You Know You Are A Real Wood Burner If _________

You look at your "weather station" and it's 8 outside and 80 in...with NO complaining about cost!!

You are not "that guy" filling up 5 gallon containers of fuel oil at the local station on a frigid night with the wife at home crying it is too cold in the house. Instead, you are at home walking around your living room in your underwear

You've seen this same thread start up every fall/winter for a number of years now.

fossil said:

You've seen this same thread start up every fall/winter for a number of years now.

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Yeah, but I love the first line !

" ..... the new neighbors have been checking out your wood stacks, and after the oil truck leaves their place (ouch!! ) for the second time in 2 weeks, they come over and ask if you heat with wood and then want to know the cost, come in and check out the stoves, feel the heat in the house, ask a bazillion questions that get answered, get my wood guys phone number, and the 2 days later there are 2 cords of wood sitting in their driveway to get a head start on next year ."

...you can't drive by a tree crew working without stopping to see where the wood is going to be going
...you have developed a distaste for those chippers that can eat a 24" diameter oak trunk

...when you can drive down your street and be able to tell what kind of wood the neighbors are burning with one wiff! (and who is really burning dry wood and who's not! )

or, when your wife is sooo tired of hearing about how the neighbor could save so much wood if he'd just put an insert in that ole fireplace!

you have at least 2 to 3 years of wood on hand so you have dry seasoned wood. I keep looking at all the chimney's around here blowing smoke. Could be some of them are still burning with pre EPA stoves though...

Your thanksgiving guests ask you to open a door to cool things down. And it's 22 degrees outside.

Your buddy "Savage" isn't a bookie or loanshark.

You wife complains the house is too hot!

When your AC kicks on but it's only 32f outside.

You check the room thermometer(s) every time you are anywhere near one to gauge how well you have balanced idling the fire down with producing enough heat to stay toasty warm.

You check craigslist every day for free wood.

You stack wood when you're awake.

5 cords is "a good start".

Funny you said that....I had to check to make sure mine was off!lolol

luv2byte said:

When your AC kicks on but it's only 32f outside.

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"your 4 year old son can tell the difference between Oak and Mulberry."
"your 6 year old daughter knows the dried weight of a cord of said Oak and Mulberry."
(ok, just kidding on the second one.)

When your driving somewhere and you slow down to admire other people's wood stacks.

When you see a tree cut up into rounds on someone's property and wonder if they want to keep it or no

When on trips out of town you have to stop into wood stove shops just to check out the stoves they carry.

When the best present anyone can give you is free wood! A Greek friend offered us all the branches pruned from his olive trees. Wonderful wood for the next burning season when stripped of the leaves which are then used for fertiliser round the trees. Like very much the idea of burning with a sustainable resource and the heat from olive is good.

You forget Oslo is a location.