1st post, 1st fire

[Other Mike]

I think this is my first post....

I bought a log home in March, and had a new wood burner put in a couple months later. I went with a Quad 5700. The house came with 50 acres of hardwoods, none of it had been touched "firewood wise" in 10 years or so. So, i spent all summer cutting up very dead oak, maple, and elm. I was able to stack 9 full cord to date.

Our first cold snap hit today, and i'm so excited to get the thing going for the year. I just called home to ask if the house was cold so i could get the fire going when i got home, and the wife stated "no, not anymore, i've had a fire going all morning". She bought one of those fire starter logs from the supermarket. What a great way to break in the new stove.

She's always stealing my thunder.

 

[Jags]

Kick her to the curb......hey wait a minute. You said SHE started the fire??? Oh - never mind. You better keep that one.

 

[Skier76]

HA! That's great! It's really cool that she took an interest in it. My wife has already asked that she learn how to get the stove going in case she has to do it on her own some time.

 

[matt701]

Yes, i would keep her! Have to love taking the initiative to get it going. Last winter, our wood furnace was going and our power went out. I was heading home as fast as I could from work so it wouldn't over heat. I call home to ask my mom if she smells paint yet (She watches our kid in our house days) and my wife answers. I say "whats that noise?" She says "It's the generator, I didn't want to the furnace to overheat so I came home and started the generator." Sometimes they can surprise you.

 

[Jags]

Yes, i would keep her! Have to love taking the initiative to get it going. Last winter, our wood furnace was going and our power went out. I was heading home as fast as I could from work so it wouldn't over heat. I call home to ask my mom if she smells paint yet (She watches our kid in our house days) and my wife answers. I say "whats that noise?" She says "It's the generator, I didn't want to the furnace to overheat so I came home and started the generator." Sometimes they can surprise you.

Dude - I will trade mine in and throw in a couple of goats to boot if she has a sister.

 

[Greg123]

That’s defiantly a keeper… I have to shut the breaker off to the furnace to get the wife to use the stove. She still thinks the furnace is broke

 

[woodconvert]

She bought one of those fire starter logs from the supermarket.
She's always stealing my thunder.

:sick: ....she did start it using the top down method didn't she?.....

Meh, she's a keeper.
Where bouts in Michigan are ya?

 

[Other Mike]

Traverse City

I suppose i should be thankful. I guess it got the house up to 74 degrees in a hurry.

 

[greythorn3]

That’s defiantly a keeper… I have to shut the breaker off to the furnace to get the wife to use the stove. She still thinks the furnace is broke

HAHA thats cruel.

 

[mrsmarv]

Another Renaissance woman ;-) Bravo to her, and to you, too LOL. We've had our wood buning insert since last year and not only do I start a fire, but my husband tells me that mine are better than his. We also cut and stack the wood together with our 2 chain saws. I can also operate our 9-ton splitter. Working together makes quick work of a sometimes tedious job and it sure beats joining a gym.

 

[Dix]

Another Renaissance woman ;-) Bravo to her, and to you, too LOL. We've had our wood buning insert since last year and not only do I start a fire, but my husband tells me that mine are better than his. We also cut and stack the wood together with our 2 chain saws. I can also operate our 9-ton splitter. Working together makes quick work of a sometimes tedious job and it sure beats joining a gym.

I like this woman %-P

The SO loaded some neighborhood wood in the trunk of his Lincoln not to long ago. Coulda knocked me over with a feather ;-)

 

[BrotherBart]

Sound like my little brown haired girl. Back before she got sick I would be gone for weeks at a time. I would come home to a hot stove, warm house and a big dent in the woodpile. Now she really misses running the stove.

I miss it too.

 

[Dix]

But ya had it, BB. You had it

 

[firefighterjake]

If the truth be told my wife sometimes runs the woodstove better than I do . . . of course I could never admit that to her. I do know I appreciate the fact that when she is switching over to working overnight (it takes her a day or two to switch over from being asleep at night vs. asleep during the day) she keeps the fire going all night long so I wake up to a toasty warm house . . . and when she is working she puts wood on the fire before she goes to sleep in the morning (a few hours after I've loaded the fire earlier in the morning) and reloads when she wakes up in the late afternoon. I know she is the main reason we were 24/7 burners and why we used so little heating oil last winter.

 

[oilstinks]

wife does a good job if i could just get her to understand you need a good bed of coals befor those big sticks of wood.

 

[Other Mike]

So i get home last night.... the house is 77 degrees. She proceeds to give me the exact count of how many splits shes burned, and their individual burn rates and performance from the afternoon. She's not all bad.

 

[Hiram Maxim]

Welcome Mike!

50 acres around Traverse City.......You lucky dog. Beautiful area! Hope you like the snow.