How often do you burn yourself?

[ctarborist]

I was just trying to figure out whether I'm a klutz, a moron, or just a hardened off wood burner? seriously I burn myself constantly, usually while loading it I touch the side of the opening with the back of my hand or fore arm and psssst insta burn/scab/scar. maybe I should get a pair of them fireplace gloves or something but that just seems kinda well wimpy. now typically these are just quick little touches that leave a tiny mark here or there but man the other morning i was sitting on the hearth right close to the stove enjoying the warmth while puttin on my work boots and as I'm holding my boot and kinda pushing my foot into it well my hand slipped off and went flying back with my tricep ending up against the stove....psssssst and i swear there was a little puff of smoke as well. then my wife called in from the other room and wanted to know what I was cookin!! oh thats just a little epidermis dear... man did that one leave a mark, wish i had a digital camera I'd share my new branding with you.


question #1 I know I'm not the only one lets be honest.... how often do you guys (and gals) burn yourselves fess up

question #2 lets take a poll: klutz......moron.......hardened off wood burner

I vote moron


CT. Arborist

 

[rumme]

only when I got married :}

 

[rickw]

The Fireview is a side load, with a little dinky handle on the door, it absolutely requires the use of a glove. That plus the side load - not one burn this year.


The last three years with a cool-handle front opener, well I was actually kind of grossing people out at work with the nasty burns on my hands. I mean it was like I was juggling branding irons or something...

 

[xrayman]

I'll get my self about once a week. nothin major just a reminder

 

[Pine Knot]

In years past I kept nice little burn stripes accross my wrists, but I have been useing welders gloves this year, no burns yet.

 

[SlyFerret]

So far this season, I've burned myself twice on the back side of my hand right at the base of my thumb, once on my right forearm, and once on my left elbow.

I generally manage to catch myself on the little latch bar that sticks out to grab me when I'm working with the door open, or on the inside of the door frame.

-SF

 

[karl]

One big one on my bicep. I think it will go away eventually. It's been there a yearI burnt my face once. Luckily, it didn't scar. Go to harbor freight and get a three pack of welders gloves for 10 bucks. No major burns this year though.

 

[ctarborist]

Karl I gotta ask... how in the world did you burn your face??? ya have a few too many beers one night and decide to go bobbin fer cinders with the boys??? lol.
I gotta party with you sometime!! :coolsmile:


CT Arborist

 

[wendell]

maybe I should get a pair of them fireplace gloves or something but that just seems kinda well wimpy. CT. Arborist

I'm sure you are right. Burning the crap out of your self on a regular basis is much more manly!

Welder's gloves from eBay=priceless

 

[ctarborist]

point well taken wendell

 

[wendell]

I'm glad you took it in the spirit of fun it was intended.

Aren't you supposed to be in bed? It's late out east!

 

[ashpanannie]

I have a few burn stripes on my wrist and several singed knuckles. I am also the type of moron who forgets that the stupid brass shovel handle IS going to get very hot when scooping ash out of hot coals. Gloves! What an epiphany!

 

[Bobbin]

I guess that depends on what you consider a "burn". I've been nipped a few times over the years (meaning I've jerked my hand back) but I've never sustained anything that required the administration of cold water or ice in the 17 yrs. we've used a woodstove. We have a Fireview and a Classic and I've never used gloves when reloading the stoves.

 

[burntime]

I end up branding myself about 1 or 2 times a year.

 

[trafick]

Gloves...we don't need no stinkin' gloves!

But here lately the wife has been helping me with the nightly "stuffing of the stove" and she always tells me to wear my gloves.

What I can't figure out is why because when I do it her way I never get burned but when I do it my way I get burned a lot. Must be the stove.

 

[ansehnlich1]

I just counted the white lines on my left arm, and the scab on my right arm, and the two little marks on my hands.

Six total this year, yep, and I'm damn proud of every one of 'em.

non-woodburner : What the %&*#@* did you do to your arm?
me : I burn wood

case closed

 

[caber]

There is no hair on the knuckles or back of my right hand. I usually small burns on my forearm from accidentally bumping into the door frame when placing logs. I have one really nasty one where i hit the corner of the door hard while it was open and I was adding wood. That has the added advantage of being a nasty bruise, deep scrape and burn.

My wife's hand are pristine cause she has the common sense to put on the heavy gloves sitting next to the stove.

 

[yukiginger]

Singed some hair a couple times, but that's it. I very rarely reload the stove without wearing the fireplace gloves - I do it as much for the slivers as the heat.

MarkG

 

[sleepie]

i load from the right side --and my inside right forearm looks like a zebra by may 1-----by june there gone and i can swim in the pool---

 

[BrotherBart]

The deep firebox of the 30 has gotten me more forearm burns from the edges of the opening this year than the last 25 years of wood burning combined. Gotta get me some welder's sleeves. Two years ago, the first season with this stove, I got one under my chin. I have an elevated hearth and the stove is taller than the old one so while I was squatted down reloading it with the door halfway open I turned to get another spit and caught the top of the door with my chin. Damn that hurt!

 

[oldgrezmonke]

Often enough that those welder's gloves are looking like a good idea . I wear regular gloves but keep getting contact above them-even when extra careful sparks go where ever . Leaning toward calling self moron .

 

[firefighterjake]

I've been nipped three or four times now . . . and that's with me wearing gloves . . . all in the same place and for the same reason though . . . I'm reaching a bit too far inside to move around hot coals or manipulate some wood into that ideal placement and my forearm right before the elbow is exposed and I invariably touch the hot metal for a split second . . . guess I've got to stop playing with fire.

 

[yardatwork]

I average a good singe about once or twice a year. This year I actually burnt through my welding gloves and melted the fabric into the tip of my finger. I grabbed for a log that was wedged in the door opening. The log let loose and my gloved finger hit the door frame opening. It took milliseconds and the burn occurred. Last year was probably the worst. On two separate occasions I burnt my wrist on the door opening while trying to get the logs as far back in the wood burner as possible. My right wrist now looks like I tried committing suicide or I'm a "cutter". The sound and the smell of burning flesh...priceless!

 

[MishMouse]

There are the gloves I use
http://www.sandhillwholesale.com/fl....html?osCsid=de7fde0997728b2f59c05867c1746b3a

Burnt myself a few times.
1) Loading the stove up early morning, after doing some ash cleaning, stepped on something black, turned out to be a hot coal.
(Now wearing shoes anytime I need to play with the ashes)
2) Putting a log into the top loader with a small coal bed, touched the side of my arm to the side. (Now wearing some type of shirt)
3) After cooking some chicken on the grill, put the grill down on the ground and then stepped on it, bare feet of course. (Shoes)
4) knocking ash from the bottom into the ash pan, lifted my head up and touched up forehead to the opened stove door.
5) Cleaning out the ash a ember fell out and jumped into the cuff of my pants.
6) Before I got the gloves loading the Drolet shaved the skin off part of my hand.

Big tub of Silvadene Burn Cream sitting in the fridge will a refill, priceless...

 

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ALL THE TIME...and I WEAR THE ELBOW LENGTH GLOVES (occasionally)....LAUGHING. I still got a 2 long burn on my forearm from my old mill and i just grazed it. I currently got three small burns on my right hand and finger, and i don't even know how those got there. Im not a clutz, I firmly believe it comes with the territory, at least thats what i tell myself.

ANNIE