Been thinking of putting a wood stove in the basement.

What's the deal with those pellet furnaces? A friend of mine has one in his house in NC and says it works very well and is very cheap to run.

Starting to warm up.

-6 here w/ wind chill of -25 ...... it's cold I get it ! All the local schools closed, I get it ... the local up scale mall closed,what ever ...... but now they canceled the mail :facepalm: :wtf:
What do they do in Minneapolis or Bute Montana on a day like today ... I'll tell you what they do.... they dress for the weather and go about their business !!!

I put one in the family room 25yrs ago and it was a primary source of heat for the first couple of years here, now it's a secondary source, but a great investment over all

Very efficient and clean. You can have a pallet of pellets and don't have to deal with cutting and splitting, stacking and seasoning the wood.

Man. I see a lot of complaining in here for what's a normal occurrence here for me. Bring in the frostbite!

This country is creating more and more snow flakes ( or just flakes ) who come up with every excuse to not do something instead of gritting your teeth, sucking it up and just getting it done :gtfo2:

:leghump: :hello:

The latest generation wants everything handed to them. They don't want to work for it. :mad:

Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on your perspective, liability has made consigning people to potentially life threatening conditions a difficult decision.

Regulations, policy, and procedures typically exist because of tragic issues that have arisen in the past. Sometimes they are legitimately good, and sometimes they are purely CYA.

The last 2 weeks of January and the first 2 weeks of February is the coldest here. What we have so far is mild. The Mon river doesn't have any ice on it yet. :icon14: When the river gets ice on it. Then it's cold.

That's a pretty broad statement to make. Work ethic tends to be equal parts environment and background. We tend to meet whatever standard is necessary to survive - right now though, that tends to be a pretty low bar. The expectation that difficult situations be eliminated exists because for the most part, they have been.

Trying to evade Darwin isn't good for anyone...

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I just don’t understand that way of thinking (not arguing the validity of your statement, just people that live their lives that way). I’m an engineer with seals in multiple states. Making critical decisions is part of my everyday life.