ATOCI: Heating with Wood [HWW] TABLE OF CONTENTS FUELWOOD AND THE ENVIRONMENT. 9 Environmental Impact . Productivity and Allowable Cut WOOD TO BURN. 31 The Cord . Choice of Fuelwood . Comparison of Wood and Oil Prices . Determining Dryness . Where To Find Wood . Woodland Improvement . Hauling . Felling and Bucking . Splitting . Seasoning STOVES AND OTHER WOOD-BURNERS. 63 Combustion of Wood . Modem Stove Stoves . Norwegian Stoves . The Efficiency of Airtight stoves. Other Metal Stoves . Tile and Soapstone Stoves . Fireplaces . Buying Old Stoves . The Chimney. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER. 103 Where To Put Wood-Burners . Ventilation and Humidity . Wasted Energy . The Extended Stovepipe . Meat Exchangers . A Final Word. INDEX Air, thermal properties 117 Air-box, in Pennsylvanian Fireplace 67, 74 Angiosperms 37 Ashley Stove 77-80, 86, 88 Atlantic Clarion Stove Co. 96 Available heat 62 Axe 58 Beltway Furnace 82, 84 Bimetallic strip 75, 79 ti Boilers, wood-fired 77, 82, 89 Bow saw 50 ,M Brazing, in stove repair 96 Bucking 50-56 Buck saw 50 Carbon dioxide 13, 18, 76, 77 Carbon monoxide 20, 28, 77, 122 Chain saw 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 105, 117 Charcoal 13, 50, 76, 77, 79, 80, 86, 122 Char-Wood Heater 88, 89, 124 Chimney 66, 67, 70, 71, 76, 82, 84, 88, 95, 108, 110, 113, 118 Chimney, cleaning 100 Chimney, height of 98, 107 Chimney, kinds of 98, 99 Chimney fire 99, 100 Coal, sulfur in 21 Combustion 18, 28, 67, 70, 75, 79, 80, 81, 95, 110, 113 Combustion, chemistry of 76, 77 Combustion, complete 18, 40, 70, 88 Combustion, incomplete 11, 18, 114 Combustion, products of 11, 17, 18 Compression 54 Cord 34, 35, 40 Creosote 71, 76, 80, 81, 100, 114, 115 Darwin, Charles 12 Decay 59 Decay, products of 11, 17, 18, 20 Defluctions 93 Downdraft design 70 Downdraft Equalizer, Ashley 80, 115 Draft 67, 71, 88, 107 Draft, Automatic 75, 76, 79, 86, 88, 90 Draft, forced 82, 89 Draft, preheated 79, 82, 89 Efficiency 38-40, 65, 75, 88, 89, 96, 111, 113, 114, 117 Efficiency of steam engine 122 Efficiency of tree as solar converter 24 Electric power plants, woodfired 29, 77, 79, 89 Empire Stove and Furnace Co. 96 Energy 24, 40, 76 Energy, solar 17, 21, 22 Energy converter 24 Energy crisis 33 Eugene Water and Electric Board 29 Felling 50-56 Felling wedge 53 Fireplace 43, 66, 67, 94, 95, 99, 105, 106 Firewood 43 Foote, Elisha 75 Forest ecosystem 23 Forest productivity 21, 22, 24, 27 Forest Service, U.S. 14, 16, 25, 28, 124 Forests 12 Forests, age of 21 Forests, commercial 25 Forests, eastern 14, 17, 44 Forests, European 23 Forests, state 43 Fossil fuels 13, 20, 21, 24 Franklin, Benjamin 66, 67, 70, 71, 74, 81, 91-93, 99, 100-102 Frost, Robert 18 Fuelwood, availability of 14, 15, 17 Gasogen 122, 124 German stoves 92 Grid, for measuring cordwood. 34 Gymnosperms 37 Hardwoods 14, 16, 37, 39, 43, 44, 46, 60 Haze, forest 18 Heartwood 59 Heat content 62 Heat exchangers 115 Heat loss from body 111 Heat loss from house 110 Heat of combustion 40, 62, 88 Heating effect 39 Humidity, relation to heat loss 111 Humbolt undercut 53 Hypocaust 107, 108 Jotul Stove 86 King Stove Co. 90 Kristia Associates 86 Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent 70 Leaves, mineral content of 23 Magnetic Creosote Inhibitor, Riteway 81 Market, fuelwood 33 Mechanical splitters 57 Moravian potters 92 Negative feedback 84 Nickel welding 96 Nott, Reverend Eliphalet 81 Oil 12, 16, 37 Oil, fuel value of 39, 62 Oil, furnaces 38, 39, 89 Orr, Isaac 67, 79 Oxidation 18 Oxygen 13, 70, 76, 77, 82, 84, 110 Particulate matter 28 Peavey 55 Peirce, J. H. 75 Pennsylvanian fireplace 66, 67, 70, 74, 75, 92 Photosynthesis 13, 18 Plutonium 20 Pollution 21, 24 Portland Foundry Co. 86, 88, 90 Priestley, Joseph 70 Protein, sulfur in 28 Pyroligneous acid 76, 80, 114, 115 Revolving grate 74 Riteway Furnace 82, 84 Riteway Stove 81, 86, 88 Roots, mineral content of 23 Sapwood 59 Sawlog 44, 54, 55, 56 Sawtimber 46 Seasoning 35, 58-60 Secondary air, 77, 79, 80, 82, 84, 89 Shakers 114 Smoke 19, 66, 70, 84, 100 Smoky Mountains 18 Softwoods 14, 16, 37, 46 Solar cells 24 Solar income 24 Splitting hammer 58 Steam engine 122 Stove patents 75, 81 Stoves, airtight 67, 76, 79, 82, 86, 88, 90, 105, 107, 108, 110 Stoves, base-burning 80-82 Stoves, box 90 Stoves, downdraft 70, 71, 74 Stoves, Franklin 67, 74, 86, 90, 117 Stoves, kitchen 88, 96, 98, 99, 118, 120 Stoves, Norwegian 86, 87 Stoves, parlor 75, 90, 94, 95 Stoves, second-hand 95, 96 Stoves, smoke-consuming 70, 74 Stoves, soapstone 90, 94 Stoves, tile 90-94 Stoves, updraft 70, 71, 75, 79 Stovepipe, extended 114, 115 Stovepipe, installation of 98, 115 Strontium-90 20 Sulfur 20, 21, 28, 29 Sulfur dioxide 20, 21 Sulfuric acid 20 Sun 12, 99 Tension 54 Thermionic converter 122 Thermoelectric converter 122 Thinning 16, 43, 47 Tree, as energy storage device 12 Tree, as solar energy converter 12 Tree, cull 16, 53 Tree, hung-up 55 Tree Farm Program 43 Trolla Stove 86, 88 United States Stove Co. 90 Ventilation 92, 108, 110, 111, 113 Ventilation in House of Commons 93 Vermont Soapstone Co. 94 Volatiles 65, 70, 71, 76, 77, 79-82, 86 Wastes, logging 14 Wastes, mill 14, 43 Wolf tree 46 Wood, air-dried 35, 39, 76 Wood, as renewable resource 12 Wood, chimneyed 60 Wood, density of 35-39, 41 Wood, dryness of 40 Wood, environmental impact of burning 17-21 Wood, fuel value of 37, 39, 40, 62, 65 Wood, frozen 57, 58 Wood, green 35, 40, 41 Wood, moisture in 40, 41, 59 Wood, penned 60 Wood, splitting of 57, 58 Wood distillation 12, 76, 86 Woodland improvement 43-47 Woodlot 24, 43 Woodshed 60