To The Folks Shutting Down For Summer

I'll check in from time to time,shoot the bull,share some pics of latest cutting adventures and/or projects etc.Maybe even post a few jokes,music vids,local gossip or a few political zingers ;-P in the Ash Can lol if I think of it.

This place is yet another 'home' to me now.Like my 3yr old Carhartt boots that are a wee bit battered but are broke in - this feels right & is pretty damn comfy most days,even when the fire is out during the off season.

Thanks Jagsy....been itchy all day cause of you...
I will say one thing...
never participated in an online forum before...nor most likely will I...I do have other passions but do not feel the need to participate in those forums..but
there is a great bunch of people here....can't believe how much everyone tries to help each other out...yeah we all have our days...no one is perfect but.....I came here not to participate in the forum...only to get knowledge...hell, I actually googled "how to operate a wood stove"....yeah, stupid, but what are you gonna do if you are totally clueless..."google it"....
this forum popped up numerous times and it lured me in....yeah I lingered for months but then thought...what the heck.. I will register.....
I read every post that this "Backwoods Savage" fella wrote....read it like the bible....I knew instantly I liked his "persona" online...
This forum would not be the same without Dennis...others made analogies....and I will make one.....Hearth.com without Dennis would be like Gamma without her silver bracelets.....ok guyz eye roll but I am a chic now....and I never go anywhere without those bracelets....they are me signature....that's what Dennis is to this forum.....

Jags said:

Thistle said:

is pretty damn comfy most days

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Ya better watch it or it will be 5 years later and you will still be posting why it is better to cover just the tops and not the whole stack. %-P

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:lol: I dont know about that... but I'm sure I've converted at least a couple to use bandsaw (wood is up above waist level,on a table makes less bending over thus less strain on the back, blade is thinner,cuts much faster with less chance of kickback) instead of table or mitre/chop saw to shorten various chunks/splits that are too long.

Lots of greats posts, & problems solved this year.
Look forward for more to come. After learning allot this year, who know, I may have
some good input that helps. Like: DRY WOOD IS THE 1st KEY TO GOOD BURNING
I am convinced of that now.
Great burning season, Thanks to everyone, (even to the non member visitors, but it is more fun if you join)
Saving our planet, one stove at a time

firefighterjake said:

Backwoods Savage said:

I'll do my best to hang around. Hardly a day goes by without at least looking at some posts.

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Who are you kidding Dennis . . . you're an institution here . . . Hearth.com without Backwoods Savage checking in every day and offering some sage advice is like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without the peanut butter, like a banana split without the cherry, like a muscle car without a V-8, like a hydraulic splitter being run horizontally, like a . . .

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:lol:

Yes Jake, there is no doubt we have to meet some day and hopefully this year. I'd still like to teach you how to split wood....

:lol: :lol: :lol:

This part of the forum was paramount in my planning process in the last couple of years. Hopefully I can return some of the knowledge I've gained to others. I find myself browsing/searching the wood shed a little as I stock up for next year.

I like to think I've done a lot of "self teaching and learnin", re: all this wood stuff. However, reality tells me that the folks on here have had a MAJOR impact on decisions and methods since I started reading this forum back in fall of '07 (didn't sign up 'til Feb., '08).
Example: If it weren't for Dennis and Jake, how would I know the absolute best way to use my fancy schmancy splitter?! :cheese:
I'm here all year, even though it's less frequent in summer. Things have been slowing on the Hearth for a bit already.
LOTS to ....wait, I spelled that wrong. LOTZ to do before the next burning season starts. ;-)
It's all good.
Jake, you KNOW w/o pics, that kitchen reno ain't really happenin'. I think everyone here must have some Missouri genes or something. You know, "show me".

Oh, sure, I'll be around. I mean, what with this forum be when the newbies ask, "What kind of stove should I buy?" without someone to post a 97-paragraph questionaire about horizontal and vertical air circulation, what kind of shingles they have on the east side of their house, and when their middle child will leave for college? Now if someone could just explain why they tend to back slowly towards the door muttering about having left their coffemaker plugged in . . . gosh, just trying to help . . .

It's been an adventure. Since September, I finished my hearth, got my stove installed, rescued my wood supply from a three-day ice storm, lost a car in a post-ice-storm rollover, lost a boiler to the same ice storm (due to the brownouts taking down the controller), complete with a Great Green Slime Explosion in the garage, went immediately over to life as a 24/7 burner, got a chainsaw, chaps, a flat-bed ford, and a big pile of birch in my driveway, and learned how to change the gasket on my woodstove. At -40, if I recollect correctly. (Gyrfalcon?) Oh, yeah, and learned how to post pix to the forum. Looking forward to a real peaceful winter next year. Please.

I'll be checking in too. I just looked at a beautiful used Jotul F3CB yesterday and if all goes well, I should be picking it up in 3 weeks. I'm sure I will have a few questions. It will be a good summer project to check all the seals at the plates and gaskets to have it ready for next fall. (Knowing me, I will have it done in 2 days) I may have the F-100 up for sale in the fall. Thanks to Craig for a great site, and mods for your time to respond to all the questions and for keeping this place under control. Thanks to all the members for answering questions, even though they may seem trivial at times. This site made the winter go by quicker with posts to look forward to.

