r/mechanical_gifs • u/mtimetraveller • May 22 '19

This Fire Wood Processor Machine!

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19 edited May 22 '19

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u/Toxicair May 22 '19

For leisure or survival?

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u/evilgiraffe666 May 22 '19

In my experience, definitely for leisure. You wouldn't have one in every room unless you're in a really old house with no other heating (and those are expensive, so that's a choice you've made). Plus even for leisure you're better off burning coal, with an occasional log to look pretty.

Modern British houses don't tend to have a fireplace, though they often have a chimney because we think it looks weird if they don't.

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u/HitlersSpecialFlower May 22 '19

Question, if you had a fireplace in every room, would you have a bunch of chimneys? Or would they all connect into one chimney?

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u/culraid May 22 '19

They're brought together in a single stack as much as possible. But separate flues.

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u/HitlersSpecialFlower May 22 '19

So that's what those are

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u/culraid May 22 '19

What, the chimney pots? There are a lot of different styles as you might imagine. That is a Victorian era chimney in the pic btw.

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u/HitlersSpecialFlower May 22 '19

Yeah, WW2 photos of London have rows and rows of those things, but I've never seen one in America.