You Know You Are A Real Wood Burner If _________

Anyone who has the last name "Osborne" you mispronounce "Osburn".

When you go to the city mall and your 12 year old daughter looks into a clothing store display that has some wood in it and says dad birch!
When your kids can tell the difference between aspen and birch
When your kids say dad don't you think the stove needs more wood?
When your daughter goes to her friends house and when she returns you ask If her friends dad has bigger stacks then me.
When youre at the office and the big as_ pile of wood that's on city land in plain view through the front windows that you've watched for months is lit on fire cause you don't have room for it and you comment to the secretary who says man wood is an obsession for you.
When your friends find it weird that you talk about moisture content.
When the world was going to end and your friends said they would move in and protect your stacks with their guns so we could all stay warm.
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you get pleasure out of tending your stove and maintaining good fires, enjoy experimenting....and sharing experienes...

You go to hearth.com when you can't sleep....

When your wood stove and chainsaws are worth more then your 3 cars.

When you take all the cushions off the couches and go camping in the living room.

When our in laws came over for Thanksgiving dinner with 22 degrees out side and we have the back door open and just sliding screen shut.
Yes it was just plain too hot in 4 bed room colonial house and cooking going on

When your dogs bring a couple of splits for the fire as a hint.

When you're on vacation anywhere, even the beach or a thousand miles from home, and when you see wood cut into rounds on the side of the road you think about what you can get rid of in the car to haul those bad boys home.

When you have replaced the rear window in your pickup truck more than once.

The only time the thermostat is above 60* is when you leave the house.

When you get a "divorce call" from you oil delivery service. "You are not meeting our minimum delivery requirements for auto-delivery." or "your contract says we have to be your exclusive oil supplier." or ....

KaptJaq

KaptJaq said:

When you get a "divorce call" from you oil delivery service. "You are not meeting our minimum delivery requirements for auto-delivery." or "your contract says we have to be your exclusive oil supplier." or ....

KaptJaq

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I had to break out the pressure washer because the oil company resorted to putting stickers next to my fill pipe after I stopped getting oils.

....When you spend $15k on a wood gassification boiler+radiant floor system and your only backup is an old wood stove.

chipsoflyin said:

When you have replaced the rear window in your pickup truck more than once.

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You need a headache rack on your truck.

When you have to keep your coat and gloves on in a oil heated house because it's only 68 degrees.

When you are driving home from Thanksgiving dinner and your city bred wife says "wow, look at that houses wood stacks"

You turn your three acre house lot loaded with 70' oak trees into a desert within 3 years!! LOL

When you leave the stove room windows open all winter.

When you roll down the back window of your work car on a winter night so you can fit one more cut up branch that you found at the dump in the back seat.
When you turn your work car into a wood hauler.
When you drool over Black Locust.
When you classify tree species by BTU ratings and stack accordingly.
When your wife burns a split that you have been saving and you get bummed that you didn’t get to see it burn.

bob95065 said:

You need a headache rack on your truck.

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when you have a headache rack and still break the rear window.

When you look around your yard to see where you can put another pile of wood, where the wife won't mind, or, won't block the view.

When you cut the fall shoulder season off short because you have a larger wood supply then needed (3 years out),and just go 24/7.

When you use up all of your vacation time to cut and split wood- for two years from now.