There’s a road I know – a gnarly, dangerous, technical, twisted route that rises up from Virginia’s Piedmont to cross over the Blue Ridge...
Many Saturday nights will find me spending an hour wandering the several blocks of the old town main street of the small town a few miles away, Leica...
A 14" Stihl MS 192 C-E. She's a good girl who likes the outdoors. She's always told me she "needs her own chainsaw." I've always just laughed and...
“Is this a Christmas gift for you?†Glancing up from the counter where my new saw and various other mostly-colored-orange accessories were...
When I bought my log splitter last weekend, part of the reason I didn't buy a more expensive model - particularly that Iron and Oak that I really...
I stopped by TSC this morning, had 'em drop one of those pretty red 22-ton splitters in my pickup truck. I've never used a hydraulic splitter...
I've got a couple of Stihl MS 250 18" saws. They've been a great experience (vastly better than the Homelite saw I used for years prior). I'm...
I put a partial load - maybe half the firebox - in the new Princess last night around 7:30. Let it run on '1' for a couple minutes, then turned it...
“They sent the wrong model,†I said. Even as I said it a tortuous disappointment washed over me. Who knew that you could get so excited by the...
With the imminent first burn of my new woodstove, I guess I'll try and get serious about this business. (I thought I knew everything you needed to...
I know I've read somewhere of the need for "break-in" fires in a new woodstove. As I recall, a couple of short (a la 20-minute) burns, allowing the...
I've only been here a week - first post here - and I already fear this place is going to cost me an arm and a leg! Here's the thumbnail and my...
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