I was doing some searching on the net for the F3CB and ran across other forums in which the posts were unreal. Many people are just not informed or don't care to learn more about their stove and its' benefits. They would rather trash a stove manufacturer and product rather than find the source of their problem. The knowledge and experience here is unbelievable. You're all a great bunch here. Be safe.

Jon

Been a heck of a season, and I'm glad this forum is here to help, or just to chat back in forth while whittling away the winter doldrums. Looks like now though, I get on to my warm weather obsessions with motorcycles, although with the price of gas, that's not exactly cheap and I haven't yet figured out an economical or even practical method for converting my bikes to wood-gas, lol. I'm sure someone here might have some insight to that.

Been a few years and winter we talk about how well the stove does. Summer we post pics of the fruits of our labor. I always check in a couple times a week!

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firefighterjake said:

Jags said:

I am like that foot fungus that you just can't get rid of. I'll be here, probably causing an itchy rash of some sort.

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I've got a rash on my wrist that just won't go away . . . you have anything to do with that?

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Unless it also itches, it is not my work.

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Itches only occasionally. . . .

PapaDave said:

I like to think I've done a lot of "self teaching and learnin", re: all this wood stuff. However, reality tells me that the folks on here have had a MAJOR impact on decisions and methods since I started reading this forum back in fall of '07 (didn't sign up 'til Feb., '08).
Example: If it weren't for Dennis and Jake, how would I know the absolute best way to use my fancy schmancy splitter?! :cheese:
I'm here all year, even though it's less frequent in summer. Things have been slowing on the Hearth for a bit already.
LOTS to ....wait, I spelled that wrong. LOTZ to do before the next burning season starts. ;-)
It's all good.
Jake, you KNOW w/o pics, that kitchen reno ain't really happenin'. I think everyone here must have some Missouri genes or something. You know, "show me".

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I'll try to remember to get some pics up . . . I still have three more cabinets that I need to get, put together and install (we decided afterwards that we could fit another three cabinets in place) . . . and need to get our countertop installed . . . along with trim, floor and about another half dozen things . . . I can take pics of the cabinets that we do have in place though as well as the painted beadboard backsplash.

snowleopard said:

Oh, sure, I'll be around. I mean, what with this forum be when the newbies ask, "What kind of stove should I buy?" without someone to post a 97-paragraph questionaire about horizontal and vertical air circulation, what kind of shingles they have on the east side of their house, and when their middle child will leave for college? Now if someone could just explain why they tend to back slowly towards the door muttering about having left their coffemaker plugged in . . . gosh, just trying to help . . .

It's been an adventure. Since September, I finished my hearth, got my stove installed, rescued my wood supply from a three-day ice storm, lost a car in a post-ice-storm rollover, lost a boiler to the same ice storm (due to the brownouts taking down the controller), complete with a Great Green Slime Explosion in the garage, went immediately over to life as a 24/7 burner, got a chainsaw, chaps, a flat-bed ford, and a big pile of birch in my driveway, and learned how to change the gasket on my woodstove. At -40, if I recollect correctly. (Gyrfalcon?) Oh, yeah, and learned how to post pix to the forum. Looking forward to a real peaceful winter next year. Please.

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I'm still waiting for photos of the Great Green Slime Explosion of 2011 . . .

agartner said:

Been a heck of a season, and I'm glad this forum is here to help, or just to chat back in forth while whittling away the winter doldrums. Looks like now though, I get on to my warm weather obsessions with motorcycles, although with the price of gas, that's not exactly cheap and I haven't yet figured out an economical or even practical method for converting my bikes to wood-gas, lol. I'm sure someone here might have some insight to that.

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It can be done . . . just not sure if it is something you would want to do to your __ Harley __ Yamaha ___ Honda ___ BMW ___ Suzuki ___ Other.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q...FRIR&qpvt=wood+burning+motorcycle&adlt=strict

firefighterjake said:

I'm still waiting for photos of the Great Green Slime Explosion of 2011 . . .

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What was I thinking?

Apparently not about taking pix . . .

Does that mean it didn't happen? :lol:

Creature said:

This part of the forum was paramount in my planning process in the last couple of years. Hopefully I can return some of the knowledge I've gained to others. I find myself browsing/searching the wood shed a little as I stock up for next year.

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That's the spirit!

snowleopard said:

, got a chainsaw, chaps, a flat-bed ford,

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You got a Flatbedford? Pics please.

As much as the warm weather is nice, I am finding that I am much more suited for winter months than the summer months. I can easily adapt to the colder weather and I usually miserable in the summer heat. I am already feeling out of sorts because my daily routine no longer includes stove and wood duties. I have some cutting and splitting to do and we will be burning in the outside stove for fun, but I will be looking forward to the cold weather and snow all summer. I'll be here all summer. I don't have that many real friends anyway.

Flatbedford said:

As much as the warm weather is nice, I am finding that I am much more suited for winter months than the summer months. I can easily adapt to the colder weather and I usually miserable in the summer heat. I am already feeling out of sorts because my daily routine no longer includes stove and wood duties. I have some cutting and splitting to do and we will be burning in the outside stove for fun, but I will be looking forward to the cold weather and snow all summer. I'll be here all summer. I don't have that many real friends anyway.

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Me too, Flatbedford!

Flatbedford said:

snowleopard said:

, got a chainsaw, chaps, a flat-bed ford,

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I'll be here all summer. I don't have that many real friends anyway.

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I dont even like my self.