with the low temps the last few days I keep getting the question.. "Are these the good pellets?" she was a wiz with the woodstove but with getting a new toy (pellet stove) I didn't want her messing with it... I think that's gonna end soon..
The wife is starting to know to much... Well kinda
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Teach her to clean the stove and haul bags of pellets. I could only wish my wife showed any interest in maintaining anything around the house.
bogieb
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She has a vested interest - being warm! Sounds to me like she is feeling a chill, and that is a hint to either change to the good pellets, or drive the stove a bit harder.
When I'm not looking she bumps the feed rate to 9 lol shes not happy unless it's 75 plus... I'm dying of heat exhaustion haha and cleaning jeez I wish she would do that.. Pregnant wife wants it warm 24-7 but I'm doing all the work haha
Hdhogger
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Count your blessings! Let her become a wizard with the pellet stove. This could save you a lot of time. You might want to show her how to maintain it.
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Ranger72
Minister of Fire
We've been doing this together for over 30 years, it'a almost mundane now. I get the pellets from the barn in the loader bucket and drop them at the deck, then go get a bucket of corn from the tank, come back and she scoops a 5 gallon bucket of corn from the loader and I take a bag of pellets, we dump them into the garbage cans on the deck, repeat until 4 large plastic trash cans are full, thats a week to a week and a half worth of fuel at the back door.
Cleaning, I vacuum the stove, she cleans the glass. I pop the cleanout Tee (outside) and hold the leaf blower under it while she bangs on the vent pipe with a broomstick. Been doing this for years now.
She keeps the stove filled with fuel, I keep the humidifiers filled with water. We work well together but we've been together over 30 years too. No asking, no telling. We know what has to be done to stay warm...we go do it.
Cleaning, I vacuum the stove, she cleans the glass. I pop the cleanout Tee (outside) and hold the leaf blower under it while she bangs on the vent pipe with a broomstick. Been doing this for years now.
She keeps the stove filled with fuel, I keep the humidifiers filled with water. We work well together but we've been together over 30 years too. No asking, no telling. We know what has to be done to stay warm...we go do it.
Hdhogger
Feeling the Heat
Damn Sidecar, I can't even get her to clean the glass. But that's ok she does lug fire wood.
Took me a couple failed marriages to get it right, believe me. Got it made now. Best freind and partner in everything. Farms with me too.
Hdhogger
Feeling the Heat
Please. It's the opposite at our house. I do 99% of the cleaning, fixing and maintanence on the stove. He stacks the pellets with my help.
He brings the bags up to the porch and stacks them so I will give him credit fr that. I lug them in the house though.
When something goes wrong with the stove he just throws his hands in the air whie I try to figure it out and fix it
He brings the bags up to the porch and stacks them so I will give him credit fr that. I lug them in the house though.
When something goes wrong with the stove he just throws his hands in the air whie I try to figure it out and fix it
Hdhogger
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Lake Girl
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Sounds like my house
I get to play with the Kubota to snowblow the driveway too - which usually means cold hands and feet for me
The new mitts from last Christmas do help though...You have to humour her - she's pregnant!
alternativeheat
Minister of Fire
My wife used to run the coal stove when I was away but this one she does not touch. I guess because it's automated, runs for weeks without shut down etc. The coal stove you had to tend regularly or it conked out, shake it down, reload etc..
hyfire
Minister of Fire
It would be easier and cheaper to buy her a new heat pump..........with the wifi app.......... Check out this thread on cost vs pellet stove.
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads...s-pellet-stove-vs-head-pump-warranted.138055/
Check out this thread on cost vs pellet stove.https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads...s-pellet-stove-vs-head-pump-warranted.138055/
The wife tried to load the stove once back in October... All I could picture was burnt pastic on the stove.. She weighs 100 lb soaking wet, so it looked like she was gonna tip over holding the bag up lol
...my better half insisted on being involved in the installation, knowing all the cleaning how-to's, what all the buttons did (was NOT satisfied with the "factory set do not touch" explanation of the bottom 3 buttons), and she carried her half of the 2 ton pellet run we did in the trailer last October.
.....and now is content to let me handle it all, lol
.....and now is content to let me handle it all, lol
alternativeheat
Minister of Fire
You told me about your Kabota last year when I was looking for tractors. I ended up with a Husqvarna GT with K66 locking diff. Not a Kabota but it will do the job I want done. Everything in it's sweet precious time ! But compared to what I had this tractor rocks, lot's of traction and instead of the tranny stalling out like the old one it will just dig itself in. .Sounds like my house
You have to humour her - she's pregnant!
Double edge sword here. It can work for your advantage or it could gut ya! Tread lightly my friend she has a baby onboard so she is ALWAYS RIGHT even if she's wrong. Not worth it bro! The advice I have even if it costs you some money is you only need to have a TWO WORD vocabulary. Yes, dear...... LOL! Good Luck with that one! Been there. Done that. X3. Those TWO WORDS kept me alive at times.
You'll have plenty of time for payback too. Kids make great scape goats. At least until they start talking and turn their guns.
Then you're hosed once again!
You'll have plenty of time for payback too. Kids make great scape goats. At least until they start talking and turn their guns.
Then you're hosed once again!
alternativeheat
Minister of Fire
Well hate to say it but I'm not far off from your wife in that dept. I like it about 73-74 around here. One reason I bought a stove is I never would run the central heat to 74, I don't mind two bags a day at all. Compared with a 200 gal oil delivery. Make her comfortable I say, she probably is uncomfortable enough as it is.
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