Pros and cons of a warm home
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For me the warm house is totally necessary!
As for gloves, I wear them when stocking the stoves. I have enough scars from building fences. Occasionally that new barbed wire will break and pity the man who is in the wrong place! Fortunately my scars are just on my hands and arms. I can only imagine what might happen if someone got caught in the face....
As for gloves, I wear them when stocking the stoves. I have enough scars from building fences. Occasionally that new barbed wire will break and pity the man who is in the wrong place! Fortunately my scars are just on my hands and arms. I can only imagine what might happen if someone got caught in the face....
BrowningBAR said:Battenkiller said:I need me more stoves.
I think it's a good plan.
I need a small one for the fireplace. Has to be new enough to have glass, and burn clean enough to see through the glass. I have my eye on three at the moment:
1. Brother Bart's F-100 that he always says makes no heat, but wants to hang onto anyway.
2. Gryfalcon's Tribute which, unfortunately, makes all his heat, so he ain't selling.
3. Your Intrepid, which may soon go on sale for... what was it? $299.95?
I'll be coming down your way the end of next month. I can pick it up then. We can also settle this Vigilant/Heritage dispute - mano a mano - once and for all. OK... stove to stove. I ain't driving down all that way to get my ass kicked by some steroid-pumping, engorged biceps Rambo totin' a BAR, that's for sure.
Battenkiller said:BrowningBAR said:Battenkiller said:I need me more stoves.
I think it's a good plan.
I need a small one for the fireplace. Has to be new enough to have glass, and burn clean enough to see through the glass. I have my eye on three at the moment:
1. Brother Bart's F-100 that he always says makes no heat, but wants to hang onto anyway.
2. Gryfalcon's Tribute which, unfortunately, makes all his heat, so he ain't selling.
3. Your Intrepid, which may soon go on sale for... what was it? $299.95?
I'll be coming down your way the end of next month. I can pick it up then. We can also settle this Vigilant/Heritage dispute - mano a mano - once and for all. OK... stove to stove. I ain't driving down all that way to get my ass kicked by some steroid-pumping, engorged biceps Rambo totin' a BAR, that's for sure.
The steroid thing was a joke!
The Vigilant and Heritage go head to head nearly every day. And, like I said, the Vigilant packs a bigger punch which was why I was unsure as to whether I would go with a stove like the Castine or Oslo. But the Heritage heats a larger area, mostly due to the layout of the home. I am excited to hear that the new VC 2-in-1 stoves redesigned the cat system. A new Defiant or Encore could be in my future if certain issues have been corrected.
I'd go after Bart's F3 before the 100. And I can't sell the Intrepid for a few years unless another stove falls in my lap. And even then, it needs to be the perfect stove. Due to fireplace size and clearances I will be forced to go with one of these three stoves, and even they are questionable for different reasons.
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BrowningBAR said:daveswoodhauler said:Burns? what burns?....oh, those things on my hand......those are fire tender markings
That's a nice pattern. What spot on the stove did you touch?
LOL yeah, nice pattern. Tell us what part you touched so we can all get one like that.
DonNC said:BrowningBAR said:daveswoodhauler said:Burns? what burns?....oh, those things on my hand......those are fire tender markings
That's a nice pattern. What spot on the stove did you touch?
LOL yeah, nice pattern. Tell us what part you touched so we can all get one like that.
Okay, bad choice of words.
BrowningBAR said:daveswoodhauler said:Burns? what burns?....oh, those things on my hand......those are fire tender markings
That's a nice pattern. What spot on the stove did you touch?
Well, on my lopi when you open the door there is ahoneycomb shaped patter on the front...probably an air wash of some sort....sometimes I go to work and look down I see the pattern on both hands....I guess I'm just used to it by now....and the beer had nothing to do with it
BrowningBAR said:
Man, do I really have to use the "tongue-in-cheek" smilie for everything I post? :roll: %-P I was joking as well, just so you know. If anything, I look like the one who used to use steroids, only 20 years after I stopped working out.
I don't really expect anyone to sell me a stove that they're using. Just having some fun on a boring day, feeling pretty under the weather from God knows what, playing on some comments made in past threads. Don't mean to get yer goat or anything.
As far as the new VC stoves, don't forget... guys like you and me will have to wait at least several years before these things start showing up cheap on the used market. ;-)
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