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To: xzins

They can have my Tulikivi when they pry it from my dead cold hands.

Until then I’ll burn as much wood as I damn well please.


54 posted on 02/07/2015 7:45:24 AM PST by Comment Not Approved (When bureaucrats outlaw hunting, outlaws will hunt bureaucrats.)
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To: Comment Not Approved

They are not going to take away your Tukavi. That is the type of stove they WANT people to be using. Expensive masonry heaters like yours are just as efficient as most oil furnaces. The law is to get people to stop using OLD inefficient wood stoves that are typically only 50-60% efficient. These are the old box stoves, Franklin fireplaces and the original outdoor furnaces. Nh and most other states already have outlawed the sale of the outdoor furnaces that were only 50% efficient. These things put out so much smoke your neighbors would hate you. The only way you could afford to run one of those is if you had a lot of free wood. Say thirty or not acres.

What they want is to get people to upgrade to the higher efficiency wood and pellet stoves that have been built in the last ten to twenty years. Products made by companies like Jotul, Vermont Castings, Lopi, Quadra Fire, Harman, Woodstock Soapstone, or any of the other top brands that are recommended on websites like heath.com
Any of the above mentioned brands and masonry heaters like yours are 70%-80% efficient. That puts these appliances in the same efficiency range as most oil fired furnaces.

FYI, I am typing this from my family room in NH sitting ten feet away from my Harman pellet insert. The best heater I have ever owned. At my old house I had a Jotul 3 wood stove. The best selling small wood stove in the world. When we moved to this new old(1972) house I was going to install another wood stove. I narrowed it down to a Woodstock Soapstone Progressive Hybrid wood stove. This is the most efficient wood stove on the market today. The next closest is made by Lopi out in WA.

Mrs. Woodbutcher convinced me to go with the pellet insert. I wish I had switched to a pellet burner ten years ago. Now I buy four tons of pellets in September when they go on sale at the big box stores. I built a shed on the side of the driveway that can hold up to five tons. We are burning about one and one half bags per day. We fill it once in the morning and once before bed. My wife empties the ash pan and gives it a light cleaning once a week. I give it a thorough cleaning once a month. When it is burning you do not even see smoke coming out of the flue pipe. They is no wood smoke smell.


113 posted on 02/07/2015 12:16:27 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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