Who Heats With A Range / Wood Stove?

[proper job 1]

I once lived in a house with a living room that was a fridge, we had a roaring fire, draught stops on the door, and the furniture pulled up to the hearth. Then one day I bought a "Morso Squirrel" woodburning stove . We then had to move the furniture back to the walls, and leave the door slightly ajar, when I walked into the room in the evenings I was asleep in 10 mins, used to fill it at night come in at 6 in the morning open the dampers and whoosh away she went. First thing I put into a house I live in now is the "Squirrel". You can boil a kettle on them, toast, and bake if you make yourself a little griddle. On Exmoor in the winter of 1978 we went a couple of weeks with no electric, but we had a solid fuel Rayburn, brilliant, if ever I was in a position to build my dream home there would be one of these in the kitchen.

Edited October 11, 2007 by proper job

[tiny tim 22]

i,ve also got a morso squirrel...god i love it..gets a bit warm at times...free heat you cant beat it

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

I'll have to try and think to Google these Moso's presently. But the thing about crowding round a hearth fire and then backing off from a 'burner is surely universal? People who've not experienced one couldn't even begin to conceptualise the absolutely fierce heat radiated by a wood burning stove! I was stood at my kitchen sink just the other night there and the Heat! Christ, I could feel the back of my neck drying out!

 

I now find the Dogs even take it in shifts to lay in the arm chair out there in hells kitchen. They get to rotate because, every now and then, the one in the chair just gives up, moves well back and collapses on the concrete floor, no doubt trying to cool down a bit!

 

Anyway, I reckon we're heading for a cool one tonight here, so I'll be firing her up presently. Then the Big Bake can resume

[T.F.Student 0]

Your right Al it will i'm going to put a burner in where i am now when i have the cash...Ditchy how long can you stand at five foot from the fire

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Ditchy how long can you stand at five foot from the fire

 

 

Bloody site longer than I can stand being near that range, mate! Just had a wash out there, in my bowl. Washed my hair and, before I could get a towel to it, it was frizzling dry!

 

Fierce bloody heat that thing throws out ,ate ~ and it's all lavverly 'n Free!

[T.F.Student 0]

I'd have to go outside, i can't stand to much heat...Do you run any radiator's of it...i had three + a red hot poker towel rail off the woodburner. I ended up washing/shaving etc in the beck in winter as the pipe would freeze up in the field, Looking good in blue thermals and black wellies

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Radiators? No, mate. I have no use for them here. I live and sleep in this room, see? And it adjoins the kitchen. Thus I'm sat here now, just my slippers and denims on, and f*ckin sweltering!

 

Brucey bonus though is that I boiled a load of water for my wash on it. Now I've just fried some eggs on it for my dinner! Great feeling, isn't it; Knowing that none of that's going to come back and haunt ye on the electricity bill?!

[fastdog 0]

Radiators? No, mate. I have no use for them here. I live and sleep in this room, see? And it adjoins the kitchen. Thus I'm sat here now, just my slippers and denims on, and f*ckin sweltering!

 

Brucey bonus though is that I boiled a load of water for my wash on it. Now I've just fried some eggs on it for my dinner! Great feeling, isn't it; Knowing that none of that's going to come back and haunt ye on the electricity bill?!

 

one for the workshop or if u are skint u get a gas bottle 2 of first take the tops

of then fill water 2 empty gas then cut 2 holes 1 for wood 1 for ash second bottle

cut the 2inch bigger and take the plates from bottle no2 weld hinges onto plates

add a bit fire proof materal for a seal add 2 latches and chimny which is best

put slight angle 2 get the best of the heat also i heard if u get a large milk

carton and fill it with saw dust and old engine oil that alone will burn for 3

hours i am talking about a standard bottle ps god help us if LL trys it

[millie 1]

I once lived in a house with a living room that was a fridge, we had a roaring fire, draught stops on the door, and the furniture pulled up to the hearth. Then one day I bought a "Morso Squirrel" woodburning stove . We then had to move the furniture back to the walls, and leave the door slightly ajar, when I walked into the room in the evenings I was asleep in 10 mins, used to fill it at night come in at 6 in the morning open the dampers and whoosh away she went. First thing I put into a house I live in now is the "Squirrel". You can boil a kettle on them, toast, and bake if you make yourself a little griddle. On Exmoor in the winter of 1978 we went a couple of weeks with no electric, but we had a solid fuel Rayburn, brilliant, if ever I was in a position to build my dream home there would be one of these in the kitchen.

 

 

we have one in our gaff proper little hot feckers

[T.F.Student 0]

Any pictures of the finished product Fastdog as i would like to have a bash.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Talking of pictures; I thought I might brighten things up a bit with a couple of my own here. Especially as this board is about " Living off the Land ". I have a few example shots here to demonstrate the reallity.

 

Craic is; We had a JCB working down the track and, for some reason, the driver ripped down a good section of an old Ash tree that was doing something there. He then just dumped it onto Pat's field and I soon found it! An oppertunity .....

 

 

Not to be Missed!

 

 

 

Having fell upon it with my log saw, I stacked all the kindling into my trusty little blue hand cart and prepared to haul that lot home.

 

 

Stacked Properly

 

 

 

Result of a short days damn hard work was that I'd tidied up Pat's grazing for him. Had saved that piece of tree going to waste. And had assured myself of a confortable night or two into the bargain!

 

 

Comfort Assured!

 

 

 

All perfectly normal in the life of Ditch Shitter. Any time, from now on in, I'm quite accustomed to skirting round a wheel barrow or stack of logs in my kitchen

[T.F.Student 0]

Sounds like you have a good life working to live and the log pile looks grand Ditch...Can't beat the barra and firewood in the front room/kitchen/bedroom though i do have 60+ living trees in my bedroom

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

That's class, TF! Ye growing ye own firewood right there in ye bedroom?

[T.F.Student 0]

It's only a matter of time

[tiny tim 22]

fired the morso up for the first time last night....jesus forgot how hot it gets...had too open all the windows