In my village, all stoked with wood, although 50 km coal mine. We understand the reasons

I was born and raised in one of the villages in Eastern Siberia. The issue heating homes dared only by a wood stove. Firewood in our family is as follows: at the house timber dump it (in the long whip - all wood, even with branches). My father and the volume of sawed, pricked and stacked. For these employees Forestry Administration wood was for the price 26 rubles. 25 m3 forests in timber trucks. when salaries 150-200 rub. per month. Not such and small money.

This machine is enough for the winter twice-furnace house about 50 m2 (the house of logs without insulation).

Always engaged in wood in the winter. Perekolot this amount - even that task. In the cold wood, of course, easier to crack, but always comes after this session, drenched in sweat. Spring comes the job of cleaning the local area from chips and sawdust.

In general, a routine rustic work. Of course, you could order a car already perekolotyh firewood. But that is another price. And to hire workers at a time to chop wood - it was not accepted. In general, there were many that believed not accepted.

Electricity to heat the house - not pulling the wiring inside the house. Everything was done on aluminum. Redo wiring and calculate whether the effective heat a small house with electricity - even thought no one came. And high-quality heaters did not exist. I had to have something to tinkering.

All lived stereotypes and principles: so does the neighbor. Even wells in areas not dug, and bore arms water (buckets) to total well over 100 m. Although, who forbade? Now all this is simply amazing village hidebound views on life. And many of the principles of such a life there remained still.

Upon learning that in our area there is a coal mine, then asked the question to his father, why do not we buy coal? After all, with him accompanying effort much less. The answer was: it is necessary to alter the stove. Again the problem.

Because Coal burning temperature is higher, it is necessary to make the furnace of chamotte bricks, and then it was in short supply. You need to redo the grate, ash-pit have the quality to adjust the air supply. And from the ashes to dispose of coal. It will not throw in the garden on a bed as a wood.

Advantages of wood: inside there is coal dust at home. A sawdust or wood chips from wood - it's a tree, it does not spoil. Firewood is more convenient to store and carry. Firewood can be ordered from many of those who engaged in them, and in trade and not pay monopoly (as in the case of coal).

The price of coal. I do not know how it was in those years (prior to the inflation of 1,000% per annum), but now the price level: 15 thousand. rub. 5 tons. Machine firewood (not stab in lumps): 6 thousand. 6 m3. Yes, coal calorific value above 1 kg, you can get more heat than 1 kg of wood. And the difference in the price of the machine can be smoothed. But the wood - still greener. And so historically it happened in the Siberian village.

Charcoal in the village drowned larger objects: The House of Culture, school, hospital. And there are villagers on my native land, who translated their homes for heating coal. It hosts a large area of ​​houses under 100 m2. Stoke two stoves is not very convenient. A wood need twice as much. Make a water heater and a furnace with a boiler. In this case, a carbon sink appropriate. But here, turning into a fireman. Coal should always enclose or inflame. The house does not leave in the cold, you are attached to the boiler. Otherwise unfreeze pipes.

My opinion is this: in the village, where the range of timber, coal costs have ghost benefit, it is inconvenient for the brick oven, farmhouse, and the ash is contraindicated for the garden.

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