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Over the years humanity has slowly moved away from the tried and true methods of living; to a new supermarket, energy dependence. It's so weird from the way I grew up. With family members getting together to can food for the winter. Chopping firewood, raising our own chickens. I admit it's messy but this is the only lifestyle that will survive. I feel terrible for the people in Texas today. Yet I am justified in the fact that I turned an old water heater into a wood stove and so many other things I've had the urge to do lately. Stay safe folks and find ways to become less needy on a dying infrastructure. Retarded policies are kicking liberals in the ass but their not smart enough to feel shame. Do not become a statistic.

Over the years humanity has slowly moved away from the tried and true methods of living; to a new supermarket, energy dependence. It's so weird from the way I grew up. With family members getting together to can food for the winter. Chopping firewood, raising our own chickens. I admit it's messy but this is the only lifestyle that will survive. I feel terrible for the people in Texas today. Yet I am justified in the fact that I turned an old water heater into a wood stove and so many other things I've had the urge to do lately. Stay safe folks and find ways to become less needy on a dying infrastructure. Retarded policies are kicking liberals in the ass but their not smart enough to feel shame. Do not become a statistic.

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[–] • 8 pts

Modern fireplaces are shit anyway, those low shallow things pull more air out than they do put heat in. You really need one of those giant 5-foot fireplaces to do anything.

They started vanishing after WWII as things like natural gas heat became common. People didn't want to deal with the hassle and dirt of wood or coal. I grew up on wood heat, I miss that hot radiant warmth, but I don't miss the colds from the dirt and soot it put into the air.

[–] • 14 pts

Wood burning stoves are way better than fireplaces. You can cook on them and close them up. It can be -10°f outside and i can have it over 90°f in my house. Ill no shit hang out inside in a tank top with a window open when its sub zero out

[–] • 2 pts

Depends on the kind of stove. We used a firebox with shell style that allowed you to blow air over the firebox and into the house vent system. Wasn't possible to cook on it.

[–] • 3 pts

I have one of those eco fans sitting on my stove. Starts spinning when it gets hot, pulls the hot air out from the corner and blows it across my living room. Its pretty rad.

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[–] • 3 pts

Make a barrel stove for $100 and heat your house for years.

[–] • 3 pts

actually your wrong, modern ones are much more efficient. But wood stoves are better.

[–] • 2 pts

I don't know if I'd call them efficient, unless you have an enclosed shell with circulation around the firebox. That would be the only way you'd really get any use out of one, but that ruins the effect of having a fireplace.

[–] • 1 pt

Well, I got a 35 year old fireplace, sucks the heat right out, inserts are much better. I havent kept up but know some of them suck air from outside instead of inside, and have heat exchangers.

[–] • 6 pts

Also notice that there are no more built in book cases in homes anymore.

[–] • 2 pts

walk in pantries and framed windows with sills to set plants as well

[–] • 5 pts (edited )

Enjoying my wood stove right now, and have several fruit and nut trees that ill be enjoying later this year. Lost power for a couple days this winter and cooked and made tea on my wood stove. Got a lifetime supply of wood here too, just takes a little saw / axe work.

[–] • 2 pts

Same. Love my wood stove. Installed it myself (it's easy) and had to turn down the air as it was getting too hot yesterday.

I love chopping wood and I love my Stihl chainsaw too.

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

Nothing like a warm fire in your home during winter and a fresh piece of fruit from your own trees in the summertime. We used to have apricot and plums but they died some time ago, we have peach, lime and grapefruit now. although I remember burning our apricot tree when we took it down...partially rotted and I think it had termites..

[–] • 5 pts

Warming apple pie under the barrel stove In Winter while snow falls while sipping home made mead.

[–] • 3 pts

I have a wood stove, and heat the house with wood cut off the property. Ready for the ice storm power outage. I would garden but a garden is just a way to feed the deer around here.

[–] • 2 pts

Gardens here need an 8ft fence to keep the deer out. I keep my yard deer placated with cheap grocery store carrots. Theyre shameless moochers now. Just come up to my porch and give me the hypno eyes until i make with the carrots.

[–] • 0 pt

Gardens here need an 8ft fence to keep the deer niggers out

[–] • 1 pt

Seems like a good opportunity to enjoy venison alongside your garden harvest.

[–] • 3 pts

It may be messy, but it beats the hell out of freezing to death.

[–] • 2 pts

Every house has a fireplace if you try hard enough.

[–] • 2 pts

Here in Texas with a fireplace. Lived in Florida and citrus trees attracted fruit rats that liked to live in walls and attics of houses with lots of fruit falling on the ground.

[–] • 2 pts

I planted several 5-7yo fruit trees when we moved in to this place last year. I did the same two years before that, thinking the other house was our forever home.

I wish we had a real fire place. I've been bugging the husband about putting a wood stove in the basement. It has an area we could put it near a window for the exhaust. He looked at me like I was crazy. I'm tired of the $3-400 energy bills.

[–] • 2 pts

Fireplaces are pretty, but they are inefficient. For emergency use, a wood stove is better. Ideally, you need a woodstove, a stockpile of seasoned wood, and a shallow well that will work with a hand pump. Or alternately, a creek with clean water. You can cook on the woodstove, and flush your toilet with water from the well, or creek. Keeping a vegetable garden is not a bad idea, either. Potatoes will keep you going when you have nothing else, as many people have discovered the hard way during hard times.

[–] • 2 pts

I have both, chickens coming next week.

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