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  1. mattjm1017 Feeling the Heat

    joined: Oct 23, 2012
    258 posts
    Corapeake NC
    The stove is not a good idea .
    #1

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  2. nate379 Minister of Fire

    joined: Sep 21, 2010
    3,986 posts
    Palmer, Alaska
    The stove is not a good idea? What is that supposed to mean?
  3. pen Super Moderator

    joined: Aug 2, 2007
    6,067 posts
    N.E. Penna
    plan ahead, find a designated operator.

    Soooooo,,,,,,, What happened?????

    pen
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  4. topoftheriver Member

    joined: Jan 26, 2013
    169 posts
    Northeast
    Hope you didn't burn yourself.
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  5. webby3650 Minister of Fire

    joined: Sep 2, 2008
    1,931 posts
    southern Indiana
    Or drunk posting! It's kinda like drunk dialing I guess, not a good idea, but there's always tomorrow to fill in the gaps.
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  6. ozzy73 Member

    joined: Jan 31, 2008
    167 posts
    ON, Canada
    LMAO......every friday and sat night for me.
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  7. Diabel Minister of Fire

    joined: Jan 11, 2008
    800 posts
    Ottawa, ON
    Both! I suppose.
    Last night I was out with the boys....
    Got home late, saw nice bed of coals, did not even think about it.....just went to bed! This morning got up to the sound of the furnace, fire was going within 30 min.
  8. webby3650 Minister of Fire

    joined: Sep 2, 2008
    1,931 posts
    southern Indiana
    I wasn't excluding myself from my statement.;lol
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  9. Doing The Dixie Eyed Hustle Minister of Fire

    joined: May 27, 2008
    3,992 posts
    Ridge, LI, NY
    Move forward, don't look back.

    ;)
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  10. jdp1152 Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 4, 2012
    600 posts
    Massachusetts
    If being drunk and warm is wrong, then I don't want to be right.
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  11. Oldhippie Feeling the Heat

    joined: Dec 18, 2011
    373 posts
    North Central Mass
    "I have this disease late at night sometimes involving alcohol and the telephone."

    Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
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  12. DexterDay Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 11, 2010
    9,039 posts
    NE Ohio
    Gotta know what happened????

    Love tending my stove. Love to drink also?

    What's the problem? ;)
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  13. jtakeman Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 30, 2008
    12,722 posts
    Northwestern CT.
    We could ask sir Pook about the drunken postin? Think many were drunken stupers! ;em
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  14. mattjm1017 Feeling the Heat

    joined: Oct 23, 2012
    258 posts
    Corapeake NC
    So we went out last night only going to gone a couple hours have a few drinks with the FIL and come home. That didn't quite work which I kind of knew it wouldn't. Stayed out much later and drank more than intended. Got home and I went around back to get some wood got inside forgot to wear gloves and those levers are hot. Then I sat there watching the fire through the open door walked off to pee again the wife shut the door and told I shouldn't mess with the stove when ive been drinking . I have got to get better at putting on gloves when ive been drinking.
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  15. Gary_602z Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 30, 2009
    870 posts
    Lake Odessa,MI
    Yea they keep you from peeing on your fingers!:)

    Gary
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  16. Scotty Overkill firewood hoarder

    joined: Sep 24, 2011
    6,776 posts
    central PA
    I really enjoyed this post as it reminded me of around 5 years ago. My cousin got married in early October that year, it was an outdoor wedding right out the lane from our house so it was a 4 minute walk across the field. Big top tent, DJ, all the spirits you could possibly want. And as it was almost burning season, I was itchin' to fire up the stove for the first fire of the season. I had the flue swept out good, stove cleaned out, and a load of kindling ready to go in the firebox. Weeell, it got damm cold that night. And I stayed at that reception til' my uncle kicked me out! Well, came home drunk, in my nice black suit, and sat in a plastic chair in the backyard staring at my fluepipe on the house, contemplating building a fire.......

    After throwing up the alcohol I drank that evening in the backyard (sorry for the visual), I proceeded to go in the house and build a fire. Did everything by the book......almost everything.

    As I sat there with the draft open fully, letting it get good and hot, I began to get that 'tired' cozy feeling sitting in front of that fire.....I closed the draft down and that's the last thing I remember.......

    Woke up around 2 hours later, laying RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE STOVE, soaked with sweat in my EXPENSIVE suit....

    Anyway, thank God I closed it down before passing out, I may have ended up a pile of ashes in front of that fireplace..........

    Moral of the story? I don't mess with the stove if I've had too much to drink........
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  17. topoftheriver Member

    joined: Jan 26, 2013
    169 posts
    Northeast
    A round for the house. Drink up boys and be merry. Stay warm too.
  18. mattjm1017 Feeling the Heat

    joined: Oct 23, 2012
    258 posts
    Corapeake NC
    Scotty that's a great story its always good to be able look back and laugh at our mistakes.
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  19. BrotherBart He Who Moderates

    joined: Nov 18, 2005
    21,915 posts
    Northern Virginia
    You mean there are people that do this stuff sober? !!!
  20. BrotherBart He Who Moderates

    joined: Nov 18, 2005
    21,915 posts
    Northern Virginia
    Back in the seventies the husband of a lady my wife worked with got terminated from his job one afternoon. The guy went home to their megabucks new house and proceeded to get loaded and decided to start a fire in the fireplace. Nobody ever knew exactly what he did but by the time the fire department got it put out the whole end of the house was burned off.
  21. MasterMech Minister of Fire

    joined: Aug 2, 2011
    4,763 posts
    Hudson Valley NY
    Whatever he was drinking must have been some good stuff. _g ;lol
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  22. loon Minister of Fire

    joined: Apr 9, 2010
    1,698 posts
    ont canada
    Few years back i was about to load the stove and slipped on the tile in front of it..The chunk of wood i had went straight up in the air and split my forehead wide open on the way back down ==c

    Got pictures but that aint gonna happen on the board..

    My little toe still hurts from last nights fiasco :p

    I have more problems in the house than when i'm running machinery outside of it? !!! ;lol

    loon
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  23. CJ_starr New Member

    joined: Feb 1, 2013
    17 posts
    NH
    Thats not normal? Oh shucks....i've been doing it wrong all these years!;em LOL
  24. Hearth Mistress Minister of Fire

    joined: Jan 24, 2012
    579 posts
    Point Pleasant, PA (SE PA)
    Didn't any of you learn your lesson from our drunken posting and stove loading on New Year's Eve? ;)
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  25. hossthehermit Minister of Fire

    joined: May 17, 2008
    1,936 posts
    Maine, ayuh, by gorry
    If I didn't feed the stove when I was drinkin', this shack would be some old cold all winter............
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