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WCVB reporting 26 year old man killed when he fell 50' to ground. He apparently was in elevated bucket cutting off a tree limb when "the branch fell, then ricocheted off another tree, bouncing back and hitting the bucket knocking the worker out." He was with Affordable Landscaping and Tree...

It is fine. Dry powdery brownish light stuff is OK. Be worried if you get heavy black accumulations or shiny glazed stuff.

+1 on fan on floor at bedrooms, blowing cold air towards stove area. Does not need to be large or high speed. Also, spend time air-sealing your house. Check where sill plate meets foundation....likely large amounts of cold air leaking into your house and wall cavities. Insulate rim joist...

If you are refering to IRBC 2009, can you provide a code section? I don't see anywhere in SECTION N1102 BUILDING THERMAL ENVELOPE and TABLE N1102.1 INSULATION AND FENESTRATION REQUIREMENTS BY COMPONENT a provision for what you indicate. Edited to add: I'd be very careful following that JLC...

+1 on this. Not sure of building code requirements in your location, but 2009 IRBC requires R38 or R49 in the coldest climate zones. There are also important details like those recessed lights. Air leakage through just a couple of cans can quickly lead to a lot of problems. An architect would...

1. runners (old metal bed frame rails, old skis, door rails and stiles) levelled via various wood and cement scraps. 2. pallets.

I've never used steel. From what I remember, they are more expensive than ceramic. They are supposed to be more durable (no cracking) but I recall reading about problems with them warping/distorting that made me wary. In my Vermont Castings stove, the cat fits tightly inside an expensive...

Those spider-webby cats (ClearSkies product) clog very easily. I went back to the straight-thru grid style which required only a brush off once or twice a year to remove fly ash. FireCat combustors by Applied Ceramics has quite a variety of sizes.

I'm sorry to report the death of a man working for a tree service. The story isn't get too specific as to what happened. "A New Hampshire man working in Haverhill for a tree removal company died Monday afternoon after a branch he was working on snapped, pinning him to the ground, the Essex...

This is not true. Every state and locale seems to vary. As I posted in another thread: In Massachusetts, "cord" is not an accepted measure...though used extensively nonethteless. Here is the law in MA: MGL Chapter 94 Section 298. Cordwood sold or offered or exposed for sale shall be four...

In Massachusetts, wood is only supposed to be sold in terms of cubic feet or cubic meters. The term "cord" is not legally defined. Of course in practice, this doesn't happen. In fact, the state's own pdf about firewood sales (http://www.mass.gov/ocabr/docs/dos/firewoodsales.pdf) says a cord =...

Hurricane Sandy took down a similar looking tree for me. A large oak, about a 30"-36" dia. that had center rot & a c-shaped trunk from where the side of tree had torn away many years ago. The trunk had split vertically on a diagonal, then snapped through about 8' above ground level. Created a...

I'm with Zogger on this one. I'll take data any day over a link to one company's marketing material (given how many more wood handle models they offer than fiberglass, perhaps their volume and profit comes from wood and fiberglass is just offered to appease some customers..thus they push the...

"The wood remains in the kilns for 2 days at over 160 degrees; removing over 1000 pounds of water from each cord. This in turn increases the firewood's burning efficiency by nearly l million BTU's per cord over green firewood, and increases the heat value by 25%. The kiln dried firewood is dried...

For fiberglass gaskets, I use a pair of wire cutters. No sawing action etc. required.....one snip and you're through clean.

- Poor or weak draft due to: wrong diameter flue (too large), flue not tall enough, weak draft due to warm weather, blocked flue/obstructed cap, stove competing for combustion air with other household items (clothes dryer, exhaust fan etc). - Poor fuel....wet, not seasoned, rotten. - Problem...

I own the same stove. First, download and read the owner's manual. It provides most of the information you need. The throat hood, while a bit eroded, is still functional. It is a separate part from the larger flat plate, which clips into the back of the stove. The hood helps prevent direct flame...

More bad news...."SHREWSBURY, Mass. – About 90 percent of trees on a town-owned 13-acre lot on Shrewsbury's Ireta Road will be removed because of Asian Longhorned beetle infestation. "

Red Pine ---darn near impossible to split by hand when green, slightly less impossible when dry. I had naively expected it to knock apart like dry White Pine.

Last weekend I bought a MS 250 with 16" bar for firewood and small tree cutting. The dealer demonstrated start..."pull on full choke till you hear it burp, then switch to half-choke and should start within pull or two". Got it home and of course, I couldn't start it. Never heard it burp...