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Name: Mike

Location: Whitefield, NH- 44.3224 Lat, -71.6249 Long, 1430 ft. Roughly 3 hours north of Boston and 30 minutes north of the Franconia Notch and the former Old Man on the Mountain, may he rest in piece :down:

Occupation: School Psychologist PK-12

This is the first year I am burning indoors, but we've kept a nice firepit outside and my dad has run his fireplace for atmosphere in MA for as long as I can remember.

Wife, daughter, two cats inside. Moose, black bear, white-tail deer, fox, coyote, owls, bats and various rodents and birds roaming around outside the back door. I don't hunt, never learned how, but don't mind that others do.

Ski (first runs this morning), hike, read, photograph, cook, drink and listen to music.

Music: U2, Dropkick Murphys are our current favorites, but if it you can hear it we listen to it.

The forum and archived posts are the best thing that has happened since the stove was installed this August. Much thanks for the advice and humor.
 
Name: Penny

Age: 41 (8 when I'm riding my horse)
Status: Single (in most cases I'd much rather spend time with the horse)

Location: Milford, CT near LI Sound

Occupation: Satellite Operations Manager for CBS Network

Years Burning: I was daddy's little pyro

Pets: 6 year old off track Thoroughbred, several over-talkative parrots and 2 cats

Hobbies: Aforementioned horseback riding, kayaking, skiing. Love my Red Sox and Patriots!
 
Name: Leon

Age: 42

Occupation : Physical Therapist, former firefighter/EMT, police/security/corrections officer, private investigator. Also have worked with father as a teenager figuring out that I didn't want to be a master plumber/master oil burner technician, but learned much that I continue to use.

Location: North central Maine, grew up closer to Augusta.

Years Burning: Except for the few years I spent working in Rumford, Maine area and living in an apartment, have always burned wood for heat.

Hobbies and such: Fishing, love travel work in Alaska. Hunting/shooting, ATVing, fixing stuff... anything, building stuff... from birdhouses to garages.
 
Name - rick
Age - 40
Location Delaware
Occupation - Hearth industry
We've been married 12 years, lived about 1/2 of that in a "chilly peace" then I introduced my wife to woodstoves, (I grew up with them). I thought it was great not to have to cut wood anymore, but found out cutting wood was far better than paying the fuel companies. :) Now that I have her convinced wood heat is the way to go, I'm happily cutting wood again, and she thinks it's a crisis if our house temp drops below 80* %-P
Hobbies include reading, hunting, exploring, just about anything outdoors.
I've had great fun reading posts and adding my 1/2 cent , learned much as well.
Happy burning to all!
 
Name: Bob

Age: 56

Location: Live on the 2nd Burden Lake in Averill Park, NY...12 miles East of Albany

Occupation: NFI Certified Hearth & Patio Specialist.
2 yrs service tech, 3 years lead installer
Retired CS Production Controller/Journeyman Machinist

Years Burning: 3 yrs in the 80s, 10 yrs in the 90s, & 3 yrs in the 00s...
Turned to the Dark Side in 04 & now burn LP...

Hobbies: Harley-Davidson, Sci-Fi, Late 60s - Early 70s rock, Bowling, Carpentry
 
Name: Tom
Age 61
Location: Saratoga Springs, NY, Cape Vincent, NY
Stove: Old CDW new Jotul F400 in a couple of weeks
Hobbies: woodworking and restoring a 150 year old home
 
Age - 33
Name - Rich
Marital status - SINGLE..... I hope my WIFE doesn't see this..... She'll be pissed!
Location - Halifax, MA
Car I Drive - 2006 Dodge Ram 4x4 Quad Cab HEMI.
Occupation - Mechanical Engineer - Who is forced to be a Machinest / Welder (Mig, Tig, Arc, Oxy/Acet) / Tin Knocker / Industrial Machine Electrican etc...
I design and build packaging machinery for the Food, Pharma/nutraceutical, Beverage And Consumer Product Industries.
Link to cough syrup filler Me and my co-worker designed and built in 6 weeks - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eufl4iulxeM
Burnig Experiance - None yet.... Hearth built, Installing my chimney this weekend. I do have 4 years of campfire experiance at my seasonal camp site if that counts for anything.
Hobbies - Camping, Working around the house, My home theater equipment, Fishing, Hunting, ATVing, Boating, Rebuilding stuff (I rebuilt my own wood stove), and all of my
kids hobbies.
 
Name: Rich
age: 42
Location: Just east of Hartford. (Still consider myself a Bostonian.)
Occupation: Registered Nurse
Years burning : First (city kid, remember?)
Hobbies: Skiing, golfing, motorcycling, and appearently, now I burn wood!
 
Name: Jeff Age: 43 Location Just 15 miles south of Omaha, Ne Occupation : TruckDriver for UPS Years Burning : Have not started, but that will change come next WINTER Hobbies : Watching my kids play sports, vacationing, Fishing, Hunting ( birds only ), and coming very soon---- CUTTING FIRE WOOD
 
Name: Sam
Age: 46
Occupation: Supervisory Border Patrol Agent
Domestic: Wife, three children
Location: Northern Maine
Stove: Englander E-25pvd
Hobbies: Snow removal, reading, killing time on internet forums.
 
Name: Ken
Age: 43
Years Burning: This is my first
Occupation: Product Marketing Manager
Family: Wife, married 18 years
Location: Central New York
Stove: Lopi Answer
Hobbies: Ice Hockey, Cycling, Woodworking

I lurked here for ~6 months and got a lot of good advice - thanks everyone.
 
