I seem to remember a combo wood/gas stove in one our SF rentals back in the 1960's. However we only burned newspaper in it, not wood. Don't know exactly why.
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Rich, the type of combo stove you described is commonly referred to as "trash & gas." I've lived with a couple of T&G Wedgewoods from the '30s, and while they're built like tanks and have heavy "self cleaning" grates that could handle small logs, I'm not so sure that's the intention. I think there would be a need for some serious kitchen ducting and more than a plain old flue to safely burn wood in them. I view the trash burners as a convenient and smaller indoor version of an incinerator, which so many homes used to have outdoors.
The big deluxe Wedgewood in one place I lived in the mid '80s had both a trash burner and a gas heater on the left side. The pilot for the heater had never been lit. The thermocouple was still silver colored. I changed that and used the heater once in a while. I did burn trash as well, but I had to be careful because the heat from too big a fire caused the massive ducting on the back to start smoking from years of accumulated grease on its exterior, and IIRC, the ceiling mounted exhaust fan high above it didn't work.
The big deluxe Wedgewood in one place I lived in the mid '80s had both a trash burner and a gas heater on the left side. The pilot for the heater had never been lit. The thermocouple was still silver colored. I changed that and used the heater once in a while. I did burn trash as well, but I had to be careful because the heat from too big a fire caused the massive ducting on the back to start smoking from years of accumulated grease on its exterior, and IIRC, the ceiling mounted exhaust fan high above it didn't work.
Around here growing up most were gas with the side heater being kerosene. As soon as you walked into a house with the kerosene burner going the smell was overwhelming.
