I Know I Am A Wood Burner When...

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Beautiful! I always get jealous watching all the ones Cody of Wranglerstar has! I need one of these. :)

Funny you should mention him. I'm using his "treat it once a day for a week, once a week for a month, once a month for a year, and then one time per year" method to protect the handle with linseed oil.

If you are considering it, they really are beautiful. I'll let you know how it splits!
 
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Funny you should mention him. I'm using his "treat it once a day for a week, once a week for a month, once a month for a year, and then one time per year" method to protect the handle with linseed oil.

If you are considering it, they really are beautiful. I'll let you know how it splits!

Haha! I remember that that very video! Please do! They make gorgeous axes and mauls!
 
When your 11 yr old can stack the wood about as fast as you can haul it from the splitter, and he knows how to cross block the ends of the stack because he learned from his older sister.
 
one of my co-workers threw a bunch of 4" diameter apple branches in the dumpster today. I thought about taking them out, but didn't want to be climbing in the dumpster for a few pieces of burnable wood.... now if they were on top, that would be a different story.
 
Haha! I remember that that very video! Please do! They make gorgeous axes and mauls!
I just gave it a whirl for the first time today. I just put 4 or 5 small pieces on a splitting block and the axe went through like butter. The wood was Ash and it was straight anyway, but this thing is going to make splitting even more fun.

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when you decide to take down a tree wearing a nice button down shirt, simply because you have the chainsaw and PPE in the back of the truck.
 
I just gave it a whirl for the first time today. I just put 4 or 5 small pieces on a splitting block and the axe went through like butter. The wood was Ash and it was straight anyway, but this thing is going to make splitting even more fun.

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Wow, very nice! Just as expected!
 
When you spend half the afternoon in the office reading about wood sheds and cutting wood
 
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When you spend most of your night after dark reading about woodsheds and cutting wood.
 
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You might be a wood burner if people ask you if you know a good arborist because they heard people have"Eastern Pineaphobia" around here and they have seen a lot of dying pine trees....
 
I spent a week end taking my kids camping. I used up a lot of the uglies and too short/ to long pieces for the camp fire. And as we drove around the site I couldn't believe how many people were throwing mounds of well cut and split Oak and locust into fire pits. Made me cringe.

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When you light the first fire in your stove before you screw the chimney together and before patching the hole in your roof created by the removal of the old masonry fireplace.

Oh yeah, and it is 70F outside still
 
. . . when you see this thread and think "I think I've seen a similar thread here for the past eight years." ;)
 
When I start sourcing free firewood for next year via craigslist while it's still 80 degrees out and don't really care even if the hatch overstuffed with rounds slightly exceeding the gross weight of the vehicle, haha
 
When I start sourcing free firewood for next year via craigslist while it's still 80 degrees out and don't really care even if the hatch overstuffed with rounds slightly exceeding the gross weight of the vehicle, haha

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