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Dustin

Dustin

Minister of Fire
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Sep 3, 2008
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Western Oregon
I'm sure this has been done at some point in the History of Hearth.com. But I thought I would try it!

We did this on a fishing website I moderate.

It's pretty much like the title says, it's interesting to see the age range, and occupation, location range around here.

I'll Start.


Age: 23

Occupation : Police Officer

Location: Western Oregon, about 40 miles from Portland.

Years Burning: 2. didn't know a darn thing until I came to this site.

Hobbies and such: FISHING. Volunteer Fire Fighter. Bird huntin' with the lab.



How about you guys/gals?
 
This looks like a good idea!

Age 37

Biomedical Technologist

Just outside Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario - a border community with Sault Michigan. My house is on Lake Superior's beautiful shore.

I've been burning fo five years with PE wood stove; am installing an EKO 25 boiler right now

Hobby - the only one I have time for anymore with two kids in hockey: Photography. I gave up shooting things with guns a few years back-bag limits are too restrictive here-and now go hunting just to take pictures. I have found it much more rewarding to stalk and shoot with a lens, and the Labs and I can still spend a great day in the field.

I am working on a blog/website to document my boiler install. Besides NoFossil, have others done this?
 
Firefighterjake: Named after an Assistant Chief's bassett hound Jakob . . . guess being short and fat (I don't think I have big ears though) made the AC think I looked like his beloved dog. Ironically enough Jakob had a "girlfriend" . . . Heidi . . . which also happens to be my wife's name.

Real name: Jason

Age: 38 . . . although in my mind I often tend to think of myself more as a 28-year-old . . . until I over-due something and then I feel like a 88-year-old.

Occupation: Public Education Officer . . . officially I have the rank of Fire and Life Protection Specialist Level II . . . but that's quite the mouthful and would never fit on to the nametag.

Location: I live in the middle of nowhere, but I'm central to everywhere here in Maine. Closest movie theater showing first-run films is 30 minutes away, closest Wal-mart is 20 minutes away, Mall is 45 minutes away . . . in other words there's not a whole lot of the "big city" nearby, but it's within easy striking distance. Live in Unity, Maine (home of the Unity Raceway, Commonground Fair and Unity College.) Work in Bangor, Maine (home to Stephen King . . . and that's about it . . . well that and the State's only Racino and a larger than life fiberglass statue of Paul Bunyan.

Years Burning: First year with the Jotul Oslo and the new generation of woodstove burners. I did burn in an old Shenandoah woodstove a year or two after college (although the stove was way, way over-sized for the small camp . . . ended up boiling my goldfish, warped my bathroom door to the point where you could stick your entire head through the gap at the top of the door when it was closed and I would usually be watching TV in my skivvies with every window in the place wide open in middle of a January blizzard.)

Hobbies: Geocaching, ATVing, Snowmobiling, Photography, Computer Games, Volunteer Firefighter, Watching Movies . . . although as of late I've been pretty busy renovating the house to do much of any of these hobbies

Other BBS Sites where you hang out: Geocachingmaine.org (a local geocaching site for Maine), Sledmaine.com (a snowmobile website for Maine), ATVTime.com (a site for ATVers)
 
Matt701 because name is Matt and I lived in North Dakota for 10 years and the whole state uses area code 701.

Age: 33

Occupation : Logistics Coordinator at a Pharmaceutical Company

Location: 20 Miles north of Syracuse, NY

Years Burning: 3

Hobbies and such: I have a 12x20 outdoor movie screen in my front yard which I built out of logs. Have a 13 month old which doesn't make much extra time for hobbies besides golf.

Other BBS Sites where you hang out: Tractorbynet, backyardtheater.com (see featured member "upstatematt" for pics of the movie screen) and arboristsite
 
Age: 23

Occupation : Customer Service Slave

Location: North DFW, Texas

Years Burning: I don't have a stove or even a fire place in my apartment...I've used woodstoves in the past (living in Michigan) and my parents prefer the fire place to our forced-air system

Hobbies and such: I read a lot of non-fiction, psychology-based books, I like sewing (quilts, clothes-creation), comedy shows, concerts, etc.
 
Age: 38, but you're only as old as those you feel.

