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Save Your Back While You Heat with Wood

ood heat provided through a high-efficiency stove is a great, low-impact, and renewable way to warm your home during winter, and it can be virtually free of expense except for a few tools and a lot of labor. I’ve heated our house exclusively with wood for more than a decade, and I’ve supplemented with wood for decades more than that. I came by the notion honestly, as my dad heated his palatial home with two stoves until he was well into his 80s (my folks still supplement with wood). Dad’s reason for putting in

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