Posted on 01/08/2015 6:19:04 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
beat me to it!
I love the smell of two cycle in the morning. It smells like, Victory.
“The real New Hampshire man has about him the aroma of combusted two-stroke”
I keep my chain sawing clothes hanging in the basement because they stink of 2 stroke oil.
Let’s just change the name of this web site to Freepmopolitan!
Whoa! Getting 1996 flashbacks now!
Remember your ABCs: “Alexander Beats Clinton, Dole.. Even Forbes!”
Women moreso, but young male hipster/slacker dooshes seem to all be reading the same Cosmo-for-men magazine.
Thus, all of a sudden it is hip to have a big fat beard, as if to distreact from the otherwise stunning lack of masculinity.
It is an overeaction.
In the past people were judged by their deeds and morals.
Kids today think they will be judged solely by their facial hair.
A real lumberman’s barber chair is a Peterbilt.
Heating with firewood all winter for 42 years, missed my mark felling large hardwood trees only once.
Heating with firewood warms you 6 times: felling & bucking the tree, hauling the wood to the house, splitting it, stacking it, bringing it in the house, and when its burning.
When it’s 9 degrees out, ain’t nothing like a hot fire in the fireplace furnace that heats the whole house........
I’ve got a nice old Woolrich Wool plaid coat. Now these gay fashion clowns are all going to start wearing them.
Nothing sacred today.
I’m lazy. Firewood only warms me 5 times.
I don’t stack it. I throw it in a pile about 20 feet from my outdoor boiler.
I would have been very disappointed if I opened this thread and didn’t see any references to “The Lumberjack Song.”
There is nothing quite like a real wood fire.
I thought the exact same way as you did, right up to the point when we installed the Harman pellet insert. I cut, split, stacked, hauled and cleaned up after cordwood for 16 years. Now I fill up the pellet stove once in the morning and once at night. I empty the ash pan once a week. I completely clean it once a month. It also heats my 2500 square foot 1972 house much more evenly. Also, from a “green” point of view, the pellets come from a factory within 30 miles from my house. I have also cut my heating oil usage by 2/3.
The pellet stove is very efficient too(rated at 85%). I used to clean my flue 2x a season. I checked it a week or so ago. Nothing. I had a pretty good wood stove too, A Jotul 3. It was supposed to be about 75% efficient. It was not big enough though.
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