How many guys wives think they're nuts when it comes to firewood stacks? My wife thinks I'm crazy to constantly cut, split and stack. She is always saying"don't we have enough wood"? However, she loves the warmth my two stoves bring to our home!
She thinks I'm nuts!
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Common problem, find a pre wood heating bill and one after, that usually has a calming effect.
Beer Belly
Minister of Fire
When anybody questions the amount of wood I have, I just point to the empty Pallets that had wood on them before this season.....never too much wood
Ram 1500 with an axe...
Minister of Fire
This is my first year with wood, in the summer time she was complaining about the amount of wood that I had acumulated from scrounging, in October it was, don't waste the wood yet, now it's we need a fire......
I'm wondering if I'm gonna hear about the wood in the yard this summer.....if so then she is the one that's nuts.......
I'm wondering if I'm gonna hear about the wood in the yard this summer.....if so then she is the one that's nuts.......
My wife thinks I'm nuts but it's usually for other reasons than firewood 
, although last year when I built a holding rack with concrete blocks and poles that someone posted how to do on here on a day off she said "I can't leave you alone, can I?".
She ain't complaining now as it's been like we moved to Canada this Winter but the old stove keeps rollin'........
, although last year when I built a holding rack with concrete blocks and poles that someone posted how to do on here on a day off she said "I can't leave you alone, can I?".She ain't complaining now as it's been like we moved to Canada this Winter but the old stove keeps rollin'........
Yeah, all of the above.
Stop making fires for a couple minutes after you've turned off the furnace, and then see how she feels.
Most folks don't understand how much wood is needed for a winter,........and that it needs time to dry.
Stop making fires for a couple minutes after you've turned off the furnace, and then see how she feels.
Most folks don't understand how much wood is needed for a winter,........and that it needs time to dry.
Driver
Member
I must be in the minority here, I just got home from work and the wife said get the trailer hooked up and lets go get that wood you cut 3 weeks ago. No rest for the weary but at least she helps.
JP11
Minister of Fire
My wife is a photographer. When her customers come over they inevitably think I'm a contractor and that I sell wood on the side. I guess the sight of 20 plus cords all palleted up, and my old box trailer I use for storage just baffles them. Throw in a couple trailers, and some tractor implements hanging around....
Barn's almost done. Can't wait to set up my 15' high pallet racking and stack in the wood, implements and toys! Gonna get rid of my box trailer.
JP
Barn's almost done. Can't wait to set up my 15' high pallet racking and stack in the wood, implements and toys! Gonna get rid of my box trailer.
JP
ArsenalDon
Minister of Fire
We are 3000 miles away, but my wife and yours must be having conversations....sounds word for word spot on
Nick Mystic
Minister of Fire
I guess if you aren't the one out there cutting, hauling, splitting, stacking, and loading the stove (meaning the wife) then you can't really get an appreciation of how much wood is enough. Last spring I had about a cord and a half of extra firewood worked up that wouldn't fit under my covered storage areas, so I stacked it at the end of my rows and covered it with a tarp. Earlier, I had talked to my wife about adding another eight foot bay at the end of my wood shed area to handle another double row of wood and she wasn't keen on the idea. "I think you've got enough wood already!" So, I let it go, but then I ended up with this extra wood under the ugly blue tarp all summer and then to get rid of the eye sore I had to burn that wood up first this fall, even though it wasn't all dry enough to burn and we had some crummy fires for a month or more. Now that I'm refilling my stacks I brought up the idea of adding the extra bay this year so I wouldn't have to use the ratty blue tarp again and she was all for it! She even suggested I go ahead and put a new roof on the entire 32' long shed so that it looks classier than the mix matched roof panels I've been using. So, sometimes the wife comes around! After all, we're only talking about storing nine cords of wood and I really should be storing twelve cords to keep with a three year cycle.
Sinngetreu
Feeling the Heat
This is our first year of burning, and we have learned many things.
1. My wife hated the wood out in yard, now she doesn't mind it.
2. My wife likes running the stove and wants more wood.
3. My wife really likes watching me split wood by hand for some reason.
4. Good things can happen after she watches me split wood.
5. Dry wood is king.
6. I need to split more wood.
1. My wife hated the wood out in yard, now she doesn't mind it.
2. My wife likes running the stove and wants more wood.
3. My wife really likes watching me split wood by hand for some reason.
4. Good things can happen after she watches me split wood.
5. Dry wood is king.
6. I need to split more wood.
Muscles on the upper arms are sexy!
Maybe wearing suspenders too.
Maybe wearing suspenders too.
farmboy05
Member
I just got our wood stove not long ago. Not installed yet as we want to finish the wood floor first, but I am working on gathering wood while I can. She already thinks I'm crazy for wanting to do this whole wood stove thing. I'm hoping that'll change when I get the first fire going 
Sinngetreu
Feeling the Heat
I just got our wood stove not long ago. Not installed yet as we want to finish the wood floor first, but I am working on gathering wood while I can. She already thinks I'm crazy for wanting to do this whole wood stove thing. I'm hoping that'll change when I get the first fire going
If next year is anything like this year, she will! Just save a few bills from this year and you should be golden.
Ram 1500 with an axe...
Minister of Fire
Once the stove is installedYou got to get her warm with it, Then get her cold with out it, Start a fire, get her warm again, get her cold again and I bet she will be asking for a fire..... You can thank me later......I just got our wood stove not long ago. Not installed yet as we want to finish the wood floor first, but I am working on gathering wood while I can. She already thinks I'm crazy for wanting to do this whole wood stove thing. I'm hoping that'll change when I get the first fire going
Well we are the opposite of most of you. Wife wanted the insert. Now she says let's go buck and split, stack wood. I buck she splits, Hydraulic splitter, then I stack. But this winter we are running out of dry wood. We will burn the hemlock that was for shoulder seasons next. How long does hemlock need to CSS before burning? BTW she used to split by hand. I think I have a keeper!
Ram 1500 with an axe...
Minister of Fire
Ram 1500 with an axe...
Minister of Fire
Paulywalnut
Minister of Fire
My wife loves the wood heat. I use that love to get a new splitter and a new big John Deere to haul my wood cart around.
I love the wood heat too
I love the wood heat too
Ram 1500 with an axe...
Minister of Fire
And everyone is happyMy wife loves the wood heat. I use that love to get a new splitter and a new big John Deere to haul my wood cart around.
I love the wood heat too
farmboy05
Member
! LOL
husky345 vermont resolute
Feeling the Heat
My gf says i have an obsession with wood. However she loves the heat. I hope i have enuff for the winter. Rumor has it that its gonna be cold in march
Never have I heard my wife say anything about too much wood. Even when we had 7 years or more on hand did she ever complain. I think she enjoys looking at the wood piles as much as I do.
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