Heating for the depths of winter
I am a park ranger, but I enjoy to think of myself as more than that.
I am a public servant in the truest form of the phrase, because our only goal is to make the forest safer for folks to visit.
Both of us mostly do hiking as well as camping in these parts, with entirely limited hunting as well as fishing for the locals to preserve the local flora as well as fauna. That said, the winters get pretty brutal, as well as that is where our job is most vital. I maintain a dozen different cottages scattered throughout the five hundred acres of land here, in case people get lost. In each cottage are more than one different furnaces, as well as some bottled water as well as canned food. The first heating plan all of us have in each cottage is a fireplace, although the make as well as model of the fireplace varies wildly. Next to each fireplace all of us maintain a healthy pile of firewood, enough for more than one afternoons worth of heat, as well as matches as well as a lighter. In addition to that, all of us have a little space furnace in each cottage, as well as these are a entirely new addition that I am happy about. None of the cottages have electricity ,of course, so these space furnaces are operated by a hand crank. If you crank the space furnace a couple hundred rotations, it will generate heat for an hour or so. These space furnaces are a superb addition, because I have encountered people before that don’t even think how to beginning a fire. These space haters are basically idiot proof, which is just what all of us need out here.