I'm still learning too!
My wife is the daughter of a city fireman...freaked out by fire. Last march when we got the stove she hated it. Now almost a year later she loves it...hates it when I get a bit of smoke that has belched out on a reload, but she takes extreme pride in keeping the heat going.
I just wish I could convince her to pack it tight. She insists on one split at a time.
Going to teach the wife tonight/this week at her bidding. I'll be traveling all next week and its gets nippy in the basement living room without the insert going. The 5 year old knows what to do, but need to get her to do the lighting. Based on the "kindling chimney fire" thread I'll be cleaning the chimney for the second time this year before I leave though.
Last march when we got the stove she hated it. Now almost a year later she loves it...hates it when I get a bit of smoke that has belched out on a reload, but she takes extreme pride in keeping the heat going.
I just wish I could convince her to pack it tight. She insists on one split at a time.
A wife wood burning story. I had been in Europe on business for a couple of weeks. When I got home I noticed that our breezeway was chocked full of branches. Seems she got tired of getting home from work with not quite enough coals for a reload and then having to tramp around in the dark for twigs to get the fire going. She had gone out in the daytime and dragged up a bunch of limbs so she could just walk out the side door and break off her kindling.
She would have LOVED Super Cedars back then.
My wife will load, start fire and remove ash but wants absolutely nothing to do with the process outside of house. She told me if i get it in the house she will take it from there. She has a few scars from the flapper above the door burning her and I tell her thats how we recognize other wood burners .
That's nice that your wife helps you out like that... Mine helps me as well,,, she mows with the walk behind,, but a little intimidated by the zero turn..I'll get her on it one day here... then she'll love it! She does help me stack wood as well and split. I think we are fortunate to have wives that will help out the way they do... She runs the Esse Cook stove at times but hasn't touched the Fireview yet. I think she has a pretty good idea as that's a walk in the park to run.. Don't forget Valentines DayA few years ago I got a new zero turn mower and told my wife when I got home from work I would show her how to run it. Well, when I got home the yard was already mowed. So obviously she now runs the wood stove. She bought the Husky splitter this year so she also splits and stacks. All I have to do is say my stack looks straighter than yours and she will spend hours creating the perfect stack. She wants to run the chain saw but that's where I draw the line.
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