'Wild West' mentality lingers in modern populations of US mountain regions

Re:'Wild West' mentality lingers in modern populations of US... by AngryData on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @08:52PM (#24415458)

Most wood stove fires aren't directly because of the stove, but people who have gone years and years without ever cleaning their chimney or try to slow burn lots of shit wood like pine. And when the chimney builds up with tons of creosote it can then catch on fire and burn inside the chimney, seriously overheating it and causing a fire.

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Re:'Wild West' mentality lingers in modern populations of US... by xyzzy_plugh on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @09:57PM (#24415950)

Speaking of pine, it's harder and harder to find decent firewood that isn't mixed with pine. We mostly cut our own from felled trees on the lot, of which there is no shortage, but sometimes it's handy to buy the odd cord and boy has the quality gone downhill.

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Re:'Wild West' mentality lingers in modern populations of US... by hoot on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @08:14AM (#24420157)

Yep, I live in the Rockies and it's all we have here. Everybody in the mountains are burning pine. Just season it the best you can. Burning wood is also the main way to go because gas is too cost prohibitive up here.

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Re:'Wild West' mentality lingers in modern populations of US... by scruple on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @10:29AM (#24421380)

I'm curious to understand why gas is prohibitive in the Rockies, if you don't mind. It's (at least, it seems to be) so ubiquitous in the Sierra's (where I am right now) that I kind of assumed it was like this every where in the mountains today.

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