How many times do you burn yourself?

Hate to admit it but, multiple burns on my hands. The most embarrassing was about a mount ago. Cracked open the door to get the fire going one morning, went to add a few splits and when I bent over to reach in I actually clunked my head on the half opened door. Wore that blister for about 3 weeks, being bald made it hard to hide as well.

Diabel said:

No burn for 5yrs! And this last week.

No pain....no gain!

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ouch... How hot was your relaod

I still have hair on my knuckles. Theirs no need to put your body in side a hot boxs.
I think I got it once from the door

I've got three scars on my upper forearms from loading a hot stove with gloves. I bought gloves that come all the way up to my elbows and I like extra protection. Although to be honest I'm pretty clumsy so there are no guarantees. Just added protection.

I think some of you people need to be wearing helmets. ;-P Especially the ones getting multiple burns??? (just kidding)

We are either extremely lucky or just really careful, because nobody in my house has every burned themselves to the point of leaving a visible mark, not from using the wood stove anyway, and I'm the only one who uses (regular work) gloves once in a while when I load up the stove for the night, which requires pulling the coals forward and loading the back of the stove with some big splits.

We did however have one firewood related incidence when my youngest son was chopping kindling with a Friskars axe and he sliced his hand open pretty good. Dumb move, but he's a lot more careful now.
Just curious, have any of you multiple burn recipients lost any fingers while splitting kindling?

Please be careful !

Nothing bad, but a few "ow that's hot" with a red mark times. Not recently though, and we do have stove gloves. I also wanted a front load stove for that reason, no need to reach inside the box or even really, get too close to the sides when it's hot. And I set it to the right side of the hearth pad so that the wood could be kept on the left side, no need to worry about the door when loading (right hinged).

Probably will need a second set of gloves for the Temco, I am betting the spark screen gets pretty hot and there's no way to reload without grabbing it and moving it out of the way.

A few zings here and there...

I get into trouble when I really try to pack the stove and I end up hitting the lip around the loading area (not the door, the part the door covers), those tend to hurt and take off a little skin. My hands usually so banged up that I look like I'm in some sort of a bare-knuckle boxing league....so a couple small burns don't really stand out.

Burd said:

Diabel said:

No burn for 5yrs! And this last week.

No pain....no gain!

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ouch... How hot was your relaod

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This was a top load reload using a glove, somehow my arm touched the rim of the top load door....
It doe not take much, temp was around 300-350

I'm surprised the rocks didn't split apart and fly across the cabin. I have a hole in one of my tents from a firepit rock coming apart.

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At a remote cabin I once frequented we had an old Fischer. When we found a particularly interesting rock while out in the woods, we'd bring it back and display it on top of the stove. We referred to this as our "I.Q. tester." It was amazing how many visitors, while enjoying the piping hot stove, would simply reach down and pick up one of them to look at it. Invarably, everyone of them would then say, "I can't believe I just did that."

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NATE379 said:

I'm surprised the rocks didn't split apart and fly across the cabin. I have a hole in one of my tents from a firepit rock coming apart.

ploughboy said:

At a remote cabin I once frequented we had an old Fischer. When we found a particularly interesting rock while out in the woods, we'd bring it back and display it on top of the stove. We referred to this as our "I.Q. tester." It was amazing how many visitors, while enjoying the piping hot stove, would simply reach down and pick up one of them to look at it. Invarably, everyone of them would then say, "I can't believe I just did that."

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I think some rocks are more given to doing that than others, probably those that have moisture absorbed in them. I was slightly nervous about building the hearth pad from natural stone because of that, but since the Republic doesn't really get them too warm it's a non-issue. I remember having fire pit rocks explode too.

I keep an old pair of common leather work glove next to the fireplace tools so i can carry out the ash pan. I SHOULD use them to carry in firewood, but I seldom do. I have raised maybe a couple of blisters these last five years loading with bare hands in almost all cases - and I am inordinately clumsy. Splinters, on the other hand....

I have been "bit" a few times by the door swinging wide open while I was picking out some splits to put in.

Steve

I have some nice elbow length gloves, but I used to only put them on when I was planning on getting burned. I eventually figured out I should always put them on.

A couple years ago I went to close the damper up and tripped over a piece of wood beside the stove...almost stuck my hand out to catch myself and pushed off the pipe with my forearm...I always put on the gloves now when Im tending the stove.

Burnt myself several times. Most embarassing was putting on one left handed welding glove and reaching down with the right hand to open Fireview door.
My hands have never been real pretty and after that.......they still aren't. :-(

Dirt

I just have some regular leather work gloves that work fine. Only time I was burned was because while poking I didn't have my gloves on and a large coal fell out and slid across the laminate fake wood flooring. I quickly grabbed bare handed and threw it back in. 1st degree burns of the finger tips. I put the gloves on out of habit now.