precedence over the township . The court determined Based on the evidence it Violated the nuisance law in that Township. Although I disagree with the decision I decided not to purchase an Outdoor woodstove . As far as the indoor woodstove which I had for almost 20 years where I used to live I loved it but it required a lot of work and I developed asthma. Someone that I know went to the hospital because he was burning wood that
Caused him to have carbon monoxide poisoning. Even though he was burning at a sufficient temperature when it started to cool while he was sleeping he was breathing it in. Of course this does not apply to everybody but you have to weigh the cost versus the benefit. Yes you may save money in the long run as long as you have sufficient supply of wood at your disposal but the cost related to health is something that you need to look into.
Thank You! I'm stuck betwixt and between. My goal is to sell and live in a tiny house off -grid if possible. In the meantime, my boiler has needed to be fixed by ME for the third time. Also my home is too tall for me to afford the chimney even if I buy a used wood stove. I hate to do it but I may be buying a used pellet stove tomorrow to get me through the winter. I don't like that it depends on electric without a back up, I will be in the same position, Alas, navigating
I live in a home built in the late 50’s and love fixing it up over the years and would love to finally get a nice wood burning stove for heating and not have to rely on our gas HVAC unit.
Thank you.
Most of the smoke I smell in my neighborhood comes from people with fireplaces or outdoor fire pits. What really bothers me is is when they let it smolder, get it burning people.
As my father taught me, you can always build a small fire in a big stove. They banned wood stoves in west Texas years ago because it’s too dry. He fortunately had his grandfathered.
I have a 1895 Comes furnace built in 1920 used in depression. burns charcoal and easy heats whole house. all mechanical
works perfectly
Thank you for the info on energy efficient and cutting the smoke. I just got a cord of wood of madrone and oak. Very dry snd does make a huge difference with the smoke. Thanks again.
When will our side push back..
Civil disobedience anyone? So tired of seeing us roll over .
Interesting. I love the smell of wood stoves/fireplaces. Especially when burning the sweet hardwoods.
I have an older wood stove. Kept us warm during the 2020 winter in Texas.
If you use them correctly you won’t have any problems. It will get hot enough to gasify the wood and burn efficiently. It when you use too much wood and restrict the air flow is when you get problems. I burn 1 log every half hour or so.
We lost electricity, and would have been in serious trouble if we had not had our fireplace.
EPA can F off
You will have nothing and you will be happy.
I'd be tempted to merge it with a " rocket stove" long side ways echaust to transfer lost exhaust pipe heat ....
Wood heat from a stove is the most comfortable heat ..there is. High efficiency with the damper set right burns only a few logs slowly. Love it and cook on it all winter. Which is very long where I’m located.
Thanks for your video!
Well don't need wood stoves when Cali always on fire . 😂
Got a moisture tester thank to your videos
We have an Extrodanire 3600 with a catalytic converter. Unbelievable clean machine.
We make sure our wood is dry.
If you don't have seasoned wood, cut Ash it'll burn really well even if it is green. I read this on a US Forestry study years ago. I like hickory, oak, beech, locust and maple. But I have used ash a lot when I have been low on seasoned wood.
Don't care what the epa says
Free men don’t ask permission
Right on..I bought mine for 250$ cash.. used with a cracked glass we replaced at floyds hardware for 50$..Best thing I've ever invested in besides the Land We Own and Live on.
There is a divide, those that believe in freedom and those that don't!
It's not the size of the stove that matters, it's the size of your wood that you put in it 🤣 Sorry, I thought that was kinda funny lol
Do you think that West Virginia vs epa could affect this. That ruling said the ep doesn’t have the authority to change legislation.
Cords running about 240. Have a new wood stove in my modular home, found best wood is kiln dried , YES total burn, new stoves are awesome....No smoke, clean burn...KEEP UP YOUR OPEN MIND, LIVE STREAMERS ARE A GOD SEND to fake news....thanks !!
Fantastic video…..and english lesson.
There are sooo many towns especially up north that let you run wood stoves. But i agree people need to learn how to season their wood and only burn 🔥 dry wood because your fireplace works 1000x better.
@William Burroughs define stink? The smell of BBQ wood smoke usually doesn’t bother most folks who like cooked food.
The government should not get involved in home heaters wood stoves .
My home inside and out is my business. I built my on wood heater. I'm a welder/ fabricator. It's been in my home for over 28 years with no problems. Yes I'm out in the country and when the electric goes out around here my nabors always know I have a warm home with hot water and plenty to eat because we cook over our wood heater. No government will ever get away with coming on posted private property I paid for and owe no one a penny on and tell me to stop heating my home with my heater. I would rather just be left alone. But if not we'll cross that bridge if it ever happens. By the was, it's the only way I do heat my home. As for your fire starter. We in the south have fat lighter pine. Best starting wood I've ever found. Look it up. One Match is all you need.
I'll be offering a styrofoam burning stove to offset the loss of the wood burners. The EPA should be happy that there will be an alternative to the wood stove. 😁
Place your order in time for winter. 😂😂😂
I'll buy one
Government is too big and we allowed it to happen time to change it and take our country back!!!!
My friend works at a local conference center; I(at times) help him cut and remove wood from the conference center grounds and give the wood to our friends and family. The EPA is just power mad 😠 and crazy 😜. Throw them out into the cold, upcoming winter and see how they like it. Forget them.
Litigation and repeated litigation is all townships and most municipalities understand.
Now saying that, use the stove the way it is designed to be used. It isn't hard.
I have one like that. 25 years now. I am 35 miles from any big city. The law at that time was ...if it is all you have for heat...they can't stop you.
I bought one 7 years ago for 350 and it's still in the crate....I have 20 cords of wood stacked in the shed..
Love your video and your message
Thanks
Son that was a great video very detail
The EPA can't just make laws, they must go through congress and that has not happened. The EPA is not a common law enforcement agency.
I grew up with wood heaters and cooking wood stoves with wet jacket to heat hot water and a open
fire. Left Tasmania live in Queensland and it is dam cold without heating. We have many house
fires here from Candles electric . Wood stoves are the best type of heating. Sticks twigs are good.
Newer heaters are very good wood lasts longer my brother has one.
Good advice thank you God bless, keep warm.
Good explanation 😊👋🐿
Crazy! Get them while you can!!
We burned wood as a kid, and my and I continue to burn wood. We also supplement with 2 tons Envi-8 bricks or Envi. Locks. The Envi products is around $310 for a ton. A ton is equal to a cord of wood and the moisture content is7%. These burn clean. As you stated, all I can see come out of the chimney is the clear gasses. While burning these blocks we add firewood to mix it up. It’s all about not buying firewood in September that you plan to burn that November and beyond. We keep our wood for 2 years before burning it.