Occupation : My degrees are in chemistry (analytical), I work for a company that makes hand held spectrometers. I evaluate new technologies that we might want to acquire, write grants for funding internal ideas here, speak at conferences on our tech, test some new ideas in the lab... a bit of everything.

Location: Londonderry, NH.

Years Burning: A bunch when I was a kid, then with fireplaces in my own houses, now 2 years with a modern insert.

Hobbies and such: Did a lot of bow hunting and bow making- would like to get out muzzleloader hunting. Pottery, firing my wood fired kiln.

Jason- your location sounds too cool my man.
 
Ancient - 54 years old.
basic bio:
https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/wiki/Craig_Issod/

Live in Happy Valley (Pioneer Valley of W. Mass)

Loved blowing things up (backyard terrorist) when I was young - model rockets, fireworks, match heads - you name it.

Degree in Hippiedom. A child of the 60s. When I was growing up it was really an open question as to which day society was going to fall completely apart.

Tastes in music - stuck back then......Hendrix, Clapton, Blues, etc.....Led Zeppelin even!

Hobbies, pursuits: This (web), marketing, playing guitar, skiing, tennis, inventing, doing stuff for others.

Years burning - since I went "back to the land" in rural WV back in 1971 (was 18 years old).
 
Age: 38

Occupation: Firewood Jockey & former Commanding Executioner of Organization (CEO) of a Waste Transportation and Recycling company

Location: In front of my computer somewhere in NY state

Burning: Since I was old enough to pick up a maul.

Music: Jenifer Kruskamp, rock, and blues.

Hobbies: Hunting dogs -especially Walkers,forest management,work, wrenching on BIG trucks

Other sites:WVO and bio diesel sites, Arborsite, Tool sites, NY Hounder
 
Age: Older than oak trees, 61

Occupation : Maverick <wink> <wink>

Location: The fringe of Northern Virginia

Years Burning: 31

Hobbies and such: Whacking trees and BSing on hearth.com. Gave up watching football during the strike in 1982 and got my Sundays back. Gave up golf in 1985 and got my Saturdays back.

Other sites: Drop in on occasion on Arboristsite and hearthtalk.com
 
Age: 33

Occupation : Mechanical / Process / Combustion Engineer & IT manager for my company

Location: North Idaho (Hayden)

Years Burning: 14

Hobbies and such: Woodcutting, gardening, canning, computers, home repair, wood stoves, engines

Other sites: ArboristSite, Perspectives
 
Age: 38

Occupation: Insurance underwriter - Not sales, nor life/health....please hold the bashing :)

Location: About 5 minutes from Mt Wachusett in Central Mass.

Years Burning: 4 (3 in my old home with the Jotul F3CB which I miss dearly)

Hobbies: Brewing beer (Relative newbie, but the first batch was great), Commando Gardening - basically finding stuff out in the woods that will grow nicely in my yard, kayaking (not so much now with 3 kids under 6), gardening, and of course looking at my wood stacks :)

Other Sites:

(broken link removed to http://greengigs.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-is-green-gig.html) (My wifes blog..green type jobs and blog)
http://www.subaruforester.org (I own a subie)
http://www.wind-sun.com/ForumVB/ (Looking to go solar)
 
Name: Joe
Age:45
Occupation: Public school teacher,administrator/farmer
Wife, two sons(10 & 6)
Hobbies: Fishing, Hunting, Horse back riding, Black powder rifle building/shooting, antique firearm collecting and Boating(28' cruiser).
Location: the woods of KY.
Did my undergrad in state and when a girlfriend went to law school in Boston I tagged along and picked up a masters in special ed. at the 3rd most expensive school in the nation located in Rhode Island.(took over a decade to pay off the loans). She decided that big city living was for her and that I was not. It was a lucky break for me. When I began my doctoral work at U of L I met a highly intelligent, magnanimous, great looking girl who actually agreed to marry me. Life is truly good and I'm happy more than I'm not . What more can one wish for?
 