Name: Brian
Age: 32
Ocupation: Line Technician (machine operator, tow motor driver, inspector, set-up man, anything else they can think of)
Burn history: around 28 Years total
Hobbies: Hunting, cutting firewood, hunting, stacking firewood, hunting, looking at hearth.com
Married: Yes
 
Name: Todd (also called the "toddfather")
Age:41
Another Massachusetts native. . . right in Shrewsbury. . . a bit east of Worcester
Occupation: Program Manager with a large financial firm. . . .

Been burning wood to heat my house for about 3 yrs now. Could not do it right without the wisdom of Hearth.com. . .
 
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Name: Keith
Age: 43
Years Burning: -2 months (maybe)...working on install
Occupation: Former IT Manager...turned At-Risk High School Teacher
Family: Wife, married 6 years
Location: Southern Colorado
Stove: Vermont Castings Encore
Hobbies: The Gospel, Mountain Biking
 
Name: John

Age: 51

Location: Across river from St. Louis

Occupation: Block WelderMachinist

Years Burning: Since Boy Scouts,,,Indoors: 4 years

Hobby: Woodworking, Improving Home

Interests: Learning,,,Maintaining my " Right To Bear"

Proudest Moments: Our oldest sons tattoo,,'IN MEMORY OF THE 47 WHO DIED",,,"my three grand-babys from our "Army Girl",,,our youngest sons "SEABEES"

tattoo,,,My wifes published poem entitled: THE USS COLE
 
I'm Annie, 51 yrs. old and a corporate refugee who opened an antique shop instead. Married a scandalous number of years to a machinist, Mr. Fix-it Dojobber, and have two grown and flown married sons and two granddaughters.

I love to walk the mountains foraging for ramps, sang, yellow root, blood root, poke and signs of Bigfoot. I love to garden and can foods and I weave baskets in a non-institutional setting (for the time being, that is!!).

I've burned wood non-stop since I was old enough to 'chuck another piece in' for my Dad in his potbelly out in the workshop. I am darned good at coaxing a fire to life, no matter what's on hand, if I do say so myself.

My wood burning pet peeve is trying to part the waters to get to the stove and wood when there are two carpet sized dogs laying up against the loading door and the fat cat splayed on top of the wood rack while staring arrogantly at me and not moving. Did you guys know that a cat sharpening its claws on the wood sounds like creosote raining down the chimney pipe? Startled me a time or two.
 
Hank 47
Little Egg Harbor NJ
Retired Us Coast Guard- Now in Kitchen Cabinetry Sales & Installation
Married - One boy 22yr old
Burned for about 5 yrs early 90s then moved to another home just installed in December Jotul F 500
Hobbies: Fishing, Boating, Crabbing, Hunting, Rod Building, Fly Tying.
 
william: 57
single:1son age13 bday 3-2-95
husqvarna chainsaw dealer since 1979
been cutting wood w/chainsaw since 1968
bought firewood processor & skidsteer loader new in 1986
ATV logging since 2004. (good thing had 16 yrs previous experience w/ variety of skidders)
in it for the long haul. CDL-A. still looking for that special someone.been bit bad by the wood bug.
 
Name: Jeannette
Age: 31
Years Burning: zero, this year will be my first
Occupation: Production Supervisor
Family: 2 Labs, 3 cats and a longterm Bf
Location: Ansonia, Connecticut
Stove: Hearthstone II
Hobbies: snowboarding, SHO's, gardening, antique clocks, kickboxing & running
 
ashpanannie said:
I'm Annie, 51 yrs. old and a corporate refugee who opened an antique shop instead. Married a scandalous number of years to a machinist, Mr. Fix-it Dojobber, and have two grown and flown married sons and two granddaughters.

I love to walk the mountains foraging for ramps, sang, yellow root, blood root, poke and signs of Bigfoot. I love to garden and can foods and I weave baskets in a non-institutional setting (for the time being, that is!!).

I've burned wood non-stop since I was old enough to 'chuck another piece in' for my Dad in his potbelly out in the workshop. I am darned good at coaxing a fire to life, no matter what's on hand, if I do say so myself.

My wood burning pet peeve is trying to part the waters to get to the stove and wood when there are two carpet sized dogs laying up against the loading door and the fat cat splayed on top of the wood rack while staring arrogantly at me and not moving. Did you guys know that a cat sharpening its claws on the wood sounds like creosote raining down the chimney pipe? Startled me a time or two.

Yee Haw !!!

Welcome Annie :coolsmile:
 
Name - Tim

Age - 26

Occupation - Inventory control specialist

Location - I live in Gray PA right between the two most famous Holes in the world, Flight 93 and the 9 for 9 coal mine.

Family - A wife that puts up with my shenanigans, A baby boy on the way in June!!!!

Ive been burning at my house since I moved out of my parents place 4 years ago. Loaded their old cook stove before that.

Hobbies - No time for hunting anymore but I love woodworking, Fixing up the house and ridding my Honda VLX chopper.
 
Name: Chris

Age: 61

Retired from UK Air Traffic Control, now resident in south central France.
Now taking it relatively easy, and watching, from a distance (and sadly), my old country rapidly decay...

Jotul F600 - love it !!
 
Real Name: Jim

Occupation: Security coordinator, Was a Pro football player and a Pro wrestler world Tag champion (soldat Ustinov) some matches on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/results?sear...oldat+ustinov&search_sort=video_date_uploaded

Location: Minneapolis

Age: 49

Years Burning: 3

Hobbies: Camping in the woods in the summer. Kayak fishing and Motorcycling
Our Dog.......Bella a Golden Doogle at 10 weeks
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Age: 50 big ones

Occupation: Fleet Manager ( Ford Dealership )

Live in Sterling Heights, MI ( suburb of Detroit )

I have been burning for 2 months.
 
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