You Know You Are A Real Wood Burner If...

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You know you are a real wood burner when you take the day off work, minus 30 degrees, to get on the roof to finish the stack install on your new stove because you can't wait until the weekend to fire it off.


You know you are a real wood burner when bringing in an armload of wood one piece drops to the ground, your Lab picks it up and runs off with it, and you're pissed at the dog for several days 'cause you never saw the split again.


You know you're damn sure a real wood burner when the following summer you spend a hour looking through the property willows for that split your Lab went and hid last winter.
 
You know you're a real wood burner when your family gets Chinese take-out, and you make sure the everyone tosses their chopsticks into the kindling pile.
 
You know you’re a real wood burner when your heating oil company drops you from their automatic delivery plan.
 
when it's 85 degrees in your house and you worry about frozen pipes ;)
 
You know you’re a real woodburner when you take your kids to the zoo and make comments to your wife like, "I wonder how that wood in the exhibit over there would burn?"

You know you’re a real woodburner if you've ever gotten into an arguement with your wife about how much time you spend taking to "your wood buddies on the computer".
 
you know you are a real wood burner when 2AM rolls around and you automaticly get out of bed to reload because its -10 outside. while reloading you can have a coffee and a smoke and be back in bed in 20 min without missing a beat.
 
you know you are a real wood burner when your family accuses you of having a mental illness and being "obsessed with wood "
 
You know you are a real woodburner when you feed your
stove and yourself at least 3 times a day. The stove comes
first!
 
YKYARWB when you feel bad about using certain splits. They're just such high quality.
 
You know you're a real wood burner when you pass a house you look for smoke coming out of their chimney.
 
You know your a real wood burner when you go around picking up all the splinters and knocked off bark after splitting just to add to your kindling.

You know your a real wood burner when you pull off all the loose splinters from your splits before putting it in the stove just to add to your kindling.
 
when your wife has stopped getting pissed at you for coming home from work and going downstairs to reload the stove before saying hi to her.

When you find yourself outside in the cold staring at the woodpile and you are not sure how long you have been standing there.
 
You know your a real wood burner when 7 or 8 of theses postings fit your own description .
 
... when your 7 year old daughter complains about how much time you spend on Hearth.com. (I didn't even know she knew what I did on the computer! was in a conversation about why we didn't have time to do something she wanted to do... oh yeah, it went well)

... when you spend all summer eager to burn your wood piles, then all winter dreading burning your wood piles.

... when you can calculate fractions/multiples of 128 faster than a computer science graduate.

... when the sound of a chainsaw can make your heart rate jump and the sight of a large wood chipper can depress you.
 
You know you are a real wood burner if you split 1" kindling with a 8 pound maul.
 
You know you are a real wood burner when you buy a log cabin just incase your wood pile gets diminished and you need some back-up.


You know you are a real wood burner when you find yourself naked at the wood pile at 3 am on a cold night grabbing some splits cause the wood ring is empty.
 
You know you’re a real wood burner when your stove's burn cycle is complete and your dog wines.
- and when you can identify wood species from the splinters in your fingers
 
You know you are a wood burner if everybody gets a Fiskars for Christmas regardless of age, ability or if they even burn wood.
 
You know when your a wood burner when you cast a critical eye on the other guys chimney.
 
You know you are a woodburner when you try to talk your wife into getting a Christmas tree with a higher btu content ... like oak.
 
Rougement said:
You know you are a wood burner if everybody gets a Fiskars for Christmas regardless of age, ability or if they even burn wood.

Or if you name your newborn Stihl.
 
You know you are a real wood burner when you have responded to this same thread 3 or more years in a row. :lol:
 
You know you are a real wood burner when good hardwoods on your property are more valuable to you as firewood than furniture or building materials.
 
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