Day 19 with ice storm on its way-

[Shiningfeather]

There is a flue (it will be a handle that you turn to open) some where on your stove pipe. Please make sure you open it before you even try to start a fire. If you don't you will have a ton of smoke in your home.

 

[Shiningfeather]

Try this link

http://www.ehow.com/how_5004517_open-indoor-fireplace-flue-damper.html

 

[Jaguar6]

I would love to have a wood stove but with my asthma I can't....I get all chocked up. I heard that they weren't that good for the environment nor people's health either. In Montreal they are asking people not to use their wood stove because it poluts the heack out of the environment.

 

[muddstopper]

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Yea buring wood does pollute, but so does the coal that is being burned to generate electricity. And then theres the fuel used to hual the coal from the mines to the power plant, and the fuel used to run the equipment needed to mine the coal, and the electricty needed to manufactor the equipment that burns oil to mine the coal to burn in the power plants.

Then there is the oil used to make the ink that is used to print the money I pay the power companies to burn the coal to pollute our air. And the fuel used to cut the TREES, that are used to make the paper that our money is made from. I try to save our enviroment by eliminateing all the middle men and just cut the trees to heat my house.

Just some food for thought, trees are great storehouses of carbon. Whether this carbon is burned in our wood stoves or left in the woods to decay, it eventually is converted to CO2, either thru combustion in the wood stove, or consumption by microbial biology. Either way, this CO2 ends up in our atmosphere. The only difference is the amount of time involved in the conversion process. Yes buring wood releases CO2 gas into the atmosphere, as does coal and natural gas, and oil, but wood will not contain the the same concentration levels of the other heavy metals that are found in the other fuel sources. While buring wood does pollute, to me it is the lesser of the two evils.

 

[Laurieks]

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Bravo!!!
I hear there are now 'fireplace police' who can heavily fine you if you burn wood at the wrong time. Of course there are fires & there are fires... city folks often overfeed their fires and have more smoke than heat, so they have rules like that. A well managed fire with a good 'back log' smokes much less, but even that might not work with asthma. Sorry Jaguar6, that you have to have that. It's not fair.
I have a neighbor who burns trash all the time and is proud of never getting caught... yukkk it stinks

, and I worry about my critters breathing his plastic smoke; but the Fire Dept can't see it from the street, so they won't do anything.
If he can do that, we should all be ok to use fire for actual heat (survival). We take our wood to 'Granny' since we don't have a working woodstove.

Back to the OP... I read a thread here somewhere about cigarette lighter power converters for incubators. Just keep a supply of fuel for the car

Happy Hatching!!!

 

[muddstopper]

The cigarrett lighter converter is a very good choice for emergency backup with incubators. Even the big cabinet models only need about 250watts of power and can be ran with a very small (read as cheap) inverter.

 

[Wildsky]

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You forgot about the poop from the chickens running on treadmills to keep BYC up and running.

 

[lady and her girls]

It beats freezing to death and trying to heat our house at 500 a month on natral gas. The house is a rental and is not and will not be insulated as when it is sold it will be tore down-comercial property this is a temp' coop for us.

 

[kathyinmo]

Dec 8 was day 19 .... I wanna know about the hatch .... What happened? How did it go? Everybody ok? How many babies? Pictures?

 

[muddstopper]

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You forgot about the poop from the chickens running on treadmills to keep BYC up and running.

The chicken poop is recovered and used to make methane gas to run the generators that produce the electricity to power the servers that are home to the BYC website.