Admit Your Addiction?

I just read through all of the posts on this thread and had many laughs! I have only been on this forum for about a month and already have a coal stove, refurbished it, got it up and running. Now planning a new coal bin in the wood shed. I have been spending hours on this thing and justifying it as "research". I am completely new to coal burning and I can see how it is becoming addictive. I find myself still looking on Ebay and CL for anything coal...mostly for another stove to restore. I thoroughly enjoyed doing the restoration process. Not sure if a month will get you addicted but certainly am hooked. Don't think I ever will burn wood in this stove! Thanks for the entertainment and all the help!

Not long ago I realized that I was a Lezbiun much to my surprise, now after being a frequent reader on this forum, I realize that I am also a Coalaholic. Where will my inappropriate behaviors end?

Photog200 wrote:I just read through all of the posts on this thread and had many laughs! I have only been on this forum for about a month and already have a coal stove, refurbished it, got it up and running. Now planning a new coal bin in the wood shed. I have been spending hours on this thing and justifying it as "research". I am completely new to coal burning and I can see how it is becoming addictive. I find myself still looking on Ebay and CL for anything coal...mostly for another stove to restore. I thoroughly enjoyed doing the restoration process. Not sure if a month will get you addicted but certainly am hooked. Don't think I ever will burn wood in this stove! Thanks for the entertainment and all the help!

A month or not, you're in it for good. Your goose is cooked there buddy.

Not long ago I realized that I was a Lezbiun much to my surprise

. I'm sorry that is yesterdays news, just wait until you have those feelings for your coal stove. Be careful, it could be more than your geese being cooked..... and you thought your current partner was hot.... The other day I was frozen and tried to sit on the Jotul and I thought I could smell sweetbreads cooking..... I'm quite partial to Rocky Mountain Oysters.....

You guys are crazy; an addiction?

They always said, in Maine you are doing one of two things: you are either thoroughly engrossed in winter, or getting ready for winter, and that is true.

I am now looking at getting a new boiler, which will be my 8th heating appliance in 19 years in this house. I just have a fascination with trying to keep my family comfortable, at the lowest cost, and naturally coal is part of the equation.

I do tend to look at things differently, and a long time ago I realized that what was costing me dearly; because I live in the northern part of the country, was heating stuff. Not just heat for my house, but domestic hot water, a clothes dryer, the kitchen range, water for the sheep, the chicken coop, etc. After watching my uncle try to use wind to make his home efficient and thoroughly fail at it, I realized that converting electricity into heat is terribly inefficient. My long term goal is to convert some of my high electrical demands into more efficient systems, like using geothermal heat to keep my sheep waters thawed from ice, or heat my chicken coop with compost heat. I nearly did the latter idea one year, obtaining all the stuff I needed to do it, but then realized by the time I formed the compost pile, I could have harvested a few cords of firewood for less time and money. Just because something will work does not always mean it is the best way, and that is what I love about this forum; people on here know heat and can discuss different scenarios in "outside the box" type thinking, without ridicule.

After watching my uncle try to use wind to make his home efficient and thoroughly fail at it, I realized that converting electricity into heat is terribly inefficient.

I don't even run with the big dogs and I know that when TSHTF I need to generate 200,000 BTU to keep warm. Wind, geothermal, solar???? Gimme a break, not even theoretically possible in a land (L Hudson Valley) where the sun don't shine and the wind (mostly) does not blow. However, it's a lot of fun watching my neighbors in yuppieville try. Let me clue you, the liberal idiots here are freezing and it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.

wsherrick wrote:

Photog200 wrote:I just read through all of the posts on this thread and had many laughs! I have only been on this forum for about a month and already have a coal stove, refurbished it, got it up and running. Now planning a new coal bin in the wood shed. I have been spending hours on this thing and justifying it as "research". I am completely new to coal burning and I can see how it is becoming addictive. I find myself still looking on Ebay and CL for anything coal...mostly for another stove to restore. I thoroughly enjoyed doing the restoration process. Not sure if a month will get you addicted but certainly am hooked. Don't think I ever will burn wood in this stove! Thanks for the entertainment and all the help!

A month or not, you're in it for good. Your goose is cooked there buddy.

LOL, after I posted and re-read what I wrote I laughed because I am already looking at another stove. I guess you are right William, I am addicted.

What's wrong with wanting to get a base heater stove before all of William's postulation about these stoves bring on a herd of folks and then you can't find one? No, I am not addicted...really, I am not.