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Better than ending up in the ditch!
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I use a single cup and put a single squashed up blue shop towel soaked in diesel inside the cup. Works every time.
Good use for them, they don't recycle them here anymore. What do you use the fire bricks on top of the stove for?
I don't drink enough of that stuff to make it worth while. I use egg cartons from the large boxes of 15 dozen eggs.
For lighting fires with ease while out on the lake I take one cup from an egg carton, stuff it with dryer lint (or my saved up belly button stuff) and pour melted wax over top. Even if you don't have kindling it will burn for a good 15 minutes.
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Nice tip utilizing cups.
About 20 years ago my son needed to create and present a video project at school so we came up with a plan.
He filmed me cutting logs with the chainsaw from a load I had just received.
We had laid down a tarp on the ground to collect the saw dust chips.
Got a pail and collected a few shovels of it.
Let it dry for a while and proceeded one evening to start rolling the chips into a layer of newspaper about 6 inches long by about 2 inches in diameter.
Held it together with masking tape. We made a bunch of them which he took to class to present with the edited video.
Called the product Kwik start fire sticks from what I recall.
It was a hit, especially with the enviro teacher and kids.
It worked surprisingly well to start my morning fire.
I wish I could find it and share but it was all on analog tape back then.
Good way to get rid of oil. I got donated some racing fuel so I dilutes it with oil because it will blow the doors open of they aren't locked, ash everywhere.
I got some extra woodstove bricks in my travels, so I use them to retain heat. I have some cinder blocks on the sides. Same purpose as a stone chimney
I've heard that trick before. Dryer lint added as well. I try not to give hortons my money. I buy their jumbo cans at costco and make at home in the morning and try to limit my visit to the drive thru for my evening coffee and nothing else. I have friends who always leave them lying around at work.
That would be cool to see.
Egg carton, dryer lint and and old birthday candle (washed after taken out of the cake, dried) and "IT WILL BURN" .... :moose: For camping I save the wax off of Baby Bels or other cheeses (rather than just throw it out) and melt a layer on top to make sure it stays dry.Quote:
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I know someone that I stole part of their idea, they use the dixie cups, Tim hortons are bigger and would likely work too, fills it with dryer lint and puts a birthday candle in and a layer of wax on top so only the wick is out, they do camping way out so they take a few ziplocks of these along as firestarters. The dixie or Tim Horton cups are for liquids so they should keep the lint dry and the wax and candle to get the burn and the seal.
Someone once said not to fill the cups up with gasoline -
Guess I am old fashion I just crumple up some newspaper toss some scraps of wood I saved from splitting the logs and my fire goes. But generally I only have to do that once as usually the stove will not go out for at least 2 weeks when were using it in the real cold.
I'm in the same boat here, spring and fall aside that sucker hums straight through. Generally the old girl will hold coals for 18 to 20 hours.Quote:
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If the temps are warmer then -10C I use the heat pump, it will run at -25C but I am not use to paying for heat.
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How much electricity does a heat pump use? Just curious, finishing up my new home plans and am banging my head on the "primary" heat source which won't be primary. Going full solar is my issue, looking at an indoor gassifier too.Quote:
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Not sure how much power they need but if I ever build again it's going to be an insulated concrete bungalow with an in floor system. 3-5x cheaper to heat/cool.Quote:
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I know it may sound crazy at this moment but abundant electricity will be the next wave of affordable energy with nuclear fusion.Quote:
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I had an engineer pick up a cord of campfire wood this morning, We had a chat.
He is currently setting up a new boiler system on Parliament hill to be powered by 40 megawatts of electricity.
He admitted wondering where the power would come from!
https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us...ct-fusion.html
Does not make sense right with the cheaper fossil fuel available?
They already know.
Food for thought.
https://www.canada.ca/en/innovation-...echnology.html
My place will be all ICF and slab on grade with lots of triple glazed glass. Had planned on a basement but found my building site to be solid Canada.Quote:
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The indoor boiler with in floor heat is where I'm leaning but still open to alternatives.
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Abundant energy won't help as I'm over 3 kicks from the nearest pole! Freedom! No neighbors, pee off my deck and only the birds will know, apple trees everywhere and did I mention no neighbors!Quote:
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I figure it cost me 75 - 100 bucks for the month of Dec and I would have burned 1 face of wood. I didn't run it during the last 3 weeks of Jan and not at all in Feb except for the odd time I didn't feel like getting up to put wood on the fire. We ran it a few times when temps were -20C no problems. Mine is rated of -26 C. There are now some that are good for -35C. I have the LG model with two heads 1 in the basement and 1 on main floor. Not in the most ideal location on the main floor but it works. Mine is a 24000 BTU model both heads are 12000 BTU I can add one more ceiling mount if I wanted to they are 7000 btu, but I don't think I need it. With new windows in the bedrooms and the heat from the one downstairs up stairs is plenty warm my son thought his room was to warm.
But wood heat is still nicer. So now I only burn when it is below -10C and we don't have to hurry home if the fire goes out (Life style change). They also air condition and work as a dehumidifier. Which is a bonus as I did not have duct work for an air conditioner as my furnace is a boiler with rads.
Most companies in Ottawa want to much I contacted more then 20 companies and 3 came out the cheapest was 13000 (tax inc) plus extra for electrical work. I got mine done by the guy who did my windows. He knew a licensed tech who could buy it and he installed it, the tech connected the final parts. I got it for 10,000.00 including electrical and taxes. It was done above board because I wanted the warranty and I can claim it as a partial expense.
Actually they are not hard to install helped my best friend to install his. OK well he did the real work I just helped left the parts.
This is the one I bought and my construction guy I know got it for cost from wosleys in Ottawa. So add on the exchange rate. We also bought all the electrical the stand piping etc. Company in Kemptville wanted 13 grand + electrical + taxes.
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Sorry here is the link.
https://www.ecomfort.com/LG-L2L24W12120000/p79057.html
So do you have solar panels?
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Thanks! I will dig into the watts required.
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240 volt don't know how many watts
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Here are the watts
Cooling Power Input
1780 Watts
Heating Power Input
2120 Watts
Hey, thanks! I could easily power that with the planned system as long as it wouldn't run for 8 hours a day. The cooling is better than most window units!Quote:
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Wood boiler. plenty of heat to run other things beyond just the house.
Waay back in the day before baggies, Saran wrap and zip loc thingys our lunches were always packed with wax paper. That was the only stuff in the cupboard. So on our hunting, fishing or camping trips the wax paper from one or two sandwiches was more than enough to start a fire. My older brother taught me how to start a fire in the worst of weather using dried twigs off pine and spruce but wax paper was always the main ingredient.
Yep remember that wrap well. Cheese sandwiches in wax paper is what my mom sent me to school with every day. I always carry a 1 lb bottle of MAPPs gas with a self igniting turbo torch in my kit. That sucker will start a fire in torrential down pour with hurricane winds.Quote:
Originally Posted by sawbill
My friend put in an outdoor wood boiler and in floor heating. Turned out to be a lot of work, burned ton's of wood that still had to be cut from the tandem loads , he could not be away for day's on end. The heat exchangers on these thing's seem to rust out after six or seven years of use. The other problem was heat control where the heat from the floor can become oppressive and hard to adjust fast. With sporadic power outages for the pump he scraped the whole system after the exchangers rusted out.Quote:
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Hmm...I know my metals, I wouldve switched to stainless steel heat exchangers
I use a cupro-nickel heat exchanger on my salt water pool for a few years now. So far, so good.
Good idea, I’ll have to try it to light my charcoal grill