I was splitting some old rounds this weekend when I noticed this big steel hook imbedded a round. I sawed this pine from the neighbor's yard into...
My stove has a 'doghouse' air inlet below the door which burns thru any coals and wood that is in front of the air a little faster than the rest of...
I just noticed that there is a gap between the collor on my stove top and the black steel flue pipe. It isn't a big gap but when I had the fire going...
After reading a few posts about the 'doghouse' (the vents where primary air enters the stove below the stove door) I was cleaning ash from my stove...
Not far from where I live last weekend somebody cut down a couple of small spruce trees and stacked the brush along the side of the road for the...
My house has a clay or tile lined flue and I want to extend the flue a little higher to help move the smoke away from the house. The flue is probably...
A month or so ago my wife saw a message on Freecycle saying somebody was giving away "1/2 cord of firewood." A few emails later we were towing the...
I have a crappy homelite chainsaw that has never run consistently (which is why I think it is crappy). Today I am having the typical problem: The saw...
This past week has been a good one for scrounging. Last Saturday a post appeared on FreeCycle offering 1/2 cord of firewood. Fortunately my wife was...
After several years of planning and piling up wood in the backyard, we finally got our wood stove installed in mid-December. I was out of town at...
I thought the ice storm was going to mean today was Free Firewood Day, the best day of the year for scrounging firewood right off of everyones...
We haven't seen the big snows that are falling farther east, but it is enough to make the wood piles look wintry. The sides of these stacks never...
Last month we had Lopi Republic 1250 installed in the furnished basement, and so far it is working great. It lights fast with a handful of kindling...
A couple of weeks ago at a boy scout camp in Central Pennsylvania, we cut up a tree that had fallen near our campsite, and I thought the pictures...
My son is constructing his Eagle Scout project starting tomorrow, and I may need to cut 4x4 pressure treated wood in a location without electric...
This morning I dropped my wife off at work and, like I tend to do, I stopped to pick up a few logs that were laying by the curb waiting for the...
Yesterday I cut up part of a Black Locust that had a pretty large Colony of Carpenter Ants living inside. To try to prevent the ants from moving into...
I have been out picking up wood that I cut last winter, and every time I step into the woods I am collecting ticks in addition to wood. This year...
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