Name: Sean
Age: 30
Occupation: ERP Systems Manager (computers)
Family: Wife and daughter (8)
Hobbies: VW TDIs, camping, computers
Location: Central Illinois
Other Sites: www.tdiclub.com
 
Age: Darn close to 40

Occupation: Computer Dude ( Actually I'm the IT manager for our company, but that sounds kinda stuffy, because I'm the ONLY computer dude here. It's cool cuz I get to do everything and we are a mulit-location, across 3 states company. Oh yeah, did I mention that I'm the ONLY computer dude here :shut: )

Location: Northern Illinois, 'bout 30 minutes from the WI border.

Years Burning: From childhood, but I think this is year 7 or 8 in the current config. Hell, I don't know.

Hobbies: Fishing, beer drinking, whiskey drinking, vodka drinking, Cooking, burning things, wood work, steel work, outdoor stuff, Old equipment (I mow with a 1939 VC Case, and plow snow with a 1959 FC150 Jeep) anything that gets me out of the house.

Other BBS (I didn't know anybody still used that term, so old school): Arboristsite, My portfolio site :-S , morebeer.com, and critterfitter.com.

OK the last one I made up. :red:
 
Name: Steve

Age: 36

Occupation: Marketing for financial services firm. Yes, life sucks right now.

Burning history: My dad had a bunch of stuff when I was younger. I remember walking around a kerosene heater in the middle of the room when I was 10. Man, talk about a fire hazard! He created a water heater through his fireplace to run the hot water in the baseboard heaters and avoid the oil burner. Pretty cool idea. I decided to get into wood burning myself because my house has NO alternate source of heat (oil only).

I'm having fun on this forum and it has been very educational - thanks!
 
Bayshorecs, I just bought the wife a Passat with the 2.0T and 6 speed tiptronic. I am blown away with the handling, power and economy(for a family sedan). Is the new graduate going to be available with the TDI? I drive a 5.9 cummins TD on the weekends and for farm work. There is nothing like the looks on peoples face when the see a 8000 lb. vehicle with the areodynamics of a brick roasting both rears. Sorry about the off topic post.
 
Name: Jeff
age: 39
Occupation: Optical Network Engineer
Hobbies: Woodworking, Fishing & Motorcycles
Location: Metro Atlanta
Married with children: 2 girls 10 & 18
 
Real Name: Aaron
Occupation: Chef (Ball State University)
Location right in the middle of Muncie, IN
Age: 28
Years Burning: 3
Children: Daughter 3, Daughter 1.5, son Newborn (if you are wondering all are 17 months apart.)
Hobbies: Chainsaw, splitting wood, remodeling house. Thats what I like to do if I have time.
 
Name: Rob
Age: 32
I have 2 degrees: 1 in Environmental Science and the other in Park management. I currently work part time for an Outdoor Education Center and part time for a small company installing solar panels and wind turbines for homeowners
Hobbies: mountain biking and backcountry skiing
Location: the mountains of wv. population 480 and elevation 3200'
Married with our first on the way
Music: The Band, Steve Earle, The Avett Brothers, Gov't Mule, The Allman Brothers
Burning for 14 yrs
 
Frank
Age: 41

Occupation : Mechanical Engineering, Biotech, label free technology for drug discovery.
Location: Work Location: Woburn MA
Home Location: Londonderry, NH (commute sucks)
Years Burning: 0 years .0 days Will start this weekend

Hobbies and such: Who has time, when I have a 4 year old and a 1 year old. Plus house and car repairs ( Well I do enjoy working on Nissans) I'm over at www.nissanforums.com
 
Name: Joe
Location: North Central MA (Pepperell)
Occupation:Software Development Manager
Age: pushing 54 (sigh)
Burning History: Not much...Long time fireplace burner, 2 weeks burning for heat (lots to learn)
Hobbies: Running, skiing, "yard rat"
 
Rick

60 in two months

Retired in 2000 after 30+ years in uniform

Born & raised in California, now living in Oregon in my last house

Studied Architecture for 3 years before joining the Navy in 1969 to keep out of the Army.

3 degrees in Mechanical Engineering, they make for nice wallpaper

1 daughter, 24, about to complete her Master's in mathematics

Woodwork, metalwork, resto-rodding a '36 Ford p/u, riding my '02 Deuce when weather permits, picking on Jags

Burning wood for about 12 years or so, more "seriously" these days
 
fossil said:
picking on Jags
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I knew I was "special". :lol:

Cheers, Shipmate!
 
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