Wood burning stove

Posted by Tanos on Wed 31 Aug 11, 12:28 AM

Tags: bridgewood

Earlier this month I installed this wood-burning stove in the Log Cabin at Bridgewood. It will help now we're getting later in the open air season, especially to heat the cabin in the evening, and this weekend mia boiled a kettle for tea, and then later on cooked a lovely risotto on it!

It's a fair investment compared to say, a camping gas stove, but the wood itself is then all a free by-product of the ride widening etc that I'm doing as part of the forestry work. It's also a lot more satisfying to cook your dinner that way too of course For heating, you wouldn't need to go through many calor gas bottles before a stove would have paid for itself.

It's also prompted me to reorganise the woodpile I started in 2008 and start cutting the big pile of seasoned logs down to stove-friendly 12-inch lengths. I've put aside hardly any wood in the last 18 months, and I'm going to be more consistent in doing it from now on. That way, I'll still have enough in a year or two's time when the new logs have had a full summer to dry out properly.

Edited Wed 31 Aug 11, 9:13 AM by Tanos

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